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> Parameter expansion then provides the capacity needed to write these selected memories without overwriting previously consolidated knowledge.

This seems like the limiting factor here, depending on efficiency

Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:47PM (#49414070)
Looks interesting but none of the examples worked on the latest iOS safari
How is that different from claude’s “auto” permission mode?
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:03AM (#48742853)
The cost is skill atrophy. When was the last time you wrote something entirely from scratch by hand without AI assistance? It’s a skill entirely separate from prompting and reviewing. And it atrophies when you stop using it.
I honestly expected Unitree to be the first
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:57PM (#48601258)
I’m pretty surprised to see no mention of Agility in the conversation about other humanoid companies
Re:The AirPods Effect on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:42PM (#48593097)
> Heavy headphone use makes people feel lonelier, the survey found.

Correlation for sure, I’m less sure about causation though. It seems equally likely to me that other factors are driving increased social anxiety/isolation which in turn drives people to wear headphones to avoid social interactions.

Re:What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:31PM (#48548546)
> The CTOs I talked to aren't making a dumb choice. They're solving real problems.

Unrelated to the content of the article, this sentence structure is a dead giveaway of LLM writing.

> The districts of both representatives (Chicago for Garcia, and Harrisburg for Perry) flatly oppose it, as do their state governments.

You’ll have to cite your sources there, friend. As a constituent of one of those districts myself, I certainly do not oppose it! All my homies hate ALPRs.

Re:loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:51PM (#48186222)
Shoutout to Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) for still being the best at this.
Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:38PM (#48111551)
Because you still have to read the code AI writes. I would argue it’s even more important than ever for code to be human readable.
Re:In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:36AM (#47168353)
Income != profit. Income is revenue. It sure would be nice if businesses were taxed on income, given that’s how people are taxed and all. Aren’t corporations supposedly people now thanks to citizens united?
Re:Show HN: Multiplayer Game of Life on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:34PM (#46611990)
Absolute cinema

Show HN: Steganography in natural language using LLM logit-rank steering

https://github.com/shevisj/subtext-codec

I have had this idea rattling around my head for a while now. From the readme:> subtext-codec is a proof-of-concept codec that hides arbitrary binary data inside seemingly normal LLM-generated text. It steers a language model's next-token choices using the rank of each token in the model's logit distribution. With the same model, tokenizer, prefix, and parameters, the process is fully...

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A side effect of replacing entire pages with images is that the file size will expand dramatically. Most PDFs only contain a couple of images
Re:Making Conway's Game of Life Playable on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:39PM (#45829997)
I always thought it was a bit silly to refer to it as a “zero player game“.
Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:20AM (#45102781)
I’m surprised no one is talking about the 2038 problem.
The problem is that they are opting to ban all games labeled “NSFW”, not just rape/incest games.
Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:46AM (#44658612)
Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.
Re:All the Ghosts You Will Be – Vsauce [video] on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:38AM (#44601561)
We are so back.
Re:A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:22PM (#44485798)
> requires a model of how consciousness works.

Not necessarily an entire model, just a single defining characteristic that can serve as a falsifying example.

> any information they can communicate to me, exists entirely in (R^n)^c

Also no. This is just a result of the digital medium we are currently communicating over. Merely standing in the same room as them would communicate information outside (R^n)^c.

Re:Security and Human Rights in the Age of BCIs on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:40AM (#44420176)
This could become a big issue if neuralink's technology is to be taken seriously.

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