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Re:OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @08:38AM (#47562683)
True, found this study fascinating, basically coming to the same conclusion: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11846-020-00378-0
Re:OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @08:37AM (#47562673)
Nice one! Wish someone would make a browser based version a la Chronodivide's RA2
Re:Railway (PaaS) Global Outage on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:02PM (#46978450)
Second complete outage on railway in 2 months for us (there was also a total outage on December 16th), and many issues with stuck builds and other minor issues in the months before that.

Looking to move. It's a bit of hassle to setup coolify and Hetzner but I have lost all trust.

Great to hear but it's still the same shape. I really want a 'credit card' shaped version I can slide into my wallet.
>> the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years

this is an insult to Lego Mindstorms

Re:Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:07PM (#46556045)
Thanks - I also turned it off. I guess it's a marketing thing for them, but it feels like it goes against the ethos of the company. Particularly given the fact they are clearly aware of this as they put it in the 'Privacy' section.
Re:London–Calcutta Bus Service on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:04AM (#46555280)
My Google Maps algo will be massively confused by my 'Directions' search: Sofia, Bulgaria to Kolkata, India on a Friday afternoon in January
Good for them. Makes me more likely to consider buying a Bose in future, not just because I know it won't be bricked, but also for the environmental impact of this. Kudos.
Ah thanks, didn't realise it was a 3rd party library, thought it was a claude native command
Re:Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:52AM (#46525335)
Eat 30 different types of fruits and vegetables every week. There is no 'hacking' your way to a good microbiome via these pills.
How do you manage that? /ccusage and --ccusage no longer work for me, I can only see the usage bars in /usage
Re:The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:46AM (#46524817)
50-100 PRs a week but they still can't fix the 'flickering' bug
Interesting you have this opinion yet you're using Cursor instead of Claude Code. By the same logic, you should get even better results directly using Anthropic's wrapper for their own model.
Re:AI Sycophancy Panic on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:48AM (#46489679)
I had completely forgotten about 'Sydney' and its emoji-laden diatribes. What a crazy moment, looking back.
The 'flash' / no or low-thinking versions of those models are crazy fast. We often receive full response (not just first token) in less than 1 second via API.
That's not what they are saying. Read it again.
Re:Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:01PM (#46436048)
Interesting, perhaps a project for the holidays. Thanks for the tip
Re:Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:34AM (#46432247)
More importantly, I wish I could turn off the entire Samsung 'Smart' TV UI and bring back HDMI, TV, and Apps. I get bombarded with ads and recommendations every time.
Re:Why 'The Global Market' Is an Irresponsible Phrase on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:48AM (#46383615)
True. Interesting as well that Aldi Sud did the complete opposite when they entered the US with Trader Joe's - completely adapting the brand to the local market.
I would settle for my Garmin not disconnecting every few days at this point
Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:16AM (#46352211)
Just get the $100 plan? (5X). I code most of the day and hit the 5-hour limit a couple of times a week, and never hit the weekly limit.
> Overall, the threat actor was able to use AI to perform 80-90% of the campaign, with human intervention required only sporadically (perhaps 4-6 critical decision points per hacking campaign). The sheer amount of work performed by the AI would have taken vast amounts of time for a human team. At the peak of its attack, the AI made thousands of requests, often multiple per second—an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match.

Weird flex but OK

Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy on Thursday November 13, 2025 @07:23AM (#45914059)
yeah but the link states "The 20 million user conversations were randomly sampled from Dec. 2022 to Nov. 2024" so this makes no sense. 2024 was much longer than 30 days ago
Most of Apple's business model is built on the back of this resource bloat
Re:Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:15AM (#45864181)
I use Claude Code, haven't used Codex yet (should I?) - but in Claude code you can spin up sub-agents to handle these big refactors, with the master context window just keeping track of the overall progress, bugs, etc and providing instructions to the subagents to do the rote work.
Re:AI's Dial-Up Era on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @06:56AM (#45809933)
Not really. Apple is a very strong competitor here.
Re:Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:42AM (#45798423)
The inch thing is because it's a screen: all screens are measured in inches pretty much everywhere, even in the EU
Re:ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:13AM (#45745781)
yeah I found a setting in Brave to block them the other day and life is much better since
Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:23AM (#45734068)
"We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it." - Sam Altman, Jan 2025

'as we have traditionally understood it' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections#:~:text=We%20believe%...

Re:Ask HN: Is AWS Down Again? on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:28PM (#45723841)
https://updog.ai/status/openai issue history looks terrible. Wonder how you ping openAI for this; with a completion attempt on a particular model?

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