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Idk about swapping assets but zsnes used to have a range of video filters that could improve the experience on a modern screen quite a bit.

Edit: For SNES, not NES, my bad.

I probably don't have the best reference at hand, but reducing language to a handful of brain areas like Wernicke and Broca seems to be in flux recently (while more research seems needed)[0].

[0] https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-11707-001.html

Re:Build your own decision model on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:08AM (#50040215)
Just for the author: On any of my iOS 26 browsers (orion, brave, safari), a page reload occurs when the model download completes, which resets the state, so I never get to interact with the model.
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:02AM (#50005331)
Oh God, that reminds me of the mission to recover the awesome midi tracks on one of the Gold Games I compilation CDs that I loved as a kid.

The CD had the game MiG29 Fulcrum on it, but also others, and I never triggered the music in-game (it was stored as audio tracks on the game disk).

So I guess my best bet is finding someone with an original working cd or disk images online (anyone? :) )

EDIT: For anyone with the same disposition, look for "goldgames" on archive.org. And thanks to OP for the impulse to look.

Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:04AM (#49931766)
I don't think it's necessarily a bug per se, but a central tradeoff in system prompt length between well-documenting the environment (harness specifics, exposed tools, tool use instructions etc) to the llm, vs the initial prompt stage ("prefill") growing so large that it results in an unpleasant lag to first response, and reduced available context, which is most noticeable with open models on resource-constrained consumer hardware.

You can use llm to optimize some of this, I condensed the tool descriptions of some larger LM Studio plugins to shrink prefill by almost 10k tokens. But there's a soft limit to this, if you don't want to under-document available tools and let the model guess (/behave unsafely).

One optimization around this is called "smart tool selection", which only sends tool descriptions when the model indicates need for a certain tool (suite), not all of them upfront.

Re:Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:41PM (#49883308)
I have ocd so I concur with only #2 for equilibrium.
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:13PM (#49791090)
Do you think they're unreliable based on the position in the conversation or other factors?
Supposedly there was a time when drinking beer was often safer than drinking water from available sources, including for children. I guess there are levels
Re:uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:17AM (#49510099)
You could reverse the last sentence to "freed disk space reduces the need to clean the hd". And I don't even mean physical limitation as much as the compulsion to manually clean ballooning cache dirs once in a while.
Re:No AI Fridays on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:14PM (#49499991)
Maybe this is a useful way to address maladaptive llm use for some, but it seems to focus the discussion on either-or (using llms) as opposed to how (to use them).

For things you want to learn: Are you asking to have something solved, or are you asking for information so you can solve it?

There may be detrimental learning effects even with asking llms for information, but I think there's a fundamental difference in addressing it as an intern/slave vs teacher/tutor.

Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @10:57AM (#49124021)
Thanks for sharing.
Re:Does creatine make you smarter? on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:08PM (#49012667)
Clouds of intracellular water more efficiently retained in muscle due to creatine supplementation[?]. Hydration is controlled for in some studies but not all.
Re:The maths you need to start understanding LLMs on Saturday September 06, 2025 @07:56AM (#45148492)
I keep having had the best time with Andrej Karpathy's Youtube intros into LLM math. But I haven't compared scope or quality to this submission
Thank you for the comment. https://github.com/umlx5h/zsh-manpage-completion-generator appears to adapt this to ZSH. Have yet to try through
Re:Ollama Turbo on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:22PM (#44805188)
:)) Apparently. I don't have a better guess. Well spotted
Re:Online Collection of Keygen Music on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:37AM (#44775876)
I apologize for shortness but <3
Re:Thawing vacuum-packed fish correctly on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:14AM (#44669000)
Thank you
Re:Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse" on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:49AM (#44520417)
I just switched away from it again after it got delisted from nixpkgs due to lack of development[0][1]

[0] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=...

[1] Should be this one https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/351205

Re:Is Anybody Using This Private Key on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:29AM (#44465375)
w/ signed counts
Re:Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) on Saturday June 07, 2025 @06:51AM (#44208795)
Overton window calculation usually starts at a minimum of two inputs without proximity requirements (except technical requirements like linguistics/ functional semantics)*

[ * Only because an opinion may appear too far removed from a given perceived spectrum-threshold for 'reasonable reasoning'.. should not necessitate collapsing the contrasting input to some purely sarcastic/humorous telos, especially when this stochastically undermines one's own chances for being afforded the inversely congruent gesture]

Re:Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) on Saturday June 07, 2025 @04:05AM (#44208187)
Is this intentional devils advocacy for the sake of balancing an expected narrative? Outside of the rarely normative definition threshold as to what constitutes spyware or not, on what data / references (if any) do you base your impression on?

And how does a perception of company trustworthiness correlate with telemetry ethics that don't infringe in some way on 'basic digital human rights' (as defined by GDPR et al, say)?

Such confidence ratings over unavailable/lost/missing data appear like a luxury to where I'm from (science wise). Does historical analysis come with heuristic privileges over other fields in that regard?
While partly debated, the first part sounds like a prime candidate for Dunning Kruger effect in (historic) action
Re:Metaprogramming in Bash on Saturday August 17, 2024 @08:32AM (#41274080)
Nice, thanks for sharing!
Re:Google Removed Organic Maps from the Playstore on Saturday August 17, 2024 @08:26AM (#41274038)
In this case both options seem to apply at the same time
Re:Kim Dotcom: The Full Story on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:42PM (#41259123)
(Corresponding wiki entry for the remote version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_card#Remote_memory_s... )
Re:Kim Dotcom: The Full Story on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:37PM (#41259075)
Oh boy, this takes me back. This is from memory, so take it with a grain of salt: The calling cards I mainly used as a kid in the 90s were ones with a sim-like chip on it that you would insert into a phone booth until it ran out at which point you'd throw them away. Earlier/alternative ones worked, iirc, by calling a free phone line which prompted you to enter a valid calling card number which had credit assigned to it, and then you could make your call. If there was a way to reverse engineer the algorithm for valid calling card numbers (similar to a keygen) I guess you could hack it for free calls. If someone has a more plastic / accurate memory of this please correct me
Pretty much
A common trajectory seems to be your sentiment, followed by a couple of reluctant retries, followed by eventual, disproportional reverence. I'm no different
The people who are likely have a limited capacity to.

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