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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:29PM (#50328262)
This is how fediverse works, like PeerTube, isn't it?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:09PM (#49777194)
Jev isn't new. There has already been an open source project for a year, now called Laya: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:07PM (#49777176)
The concept isn't new: zero-shot classification using e.g. Facebook BART has been available for years. And there is already an open source model Laya: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:43AM (#49723678)
How does Jev compare with encoder language models like BERT/RoBERTa/DistilBERT, which could also be used for text classification?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:43AM (#49723674)
How does Jev compare with encoder language models like BERT/RoBERTa, which could also be used for classification?
Re:iPhone Duo on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:32AM (#49672155)
You could always use good old pen and paper rather than Apple Pencil or Remarkable Move.
Re:iPhone Duo on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:28AM (#49672122)
Blame evil actors which autoplay ad videos in popups on many websites. And Apple devs for not implementing various Web APIs in Safari.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:01AM (#49520788)
Why death? Rather prosperity with a cash injection!
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:01AM (#49520302)
Kaggle, Civitai.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:48AM (#49519915)
Alternatives are: ModelScope, Kaggle, Civitai, or even IPFS.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:05AM (#49496089)
You forgot about AMD ROCm, Intel OpenVINO and Vulkan.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:12AM (#49490574)
HTMX 4 is 41KB minified, why not use just plain HTML and a single inline 166-byte (sic!) onload handler named HTMZ? https://leanrada.com/htmz/
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:35AM (#49488078)
Nvidia, Meta, Google, Poolside all provide open LLMs.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:20AM (#49487995)
Alternatively, you can buy cheap modded RTX 3080 20GB VRAM for $500 on Alibaba and pair 2 of them.
Thanks!
It's because it's been heavily advertised in Google Search, social media and numerous installers as an optional feature (checked by default).
Come on, this was 6 years ago, they have apologized since. Firefox also had trips like pop-up ads in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073619 and ToS rewriting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251762.

Brave is faster, suspends tabs when getting short of RAM with hundreds of tabs, has a first-class built-in ad blocker and fingerprinting protection, is compatible with Chrome extensions, includes Tor support, provides anonymous Brave Search with Goggles out of the box, free and private AI assistant Leo.

Mozilla has also a for-profit corporation.
Come on, it was 6 years ago, they have apologized since then. Firefox also had slip-ups like pop-up ads in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073619 and ToS backlash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251762. Give Brave another try!
No, Zen is still a memory hog. See numerous threads on Reddit and issues on Github about excessive RAM usage.
Why not make it Actually Portable Executable using Cosmopolitan Libc, like Llamafile, to make it run on Windows/Linux/MacOS? Why don't you support Windows with CUDA?
Re:Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:02PM (#48712156)
How about SAP, Dassault Systemes, Amadeus, Hexagon, Visma, Wolters Kluwer, Sage, ...?
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:26AM (#48505374)
You can still get a cheaper brand new SBC - Radxa ROCK 5C with 16GB RAM for $160 or ROCK 5C Lite with 16GB RAM for $140 on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007473801146.html
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:25AM (#48505357)
You can still get Radxa ROCK 5C 16GB RAM for $160 on AliExpress: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005007473801146.html
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:24AM (#48505341)
You can get Radxa ROCK 5C 16GB RAM for $160 on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007473801146.html
Re:Some concerns about Ladybird's (Browser) bylaws on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:51PM (#48451816)
It's nothing unusual in open source projects to be the Benevolent dictator for life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life)
Re:API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:30AM (#48334349)
You don't need HTMX, there is 160-bytes HTMZ: https://leanrada.com/htmz/
Re:API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:07PM (#48331328)
Actually, declarative partial updates (HTML patching) have long been possible in every modern web browser without JS by using my Pure HTML Out-Of-Order Streaming (PHOOOS) technique based on Declarative Shadow DOM. You don't need another syntax with processing instructions. Demo: https://kraksped.pl/phooos/
Re:Hacker News front page as a site on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:22PM (#48287849)
If you love summaries on HN, check out https://hncompanion.com.
Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:11AM (#48190585)
OVH - they are cheaper than AWS and bound by the EU privacy law (GDPR).

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