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feedback: making the editor "ed" pia is a deliberate choice - and a dealbreaker for me. Tickle my brain, don't make me figure out arcane edit schemas. vi, emacs, etc. just make this doable.
Re:Why I email complete strangers on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:16AM (#48551718)
Needs [2025], as it was written last year.
Re:Was my $48K GPU server worth it? on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:59AM (#48246020)
I have two of the M3s due testing of models at work and with exo I can run decent quantization with 1 millon tokens for memory and derailment tests.

Slow? Yes, but ... private. Unconditionally.

And recently with https://github.com/antirez/ds4 one can use just one system to a very, very decent speed and ttft for chat inference. Again, private.

And the list lacks wire for example. I wonder why.
Re:A field manual for Deutsche Bahn on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:42PM (#48141645)
LLM generated comment.

It is said don't feed the trolls. Looking at eieiyo's comment history, I can really tell - kiddo? Bot? Confused Oldtimer?

Whatever.

Thanks for the reply. Um. In this particular text, I tend do disagree.
I read the text myself and checked it with pangram, it's 95% plus human written (people hate hundred percent so the discount). So I'm asking myself if it is ragebait or Idiocracy. I know that's harsh to say, but throwing in written by AI is harsh as well. (Analysis: Pangram believes that this document is fully human-written https://www.pangram.com/history/c59610e0-aba7-469c-b762-21f7...)
Re:Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:01AM (#47802870)
It's lovable when people use a wrench to hammer a nail in. Watch your thumb.

Meaning: You managed your ways around the system prompt and usage intention - Congrats! Now it doesn't work any more - Bummer!

Have you tried opus 4.7 in comparison to 4.6 with a general purpose / writing system prompt in the app? Thats where this would make more sense.

Re:Set the Line Before It's Crossed on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:54AM (#47610856)
My line is: No advice from llms. This seems to be one. Sigh.
Re:Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:47AM (#47036481)
Angry Upvote. (This isn't reddit, I know)
I love services that have not a single person as a contact/responsible for the site. /sarcasm

It's a red flag if you hide behind a contact form with no reachability beyond that whatsoever.

And as other said: 99.5% accuracy means you should have millions of working fingerprints, since mine and others are faulty as hell.

Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:57AM (#46432874)
I purchased physical eSIM Multicard. It worked quite easily, so now I can handle esims in a virtual/physical way.

And I know what you might think: Isn't that defeating the purpose? No, it is not. I can recive a digital simcard activation, render it on a physical card and use it in any phone. Thats perfect.

And yes, once the phones without a sim-card slot come ... we'll see.

Re:1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 on Friday December 19, 2025 @03:52AM (#46323680)
He corrected that in the comment section of the youtube video. Five is actually the maximum amount. He just didn't want to buy another one.
Re:Debug Mode for LLMs in vLLora on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:37PM (#46291512)
Until https://github.com/vllora/vllora/tree/v0.1.6 it was Apache licensed. Then Elastic Search 2. Nah.

IMHO the "don't remove anything with a licensekey ever" part in the license is the kind of potential poison that I would never recommend this to my or any other company. More than a few fellow engineers consider nagware an insult and see the potential to twist your arm late in the game making former free functions part of a new "optimized pay package", which you need because you can't fix the bug in the goddamn license part that is a security risk. LOL. (Not saying that you ever do. See below)

And there is no moat, debugging AI flows is a few prompts and a claude code max, google gemini pro or codex whatever for a couple of days while doing the usual things will happen.

Note: Its not about this software specific. I learned that the cuts and bruises of incidents before you come along are the ones that shape behaviour of your partners/colleagues/peers. You may have the purest intentions and best approaches, but someone longe before you ruined it. Its not you, its you chosing the same path.

Re:The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:38AM (#45048778)
That only works for weeks or so, since they won't be updated, according to the PR.

It's time to build your own from core / foundational images - something I recently learned and now seek to master.

well, if you read about the exchange beween the author and owners ... add "schwurbeln" (german) to the list of whats weird about the domain.
Re:A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @07:18AM (#44168733)
"Complete Guide to Meta Prompting while recommending our Product" would be a more honest title.

I personally reject advice that is muddled with directly offering their own services: Its conflict of interest in my face.

Re:Show HN: Chat with 19 Years of HN on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:42AM (#44028755)
! Dataset is not available to me or at my location - the only offer I get is Spotify 2023 and such. Gone?
Well, he commented on his post the prompts: Two LLM prompts to Gemini 2.5 were used to help with the content.

> The following is a blog post. Please identify additional points of leverage and sanction in each context mentioned in the blog post.

and

> The following is a blog post. I want to make the content more engaging. I am reluctant to illustrate the points with stories, so I'm looking for other ways to make the content accessible and engaging.

Since it's mostly a list of lists and a starter text (for engagement) ... well played.

Re:Show HN: Avid, Create Beautiful Flutter Apps with AI on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:10AM (#43360532)
Says by a green account. Oh the irony!
Re:Show HN: Avid, Create Beautiful Flutter Apps with AI on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:25PM (#43355997)
Why are the praising accounts green? Am I missing something?
Re:uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:18AM (#43099503)
Karma farming?
Re:Big Tech's water use is 100 times bigger than expected on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:40PM (#43096579)
Its about the water-meter before the datacenter. So 1000 liters in - thats 1000 liters of "use". If you re-cycle it a 1000 times, still only a 1000 liters on the meter.

Since water isn't pure from public system, well, you can create "life" if you keep it warm just long enough. So you better replace/mix it with fresh water. So another 500 liters? Now we're at 1500 liter total.

Rinse and repeat.

Re:No Longer Posting to Pinboard on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:12AM (#43023814)
Wild, that its been 15+ years since then. The price model was "it gets more expensive (the one time price) the more people join". I think it was less than 20 dollars for me, even way less.
Re:No Longer Posting to Pinboard on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:10AM (#43023797)
Yes, if you count the export from Pinboard to Bookmark.html and then import to Linkding for once.

One weird thing though is, that Linkding does not have marking a bookmark "read" on first click: This is the most useful feature on Pinboard for me.

Via the pinboard-bookmarklet I pile all the links I come across, then mass read them and can track what's been read because the first click marks them on Pinboard.

From the outside (that is europen view) it looks like they're planning that this change in four years - or even two - will not happen. We'll see.

A good read would be Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

Re:Happy New Year 2025 HN on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:27AM (#42566565)
(2 + 0!)^25 is only 45 on my account, should be ((2 + 0!)^25)^2 :-/
Re:Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:54AM (#42032784)
The Author didn't check if they have a unique problem ... it it seems they have an individual issue. Which is still shit, but not the kind of suggested by the alarmist headline.

I checked my version, it its 15.1. on a M2 Macbook Air. Its fine. Same for at least 3 other people I asked and which checked.

Blunt question: Where is the discussion? Did you do this on purpose? Because the link just leads to an ai product like many. If you wanted to discuss an issue, that would be "ask" HN.

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