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Re:Show HN: Cadence – A Guitar Theory App
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:48AM (#45668270)
Pretty good! Translation by AI? First lessons quite well, but first quiz in German "Welche dieser Noten ist... ganze Tonoberhalb?" makes no sense.
Re:Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:36PM (#44980781)
Can it document modular synthesizer patch configurations?
Re:Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations
on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:22PM (#44800105)
How is this different from https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk?
Re:Ask HN: How to keep track of vaccinations and shoe sizes of your fa...
on Sunday June 22, 2025 @11:07PM (#44352151)
Re:Using Windows 10 past EOL (via LTSC supported to 2032)
on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @11:25PM (#44306406)
What's the best strategy for a full backup and recovery if updating to LTSC goes wrong?
Show HN: My Definition of Consciousness
Do you like my definition of consciousness?while True: context += LLM(context)Using the idea of consciousness as the interface to oneself as proposed by Daniel Dennett.
Asimov saw it 80 years ago [video]
Ask HN: Is reasoning just some iterative context refinement?
context = "you are a useful model. you evaluate your own output for N steps after the initial user input"prompt = "here comes a prompt by the user"context += promptfor _ in range(N): context += evaluate_llm(context)
Try the BirdNET Sound ID App AI-Powered Bird Sound Recognition
Daniel Dennett on free will and moral agents
Re:
on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:48AM (#44027423)
How has this changed with the successful implementation of LLMs in the recent past?
Ask HN: In terms of franchises that jumped the shark, what was your first loss?
Mine was X-Files
Tech mogul Palmer Luckey creating arsenal of AI-powered autonomous weapons
Any good, apply-patch implementation by Open AI?
Ask HN: Does this estimate for GPT-4's 128k token window make sense?
GPT-4 supports a 128,000-token context window (per OpenAI).I'm trying to understand how much text that really is. Here's my rough estimate:1 token ≈ ¾ word ≈ 4 charactersA single-spaced A4 page (12pt font) ≈ 500–600 words → ~700–800 tokens128,000 ÷ 800 = ~160 pagesSo: GPT-4 can handle ~150–190 A4 pages of standard English prose, depending on formatting.Does that sound accurate?
An Awesome List for Everything Midlife
Re:Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:41AM (#42633559)
Cool! Will be interesting to compare to https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv!
Shameless plug for my html version of the xv6 book: https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/
Re:Xv6: HTML Conversion and CMake Build
on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:48PM (#42150827)
HTML conversion
https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/
and cmake build
https://github.com/xv6-guide/xv6-riscv/blob/cmake/CMakeLists...
for xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system.
Xv6: HTML Conversion and CMake Build
Re:Wafer Scale and Trilogy Systems: Part 1
on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:01PM (#41802191)
There's also the BrainScaleS neuromorphic system that features wafer scale integration:
Tmux as a ClusterSSH Alternative
Re:Ask HN: The ultimate user interface
on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:20AM (#37929081)
Jeffrey Snover, inventor of PowerShell, wrote in 2007:
"It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, could, or even should, eliminate CLIs."
16 years later. Has the situation changed? Will it ever change?
Ask HN: The ultimate user interface
Re:From clean room to machine room
on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:40AM (#37655800)
...commissioning of the first-generation BrainScaleS wafer-scale neuromorphic system
From clean room to machine room
Where is programming in the *nix environment most relevent today?
Ask HN: Is MINIX still the go to for learning about operating systems?
Current super computers only use a few percent of their peak performance
Re:Current super computers only use a few percent of their peak perfor...
on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:00AM (#32961704)
Jack J. Dongarra: "[...] somethings wrong with our architecture".