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Re:A project that visualizes the night sky using ASCII characters
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:19AM (#50300432)
ASCII-rendered visuals looks pretty decent.
After reading the first sentence, I cannot stop imagining some Rust people cannot stop salivating at the prospect to a version saying, "written in Rust", "safe", etc. ~
Re:'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger th...
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:00AM (#50260407)
> It's been cheaper than nuclear for a while now, it was only a matter of time.
AFAIK the latest research contradicts to this [1], can you give some links if you have for this?
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...
Re:I will no longer upload to NEW
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:29AM (#50257545)
Related: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
GR resulted in Proposal E, Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Clearly stating: "Any such automated process should be overseen by a human who remains accountable for its behavior and output."
Re:There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:55AM (#50255140)
As it should be.
Re:US Bars Microsoft, Indian Firms from Visa Program in Blow
on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:51PM (#50027569)
Excellent news. Ethnocentrism is gone wild in such certain big tech, what I would call as "ethnic nepotism". It seems more problematic with Indians.
Re:Singapore Govt Dating App Uses Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:15AM (#49919494)
This is very interesting from pairwise comparison perspective. Infact, humans are better at pairwise preference scoring rather than estimating a score from single input [1]. In regular dating apps, the profiles are presented one by one which makes it more recurrent comparison based on the experience rather than in pairs.
In the news, it is not detailed but what would be interesting is to profiling automatically, given a somewhat larger pool of participants. Where certain number of pairs during the setup is presented to the new user and asked to make pairwise choices to build the preference profile over.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016816992...
Re:PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:41AM (#49797200)
Good to see you change it from "PDFs are Presentation Document Format" => "PDFs are meant to be a presentation document format". Next time, don't forget edit log..
Re:PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:02AM (#49796972)
PDF's are not Presentation Document Format. Should be "Portable".
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:11PM (#49367858)
I use daily a Japan exclusive model, LIW-M700D (https://www.benswatchclub.com/blog/casio-lineage-liw-m700d-r...), and lucky enough to be in range of DCF77 signal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77). Hard to believe, it was less than 200 euros.
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:39AM (#49357310)
> Every possible product name is carefully checked to avoid undesirable meanings in other languages, political or religious affiliations and fit into our global profile
If I remember correctly, they had a desk named "JERKER" in early 2000s.
Re:GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:30PM (#49337185)
Am I the only one who cannot read the date on the blister pack even fully zoom in my phone?
If that is the full quality image given to the model, I think it's not surprising that the model confused with 03/2022.
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:18PM (#49337001)
3 years ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638229
Re:Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Ody...
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @05:27PM (#48962593)
The language is not the problem here, I also cannot understand ancient greek. Let aside the casting, it impose a modern morality instead of the original moral arguments. The movie portrays Odysseus in a completely different manner. Homer's Odysseus is intelligent, deceitful, resilient, cruel... While in the movie Nolan's "modern" themes served rather than Homer's original.
I don't know if I am the only one, but it feels like trying to rewrite a historical epic with someone's own themes. I don't say one is better or worse, but it just doesn't feel right.
Re:Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Ody...
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:44PM (#48962187)
In this context, the book itself is the history rather than the story as a foundational western narrative. The movie diverge in many grounds from the book, and it is sad that most people will only watch the movie rather than read the original work.
Re:WhatsApp to let people chat with usernames
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:32AM (#48743024)
Advertised as "Private way to connect" by new head, then WhatsApp is new Telegram?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632224 and https://x.com/kunalb11/status/2071624878713971176
Re:Show HN: Zanagrams
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:07PM (#48712207)
Nive work! I solved all five puzzles and only annoyance was the quite a few singular+plural forms in the same puzzle. I expected all unique words.
Re:The Cypherpunk Library
on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:00PM (#48449887)
Yes, did you? Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out?
Re:The Cypherpunk Library
on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:59PM (#48449872)
They do call themselves, "Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê" (PKK) which literally means Kurdish Workers Party. It doesn't mean whether they call themselves terrorist or not; USA, UK, EU, NATO and many others call that way.
Re:The Cypherpunk Library
on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:57PM (#48449829)
This is a work written by the terrorist organization leader after incarcerated on 1999. While this carefully selected piece doesn't, the larger work of five volumes named "Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization" goes into the manifestation of his terrorist movement.
Re:The Cypherpunk Library
on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:14AM (#48444348)
Funnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..
Re:Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems
on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:55AM (#47031352)
This comment has a tone of external reviewer, while appearantly your profile shows you are affiliated.
Re:The Unix Pipe Card Game
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:31PM (#46694887)
Earlier discussion on this;
2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047110 (41 comments)
2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222687 (59 comments)
Re:guys why does armenian completely break Claude
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:02PM (#46580723)
Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.
Re:guys why does armenian completely break Claude
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:54PM (#46580644)
Re:A website to destroy all websites
on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:14AM (#46464039)
Cannot agree more... Tired of flags being waved at the wrong places and times.
Re:FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:24AM (#46003457)
I did AoC 2021 until D10 using awk, it was fun but not easy and couldn't proceed further: https://github.com/nusretipek/Advent-of-Code-2021
Re:2,400 HP FDNY Super Pumper could extinguish hell itself
on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:35PM (#45805288)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/
I watched this movie on cinema a decade ago. Highly recommended.
Re:A brief history of random numbers
on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:56AM (#45734534)
Re:Dark Patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @10:38AM (#45528324)
Couple of years back, I made a mistake on trusting Deutsche Bahn. I took a regional train from Düsseldorf, hoping to get at some connection hub (never reached and don't remember, possibly Cologne), I have to ICE to reach Brussels. It was evening and at some point the train stopped in the middle of nowhere and an announcement followed 20 minutes later, saying the train went through the wrong tracks and it cannot return! And, we need to wait couple of hours before the rails are cleared and then we will need to get of the next station, a tiny town where only few trains run per day and none after 10pm!. Genius idea to leave people there, conductor also puts his unsatisfaction because apparently he also needs to get off there and request a ride. Let alone, I missed my connections. I had to either wait there until morning or get a ride. Never used Deutsche Bahn again, I feel less stressed by driving, even I really enjoy train rides in general.
Did I get compensation? Yes I did after four months for the ticket price only (around 40 euros), but after ridiculous process of that I need to send them forms and tickets via regular post, with a stamp that can only post within Germany. Nice try by their side..
Re:Left to Right Programming
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:53AM (#44948945)
Funny how the article has no reference to C++ but still linking "Falling Into The Pit of Success". Did we all get our daily dose of subliminal messages from rust?