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Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:47AM (#50165551)
I think people have been fighting Googles monopolies for quite some time
Re:Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:51AM (#50163136)
Give it to me straight doc!
Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:38AM (#49622114)
Is there a good tldr on this topic?
If your metric is growth I guess this is where you end up
Re:The case against a C alternative (2022) on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:57AM (#49386783)
I think the first argument of there being a good toolchain is nonsense, obviously there was something before C with a great toolchain.
Re:The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:23AM (#49385317)
So will you tell me Steve Jobs was part of the MK-Ultra project too?
Re:Stop Making TUIs on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:49AM (#49385071)
I was going to post this but you beat me to it. I think we need the folks whom do not enter the terminal to start using it instead of the other way around.
Re:Amodei Re. Regulation on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:12AM (#49329120)
AI made a large improvement in accuracy on a specific protein dataset. We still don't know how exactly protein folding works. So no, it's not solved.
people need to be better at gatekeeping
goldfish memory
Re:Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:05PM (#49277122)
when will we see MIT license Qwen again?
a win is still a win
Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:24AM (#49240883)
commenting for digital footprint
Bitcoin received a lot of backslash due to its power usage and ecological footprint. It's obvious that HN users don't have the same criticisms towards AI data centers. Maybe someone with a short position will coordinate that communication soon..
Re:OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:56AM (#49007817)
Looks solid
Roko's basilisk might be at work here
Made me think of Ozymandias, king of kings.
An explosion that is nourishing to marine life, that is one way to see it.
Isn't this done in the open? I saw the Qwopus model the other day. Basically same thing?
Re:Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:28AM (#48291343)
it seems they will remember that you wasted tokens for no reason and punish you instead.
Re:DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:38AM (#48060359)
Finally someone who pays proper respect to GGML ecosystem.
Mistral brought Mixture of Experts and other really good innovations
Re:What is jj and why should I care? on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:40AM (#47766263)
Nobody is asking for a git replacement? I keep seeing these posts and I don't know who wants them.
Re:Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:57AM (#47163215)
Really? Maybe this is news to you then, I rarely get to educate ppl on here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
Re:Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:38AM (#47151280)
A lot of hospitals run Microsoft. So it would be literal death you are talking about.
Re:The biggest heat pumps in the world on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:12AM (#46286380)
Dumb question, why is the water in the Rhine warm?
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:11AM (#46160811)
Well, for sure the price will go up too.
> But seed counterfitting is a real problem that is hurting some of the world's poorest

I'm guessing these hybrid seeds you are talking about are probably the reason for the counterfitting to begin with. I don't imagine them being sold at a reasonable price, but with this law maybe you have less competition?

They are in completely different leagues, the Tesla robotaxi vehicle is probably cost 10x less, at least.
Re:Daniel Stenberg on 22 curl bugs found by AI and fixed on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:57AM (#45450507)
The models used have improved quite well since then, I guess his change of opinion shows that.

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