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Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:40AM (#50178698)
Which macronutrients and micronutrients are those?
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:41AM (#50176902)
Practically? Not anymore, no.
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:17AM (#50131882)
I don’t know what I’m talking about but it seems to me OpenAI is heavily emphasizing productization of LLMs. Dots, ChatGPT Work, scheduled tasks, in-app projects etc.
Re:AI was great until it was not on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:06AM (#50102006)
> They too will tell you to ask the AI

I’m sorry you had that experience. It sounds like your supervisors don’t take their job seriously.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:14AM (#50083105)
That’s exactly my question reading this. Granted I don’t know much about the training side ofbLLMs, so maybe there’s more code changes involved there than I expect, but in terms of public-facing software, they make, what, a couple chat apps, a product website, and an API?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:29PM (#50076345)
I couldn't see it either, then I clicked the 'Antigravity' button in the top right, switched back to the main screen, and it appeared in the model selector.

This is in the Gemini app on macOS.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:27PM (#50076305)
Weirdly, the post OP linked says:

> Gemini 4 Argon is available today for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:21PM (#50076215)
Fine on arc search (which I think is just WebKit) on iOS.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:01PM (#50073854)
Re:Muse Wonder on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:42PM (#50060884)
Thanks for sharing. Is that Wonder or Wonder Full (barf)? Wonder full is supposed to be the one close to Opus 5.5
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:17AM (#50053602)
Thanks! For some reason it was behind a paywall for me earlier — maybe I used another link.
Re:Do not install Zod 4.6.6 – might be infected on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:33AM (#50053237)
This might be a hint:

    const R=["https://eth.llamarpc.com","https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com","https://cloudflare-eth.com"]
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:35AM (#50030604)
Would love to read the original research paper if anyone has access to it. My university unfortunately doesn’t.
Where does that come from? Why are people who happen to hold the same passport as you more deserving of your care/attention/resources?
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:25AM (#50020204)
The word 'skitzo' is pretty offensive to people who actually suffer from schizophrenia, maybe try 'unhinged' or 'bizarre' or something.
Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:40AM (#50019652)
I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else?

EDIT: seems like British audio does work

Why not fund Congolese educations against? Why not fund Indians' educations instead? Why not fund Cubans' educations instead?

Does it matter? Are these not all people deserving of education?

Re:Blindsight (Watts Novel) on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:09AM (#49962399)
Blindsight is probably my favorite novel, and I liked echopraxia fine but it was definitely of a different class to me. The worst parts of blindsight are Watts' descriptives (where is everyone right know? What does this area look like? What actions are currently happening?) and Echopraxia suffers from this even more than Blindsight already did.
Re:GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:34AM (#49943326)
This is a stupid thing to latch on to but why is everything an “experience” now? It’s a fucking programming dashboard, not a three-star Michelin restaurant.
Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:47AM (#49942209)
Give me a shout when they get Bluetooth headphones working!
Re:Grok 4.7 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:10AM (#49797646)
He’s being downvoted because the audience on Hacker News thinks you should keep politics out of their hobbies. It’s privilege.
But then you’d leave their site, and they don’t want that.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:26AM (#49683755)
No first-party package manager.
Re:Audacity 4.0 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:54AM (#49550766)
I find conventional Western notation works quite well for communicating notes, rhythms, and basic expression, but it breaks down pretty quickly once you move beyond that. E.g. a lot of the common techniques on electric guitar (bends, palm muting, tremolo/whammy bar stuff, pick slides, slap/thumping, pinch harmonics, raking) don't really have a convenient notational shorthand. That's without even mentioning synthesizers (how do you notate 'gradually increase the filter cutoff here'?) and DAWs, samplers, drum machines. But it's definitely a hard problem: the more information you try to shove into a notational system, the harder it gets for people to keep track of what everything means. Plus you just start running out of easily distinguishable symbols at some point.
Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:09AM (#49478741)
I'm with you on this. I think this could actually be really useful but the effect is way too extreme. Additionally, the animation is quite stuttery on turns --- might just be my machine though.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:03AM (#49462807)
'Cultures' have never been units of 'insiders' isolated from 'outsiders'. Cultural change is inevitable and there is no reason assume 'changing significantly' is inherently bad. That's what history _is_.
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:52AM (#49400955)
There's gotta be nicer ways of saying that.
> Of course nowadays days I see the downsides of these devices and we're getting to a point where the cons outweigh the pros, but back when I bought the first smart phone (I guess in 2012 or so, I was relatively late to the party) it felt like a leap into the future compared to what I had before.

I know a lot of people have a troubled relationship to their phone, but this is really surprising to me. Would I want to go back to a world where I can't conveniently contact people, navigate the world, look up anything I want to know in an second, and set timers by yelling at the air rather than getting sticky foccacia dough in the cracks of my egg timer? Not even a little bit.

The last time I personally felt the excitement the author describes was probably with the announcement of Apple Vision Pro, but unfortunately that product went nowhere.

What does ‘latent’ mean in this context?
Re:Qwen3.8-27B on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:37AM (#49300222)
A wise man once said, "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts".

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