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Which LTO are you comparing with? Locally (Spain) it seems I get similar EUR/GB for BlueRay M-Disks as LTO-8, but LTO-7 and LTO-6 is way cheaper than BD. What exactly are you comparing here?
Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:47AM (#50352668)
> Shipping costs these days mean I do not even take advantage of warranties for most goods. The round trip cost for anything large or heavy often can represent a large portion of the original cost for many things.

So for you is just better that you have a product that doesn't work properly, because shipping costs more than the value you lose from that thing not working? Do I understand this correctly?

If I buy a 2K synthesizer, that thing better work 100%, I'm not sure in what world someone would have to live in to not have that fixed...

> No, I just add the brand to my List of Companies That Will Live in Infamy

Cool... What does this have to do with the out-of-warranty repairs almost any instrument-maker offers already?

> which allows engineering teams to own quality by authoring tests in plain-english and maintaining them with little to no effort.

How does this differ from Cubumber/Gherkin which basically promised the same? We all know how that ended up, why would you implementation of the same idea be different this time?

Re:Ten harness patterns that you can apply to a real repo on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:03AM (#50352116)
> Code is cheap. Human time and model context are not. That is the core shift behind Harness Engineering

Eeh, were people of the opposite view before? This has always been true, before or after "harness engineering". To be honest, that the people behind this project saw "code as expensive and human time is cheap" before, makes me not trust your project out of the gate.

Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:02AM (#50352102)
> Why would they opensource a commercial DAW?

Why would anyone ever open source anything? Well, I don't know, it happens :) Parent raised the point, maybe ask them :)

> If you want to extend Ableton you can already do so with Max/MSP. Or write a VST plugin for it.

That's a really tight and constrained definition of what "extending" applications means. VSTs/Max is more like plugins/addons, then actually extending what Ableton can do, but I'm sure if you even know what Max is, you're well aware of this already. Today it isn't really possible to "extend" Ableton in any officially sanctioned way.

Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:18AM (#50351621)
Why would you sandbox the runtime? The harness is where things go awry when it does, when the agents have access to more than they should and start deleting stuff. People aren't expecting the weights themselves to be "infected by malware" or whatever.
Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:11PM (#50345461)
I'm secretly wishing for Ableton to not become FOSS, even though I probably couldn't survive without Ableton, and I'm also into FOSS. But I fear if Ableton would become FOSS, they'd just eat the entire DAW market, and it'd be impossible for new entries to even get the slightest of attention.

At least this way there are still cause for eyeing in other directions than Ableton.

Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:10PM (#50345439)
> groundbreaking it is that

Hmm, out-of-warranty repairs for music hardware is pretty standard, at least here in Europe. I've done this with Elektron, Novation, Korg, Adam Audio, Yamaha and a bunch of other brands before as well, with everything from speakers to synths. Is it different in the US perhaps?

I've even sent gear running custom firmware in for out-of-warranty repairs, without any questions asked about it. AFAIK, even if you're within warranty with custom firmware, they would need to prove it's specifically the fault of the custom firmware in order to deny warranty claims, they couldn't refuse it outright just because of the firmware on the device.

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:03PM (#50343707)
He's talking about Spanish, not Italian, a different language?

Lots of nicknames in Spanish end with an A though, Juanma and Joserra, basically putting together Juan Manuel and Jose Ramon.

Because you might have to adjust it as the weather/climate around you force you to adapt to it. What temperatures you run in the summer might not work in winter (especially in countries where you get -20C sometimes, and summers are ~25C), and autumn/spring might need adjustments by the day, especially as we start getting more extreme shifts nowadays compared to just some years ago. Heavily depend on the individual store, some are very barebones.
Re:LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:57AM (#50338646)
Seemingly has links to GitHub and HuggingFace, but no actually explanation about what we're supposed to be able to find there "soon". Is this supposed to be downloadable weights? Open weights? Who knows?

One link to "https://longcat.ai/chat/" is provided, which eventually redirects you to https://passport.mykeeta.com/pc/login, did the UI get hacked or something? I went to mykeeta.com which doesn't respond, passport.mykeeta.com serves OpenResty's default page, not sure what's going on but looks strange.

Asking "Hello?" in the chat you get "你好!我是 LongCat,美团研发的大模型助手。有什么可以帮你的吗?" back, which is an explanation what LongCat is in Mandarin. If you then write "What?", it does web-searches trying to explain what "What?" means, in Mandarin.

I'm not really sure this is ready to even be played around with yet. Some more basic prompts seems to tell me that despite the benchmark results, it's fairly dumb, so gut tells me this is benchmaxxed then pushed out as quickly as possible.

> There is no reason for them to ever have an internet connection.

How do you remote control the temperature without having any remote connection to them?

Have you worked in a small rural grocery store ever? You speak confidently about what they need/don't need, but you fail to account for a very basic use case, making me unsure if you actually know what you're talking about or not.

The website is fosscomics.com, they're all comics? They're comics because the author(s) wanted to create comics, not sure how this would be hard to grasp.

Most documentaries could be blog posts people can read in 10-15 minutes, yet the medium persists. A mystery? Probably not.

Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:59AM (#50336234)
> the cleanest of the micro spa frameworks I've seen

Ah, you're the author of it? :P Cherry on top

Re:Private Jet plane crashes in Florida on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:56AM (#50336195)
> is there any remains left

If there is, seems they're deep under the ground as it nosedove straight into the ground and essentially disappeared, the crater showed almost no debris at all. People been guessing on reddit that everything just got "instantly pulverized" which I doubt somewhat, the shape of the frame is perfect for it shooting into the ground so I'm guessing they'll spend some weeks digging and eventually find the wreck.

Edit: Since I can't respond to my children:

> This kind of impact in fact has tendency to turn aircraft into powder

How often? A similar crash that comes to mind is https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/06/05/dc-... where they did recover actual bodies, even if the impact was near-vertical and seemingly faster than this case.

What specific cases are you thinking about where everything "instantly pulverized"?

I think once you're stuck in this "salary is everything" mindset, there isn't much we can talk about that leads anywhere meaningful. I hope things get better for y'all before it gets worse, good luck!
Re:Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:11AM (#50335774)
Happens in all HN comment threads, everyone answers from their own perspective and context without explicitly specifying it, so if you don't read the sub-thread (first person talks about production software, last person talks about prototypes, in this case), it'll seem like people talk past each other, but in reality everyone is sharing truths that are applicable to their specific environment and context.
Depending on how long and large the power cut is, the cell towers might eventually go offline and then you don't have any cellphone service. Happened here in Spain + Portugal recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
Wouldn't the malware have to sit somewhere else anyways? .safetensor tensors aren't "executable", so malware wouldn't sit there. Unless the "malware" is some misbehavior of the model?
Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:57AM (#50325742)
> pretty much everyone I know who is non technical has heard of at least one of those and uses it regularly in their work

Rather than using this as your world-view, I think you should take this as a signal to expand the current bubble you live in. I'm guessing most of these people you refer to as "non technical" are still white-collar workers or similar?

Most people in the world, even with all the marketing towards "non developer business users", has never heard of "Claude", "Gemini", "Grok" or anything else LLM-adjacent like that, but will have some light understanding of "ChatGPT", and might actually be using some AI service via their phone or whatever, but still call that "ChatGPT" as that's essentially synonymous with "AI" in common parlance.

Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:47AM (#50325656)
That truly looks agentic. Few commits in spring 2021 then nothing until a flurry of commits in spring of 2023, then absolutely nothing until March 2026, then we get 160 commits, and fast-forward until today, not a single change since then. https://github.com/standardagents/arrow-js/graphs/contributo...

Maybe it's just me, but if I were to start depending on other's UI frameworks again, then stability would be the first thing I'd look for, and with that I'd probably want to stay as far away from anything "agent" as I can.

Edit: I just realized that that "framework" is the same ArrowJS that used to be a "library" and the selling point was how small it was, and how it wasn't a framework (https://web.archive.org/web/20230609020338/https://www.arrow...), incredibly funny they pivoted into making it a fully fledged framework after all.

Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:42AM (#50325617)
I think mostly your comment seems to agree with what I remember, except that even during the hayday of jQuery, "full stack development" definitely was a thing, as I myself entered my professional career as a "frontend + Zend Framework" developer essentially, and was hired as such after a short internship. Before we were called "full stack developers", I think the title was basically "webmaster", at least that's what seems to get closest to it, these were to people who knew the entire stack and maintained it, maybe this is what you're alluding to.
> Are tech billionaires obnoxious? Yes, undoubtedly. I'd take them in a heartbeat over having a more permanent aristocracy.

Given the class inequality differences between the two places, and how one seems to basically be "survival of the fittest, if "the fittest" is ~1K people", arguably "tech billionaires" seems way worse than "a dying aristocracy", but maybe I'm too socialist to understand properly.

Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:46PM (#50318828)
And then once you get over the knee-jerk reaction the twitter community been teaching you, you might look at the actual syntax and the way the language conceptualizes stuff, and might actually learn something new and useful :) Or, at least have something constructive to say, even if it's negative or whatever, instead of just wasting space.
Why would this even affect you, even if you lived in France? Did you just assume this was about residential download traffic somehow?

What on earth is going on in this comment section? Seems like it's 99% of Americans who obviously didn't read the session notes themselves, or even any background information in English, before commenting on this with their least charitable reading. I don't get it, why?

If you don't understand the thing, probably because you haven't spent even 2 minutes looking up information about it, why comment about some scenario you don't even know if it applies or not? Like what's the point, just to spread FUD for the fun of it?

Re:Tell HN: Scribd Breached on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:39PM (#50317675)
I can't remember if it was the FBI or NSA or the exact details, but in the beginning of this year, they did runs a bunch of commands against compromised routers to "secure" them, which effectively would count as "hacking routers" were they not whitehackers. I think there was some huge Russian MITM campaign they disrupted by effectively hacking people's routers.
Their job is quite literally to sit in sessions and discuss potential laws, this is what us taxpayers give them money to do. It's not embarrassing to talk about whatever laws, regardless of how stupid because again, this is their job, they're evaluating things.

It'd be embarrassing if they'd actually make this as-is into law, which for obvious reasons wouldn't happen right now, but that hasn't happened yet.

Just like it's not embarrassing for a software developer to write code that has bugs, this happens even to the best of us. What would be embarrassing, would be to have that code deployed as-is to production, with bugs, that's the part we should be vigilant about.

Is everyone you know able to classify a business they run from their home connection as being a "content provider"? That's crazy, I know one person/entity who'd be considered as such.

Judging by the comments here, every single French person runs a CDN at home? What am I missing, or are people completely misunderstanding what this tax is targeting?

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