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Re:Elevated Errors for Multiple Models on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:16AM (#49550223)
Claude code
Re:Elevated Errors for Multiple Models on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:43AM (#49549832)
Kind of cool how fable 5.1 just worked around these by reassigning subagents to non-failing models with more supervision and now with a hint to Sol and Flash 3.8.
Re:1-Bit LLM in the Browser on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:25AM (#48980200)
IMHO from guy working with heavily quantized models and trying to get results. I do think quantization at less than 4-bit requires more advanced mathematics than is usually used. See Google Scholar Babak Hassibi (founder of Prism ML). Generally am amazed about the resiliency of these new data structures to approximation.
Re:Your code is fast – if you're lucky on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:47AM (#48872026)
Got to my first job out of college and they gave me core dumps and had me debug the kernel for a year. Not my kind of fun, but definitely got me skilled in the art of low level.
Re:I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:46PM (#48386403)
I believe I potentially wrote that code in 2006 when working at Apple on HFS. What a remarkable world!
Re:The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:50PM (#48129252)
Ex-Apple kernel engineer here, Apple will deal with the memory shortage by making software more efficient in ram usage. Apple will just make every aspect of the system more and more memory efficient. They've done it before over and over and can do it again.
Re:Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:51AM (#47335565)
Almost trivial using open source tools, the question is how it performs without calibration/fine tuning.
Re:Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working? on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:54PM (#46595756)
Will think about it, trying to keep it running snappy with minimal cost since no clear path to monetization
Re:Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working? on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:22AM (#46588897)
I’ve had luck getting higher rate of interviews for remote jobs by applying first. To that end I built a site which shows job postings as they are posted - https://tangerinefeed.net
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:54PM (#46483594)
I think the interesting thing here for those of us who use open source frameworks is that we can ask the LLM to look at the source to find the answer (eg. Pytorch or Phoenix in my case). For closed source libraries I do not know.
Re:Clicks Communicator on Friday January 02, 2026 @12:43PM (#46467283)
I may eventually get one of these just to use with Claude code. Been looking for the lightest best machine to use with agents.
sample output here - https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112...

This is at the very beginning of begin feasible. I do not know anything about photonics, maybe someone who does can comment on scalability?

Re:The realities of being a pop star on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:11AM (#46024138)
Thanks for sharing this. Needed something meaningful this morning.
Re:Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @05:15PM (#45753141)
I mean tether redemptions. Hedge funds liquidating treasuries last year significantly distorted yields for a short while.
Re:Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:06AM (#45747788)
Armchair economist here - one implication of this is that a crypto liquidation will cause global interest rates to spike at a time when they will need to be lower to calm the markets.

Selling massive amounts of debt with no additional demand means the required return must be higher.

Re:iPhone Cameras Are Good on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:48AM (#44732086)
Thanks for this, this is very useful for a related ai project I’m working on.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:41PM (#44418017)
Thanks! Will take a look.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:54PM (#44416816)
A job feed for remote jobs - https://tangerinefeed.net/

This is something I’ve needed myself over the last few years as jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it as some kind of compulsion.

Re:ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016) on Sunday April 27, 2025 @02:14PM (#43813960)
I moved out of the kernel in 2008 and never went back, so don’t have a wise opinion here which would be current.
Re:ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016) on Sunday April 27, 2025 @09:55AM (#43811953)
Ex-Apple File System engineer here who shared an office with the other ZFS lead at the time. Can confirm they link to the wrong profile for Don Brady.

This is the correct person: https://github.com/don-brady

Also can confirm Don is one of the kindest, nicest principal engineer level people I’ve worked with in my career. Always had time to mentor and assist.

Re:The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting on Saturday April 26, 2025 @09:19AM (#43803363)
I have a rough idea of my friend’s schedules, and I call them when I’m driving the kids around, or we text. Staying in constant contact with a few very close friends about my mental health has floated me through my mid-40s.

A tip I got from a friend in his 60s was that even when you lose friends, life is great because you constantly have the opportunity to find new ones. I am in a new close friends renaissance in my 40s, just be vulnerable and don’t take rejection personally.

Re:Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole US$65M in crypto on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:30AM (#43681733)
So which one is it? Code is contract and he should get to keep the money. Or crypto is governed by laws outside of crypto and so he violated the “spirit” of the code and hence is a criminal?

It seems like right now the crypto industry makes the decision to their convenience on a daily basis.

Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:11AM (#43399649)
Perhaps Google is scared about losing its cash cow in search, and is needing to cement their position in cloud compute.

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