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Re:RAG Is Simpler Than You Think on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:34AM (#49446671)
not really, vectorising text/books is old school ML by this point.

at least to me that seems the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec for e.g.

Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:42AM (#49184467)
could be, I guess we'll see.

but even that, if done correctly, is quite impressive. It sure sounds very useful given the number of papers out there.

Not a hit piece on AC, rather about how non coordinated a thorough policy change can have adversarial effect.

Also, yes AC is essential, but it is on track to consuming so much electricity that is has to be pushed in the right direction to not become a new problem replacing the old.

Re:Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative? on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:12AM (#48477580)
In startups with less than 50 people (and I am being generous on the number), everyone talks to everyone all the time, so there is no need for these moments to extract key info to fix/improve situations, identify topics to push, ...

But once the company is just large enough, there is no way you're going to interact with everyone in a meaningful manner (n^2 relationships and all that), and the simplest solution is intermediaries and 1-1s.

[also, being sarcastic is unhelpful.]

Re:GitHub just suspended GitHub-actions[bot] on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:44AM (#48278383)
Seeing the same on our side, and now no github action is even getting picked up in our repo.
Re:Three Inverse Laws of AI on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:45PM (#48038365)
To me this rule is not necessarily something each individual must do on their own, but rather an objective for systems and societies.

In this frame the outcome is more: Companies providing chatbots should not encourage anthropomorphism by giving cute names, making them witty, using human like pictures, ...

It's not about the cyclists wearing ANC headsets (which is already prohibited at least in Euro countries), but about pedestrians wearing them. Another problem altogether.
Re:Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:07AM (#47671673)
I think you should just explain that part more clearly: why would they want you to host git repos on their behalf.
Re:Push events into a running session with channels on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:40PM (#47448680)
What these 'channels' do is essentially why I was running a nanoclaw at work: triggering a claude code based on events and getting feedback/review/analysis which nicely closes the loop with other agents.

Not sure why it has to be an mcp, but will be trying this out asap.

One thing that I currently find useful on MCPs is granular access control.

Not all services provide good token definition or access control, and often have API Key + CLI combo which can be quite dangerous in some cases.

With an MCP even these bad interfaces can be fixed up on my side.

Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client on Saturday February 28, 2026 @05:55PM (#47201297)
Do you have a good starting point or explanation to share about using obsidian for a team, where we all change/sync files?
Re:.Beat Swatch Internet Time on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @07:48AM (#46959030)
same here, this is just moving to switzerland as the base time.

https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/internet-time.html https://beats.wiki/0

Re: on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:34PM (#46929491)
Probably because it's the first day.
I guess it depends what appeal to you.

As an example finding myself in a similar 80% situation, over the last few months I built

- a personal website with my projects and poems

- an app to rework recipes in a format I like from any source (text, video,...)

- a 3d visual version of a project my nephew did for work

- a gym class finder in my area with filters the websites don't provide

- a football data game

- working on a saas for work so typical saas stuff

I was never that productive on personal projects, so this is great for me.

Also the coding part of these projects was not very appealing to me, only the output, so it fits well with AI using.

In the meanwhile I did Advent of Code as usual for the fun of code. Different objectives.

Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows on Monday January 19, 2026 @03:56PM (#46684391)
That's not meaningful, it all depends on what content is shared on the respective platforms.
Re:Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:00AM (#46573574)
Not sure you can "cancel" github reactions of other users
Re:Use Python for Scripting on Saturday December 13, 2025 @02:52PM (#46257395)
Sure but the sub question here was about packages.

If you are installing packages, then starting with installing uv should be fine.

Re:Idempotency Keys for Exactly-Once Processing on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:18PM (#46168122)
Not trying to be snarly, but you should read the article and come back to discuss. This specific point is adressdd.
Re:Advent of Code 2025 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:32PM (#46099090)
Online chess competitions actually spend quite a lot on preventing cheating, and even then it's a common talking point.
Re:Why Strong Consistency? on Thursday November 27, 2025 @05:17PM (#46073696)
I am not an expert, but from the examples in the article I think the author is looking for a bit more than read-your-writes.

E.g. They mention reading a list of attachements and want to ensure they get all currently created attachements, which includes the ones created by other processes.

So they want to have "read-all-writes" or something like that.

Re:When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order" on Monday September 29, 2025 @01:11AM (#45410506)
I am not sure any of the points you raised change anything to the OP's point, do they?

Op was taking about changing the rule to something more intuitive, in such case it would s'en natural that decimal numbers are used.

Re:I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:36AM (#44845434)
To non Americans, and given the current political climate imposed by the American government, no it's not very different.
That would be whoever owns the private key, no?

It's similar to any other private/public key scheme: it just serves to prove the signature was generated by the owner (here whoever owns the location at which the video is taken).

But I guess you could imagine multiple flickering patterns per location, with each pattern being owned by a different entity (an NGO + a governement + a private company for example), in essence doing a multi-sig of the video.

Re:Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos on Saturday August 02, 2025 @01:23PM (#44769454)
While it does not seem enough to guarantee authenticity, this scheme does seem like it would prevent creating a video from scratch pretending to be taken at a protected location without having express knowledge of the key or the flickering at that moment in time.

Definitely interesting for critical event and locations, but quite niche.

Re:DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:26AM (#44254760)
I respect that, but I am curious, what DNS do you use?
Re:DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:15AM (#44254724)
Depending how it's implemented it can still be privacy focused (not keeping logs, tracking usage...).

No idea if that's the case, but the two are not necessarily incompatible.

Re:DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:14AM (#44254722)
Apparently there is an unfiltered option, we'll see what it looks like.

But why the negativity for a project that has value in diversifying a core component of the Internet backbone, and that is completely optional?

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