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Re:A Health Update on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:34AM (#50286928)
I pronounced it with a "z" sound like xylophone and got "zits" :D
Re:Focused Company Operating Principles on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:38PM (#50237529)
It's especially funny when a two or three person company writes something like this ... But it's perfect if you want to be a consultant to a major university.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:23PM (#50237430)
Inspired by "Toy Story 5" ... It's amazing how catatonic my 7 year-old can become in a phone or tablet.
Re:Its not just the f*cking sandbox on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:30PM (#49886909)
> I literally missed my sister’s wedding a few weeks ago to help clean up after some of the recent incidents.

A security researcher at OpenAI that clearly doesn't have limits.

Unfortunately, it's my life's mission to eliminate all female mosquitos (and the proboscis)
He would make a great AI!
Re:Agent swarms and the new model economics on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:49AM (#48993924)
Agreed ... I'm not talking about the implementation but rather the idea that this research is novel.
Re:Agent swarms and the new model economics on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:37PM (#48986743)
This is almost a year behind Steve Yegge's first post on beads. Gas Town and Gas City provide orchestration for the swarm. So far I haven't seen a perfect implementation but this idea isn't new.
Re:Google changes its search box on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:43PM (#48202054)
I think I've had this on duckduckgo for several months
Re:Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident on Saturday April 11, 2026 @12:51PM (#47732049)
You make this corner of the world better dang!
Re:Music for Programming on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:06PM (#47654857)
For real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.
If this site actually provided privacy-preserving recommendations, there are many of us in the U.S. who would (or should?) also be interested in these services. Sadly, this is SPAM.
Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:40PM (#47590021)
"At the time, MySQL existed ..."

You had to be careful with MySQL back then as constraints were syntactic sugar but not enforced. PostgreSQL was indeed much tougher to manage but more full-featured.

Re:ARM to make processors for first time in their history on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:35PM (#47511623)
Too late ...
Re:Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:32PM (#47470993)
That is very close to a half-length shipping container.
Re:SSH Secret Menu on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:54PM (#47330652)
HN as a tabloid ... After all enquiring minds want to know!
Re:Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:41PM (#47055990)
I was part of Omaze and can definitely empathize with the amount of work charitable fund raising takes and the amount of heartache that come from seeing under needs. Thanks for your hard work!
Re:STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:12PM (#47042888)
Great article and it really takes me back to my past! I was fortunate enough to always have a VM700 or equivalent to assess the quality of my modulators but one low channel isn't it of reach. One quibble with:

> After realizing that broadcast television uses negative modulation ...

NTSC is actually vestigial side-band so while it's easy to notice the modulation below the carrier, the low frequencies which include the sync information are also present above the carrier with the effect of having twice the modulated power.

Re:Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:04PM (#46969850)
Here's the one I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.
Re:Vouch on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:41AM (#46931875)
Look at ERC-8004
My agents gave to run pre-commit before calling a coding tag done. In this case, it's just a robust set of checks.
Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle on Sunday February 01, 2026 @08:45PM (#46851438)
I designed a security dongle a long time ago ... Used properly, it did rotations and XORs like a CRC. You could definitely make it hard to defeat but it was still ultimately deterministic.
When I was in high school, we were not allowed to use calculator for most science classes ... And certainly not for math class. I'm ten years, will you want to hire a student who is coming out of college without considerable experience and practice with AI?
This is a pretty clear emergent pattern. An OSS alternative is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail.

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