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Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:43PM (#47694463)
Great hack!
Fun and sad. Garbage collected languages like .NET, Java, and Go are slow compared DIY languages like C, Rust, and Swift. So, no wonder the Windows team dislike them. However, it seems the Windows team had to live with a React start menu for quite some time. How does that fit into the over all battle between the teams and UI frameworks?
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:11PM (#47253894)
Cool article. I wonder why they decided to start sentences with lower case? Free association!?
What an amazing storyteller. I will watch many more of her videos. I hope she will make many more videos ♥
For me the show was a trip down memory lane in more than one way. The tech is one. Doing startups with friends is another. Being a workaholic and having relationships is yet another. The penultimate episode hit me hard - am I the only one?
GPT auto gave me a long answer that included both walk and drive. Not good.

GPT thinking told me to drive and that walking would make no sense. Perfect answer.

Let's all install this and form a fail-safe (if you are in a populated area) and unregulated mesh. I would love to see how far into the Amazonas or Greenland it works.
Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:08PM (#45763997)
Freeium mostly sucks. Escape before they squeeze every drop of blood out of you. There is a cost to everything that is how the reality get's in.
Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:15PM (#45364024)
I don't know the bumble app, but it really annoys me that I cannot copy text in reddit and facebook (I am forced to use this app by my daughters hobby). If you dev a mobile app - make sure users can select and copy text!
Re:'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:14PM (#45107699)
This is a very interesting article. The concept "run an experiment in your head and predict the outcome" is a capability that AIs must have to attain some kind of general intelligence. Anyway, read the article, it's great.
Re:iPhone Cameras Are Good on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @03:06AM (#44731572)
After reading the article I might dust off my DSLR, however the fact that I have my iPhone with me most of the time will never change - so more than 99% of my photos/videos will be captured by that thing.
Cool. It would be great to extend with a confidence operator. Something like:

Without default confidence: 0~9

With confidence: 0%100~9%95

We are sure it is 0 or more and we are %95 certain it is 9 or less.

Would that work?

Re:Nebula Sans on Saturday April 05, 2025 @06:52AM (#43592395)
Thanks for posting and commenting. The choice of font is a great way to add aesthetics to text - designers so use this opportunity a lot more IMHO.
Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:39PM (#42637117)
Old software is not replaced because nobody fully understands it, and therefore it is a gigantic effort and risk to reverse engineer it.
Having skia power in nodejs is a cool idea. Thanks!
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:37AM (#39813566)
Wow
crashed chrome :)
On September 18th Atlassian announced a new license model for Jira automation that severely limits automation for all but enterprise customers starting November 1st. Many customers will be forced to give up their automation or upgrade to expensive enterprise tiers. Since there is no enterprise tier for Jira Product Discovery customers using automation in this product don’t even have the option to pay more.

Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution?

Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution?LLMs like ChatGPT can optimize code with some success. Today it is limited in what it can do and quite often the generated code is flawed. I expect that it will improve to a point where we can ask a LLM to optimize its own code, build itself and do subsequent training. If we then add a mechanism capable of rating the generated LLMs, we could...

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:50PM (#36914985)
I swing by Hacker News almost daily. Thanks for all the links and comments.
Re:Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:37PM (#36046788)
We could train an AI to compile and run itself. Next step is then to train it to optimize its own code and training. Then we have almost evolution.
Wow. Wild story. Thanks for sharing. Cool twist that a bug ended up identifying the bad guys.
Interesting idea to reverse engineer the network. Are there other sources that have done this?
Re:Show HN: Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:55PM (#32740610)
Nice!
Re:I often have to cut into the brain (2012) on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:59AM (#32700332)
Thanks for sharing.
Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @04:58PM (#32654962)
Wow. Standing at the edge of the uncanny valley.

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