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simonklee

Re:GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:46PM (#49769133)
It’s simply a lot of grunt work to do these which is why many are unsolved.
Re:GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:44PM (#49769119)
Nice, used a similar approach for another one of these this week

https://simonklee.dk/farnese-letter

Re:Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:48AM (#49059347)
Exactly, i think this product is solving an airport problem and not a user problem. Whenever i park at an airport i always look for the shortest distance to terminal / price, then chose an option that lands within an acceptable range. Unless i'm way for very long shuttle-bus isn't really on the table.
Re:Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees on Monday June 01, 2026 @06:46AM (#48355079)
It's a ~1d old experiment. Not sure why posted on hackernews.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:43AM (#48133536)
Say what you want, but for people building products on Bun, this is bad news for the foreseeable future.
Not really, except that they have a bunch of weird things in the source code and people like to make fun of it. OpenCode/Codex generally doesn't have this since these are open-source projects from the get go.

(I work on OpenCode)

Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Sunday November 16, 2025 @03:58PM (#45948340)
I agree with you. After reading a couple of the chapters I'd be surprised if this wasn't written by an LLM.
Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Sunday November 16, 2025 @03:51PM (#45948287)
It's just an odd claim to make when it feels very much like AI generated content + publish the text anonymously. It's obviously possible to write like this without AI, but I can't remember reading something like this that wasn't written by AI.

It doesn't take away from the fact that someone used a bunch of time and effort on this project.

Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:57PM (#45552642)
java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar are the two packages I remember struggling with as a new programmer. Which I guess is solved with java.time after Java 8.
And it's obviously expensive use this approach.
Re:Postgres with data branching and PII anonymization on Thursday May 15, 2025 @04:33AM (#43993014)
Performance benefits of the approach seem nice, with SPDK reducing kernel context switches, and direct NVMe to reduce latency in the storage path. This does require a more specialized setup, than Neon's tiered architecture (Safekeepers → Pageservers → cloud storage), at the expense of storage cost obviously.
Re:The Llama 4 herd on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:43PM (#43595709)
Is this the first model that has a 10M context length?
Re:Uncached Buffered IO on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:13PM (#42110468)
There is a nice TLDR at the top of the post:

  - 17rc1 looks great - there are no big regressions and several big improvements
  - There might be small regressions (~2%) from Postgres 15 and 16 to 17 but this benchmark was not setup to diagnose that.
Re: on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:11AM (#41498413)
I like tokenizers and parsers because they have a certain rhythm to them, and Zig's new labeled switch simplifies state transitions by allowing continue statements to target specific switch cases. Like computed-gotos in C.

- Zig issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8220 - Release notes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/21257#issuecomment-23368...