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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:50PM (#49456994)
Just a general question - I read about these multi-day agent runs and I'm a little confused as to how the agent continues to be productive when presumably it's context window is wiped out in minutes? Like, codex has a 256k context window last I checked and that gets used up in like 15-20 minutes when building a feature.

According to this some of these things were running 30+ days. Is context managed differently in these sorts of scenarios...?

I suppose I'm just a little worried about a 10 year sideways market. The run-up has been absolutely insane the past year...some graphs are just a literal straight line up. I didn't get to participate in much of that and concerned the prevailing wisdom on these larger timescales may no longer hold true.
> but unless you think have some special insight that hedge/quant funds don't have

Of course not, but it is a hedge, is it not? What would be your preferred hedge in this scenario?

What's the best way to hedge against this, considering many of us have significant savings in the market?

A few puts on SPY dated a year or two out?

Re:The Cost of Owning a Home on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:37PM (#48282109)
Aren't quite a few of these concerns alleviated by owning a condo?
Re:Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:22PM (#47855376)
Please report back, would be very interested in your findings.
Re:As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:40PM (#47851952)
I appreciate the link, however it should be noted that piece was written by the co-founder of that same company. They do seem to be evidence driven but let's not pretend there's not some degree of bias towards the solutions his company is proposing.

Additionally, that article focuses almost solely on the chances of producing acid rain, which actually is another issue and not the one I was first concerned with. That piece talks about "redistributing" SO2 from the troposphere to the stratosphere which is a neat concept but a.) that's purely theoretical, and b.) that's not what they are doing or trying to do anyway.

It could be argued that air pollution has a greater and more devastating effect on the everyday lives of people alive today then global warming does now or will in the foreseeable future. In my city it was estimated that more than 1 in every ~16 deaths is related to air pollution, and the air here isn't nearly as bad as it is in other cities. Worldwide, UNICEF estimates nearly 2,000 deaths under 5 years of age per day from air pollution [0]. Annual deaths worldwide are estimated at 8+ million yearly across all age groups. Making that problem worse by any measure in the hope of producing a cooling effect that is a fraction of a fraction of a degree is not worth it at all and at least in my opinion is a net-negative.

[0]: https://ceh.unicef.org/spotlight-risk/air-pollution

Re:As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:00PM (#47851451)
This might be the worst idea I've ever seen. I'm glad they are so interested in reducing the effects of global warming - that's fantastic - but they are literally purposefully releasing a toxic, major air pollutant into the air to create in their own words "clouds of dust" for the purposes of reflecting sunlight. Sure, there might be a slight cooling effect but who in their right mind could possibly think this is a good idea?!

I understand they are deploying to the stratosphere and not the troposphere but I can't imagine there aren't any negative second-order effects.

As someone who lives in a city with a major PM2.5 problem that effects the millions here on the daily (near an active stratovolcano no less!), reading about what they are doing was somewhat infuriating.

Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Saturday April 18, 2026 @12:51PM (#47817353)
Should the title here be 4.6 to 4.7 instead of the other way around?
Re:Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:40PM (#47640649)
Is there something like this in text/readable format?
Re:Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @04:50PM (#46905876)
I feel like I'd be really skeptical of results from a non-deterministic model for something as precise as accounting....
Re:Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2% on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:51PM (#46722738)
Ok, but some extra plumbing (and whatever sorts of engineering studies referred to) and electrical work surely can't as expensive as demolishing and rebuilding a whole building.

These seem like extremely solve-able problems.

Re:Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2% on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:22PM (#46722231)
I read something at some point that it's more expensive to convert these into residential buildings than it is to literally demolish and rebuild.

I'm not entirely sure how that math works out, or why, because one would think it couldn't be that complicated. Maybe someone here knows more about this.

Ask HN: Whats the current best and cheapest text-to-video API?

I'm interesting in playing around with a project that involves text-to-video. Basically ~20 second video clips based on a text summary.I've looked at e.g. gemini which seems to refuse to generate even the most mundane things without explanation, some chatgpt options, and runwayml, the last of which seemed to be the best option but appears to be ridiculously expensive. I think runwayml also is...

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Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:08PM (#46641782)
Out of curiosity which country was this?
Re:Bezos says AI is in an industrial bubble on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:08PM (#45475344)
My team is doing the same, and yet all of us still aren't sure that we're actually more productive overall.

If anything it seems to me like we've just swapped coding with what is effectively a lot more code review (of whatever the LLM spits out), at the cost of also losing that long term understanding of a block of code that actually comes from writing it yourself (let's not pretend that a reviewer has the same depth of understanding of a piece of code as an author).

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:10PM (#45420860)
Can you talk a bit about the tech stack?
Re:GPT-5 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:14PM (#44831029)
Which betting markets were you referring to and where can they be viewed?
Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:03PM (#44627076)
Is this more of a thing with higher quality perfumes, or is "projection" a symptom of specific scents/ingredients?
Re:1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:53PM (#43143113)
I can't be the only one who immediately thought "Star Destroyer" regarding the "black spear".
Re:Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API on Saturday November 16, 2024 @05:22PM (#42159903)
Does that wipe out your margins? Most proxies I'm aware of are relatively expensive and if you're charging per API request than there's not much margin to work with.

What was the scraper written in? Python? Node? Go?

Re:Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:50PM (#42159662)
What's the tech stack? How did you get around issues with your scrapers IP getting blocked?
Re:Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:45PM (#42152624)
What's the tech stack? I assume you're doing quite a bit of scraping.
It's funny because Next.js is the first thing on that list.

Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?

Ask HN: Best way to build an SEO friendly, high content site in 2024?

I have a few upcoming projects that will be fairly content heavy and need good SEO. Most of my experience is in mobile and embedded systems dev, though I've briefly touched Rails and Node.js.The last site I had, was just an index.html file, some css, and a bit of attached JS. I threw it on a ridiculously expensive webhost (MediaTemple) and that was that.What's the best and cheapest way to build...

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Ask HN: My software "niche" is dead/dying. What skills are the most in demand?

I took a bit of a sabbatical and am returning to the workforce. The demand for my usual "niche" in software is dying and supply is extremely over saturated.What skills, tech stacks, languages, or libraries are absolutely the most in demand for jobs and highest paying as of April 2024? Evidence for your answers would be extremely appreciated!

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Tell HN: The Turing.com hiring platform is complete nonsense

Been spending a bunch of time trying to get on their hiring platform. After a bunch of surveys on soft skills, assessments for selected tech stacks are required to receive job opportunities.It seems like the assessment tests are written by a machine and/or scraped entirely from questions in online repositories.As an example, here's a screenshot of one of their nonsense questions for an Android...

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Ask HN: How to build one of those collaborative whiteboards?

I'm looking for a new hobby project after taking a coding hiatus and thought it would be great to try and build one of those collaborate whiteboard things (like Figma's FigJam and plenty others).I'm curious as to what everyone thinks the best stack would be for something like this. What sort of technologies are used for actually drawing to a zoomable canvas?I have experience with React and...

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Re:I created an ephemeral group chat app for strangers on Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:01AM (#38792194)
Some user was able to open a browser modal with a custom message in everyones browser. Any ideas how they did that?
How does the aircraft get to 70k feet? Is it launched from a separate vehicle?

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