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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:55PM (#50344406)
Has this been replicated yet?
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:48PM (#50292058)
Isn't this good news because they're diversifying their streams?
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:02AM (#50260423)
Capitalism doesn't work like that. The promise of "less work" is only possible if you're the only one that can unlock those productivity gains, but if your competitors are also able to access those gains, they will eat your marketshare if you just work less.

The whole post is just a deep misunderstanding of what it means to live in capitalist societies.

Re:Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:02PM (#50012217)
Tried it a few times with English, Spanish and French and the quality/accuracy is pretty "meh". If the model doesn't really work, it doesn't matter if it fits in 1MB.
Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:39PM (#49984508)
How is the pricing vs Jev?
BS. They just replaced alcohol with weed and a bit of amphetamines.
Re:Apple Watch Ultra 4 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:04PM (#49632298)
How much of your networth have you donated to the starving people? Nature is pretty metal and doesn't care about justice. I thought we all learned this in school.
Surely those won't ever get fixed...
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:21PM (#49423883)
"Punching card expersite is going to collapse from interactive terminals reliance"
Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:31PM (#49352994)
Tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes $5.1M USD per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.
Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:29PM (#49352972)
tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes 5.1 million per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.
STE is part of the training set, so the skill is redundant and only pollutes your context window.
Re:Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:14PM (#48897371)
Workflowy is awesome.
I'm assuming you can launch them again after 8 hours.
i'm OK with meditation, as it doesn't require believing in superatural, all powerful beings
I mean, you see smart people all over the world talking to imaginary, supernatural, all powerfull beings asking for favors via prayers, like that would have any effect on their lives.
Re:Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler on Friday April 24, 2026 @07:55AM (#47888989)
"plansturbation" is a real industry, there are tons of successful YouTubers that sell millions of dollars in tutorials, courses, books, etc on how to setup your productivity harness
it's not that deep, once a company reaches a certain size it gets ridden with middle managers looking for their next promotion. middle managers are gonna middle-manage.
Re:What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:59PM (#47418224)
"most of the time" != 100% pass rate
Re:What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:21AM (#47411175)
a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:30PM (#47338552)
my point wasn't about using the "original rules", on the contrary it was about discarding uneeded ones. totally missed the point, but hey thanks for your contribution.
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:28PM (#47338516)
totally missed the point, but you do you.
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:27PM (#47338504)
> It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text.

right, because i couldn't have adopted this writing style in the past few weeks.

to address your second point, i could probably make better use of punctuation, but the original message is still delivered without all the fluff IMO.

Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:21PM (#47337620)
to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this process unless you're using an obscure acronym. in my mind, it's one of those ancient rules that are completely obsolete in the modern world. its only purpose is to allow others to say "i am better than you because i use this ancient rule that someone came up with a thousand years ago, so i'm smart and you're dumb".

being a non-native english speaker, removing capitalization from my writing removed a ton of anxiety when writing text and didn't change at all the landing of my messages or my ideas.

Re:GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @09:48AM (#46975623)
- meh, i asked what happened to Virginia Guiffre and it told me that she's alive and well living with her husband and children in australia

- i pointed out that she died on 2025 and then it told me that my question was a prank with a gaslighting tone because that date is 11 months into the future

- it never tried to search the internet for updated knowledge even though the toggle was ON.

- all other AI competitors get this right

Re:DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:03AM (#46734090)
"why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"
Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:57AM (#46527072)
Perhaps for extremely basic products. Most non-engineers can barely write and untangle their messy thoughts and you think they can just build a spec for an AI to build a product? Hopefully I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
Re:$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:05PM (#46282146)
Ah, thanks Internet stranger. TIL.
Re:$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:55PM (#46278696)
> so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.

yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2b or us-east-2c) but Availability Zones are not consistent between AWS accounts.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

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