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Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:17PM (#50319706)
It's programmable, so you're not just running useless hashes. And with Proof of Stake it's way more efficient than Bitcoin.
Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:43PM (#50318251)
> Images and/or auto-playing video?

This is the problem. Text only allows you to consume a certain amount of information at once. Anything more is harmful imo.

Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:31PM (#50277424)
It definitely does...
Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:32AM (#50272573)
Y Combinator is based in the US.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:05AM (#50272263)
The IDEs for Android and iOS dev are heavy plus devs tend to run a lot of VMs so extra ram is nice.
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:00AM (#50254570)
> In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes.

Maybe stop using version numbers then and just name models like you'd name children.

Re:A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:03PM (#50250092)
> Budapest around 1900 produced an absurd cluster of minds: von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, Paul Erdős, Theodore von Kármán, George Pólya.

Not to mention Nikola Tesla about 20 years prior.

> When several of them turned up at Los Alamos and realized they had gone to high school together, Szilard joked that Hungary was a cover story for a Martian landing.

What if there actually are people who go to Mars in the future but regret it and the only way for them to come back to Earth is to invent a time machine and be reborn as a mathematical supergenius. That would explain this at least:

> At six, Janos (the OG hungarian name for Johnny) could divide eight-digit numbers in his head and hold a conversation in ancient Greek. He later added Latin, French, German, English, and Yiddish. The rumor was that he remembered everything he ever read. Many years later Herman Goldstine decided to test this by asking him to recite "A Tale of Two Cities." Von Neumann started on chapter one and had to be asked to stop fifteen minutes later.

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:20PM (#50227958)
Tesla autopilot has also killed dozens of people.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:30PM (#50197649)
It makes me feel like the rules are "for thee, not for me." Like it proves that the rich can just do whatever they want.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:29PM (#50197635)
No it doesn't. Most projects are MIT or some other permissive liscense.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:46AM (#50197015)
Copyright laws don't benefit independent artists. They only work for you if you can afford a litigation team.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:33AM (#50196855)
How have our democracies not abolished copyright law yet? These laws only serve the 1%. I have no idea why we still put up with them.
Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:43PM (#50172408)
Not really because this port is based on the Go version. I doubt it would be as easy for an LLM to port the TS 6 codebase.
Its biblical. Cain the farmer slays Abel the shepherd in Genesis.
All new iPhones.
Re:Apple's Dimensional Drawings on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:46PM (#49691307)
It's so we can make cases.
Iran is Muslim. They believe in eye-for-an-eye punishment unlike the west. And, since they adopted Palestine, and Israel killed 70,000 innocent Palestinians, Israel knows they have it coming to them. This is why they're so concerned with "justifying" their actions. This is also why they are so adamant on ensuring Iran not have power. Because Iran is the most likely state to give the west what it deserves for terrorizing the middle east for decades.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#49659066)
Makes perfect sense.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:08AM (#49657819)
It's accidental. This mixup is essentially a meme at Shopify this point.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:06AM (#49657790)
You're never going to win against a black box algorithm. Just let Spotify do it's thing or go back to hosting your own music if you don't like it.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:04AM (#49657769)
Shopify has gotten quite a bit better tho.
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:00AM (#49657714)
Most people have friends and family to "glaze" them anyway. I don't see it as a major danger. Also, it's gotten better with the glazing lately anyway.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:19PM (#49631032)
Been using a galaxy fold for years now. This is the future.
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:34PM (#49629232)
I knew this would happen.
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:30PM (#49482604)
Right. But when when a group blows up hospitals, schools and other infrastructure and murders 70,000 civilians (Israel)... Why is that not disignated terrorism?
At the end of the day, nothing beats hydro electric power. It's hidden, consistent and the technology is very mature. Really the OG of renewable energy. If we could get our appliances running efficiently enough, I think we could run the whole grid on it.
Re:GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:55PM (#49339787)
Wouldn't any metal app have to be written in C++17?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:46PM (#49339255)
Amazon. I fired up a vps to replace GitHub.
Re:The most official water costs $120k a gallon on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:42PM (#49139692)
Tobacco tax is actually crazy. I can get 200 cigarettes for $10 CAD from the natives because it's tax free.
At what point are we going to realize that computers will never work for floating point math. If your numbers are not exact there will always be a better solution for what you are doing that does not involve a computer.

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