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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:07PM (#50343770)
Is "Recently recommended" works such that it puts the most recently linked video at the top? Because currently the top video's most recent linking post is 79 days old.
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:26PM (#50329431)
Maybe I am out of the loop, but why did Karpathy prefer using Claude models instead of OpenAI's?
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:10PM (#50263350)
> Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world.

Looks like a hiccup, which created an odd and ambiguous sentence.

Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:04PM (#50237720)
This is nice that you're walking them through it but I wonder why you'd need a tablet in the first place, then? It's better to sit with them in front of a monitor with the proper posture and viewing position.
Re:Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:25PM (#50092522)
> The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction. The measurements were run on my machine.

(From the empty commit message put at the top of the draft LLM branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...)

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:58PM (#49917572)
If it's "rust still can't beat... performance-wise", then yeah I guess.

But there are other criteria. The move to rust might've also resolved numerous potential memory-safety bugs in the decoder.

Re:One Month Without AI on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:36AM (#49855571)
I noticed lately that recent LLMs write very short sentences, sprinkling so many periods over one paragraph. I'm pretty sure that this is some new regression that we're having with new models.

Have you noticed it, too?

Re:Making Tailscale Faster on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:42AM (#49830463)
> Separately, we shortened packet queues—the lines packets wait in between stages of the pipeline. The queues are there to absorb bursts of traffic. Testing showed that most of that depth went unused, while shorter queues meant less waiting time and less memory overhead.

"lines"? "depth"? I feel like there is some context missing here. What are these terms they refer to?

Indeed this is an odd disclosure and I am not familiar with past posts by them.

Moreover, no CVE is associated with this claimed vulnerability. It's not even stated which Android version or automotive head-unit variant version is affected.

With Firefox, yes. I wouldn't fully trust other browsers to care about my privacy.
> December's headline feature was teaching the planner to push a whole correlated EXISTS subquery down as a single LEFT SEMI JOIN instead of a nested loop with one ClickHouse round trip per outer row. This moved the needle from 3 of 22 TPC-H queries all the way to 12.

LLMs sure love throwing in archaic expressions such as "move the needle". The abrupt contrast in jargons is so unpleasant and keeps throwing me off right in the middle of reading.

> Instead of one row per item with a quantity column, we use one row per sellable unit. An item with 10 units has 10 rows.

> But one row per unit for all inventory would break down at scale—an item with 50,000 units across 10 locations would mean 500,000 rows, and the reserve query would slow as it scans through them. Instead, we maintain a bounded pool of available rows, capped at 1,000 per item/location combination. Reservations consume rows from this pool; a replenishment process refills it from the inventory ledger.

Shouldn't I feel uncomfortable with such approach? It seems to create a backoff (pool) for lowering the chance of having a synchronization issue.

Very nice. Can you elaborate why you chose mTLS authentication vs. SSH as a mean to deploy the policies.

Regarding the docs, the diagrams should really be replaced with something more familiar and readable such as Mermaid (currently it looks like a mixture of ad-hoc ASCII charts).

Re:Anime User Interfaces on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:04PM (#49140660)
...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!
Interesting, but IMHO the title of this post misses the point of the linked page.
Re:Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:08AM (#49109484)
> We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
Re:The coolest use for the Vision Pro on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:21PM (#49104357)
I don't have the app and I use reddit (although not often) via my mobile browser (firefox) and it never forced me to download the app, as far as I recall.
Re:5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:29AM (#48708235)
I am curious which of these places still exist today, as some menus depict the building. It would've be nice to have additional historical information.
Re:A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:26PM (#48680002)
It's so humbling to realize that the human mind hasn't changed a lot. Only our environment.
Re:Claude Tag on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:59PM (#48648751)
They're pretty much going the Google (how Google was until recently), trying to fan out to every market share.

I expect many of those to be shut down sooner than later, if learning anything from Google.

Re:Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart on Friday June 19, 2026 @11:15AM (#48599592)
If you're referring to the Nozomi, wasn't it always excluded from the JR Pass?
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:46PM (#48482461)
A lot of computer parts can be sold at a high profit nowadays.
Re:Flipper One – we need your help on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:24AM (#48221509)
We're living in the ai;dr era :)
Re:Learn Harness Engineering on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:20PM (#48184212)
The content is clearly AI-generated, which is really ironic.
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:41PM (#48114987)
Apple's best move was to steer away from AI lockdowns and focus on what consumers really need.

Coupling these with Gemini is so detached, especially when everyone screams Local LLM.

Re:Can you stop beans from making you gassy? on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:40PM (#47905291)
I tend to find it in the spirit of "hacking".
Re:Clanker on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:36PM (#47843133)
That's amusing, although expected that some would misuse the terms, considering so many are now engaging in conversations about AI.
Re:We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090 on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:26PM (#47842473)
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

These are the rules.

Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:01AM (#47778405)
I always appreciated how you can simply attach to the enlightenment process at any point, and also upon a crash.

The documentation is there: https://www.enlightenment.org/contrib/enlightenment-debug

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