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Re:Tell HN: Please Vote on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:43AM (#50354301)
Also, if you vote, that shows that your demographic (age, gender, region, etc) matters to the process and thus matters for how candidates build their platform and parties choose their candidates.
Re:ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:01AM (#50325243)
It can create API tokens that you can put in various harnesses. It's basically just an easy way to buy any model you want with one payment.
I wonder if either (a) high frequency trading firms are going to start running their algorithms on iPhones, or (b) Geekbench doesn't accurately reflect the real world performance in some way.

Assuming Geekbench is a good reflection of real world performance (in e.g. games, video encoding, encryption, decompression, compilation, databases, etc), I'm curious to know what AMD and Intel are doing so wrong that a cellphone chip could outpace their desktop chips. I don't think the A20's lithography is vastly better, nor does the chip have more area. Where's the performance difference coming from?

It's more productive to explain why the idea doesn't work, since people can learn from that.
Re:K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:20PM (#49552557)
A bit off topic, but I think I'm starting to get model fatigue. These come out 10x faster than new Javascript frameworks were coming out 10 years ago (at least new models are far easier to adopt).
Re:Go 1.27 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:19PM (#49365996)
This makes me want to find a side project for an excuse to give Go another try (I last used it professionally pre-generics).

I do still wish it had discriminated unions (algebraic data types) and some better error handling ergonomics.

Definitely.

But I might not read it super carefully when recipe planning at the start of the week, which can result in scheduling mistakes.

Another pet peeve (which this doesn't solve): Recipes that include "marinate overnight" or some such in the middle (which can be easy to miss), instead of telling you up front that you have to start the day before.
Some of my pet peeves about regular cookbooks are:

- Steps that actually include many different steps.

- Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list.

The diagrams in this post very cleanly solve both.

Re:Dear people who work at the airport on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:39AM (#49298542)
This has some lessons that apply much more broadly than to just airports (e.g. apps that make you jump through hoops and expect you to know what 2fa or SSO mean)
Re:OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:05PM (#49116952)
> Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses

To some extent, it feels like the genie is out of the bottle on this. There's so much LLM-generated code out there, and I'm sure plenty of it could be argued to infringe a copyright or license (though I think the legal bar for counting as infringement is set too low), that there's no way to go back and undo it.

That said, OpenJDK might be afraid that someone will decide to make an example of them because they are a high-profile target.

The part of this that's the most interesting to me is the fact that it is worthwhile for the compiler to expend the effort looking for this optimization opportunity. I would expect (x << 2) & -4 to be a fairly rare pattern, and even then removing the & -4 only saves one or two assembly instructions.
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:19PM (#48864025)
ChatGPT tells me that it would take a very large array to detect distance with any accuracy
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:46PM (#48862999)
One day I want to build something like this, except for sound. It would be great to get a heading and distance for where a sound is coming from.

This could be both for small scale things (e.g. which part of this is squeaking?) or large scale (e.g. is that booming noise coming from the construction a few blocks away?)

I wonder if it would ever start to make sense to burn an AI model into ROM, replacing a large portion of an inference machine's RAM with ROM. (Probably not, since I'm sure those machines do dual-duty and run training when the inference workload slows down)
Re:The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:37PM (#48820217)
Is there a URL for that language? It is unfortunately a bit un-googleable!
I have this book and like it.

I also wish there was a book that guided you through the process of implementing a language with accurate garbage collection, similar to how Crafting Interpreters teaches you to implement a language. Perhaps it could start with a shadow stack + simple mark-and-sweep and then move on to stack maps + generational GC.

Re:An oral history of Bank Python (2021) on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:44PM (#48679602)
I have a suspicion these new prices will stick around, even after the RAM shortage ends.

Speaking of which, what's the timeline of the RAM shortage ending? I have no sense for whether it is going to be (for example) 6 months or 3 years.

Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:11PM (#48573400)
Only as

> the act of writing out a problem to a model still forces the same sentence-level precision described earlier

(model referring to LLM here)

but not as writing for writing's sake

Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:41PM (#48572981)
Writing is as good, or even better https://www.paulgraham.com/words.html
Re:Austral on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:39AM (#48572004)
How do the linear types here relate (or not relate) to the Borrow Checker in Rust?
Re:What I think about when I think about thinking on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:34AM (#48571914)
This 404s for me
Re:Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:26AM (#48570228)
The README references Electroboom's implementation
Re:A calculator that doesn't round on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:27PM (#48547235)
It would also be fun to have a full computer algebra system (like maxima) on a phone
Re:CrankGPT on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:49AM (#48542141)
I bet if you took one of Taalas' cards which consumes 200 watts for 14,000 tokens/second [0] and slowed it down by a factor of 10, it would actually be quite reasonable to power by bicycle.

[0]: https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/chip-designer-taalas-bets-on...

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