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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:45PM (#50320986)
How come there are no ads?
a single generation would still allow looping in the "CPU" because the instruction set can do it. The model is almost a Turing machine (except for the limit on memory)
EPA won't like the gas emission
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:44PM (#50024119)
anthropic + bun vs cloudflare + deno, could it be counter move for building from agent sandbox that runs on the edge?
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:18PM (#49883762)
The documentation mentions error code "frontier_llm": The request could assist the development of competing AI models.

I'm very curious how do they know what requests could assist competing AI models.

Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:28AM (#49866501)
You either "improve performance" or "ship more ___", never both.
Re:Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:32AM (#49845222)
Hint for mouse users, press and drag on them to hear sound and see visual effects. Mouse X/Y coordinates are inputs.
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:37PM (#49825534)
> Stream hundreds of games with XBOX Cloud Gaming

This might be the killer app if latency is low enough.

Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:35PM (#49825523)
I like VSCode server in general, but it's too memory hungry. It would crash Raspberry Pi (1GB) by eating up all the RAM.
Re:Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:42PM (#49824690)
it's stupid fast!
Re:Whoisinspace.com/ on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:16PM (#49744534)
Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:20PM (#49631068)
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#49630883)
This made history because Apple never copied Microsoft before. https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/
Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:04AM (#49586676)
I still enjoyed going through it, for what it is.

1. runjs promoting itself using music REPL as an example

2. author used LLM to fit a few music related ideas into the web audio API

3. they tried it with math two years ago: https://runjs.app/blog/equations-that-changed-the-world-rewr... They are clearly targeting js developers, which is one of the largest coding community

4. "The naming is not arbitrary, and the harmonic series explains why.", stop wasting tokens. Just say what it is please.

Re:MAI Transcribe 2 on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:47AM (#49564618)
just tested it, it can be paired with a streaming setup called Voice Live. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-s...
Re:MAI Transcribe 2 on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:14AM (#49563043)
According to Artificial Analysis https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2095521214777442546 it is on the pareto frontier.
Re:Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:10AM (#49563019)
my hunch is that their hardware can't cache
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:41PM (#49558130)
which raises the question, is the model in the demo actually gpt-6? or it is gpt realtime 2.1? It's unclear how gpt-6 can interact at the realtime level and if so, how can developer get access to it?
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:38PM (#49558099)
What's the point of enlarging the screen into a room? In the 1979 Put That There demo, the user at least used his hand to point things. The model is impressive but the demo felt like a step back.

Original demo (fun ending) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

Re:Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:10PM (#49557065)
No. You buy a minimum of $10 worth of credit, then use it at $1.49/M rate. There is no recurring charge.

There is a separate subscription based plan, which is sold out now.

Re:Gemini-3.5-Transcribe on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:54AM (#49474492)
Soniox website has a live comparison demo: https://soniox.com/compare-stt

For me, Gemini-3.5-Transcribe actually has slightly lower latency. Kudos to Soniox for both paying their competitor and letting them win. But yes, Soniox is much cheaper.

Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:35PM (#49468352)
The tokens per second speed measurement is highly inflated nowadays because most of the tokens went into thinking. I wonder if there is a more realistic measurement for "effective speed", which accounts for thinking efficiency.
I started browsing the UK catalog and found a PAC-MAN edition: https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.CA-53WPC-1B/
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:33PM (#49369434)
They already sell API access to the model on Google/Microsoft/Amazon cloud. OpenRouter is the same deal. Note that the labs are not giving out model weights to OpenRouter. They are just selling tokens.
Re:Asus Bike Booster on Saturday August 15, 2026 @11:25PM (#49316622)
It is decoupled from drivetrain. So, without torque sensor, how does it know when the rider wants to speed up vs. slow down?

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