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Probably because of some of them appear to be LLM-authored.

https://www.pangram.com/history/67234835-58ff-4603-ba17-2234...

Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:53PM (#50319483)
Doesn't the AI (the computer players, I mean) "cheat" at that high of difficulty level?
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:53PM (#50319475)
I tried really hard to like Factorio, and I bounce off of it each time after playing a save for 4-8 hours for exactly this reason. I know a lot of programmers who love it, so I almost wish I could get into it.

Now I'm tempted to try again, because it feels like the kind of game I should really enjoy.

Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:07PM (#50309451)
To be fair to them, in 1990 it was common enough to hear someone call any/every electronic game a "Nintendo".

There was a real risk of their trademark getting Kleenex'd, at least in the US.

Unless you've been very careful to only surround yourself with people who share your exact views, you probably do know some. They just don't speak up, because: what's the point debating it with you?
Netflix was, in fact, already using recommender models in that era.
Ratings are indeed being gamed now, yes. Not sure how long this has been going on, I've started to see it be obvious in the last 6 months.

It's very obvious when looking at the reviews for certain new indie games. All LLM written comments, most short, most low playtime.

Then actual customers come along and buy the game and over the next few weeks the game craters from Mostly Positive to Mostly Negative.

That's not what that is, nor does Steam have an affiliate program that would enable the parent commenter to make money from referral links.
Re:Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:18PM (#50133592)
The following sentence:

"This community has absorbed new processes and tools many times over its 35-year history, and will almost certainly find a way to do that this time as well. But that absorption has not always been without turbulence along the way."

Re:Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:38PM (#50027925)
You used the right term. I don't know what the parent commenter is on about.

Open source has historically meant you could download the source and build your own binary. The appropriate analogue here, IMHO, to the build->binary process is training->weights.

Re:SynthID Detector on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:12AM (#49993943)
No idea. I used it a lot too, not sure if pasting here worked from the beginning of them introducing this Google Lens thing or not.
Re:SynthID Detector on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:08AM (#49993897)
Click the little camera icon in the search box and it pops a modal that says Search any image with Google Lens.

The textbox below it says Paste image link, but you can actually paste an image from your clipboard here, too.

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:27AM (#49988613)
It means the level of effort that a ChatGPT Pro plan summons when thinking. For 3 hours.

If folks are going to analyze this claim with a critical eye, I'd be zeroing in on "average" rather than acting like this measurement is somehow unclear.

Re:Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:37PM (#49985749)
Re:City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:36PM (#49947523)
That's an incredible get. As someone who grew up with SimCity (DOS), I thought I'd been hurt too many times (CS:2, SC2013, [..]) to get my hopes up again, but here we are. Wishlisted.
Re:Muse Gadgets on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:21PM (#49938746)
A surplus of outrage and a willingness to share your unfiltered reactions to things, I guess.
Re:Allow Carriers on Planes on Friday September 25, 2026 @03:58PM (#49849154)
Why would it not matter? Everything in safety culture is making the risks acceptable. Why does ETOPS exist when we could just disallow planes with twin-engine aircraft entirely?
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:32PM (#49838209)
Wow, very cool. Thanks for sharing.
I haven't used Linear in any serious capacity, but I feel like there's plenty of market in "Jira that doesn't feel like it hates its users" and "Jira but we care about performance".

Not saying that they're shooting for either of those segments, but someone should. Plenty of enterprise orgs that need (or are convinced they need) Jira's featureset.

Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:30PM (#49792967)
If the benchmark is "what's the best model to use in your Cursor subscription", why would they do that? OpenAI knew what the effects of their decision were. Hard for me to have sympathy for either party here, honestly, and I say that as someone who is a customer of both.
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:26PM (#49792911)
Are the prices on Bedrock substantially different to the rate cards of the direct APIs? Just trying to understand whether this is Opus-through-Bedrock is too expensive, or Opus is too expensive.
Re:Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27? on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:23PM (#49791224)
I think the people who aren't greeted by this dichotomy when turning their PC aren't catching the reference.

At the risk of explaining a joke: Windows tries to get you to set up things like OneDrive on startup with a "do it now" or "remind me later", there's no "never ask me about this again".

Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:15PM (#49791124)
To my understanding, with batched inference and other "optimizations" you wouldn't get the exact same token predictions even with temp=0.0.
Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:04PM (#49790939)
Every official statement I've seen around this is careful to say that they "don't intentionally reduce model quality", which leaves plenty of room for "we adjusted some knobs and our evals show performance is materially the same".

However, I also agree that I haven't seen any robust data from someone tracking it daily/weekly. The handful of sites purporting to do this aren't even running it enough times to hit stat sig.

edit: someone linked one elsewhere in this thread called AI Stupid Level - they "run 7 trials instead of just 1". I don't blame them. Doing this in a statistically sound manner would cost a small fortune.

Re:Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:59PM (#49778839)
I don't know how to respond to that, because it has quite a few negative effects on them..
Re:Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:36PM (#49778605)
As someone who was annoyed by it at the time, I don't think it's a good example of that.

This was in an era of much more limited upstream bandwidth. The p2p nature was obscured from non-technical users in some implementations. So on and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of writeups from that era detailing why it was a bad idea.

These companies already used capable CDNs to distribute patches. It was a way for them to shift their CDN bill onto their paying customers.

It was a bit challenging long before that. I ran webhosting on FreeBSD in the early 2000s - remember finding a tool you needed and hoping it was in ports?
Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:08PM (#49770138)
I'm even more confused now. I guess this was an oblique way of accusing people of astroturfing?
Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:51PM (#49769616)
> I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

I'm genuinely not sure what you're implying here. Can you expand?

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