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Re:Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:00PM (#46258548)
yes if you tell llm to do things it will be too verbose. either explicitly instruct the length ("add 5 lines bulletpoints, tldr format") or just write it yourself.
Re:Using a fan can make older adults hotter in a dry heat on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:26PM (#44751367)
koreans knew after all what is up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
it's just considered marketing cost. they might not make $ from Bob, but they increase their client base by 1

any non-referral users, SweepIQ still keeps their amazon profit (and uses that to pay for the gpu's)

+ in future they might add another monetization, so perhaps Bob will pay $15/mo for SweepIQ Premium

Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @11:41AM (#43633380)
The Groq interview was good too. Seems that the thought process is that companies like Groq/Cerebras can run the inference, and companies like Nvidia can keep/focus on their highly lucrative pretraining business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBMRL_7msjY

Re:SpacetimeDB on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @11:37AM (#43633341)
i've tried it, it works, it's nice :) got a mini mmo running with several people at once running around
Re:Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:01PM (#42798446)
not anymore! with this tool, we can get rid of all of that fluff and go straight back to pure content only.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments? on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:44PM (#40939897)
"The only reason I can think of to buy a higher expense fund when a much lower expense variant exists is in the name of tax loss harvesting"

perhaps it's because they receive kickbacks from that specific fund.

not common knowledge I think.

all usd swift wires get routed through 2 of the major banks - think it was JP Morgan Chase & Wells Fargo. this allows them to check all of these transfers for aml/cft and other sanctions blacklists.

heard this from a guy who works closely with Tether so i'm sure he'd know well