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Re:Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:39AM (#49842177)
I'm on mobile so I'm not able to check, but can the will-change and contain attributes reduce the cost?
> Although logic connectivity is not layout-dependent in the current prototype, we envision a future where physical proximity directly influences or determines logical connections. In this ultimate view, the circuit behaves like a digital organism whose physical form and logical connections evolve together under local structural constraints.
Re:Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:16AM (#48761999)
Not all bugs are buffer overflows, many are just the code not doing what it claimed at a high level
Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:42AM (#48642110)
405 Method Not Allowed is trivial to fall back to POST. How do you know the GET request behaved incorrectly?
Re:Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine on Monday June 15, 2026 @08:59AM (#48540600)
Seems like the README is heavily vibed, as it seems to not even understand what the repo does:

> Local AI & LLM Ready: By reducing complex pixel streams into structured logical strings, ASCILINE acts as a perfect bridge for AI. Instead of feeding heavy computer vision models, lightweight LLMs can process semantic video summaries.

In what way is this semantic/structured?

> Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply "JavaScript updating a canvas"—completely invisible to media restrictions.

So... just render the video to a canvas? What does ASCII have to do with it

> LLMs are good at predicting words, since each word in the id is ~1 BPE token. But uuids are random hex characters, this is where LLMs struggle to output the right ids.

If true then that indeed seems like an improvement, I think I just need measurements of actual hallucinations. Calling hex random but a selection of words not seems humanly biased? If anything, being random is good because it's saying there's no semantic influence. I'd think that words are more likely to be hallucinated as certain words only follow certain contexts, which is less true for numbers

I don't like that they're not apples to apples; less bits so of course it'll take less tokens.

> Where UUIDs cost ~23 tokens and get hallucinated by LLMs

How does this solve the hallucination problem?

Just removing the - from the example UUID takes it from 26 tokens to 18

LLMs aren't relevant to aviation and medical devices
Re:DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:17AM (#47611947)
The free battery deal ended in January, but you're likely better off as mine ended up getting a damaged screen while being transported for mail in (because all local stores stopped doing the program), and they wanted to charge me an extortionate price to fix the screen. Support were useless
Re:RX – a new random-access JSON alternative on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:36AM (#47436863)
Came to the same conclusion the moment I had to hunt to see the outputs https://github.com/creationix/rx/tree/main/samples
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:40PM (#46982259)
It's monetisation. If they put a paywall on the video, your browser has the functionality to play the video but you're forced to pay to use that functionality.

Also wrt phone, it's different because I paid for the phone. But also I'd just use a different camera app?

While I'm not pro YouTube, I think it's fine for companies to decide how to monetise their product, including things which were originally free. If you don't like free services, stop using them
Humans eat insects, current and past
Re:Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language on Saturday January 10, 2026 @07:47PM (#46571586)
I feel like any deviation from the syntax LLMs are trained on is not productive.

Sure you can represent the same code in fewer tokens but I doubt it'll get those tokens correct as often.

Re:A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:23AM (#46286879)
I never want to unknowingly use an app that's driven this way.

However, I'm happy it's happening because you don't need an LLM to use the protocol.

you might like https://omrelli.ug/g9/ which is a similar concept but for graphics
Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:16AM (#46132186)
The post stated that it was believed duplication improved loading times on computers with HDDs rather than SSDs
Stopped at 74 but managed to par all before that somehow. Didn't really do any problem solving/deep thinking about it, just clicking what felt right
Re:I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla on Friday November 14, 2025 @10:05AM (#45927447)
I don't think you can apply Unix philosophy to a (GUI) web browser, you don't use it compositionally.
Re:HTML Slides with notes on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:52AM (#45845844)
Open the page in two windows, with one that has note mode enabled
ramburgers are quite healthy, they've been shown to improve memory
Re:Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:39AM (#45668155)
I'm interpretting your message as you asking me to share my API keys
Fair enough, but this isn't that case. They have Y (it's in the first photo) and tested a previous version of the model. The changes are predictable (rotating letters and slight scaling) so I don't think it's unreasonable to be confident and not waste plastic.
What do you mean by "CSS is basically pre-tokenized input"? Can you give an example of what you have trouble with?
It tickled me seeing the streaming example, thinking about how much better HTML deals with streaming
The font is around 6 years old and free, so I wouldn't be suprised

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