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Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:31PM (#49078537)
That argument of blaming open-weighting because it makes it easier to commit cybercrime and biocrime is such a non sense.

So in the same sense of what he says, he is going to blame open-sourcing because that makes it easier for script kiddie to hack into his bank account I guess?

Re:Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters on Saturday July 25, 2026 @10:55PM (#49054223)
amazing quality for such small size!
Re:Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:00AM (#48988998)
I can't really tell why would I use this over like lm studio, jan.ai and such?
Re:LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:05AM (#48670898)
I kinda have seen somewhere on internet, that the language design of lua and js(well, ecmascript to be precise) is somehow related. But can't really find the exact reference I have seen.. it was long time ago when I read this.
Re:Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#48555836)
uh.. what is a cpu emulator? or what can I do with it? I am kind of having hard time comprehend this.
IIRC, the samurai class after Meiji reform period kinda fall into this category, they eventually emerge into Yakuza.
Re:Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @02:56AM (#48118664)
That is not native at all.
My quick guess is that this approach offers near zero overhead for gpu to access data inside sandbox with all the security/privacy benefit of sandbox.
Re:Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:10AM (#47790546)
Is this "macos26" official Apple github account?
Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:21AM (#46843849)
Looks like the post was written in 2023, I wonder how much better did Swift get in crossplatform department these days?
Brilliant stuff! Any plan to support macos?
Re: on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:10AM (#45779779)
Is it possible to install previous macOS version on newest macbook model? I see people having terrible experience with macOS Tahoe yet I am considering purchasing a macbook..
Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:49AM (#45115085)
I felt the same, male voice feels kinda artificial.
This is so fun. You know what, you should change the picture of cursor from hand to something like, bee, or even fly, that should make it even more hilarious :-p
uh.. Are these comments in this thread even serious? Because they surely feel odd to read.
Re:Show HN: Free, 100% in browser PDF editor on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:04AM (#43886255)
Any chance to open source this and allow us to host it privately?

Fantastic work btw.

Re:CONL: "Markdown" for your config files on Sunday April 27, 2025 @02:08AM (#43809785)
Damn you fast, I was just about to link that one too :-)
Re:Kaneo – An open source project management platform on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:49PM (#43146656)
The point of demo is to make it as easy as possible to try your product. Having people register really defeats the purpose. Either get rid of login phase for demo, or at least prefill input fields with some demo user/password pair.
Re:Happy New Year 2025 HN on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:20PM (#42563924)
Happy New Year to all of you my fellow HN readers!
Re:Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:32AM (#42039373)
That's really a good rule. It could apply to almost any aspect of life, not only just about what to eat.
Re:What Is Entropy? on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:28AM (#41044531)
Am I only one that can't download the pdf, or is the file server down? I can see the blog page but when I try downloading the ebook it just doesn't work..

If the file server is down.. anyone could upload the ebook for download?

Re:Ice - open source bar manager for macOS on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:07AM (#40605752)
I particularly like the explanation on naming it ice:

> Because your menu bar becomes like ice, allowing your menu bar items to slide away

Re:Udio – AI Music Generator on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:08AM (#40559802)
this song is ridiculously funny, good work sir!
Re:Flow – Online ePub Reader on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:14AM (#38694239)
Hmm this looks kinda like vscode.
Re: on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:51AM (#38623564)
My brain hurts so good when I watch this visualization. I can't explain this feeling, so weird.
Re:Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:59AM (#38590220)
I was just about to mention Nier Automata too. The dynamically changing music was a huge wow moment to me when I played it.

Actually this game is such an art. Its story is touching, full of unexpected plot twist, and inspiring deep thinking afterwards; its graphics is cozy and unsettling, heart warming and hear breaking at the same time - yet the game is not really gpu demanding; its combat is slick, snap, and satisfying; its music literally echo with your emotional roller coaster along your gameplay. And what's crazy is that, all of these nice things about this game actually blend with each other really perfect, so you don't think about any single aspect of this game, you feel the whole game as a package delivers you one of, if not THE, finest japanese anime/game experience in so many levels. I was really depressed for like 6 months after finishing this game because I left wanting more of Nier Automata games. It will literally make you become a huuuuge weeb.

Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:49AM (#38568393)
I've played dos and dos2 and I liked them(well I enjoyed dos's combat system more than dos2 but I loved playing them both in general), I've never played any DnD games, should I buy bg3?
Re:VirGL on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:15AM (#37106627)
uh, this doesn't look like what those gpu passthrough things like vfio do, is it a different thing? Or I am more interested in, can this do what vfio do, run games in almost native performance in windows guest vm?
> When you inevitably find software that isn't in nix (or are packaging your own software), be prepared to take a quantum leap in complexity as you now need to fully understand the nix language and its concepts like derivations. This isn't necessarily hard but it is not documented well at all, and there are factions in nix at odds with each other (flakes vs. nix-env) which make learning it even more confusing.

Exactly this was why I am so hesitant to switch to nix. I tried to dig into the details of nix, language, derivation and whatnot, but documentations and community discussions are, in my experience pretty segregated that left me confused, and I eventually went back to arch.

I wanted to switch to nixos but current segregation between flakes and (traditional) nix features was a huge stop sign for me. Seems like this move is a good sign resolving this issue. Hope they bring things nice together -- features, doc, the community etc.

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