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There are commits from before 2020 even and the project clearly marks "pre-ai" development too. If you look for it on the web you find the first postings about it in 2020 already too.
Re:Presented by Stripe on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:11PM (#50186003)
He has invested a lot in podcasting in the recent years for example and still writes almost daily. Why do you think he’s about to retire?
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:52PM (#50169227)
I don't see the average person being able to run DeepSeek's most competitive models though.
Re:The Folders Programming Language on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:07AM (#50115977)
> Warning: running this program at certain minute values will cause the interpreter to swap stdout and stderr.
Re:Prompts Aren't Real on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:38PM (#49778021)
From the HN guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

>Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:17PM (#49777813)
Europe is also a little off here. Different countries use different layouts across Europe.
Re:Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:04PM (#49777657)
> Is there a fully in-browser torrent option that has the same UX as a regular file download in Firefox?

Opera did back in the day.

I was surprised to see that you don’t integrate with Linear which I assumed the name was related to.
I don’t see why China would have an incentive to keep investing in open models long-term. They aren’t doing that for the betterment of society.
Astra flagged my request to look into a security vulnerability into my own(!) code. So I’m not sure.
What are you doing that uses the entire Fable credits so quickly? Genuine question.
>I would way rather have Sol all day every data, consistently, than a slightly better Fable for like, 1 prompt every 5 hours, and only when Anthropic decides to not treat me like a cyber criminal.

I have used Fable heavily on the lower Max plan and you are really exaggerating the limits here. I've had many multi-hour sessions with Fable on Max.

Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @06:41PM (#49279579)
It took many many many turns for me to have the model even acknowledge that the fake elector scheme was actually a thing. It's very much primed to answer vaguely when it goes against the current political ideals of its owner.
Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:54PM (#49202401)
Giving people context is gatekeeping now?
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:23AM (#49081800)
One, as bad as it is, has its biggest critics live and speak out freely. The other silences, imprisons or kills them.
Most EU countries have had some sort of payment standard and use different kinds of setups so it’s not as easy as doing it in one jurisdiction. Also the EU generally is quite conservative and slow.
Re:LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:09AM (#48964891)
How are you guaranteeing accuracy?
I really didn’t have the feeling that Germans are shocked about some of these inefficiencies at all. Typically they’re just a result of long processes thus difficult to change. I do agree that Germany and the EU as a whole should not make this process so cumbersome. It shouldn’t be easier to found a US foreign LLC from abroad than a company in one’s country or residence. The proposed EU LLC might solve some of those issues if it comes to fruition.

Regarding the economy though, Germany is still the third richest country on earth. I think this talking point about their huge regression is mostly FUD.

Whenever I ask people to explain their issues with NPR it’s some cherry-picked news articles here and there that were somewhat biased. In my experience NPR often tries to be incredibly neutral, almost comically so, when criticizing any administration.
The Netherlands runs around 3000 trains a day vs. 50k in Germany. That doesn't excuse Germany's problems which were also predicted years in advance when they stopped investing in maintenance and infrastructure but also shows that the comparison is not entirely fair.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:26AM (#48537354)
Flash had many issues for sure, first and foremost security. But I can’t help but feel sad of what was lost since then. The Flash era produced some really unique experiences on the web.
I don’t want to open up that whole can of worms but Grok on any vaguely philosophical or political topic is a scaredy cat and has a very hard time staying factual if it could make Musk or the conservative movement appear negatively.
Re:CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:39PM (#48361601)
The first section can be done on a M1 chip, I think the second one needs Triton support, so your 5080 should be fine.
Re:How long until AI automates all cognitive labor? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:51AM (#48309791)
I don’t think the definition is that clear cut at all. A human can remember the smell of something and invoke it right then and there even if only for half a second. Are we expecting an AGI to do the same?

Then again, transformers seem super-human in some ways already. Who do you know who can more or less recite and make associations from (even if not always intelligently) hundreds of billions of text fragments? Transformers already are better at math than your average human.

My bet is we’ll land in a weird place in between where these systems clearly have some superhuman intelligent capabilities but still are far from “do everything better than humans”.

Re:The last six months in LLMs in five minutes on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:57AM (#48190939)
> IMO Every engineer should try spending his time in a company that tries to solve new problems.

Yet typically 95% of software developers mainly work on CRUD-type apps. Coding agents are not perfect there either but they’re really a lot more reliable than they were a few months ago.

Re:Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:02AM (#48106548)
Have you checked the Don Hopkins archive yet?

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/pub/

I tried that afterwards in a new session. Asking about the virus itself was fine but as soon as I asked about developing a vaccine, the chat got flagged again.

Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk

Asking Claude how it would develop a vaccine for the hanta virus apparently triggers a safety filter:Prompt: How would you develop a vaccine for the hanta virus?No response, instead this modal: “Chat paused Opus 4.7's safety filters flagged this chat. Due to its advanced capabilities, Opus 4.7 has additional safety measures that occasionally pause normal, safe chats. We're working to improve...

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While I agree with you that agentic coding still has quite a way to go and is not always producing the quality that I would want from it, I can say quite confidently that its baseline is way above some of the production code in many applications many people use today. It really isn’t that code before agents was primarily written with taste and beautiful structure in mind. Your average code base is a messy hell full of quick fixes that turned into all kinds of debt over the years.
If you're traveling via Europe, you could finish US border control in Ireland directly before departure and won't be checked again.

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