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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:42PM (#50319994)
Interesting idea! Also funny that the fourth recommendation for me was a video with Andrej himself :D
Yeah, I believe the estimates from parity breaking where on the order of 10^-10 J/mol or something, so almost completely irrelevant for anything near room temperature energy scales.

So some random self-enriching chiral process seems much more likely to be the origin. But who knows! :)

Cool, brings back some memories from grad school. Always found these types of reactions with self-reenforcing quite interesting.

Reminds me of another paper where just stirring a solution or not would determine the chirality of crystals formed and gives an idea how highly chiral environments can arise from "nothing":

Chiral symmetry breaking in sodium chlorate crystallizaton https://doi.org/10.1126/science.250.4983.975

Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:04AM (#49386367)
I was a bit too young for the original game but really enjoyed the 2004 remake at the time and wish there was a new version... Are there any similar games out there, with the same gameplay and vibe?

I've found a few pirate games that were released in the last years, but they all seemed different

Agreed, this is one of the things I'm very surprised - one would think that a product like this is managed more consistently, but every few days there is another announcement or change in what the subscription can and can't do and to what extent.

Same also for the announced changes around `claude -p` and Agent SDK use that were backtracked

Is this the reason Anthropic extended use of Fable 5 via subscriptions until July 12? Seems a bit like it
Does this work cleanly when using multiple sessions with work trees?
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:51PM (#48465771)
Are there any details on the biology and chemistry work they did?

For example, the AAV capsid assembly looks interesting, but for one Opus 4.8 also did relatively well and there is no information what exactly they did, what protein language models they compared to and what the score even means...

Re:Ask HN: What works for cutting AI token costs? on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:30AM (#48457806)
Haven't benchmarked it, but for agentic coding e.g. Claude Code I found this useful:

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:21PM (#47745165)
I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents and wanted to include archive serial numbers (ASNs) for all physical documents that I scan, so I built a small tool to create and print archive serial number label sheets with QR/Barcodes:

https://asnlabels.com

It's free, no sign up or ads - feedback welcome :)

Re:Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @08:42AM (#47702956)
I recently started with Paperless-ngx and wanted to also include archive serial numbers (ASNs) for all paper documents using small label stickers, so I built a small tool to create and print ASN label sheets. It's free, no sign up, no ads and just runs in the browser:

https://asnlabels.com

If you're also using Paperless-ngx with ASNs or use them for something else, feedback welcome :)

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why? on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:29PM (#47579938)
4, because it can be written as 2+2, 2*2, 2^2, and all the other following hyperoperations Hn(2,2)
Re:How I Use Every Claude Code Feature on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:25PM (#45793107)
Same experience, although I gave up already a while ago so not sure if CLAUDE.md is better followed in newer versions.
Re:Wero Wallet on Friday July 25, 2025 @12:00PM (#44684698)
I wish there was a European alternative to PayPal et al., but Wero seems too be too little too late and too slow.

Not enough banks participating, no ability to connect multiple accounts, credit cards etc., no payments integration with vendors and finally no incentives to switch vs. the incumbents in the space - I guess you would need a serious marketing campaign with discounts, cashback etc. to get people to use it and reach a critical mass. But let's see - maybe I'm too pessimistic...

Re:How Anthropic teams use Claude Code on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:21PM (#44678825)
It'd be more interesting if they shared actual examples of complete prompts, CLAUDE.md files, settings and MCP servers to achieve certain things.

The documentation is good, but is kept relatively general and I have a feeling that the quality of Claude Code's output really depends on the specific setup and prompts you use.

No more "ultrathink", got it :)
Re:Nobody Knows How to Build with AI Yet on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:24AM (#44622476)
I think you can already kind of do that with something like vibetunnel :)

https://vibetunnel.sh

Looks interesting! Does any request count towards credits, e.g. 4xx response codes, rate limit hits etc.?
Re:Ancient Four-Legged Whale Remains Discovered in Peru on Sunday April 27, 2025 @01:01AM (#43809536)
Title and link don't seem to match.
That was very helpful, thanks! Might give it a shot later this week for a new API :)
Congratulations on the launch! I've been using CapRover in the past and wanted to try out Coolify recently, could you elaborate what the advantages of k3s/Longhorn might be (no experience with them)?

Are deployments from Github Actions possible (I'd assume some interface/API is needed for that)?

Thanks!

Re:OpenAI's Sora has been leaked on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:42AM (#42247201)
From the title I thought code or model weights had been leaked, but it's access to Sora through Huggingface by a group of early testers.

With their auth tokens being used to provide the API access, won't OpenAI find out really quick who is behind that?

Re:Is It Pokémon or Big Data? on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:59AM (#41913075)
Thanks, this was pretty funny. I also didn't realize how many different Pokémon there are today, definitely more than in the first Pokémon game on that clunky grey Gameboy I had :)
Crispr is widely used and there are even therapies approved based on it, you can actually buy TVs that use quantum dots and click chemistry has lots of applications (bioconjugation etc.), but I don't think we have seen that impact from AlphaFold yet.

There's a lot of pharma companies and drug design startups that are actively trying to apply these methods, but I think the jury is still out for the impact it will finally have.

Great achievement, although I think it's interesting that this Nobel prize was awarded so early, with "the greatest benefit on mankind" still outstanding. Are there already any clinically approved drugs based on AI out there I might have missed?

In comparison, the one for lithium batteries was awarded in 2019, over 30 years after the original research, when probably more than half of the world's population already used them on a daily basis.

Re:Kagi T-Shirts Soft Launch on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:51AM (#41401843)
I was a bit surprised when they initially announced this, there was also some discussion here around them making the shirts themselves, where people were quite skeptical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

But now I'm actually looking forward to my T-Shirt, Doggo Original Yellow it is!

Re:Google, Pizza, and Glue on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:12AM (#40451947)
Quite funny. I haven't used Google search in a while, is this just some artifact of Gemini + RAG taking search results from the internet at face value?

Or is this directly from the LLM's training?

Re:What Is Generative Art? on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:30AM (#40412269)
Great article with very nice examples, really tempts me to play around with some of these techniques myself!

I saw an exhibition of Refik Anadol's Nature Dreams last year in Copenhagen, can only recommend to see one of his video installations if there is one near you, they are quite mesmerizing: https://refikanadol.com/works/

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