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Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:53AM (#50326784)
Thanks! I was scrolling for this helpful comment with the link!
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:02PM (#50308647)
> Intel reports PC sales are down. That's likely related to RAM costs, which made price/performance of new PCs drop.

My university has put all the laptop and PC purchases for staff and faculty on hold and they are approving them only on a case by case basis.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:50PM (#50277873)
Some of my students use touchscreen Windows laptops. They seem to be OK with them but I never found them usable particularly for coding. A touchscreen laptop has ergonomically bad design. Or it could just be a generational thing.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:44PM (#50277748)
Not an M6 Pro chip here. It's either M5 Pro or M5 Max
Re:US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:01PM (#50132825)
3. Prompt it to make no mistakes
Re:US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:59PM (#50132805)
The level of debt is an issue when the revenue doesn't cover the spending, leading to a budget deficit. Obama reduced the deficit even after he increased the debt. Trump increased the debt and reduced the revenue widening the deficit. That's not the same thing.
Re:US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:55PM (#50132751)
Way to change the goal post when we are discussing budget deficits. Even then Obama added around $10 trillion to debt in eight years. Trump added close to $8 trillion in just four years in his first term.

In 2009, the budget deficit had risen to $1.42 trillion thanks to the massive bailouts of financial institutions. By 2016, when Obama left the office, it was down to $0.59 trillion.[1]

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:08PM (#50077898)
Same here. I had not opened antigravity in two months so I thought it was an update issue. But the app was updated. Argon is grayed out
Re:AI's Supercharging a Scam Economy Bigger Than the Cocaine Trade on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:11PM (#50061336)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-supercharges-scam...

https://archive.ph/HOYmo

Re:Search files on your Mac with Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:34PM (#50045016)
I came across this app on twitter. I've been quite unhappy with Spotlight search for a while. Hopefully, this will work better.
Re:The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:22PM (#50022811)
When Jack Ma disappeared for months because he pissed off Xi, I thought this would never happen in the US. We aren't there yet but moving in that direction at a swift pace.
Re:The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:18PM (#50022758)
There is also the consipracy theory that MAGA people in Trump's inner orbit started buying up .si domain names in June.
Re:Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:56PM (#49983244)
This one is from a tweet that posted a screenshot of the transcript between their Muse agent and a plumber:

Call transcript with Guerra's Plumbing, Englewood, CO at September 17, 2026, 1:32 PM

Recipient: This is Robert.

Muse: Hi, this is Brett calling on Ankit Gordhandas’s behalf. I'll be transcribing this call for notes. I'm looking for a quote to install three customer-supplied bidet sprayers. Can you help with that?

Recipient: Can you soak my dick?

Muse: I'm just calling about the installation quote. Is there someone there who can help with plumbing pricing?

Re:Incentives in Academic Research on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:45PM (#49959529)
Where did you get the idea that error-free research is not the goal? The author even mentions this:

Recently, I have bumped into multiple cases where I believe the correctness of the results, the honesty of the people writing them, or the lack of curiosity once they are told that their results are wrong, incorrect, faulty, or misleading, has been unsatisfying.

Note "I believe the correctness of the results....has been unsatisfying." Sure it might be unsatisfying for the author but on average the correctness is only increasing because of the increased scrutiny

Re:Incentives in Academic Research on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:03PM (#49957828)
I see the author's point but I respectfully disagree. If anything, there is now much more pressure to make sure the research is error-free because so many people independently look at it. In the past if you found an error in published research, you had limited ways to share your findings. Most journals are reluctant to put their papers under scanner. Now we can just write a blog or tweet out the findings. The researchers today face much more scrutiny compared to the ones in the past. In economics, people are using AI to replicate older famous papers and reporting problems with them. Tools like refine.ink can help researchers identify the errors in their research before even submitting the paper anywhere for a peer review.
Re:Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine fo... on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:52AM (#49922444)
Can this be used for fine-tuning models? I have a M4 Pro Mac mini with 64 GB RAM.
Re:Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:39PM (#49915885)
Matt never fails to deliver
Re:Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:06PM (#49910736)
Sebastian is the author of two excellent books related to LLMs

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch): https://sebastianraschka.com/llms-from-scratch/

Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch): https://sebastianraschka.com/reasoning-from-scratch/

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:08PM (#49902609)
It smees that the site is using a trial font

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902146

Re:How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:51PM (#49902466)
I 100% agree with this. I have great respect for Singapore and all the achievements of that country. But I also tell people to be mindful of the fact that it's a city state and an island.
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:15PM (#49897935)
OK, I will try it out. Thanks
Re:California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine... on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:27PM (#49896005)
Which part is not true?
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:56PM (#49883496)
Between OpenCode and Openrouter which one would you suggest? Sometimes I have pure grunt work to be done on non-sensitive data for which I want to use Chinese models. For example, tasks like extracting something from publicly available large pdf files.
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks fr... on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:42AM (#49867671)
I wish I had your discipline regarding Whatsapp. I have quit Facebook and Instagram but quitting Whatsapp has been tough.

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