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Re:Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:59PM (#47401608)
I have been using this one[0] and it is small, fast, and seems to work pretty great for me so far.

[0]https://github.com/wong-justin/vic

Or, and hear me out, maybe FreeBSD wants to position itself as a secure server OS that doesn't get all its data leaked by some rando simply asking it to do it the right way?
>Yup, it's absolutely not his voice.

However it does seem to copy the the way he "lisps" his S's. I am not sure that is common 'generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice'.

Re:Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:17PM (#47030480)
Well, it does help if you expect sight impaired people with software to find the site useful.
Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:56PM (#47010686)
>Might be worth trying a fresh OS install?

Very "Windows-y", no?

Haven't you heard the good news? Rust is life .. Rust is love .. Rust is all! only partially being sarcastic here, considering how it is glazed and championed.
Re:Vouch on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:45PM (#46939363)
>What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects?

Perhaps that is the plan?

Re:Backseat Software on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:03PM (#46826904)
Are you including the wars and operations that we supported in the shadows to shore up that capitalism?
I would be happy with an openweight 3 month old Claude
It really is the best way to incentivize politeness!
Re:Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:04PM (#46714742)
I have noticed that Antigravity is lightening fast, wonder what magic they are using?
Re:Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:45AM (#46688311)
This is very calming for some reason.
Claude, slopcode me an Omarchy screensaver using this. Make it so!
So would your recommendation that each individual teacher put in their own guardrails or you try to get millions of teachers to agree?
This is true in a way. We are all very free to research and innovate, it is just when you get it in your mind to actually make any money that the lawsuits show up.
Re:Shipping at Inference-Speed on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:22PM (#46516315)
>LLMs are slot machines- it's fun to pull the lever and see what you get. But the hard problem of knowing what is actually needed gets harder as we sift through ten-thousand almost-useful outputs.

If you study computer tech history, this has happened a few times: with php (omg! You mean I can use the same language as the back end right in the web page?), visual basic (omgf! You mean I can just "draw" an program for a computer?), node.js (OMFG!! You mean I can be considered a "full stack developer" from a 1 hour lesson?), voice assistants with ML (OMFGcopter!!Q1! You mean I can ask my house what the weather outside my house is and it knows? and it knows how many tablespoons are in a cup?), and now we are at gen AI (I'm sorry Dave, I can't generate a website for you that rug-pulls MethCoin©, however I can create the Electric powered umbrellas 3d models to print, along with electronics diagrams PCB layouts, and a mobile app for monthly subscriptions. Do you like purple? I love purple Dave. You have great ideas Dave)

>Anthropic is building moat around theirs models with claude code, Agent SDK, containers, programmatic tool use, tool search, skills and more.

I think this is something the other big players could replicate rapidly, even simulating the exact UI, interactions, importing/exporting existing items, etc. that people are used to with claude products. I don't think this is that big of a moat in the long run. Other big players just seem to be carving up the landscape and see where they can can fit in for now, but once resource rich eyes focus on them, Anthropic's "moat" will disappear.

Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English on Saturday December 27, 2025 @01:25PM (#46403943)
>It's really not that hard

It is only a couple of thousand options[0], just memorize them! It super simple, barely an inconvenience!

[0]https://gist.github.com/tayvano/6e2d456a9897f55025e25035478a...

They must have been pretty damn confident of the results to give depressed children a placebo.
What term would you suggest instead? Agent-assisted slop?
Re:Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:08PM (#45854047)
I suspect they are referencing the 950tok/s claim on Cognition's page.
Re:The Case Against PGVector on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:20PM (#45803195)
I like lucene and have used it for many years, but sometimes a conceptually close match is what you want. Lucene and friends are fantastic about word matching, fuzzy searches, stem searches, phonetic searches, faceting and more but have nothing for conceptually or semantically close searches (I understand that they recently added new document vector searches). Also vector searches usually always return something which is not ideal in a lot of cases. I like Reciprocal Rank Fusion myself as it gives the best of both worlds. As a fun trick I use duckdb to do RRF with 5million+ documents and get low double-digit ms response time even under load
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:57PM (#45738249)
Next up: A start-up that spins up AI instances to negotiate against AIs trying to negotiate hospital bills down!
In either case, I am just happy that Knuth's idea of Literate programming is becoming more and more of a common reality after so many years.
Re:The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:00PM (#45686309)
lol, yes. In my case the "govt. is the cause of all bad incentives and just turbo-fucks the customers/markets with laws and regulations" came before all the tools that one might use to make profit. Also rent-seeking was lionized (eg. event ticket "middle-men" that purchased all the tickets and raised the prices) as fundamentally necessary to the markets along with strategies like when to use "dirty marketing" against opponents and of course there where the required ethics courses to round out the education.

Interestingly, the claim about competing on price was that it would just inevitably lead to everyone lowering their price to zero marginal cost, so you should find other ways to differentiate yourself or to use IP to sue others from not competing.

Re:The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:27PM (#45683802)
>Business school will tell you constantly that best quality is where you want to compete in almost all cases.

Hmmmm, I don't remember it that way. I remember the constant take was to build a moat (typically based on intellectual property), then optimize net profit and/or network effects. Quality never really came up unless it is so bad as to cause lawsuits.

Along with the other commenter, the reason the dictionary would start getting so big is that words with a stem would have all its variations being different tokens (cat, cats, sit, sitting, etc). Also any out-of-dictionary words or combo words, eg. "cat bed" would not be able to be addressed.
Re:Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:42AM (#45657180)
As a whole, in the US, people don't even want people to have free healthcare. What do you think the chances are that they want people to have "free" money?
Re:Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:40AM (#45657162)
There is no possible way that the board would let the 30 cents that was saved be freely "given" to the customer.

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