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Re:Gemini Code vs. Claude Code – A cautionary post-mortem ($800 in 12h)
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:21AM (#50316986)
Same, Australia
Re:Build your own decision model
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:16AM (#50040260)
So "decision model" is the new cool term for classifiers? You know, that thing that already existed decades ago
Re:Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:16AM (#49974095)
That “transcription” using piano roll (but without even showing the actual keys on the side) is impossible to follow and doesn’t make sense for jazz, where chromaticism and key changes are so common place.
Re:Inside Anthropic's Quest to Instill Morality into Its A.I. Models
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:56AM (#49954457)
Did the Internet disappear after the .com bubble? Did tulips stop being sold after tulip mania? Did people stop buying houses after the GFC?
Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:42PM (#49837095)
There is a specific Google Street picture in Rio De Janeiro, (in order to find it I need to go to a specific spot and then change the date to the time when I was living there), where I can see a friend who passed. His face has been blurred as usual, but to anyone who knew him, it's obvious it's him.
Re:Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted b...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:10AM (#49693027)
The link that you provided largely confirms what parent said: it puts WooCommerce ahead of Shopify in terms of store count, with a number (4.34M live stores) which is consistent to the one mentioned by parent ("over four million stores").
> They're close on number of installations.
2.84M vs 4.34M is quite a wide margin, wouldn't you agree?
It's true that the link puts Shopify at roughly 10X in terms of GMV but parent did not claim otherwise.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:31PM (#49637164)
The GTA franchise already broke away from this in the currently existing titles, but that's not a fair comparison given that GTA worlds are mostly handcrafted.
Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:29AM (#49531730)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Re:Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it h...
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:25AM (#49396549)
sorry, I forgot that it did that when clicked from HN. I usually access it from my bookmarks.
Re:Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it h...
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:24AM (#49396546)
yes that's a great one! I read it semi-regularly but forgot to mention it!
Re:Kobo can run apps now
on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:49PM (#49396408)
> A reboot returns to the stock Kobo reader.
so it's not something you can daily drive just yet? Is this because of technical issues that prevent it from surviving a reboot?
Re:Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it h...
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:41AM (#49371205)
In addition to the blog where this post is taken from https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/, you could check https://folklore.org/ for early Apple anecdotes. And also https://www.jwz.org/blog/ for early Netscape/Mozilla stories
Re:Claude: System Prompts
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:55AM (#49320701)
I wonder why Sonnet 5 is not included.
Re:New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replac...
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:27PM (#49237328)
that's beautiful, I really wish there was more media like this
Re:Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:00AM (#49205761)
in the herdr homepage near the top there is an interactive demo that responds to your mouse clicks
Re:AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:54AM (#49168190)
I have the same reaction with AI generated YouTube thumbnails. Something in the back of my mind immediately goes "it's probably low quality content" and I'm less likely to click.
Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:18PM (#49104734)
Herdr is my daily driver. It is lightweight and snappy while also being customisable (hence the Sublime Text analogy). I like that, while it supports tmux-style shortcuts, you can also use the mouse, so the learning curve is very gentle. In addition it's cross platform (Mac/Linux/Win) which is great for me because I needed something I can use on different machines.
Re:Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month m...
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @03:12AM (#49094316)
Ahah you're right I guess it would be interesting to some readers. The long story short is that growing up I used to be involved with the scouting association of my country (Italy), and we learned various outdoor/survival skills during camps and hikes, then later as a young adult I kept hiking as a hobby, I used to hike through mountain trails for extended periods, (between 2 and 6 weeks) in between semesters when I was in university, sometimes in a group and sometimes solo[1]. I haven't done any of that in about two decades, and I'm not sure I have enough mental focus to blog about stuff that happened such a long time ago. If you talk to anyone who is into hiking/bushwalking, they will tell you that it's pretty common to find yourself on a track where you don't cross any human settlement for an extended period, this happens even in densely populated countries like Italy and I guess it's even more common in places like the USA.
[1] I don't recommend solo hiking for extended periods, I was young and careless.
Re:Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month m...
on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:23PM (#49078475)
I used to spend weeks outdoors in the wilderness without ever entering a building (I would sleep in a small tent) and I used to have a similar range of sensations when coming back home and/or going into an enclosed building for the first time. This used to last maybe for a couple days.
Two more things that I used to experience, which are not among the phenomena described in the article, is that I was hyper aware of how sound echoed through a room, and I used to be hyper aware of how hard the floor was (carpeted floors are not common where I grew up, most rooms have tiled floors) I guess these two are something specific to the outdoor->indoor change and so they don't apply to astronauts.
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:30AM (#49065829)
Do you know if this is a mandatory requirement set by Google, hence we can expect to find it on every single Google TV, or it depends on manufacturer? I cross checked some manuals from different brands and not all of them mention the "dumb mode" but maybe I just missed it. Based on my experience with Android devices, not every single Android feature is present on all devices, sometimes it's up to the manufacturer to implement certain features. I wonder if Google TV is the same.
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:30AM (#49003049)
I am afraid that my dumb TV, which I've been holding onto for many years, might be on its last leg.
I remember seeing privacy guides for smart TVs over the years, does anyone know a place with up to date info?
Most 55inch monitors are now "smart" sadly, so are most "digital signage" products. So there is no longer a way to get a true dumb panel at least over 50 inch
EDIT I am in Australia, there might be products that are available elsewhere but cannot be bought/shipped here
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:51AM (#48966161)
> Qwen should leak that too, and it doesn't.
FWIW I had Qwen identifying itself as "a language model made by Google" in one conversation, although I could not reproduce this reliably.
Re:Claude Sonnet 5
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:54PM (#48741767)
good luck actually enforcing that.
Re:I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing en...
on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:06PM (#48604347)
Depends on where you live.
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:17PM (#48603920)
Cameras worked pretty well, but most people take photos with their phones nowadays. Pro photographers still mostly use cameras though.
I can envision a future where people have a humanoid trimming a small backyard but at the same time the maintenance of e.g. a golf course would be done by dedicated robots.
EDIT: my point is that just like smartphones replaced a number of specialised devices for most people, a humanoid robot could do the same, by virtue of being a general purpose machine
I don't like computer anymore. [video]
Re:Can we have the day off?
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:51PM (#48317596)
For sure, but incentives are different when your pay is perfectly proportional to output rather than having a salary.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:08PM (#48316803)
A bubble doesn't mean a dead end - e.g. after the .com bubble, Internet usage kept expanding by orders of magnitude for two decades.
An AI bubble is pretty much guaranteed at this point but that doesn't mean there's going to be a new AI winter.
Re:Can we have the day off?
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:49PM (#48303804)
Can you give some examples of jobs that are usually done by salaried employees and are paid by output? All the examples I can think of, are usually done by independent contractors.