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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:43AM (#50324707)
disable view history tracking in youtube and subscribe to a curated set of channels with great content for him. it's such an improvement, best life hack. even for people who're not 87.
This is very cool - one feature request: please support other languages! German Wikipedia would have way better info for my location :-)
Re:Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:07AM (#49774325)
This is part of what appeals to me. You can have something you love, but you have an idea that you want to explore. So you have to tear it all down.

I'd usually be drawn to hoarding patches, and organizing them, and labelling and maintaining. With a modular synth, I can only produce in the moment. I find that really freeing.

I'm a hobbyist, and not a professional musician, i might think different if I did this to make money.

Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:59PM (#49553159)
Maps grounding is an amazing interface for Google Maps - „I’m at x, need to be at y by 5pm. Find me a route that’s walkable and has a good vegan restaurant and a toy store“
Re:I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:52AM (#49489922)
I’ve been toying with using an llm to compile to smtlib and solving with z3. It works quite well, although I’m not quite sure how practical (large programs, reliably good runtime) I can make it.
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:44PM (#49395116)
I thought the same then. But the funny thing is that today, it has become a lot easier to recognize the frontier models as not human. All the load bearing and not x but y, etc… weird
Re:GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:23AM (#49344648)
i came back to say: i've given this another chance and while my point still stands: it's actually making up for that by being a good thinking partner.

the latest project i've been working on this has been really good. So I may have judged too quickly.

Re:GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:44PM (#49312591)
It's a smart model, but it has huge troubles staying on task... it constantly builds things I didn't ask it to.

Might have its uses in a tightly controlled harness, but for coding I'm switching back to a mix of K3/GLM-5.2/Deepseek V4 Flash 0731

Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @08:51AM (#49285181)
Interesting!

GLM 5.2 is slower for sure (although they offer a fast version), and it's more expensive. But in my experience, it's universally better than Deepseek V4-flash-0731. Don't get me wrong, the new Flash version is amazing.

But the use cases I have looked at are about source code understanding, bug finding, etc. - GLM 5.2 is clearly better.

I think by using some prompt engineering, you will probably be able to close this gap, but some extra work is needed.

And I'll say it again: the new Flash version is amazing. I love it. That level of intelligence for the price is unprecedented, and the fact that it's open weights and runs locally makes me genuinely happy.

great, i'll try this. something like this has on my list and i'm super curious :)
They're trying to make the product sticky while they're still subsidizing the subscription price. The plan is to raise prices when you're addicted.
Re:Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:01AM (#48246960)
it's sort of good at thinking, writing specs, etc.. Also debugging. But as a coder: I see no advantage to opus 4.6 and I preferred sonnet most times already over opus 4.6.
Re:Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:53PM (#17393836)
Thanks for the tip, started out really interesting!
That blog entry is well worth reading. It put a smile on my face! :-)
No idea what rights you'd have in the US, I'm not a citizen :-)
Sure, I thought that was obvious.

In Chrome: right-click, inspect. Edit page source. Done. Less than two minutes, and you don't need to have a tech background to do it.

Never trust screenshots.

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted:

https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

Re:Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:22PM (#16493999)
I'll never forget the day my mother called to tell me that their cat had died in an accident, suffering. I was (technically) grown up then, and it was many years ago, but it still hurts. Writing this hurts :(
Re:Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:48AM (#16491509)
If it wasn't for the cats we had when I was a kid, I'd be a different person today :')
Re:MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:49PM (#16194368)
It can run using a number of solvers, you can find a list here: http://www.minizinc.org/software.html
Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:52AM (#16187640)
Stiftskeller St. Peter is much older, according to this list: before 803.
Re:How the JVM compares strings on x86 using pcmpestri on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:15AM (#16090387)
The feature is called "intrinsics", this claims to be a list: https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc
Re:A different view on Functional Programming on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @06:36PM (#16011748)
What's the mathematical formula that describes a text box GUI item? Languages that look like math might be great for... mathematical problems. But programs are much more than math.
Re:Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016) on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:16AM (#15978846)
I was confused -- how can a library add a keyword like "coroutine" to C. It didn't look like macros were powerful enough to do that (I expected to at least some context having to be passed to the worker, or so).

It turns out that a coroutine is just a function that the compiler should not inline: https://github.com/sustrik/libmill/blob/master/libmill.h#L24...

Re:Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:07AM (#15970762)
I don't follow your examples. How is workout-equipment:gym like uber:taxi-firm?

> non-progressive

I'm not sure what you mean by progress, exactly, but policy simplicity is progress IMHO.

Re:Advent of Code 2017 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:39PM (#15866552)
I'm trying racket.
Re:Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:18PM (#15759072)
> In an ideal world, what you want is more like copy-on-write. Share the code until one of the clients of that code needs a change that the others do not, then copy it.

Good point. The problem with that is, of course, that you may not be aware of others existing.

> There is no silver bullet...

+1

Re:Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#15757572)
Code duplication can be seen as a "defensive copy". If you duplicate code, the original version can be changed without breaking the copies.

Disclaimer: I'm not making a value statement here :-)

> From a european perspective it's so strange.

Agreed. To me, it seems that encryption should be uncontroversially accepted from the populations's standpoint, while gun policies have valid arguments for and against.

Basically: it's really hard to shoot someone in the face with pgp.

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:17AM (#15660981)
The daughter doesn't support it

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