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Re:Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:28PM (#49807615)
"The earlier implementation could not be driven to zero of them, because boxing was load-bearing in its emitter"

In the docs of the repo of their TS to C++ compiler. https://github.com/geastack/compiler

I think there was a lot more brainpower invested in the media generation side of things. The noise-based diffusion technique is further developed. It had a discovery of applying a physics-based understanding of Brownian motion to guide it. Image generation has comparatively simple training process - this is an image with dog, and without dog (contrastive learning).

Might be worth to watch the diffusion based LLMs.

Re:Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:47AM (#49783832)
That's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking and has been around since decades.
Re:Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:08AM (#49584336)
After you clamped the stem, the preload job of the cap is done and it can be replaced.
Had to remember how ads looked like when Flash was popular. We had fullscreen ads that interacted with the content!

Interactive Flash Banner Ads Animation from the 2000s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Lu8BsjvK0

Re:"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:36AM (#49170461)
You mean people come to hate code reviews.

If you don't use those rules, you'll argue about something else in the code reviews. Likely something even more ambigous that wasn't explicitly written down for everyone as a baseline.

I am surprised by the rather bad output. It doesn't achieve qwen image 1 quality in composition or anatomical correctness. Tested on chat.qwen.ai

I am seeing third legs and glowing eyes. It's a Microsoft Lens level of quality and that one was pulled.

Contrary to that. The saying - Better to have a bad abstraction than none - was born from spaghetti code pain.
Re:Deno Desktop on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:04AM (#48626739)
They really did their best comparing it with other tools here https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/comparison/
Re:Apple Foundation Models on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:17AM (#48538161)
Apple has some clever mechanics to protect user data. I had to work with App tracking stuff lately and their approach to keeping user details private with anonymized cohorts (SKAN, Differential Privacy) before reporting tracking events to third party platforms was surprisingly well thought out. There is value in having them in your loop if you care about privacy.
Re:Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:37AM (#48409278)
Using makeup and decoration to escape facial recognition: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/48030/1/anti-sur...
I guess you can still be first to Linkedin and get all of the fame.
Re:A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:36AM (#47919116)
Mechanical exoskeletons should amplify your strength, not atrophy it.

If the brain is like a muscle, it won't work.

Has anyone tried to breath space? :)
Re:Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:46AM (#47714886)
Do we really have no way to build this in a single programming language and base database?

IndexDB, Postgres, Javascript, Typescript, Clojure. Not bad, but not much more attractive than the usual technology zoo any startup seems to end up with.

Re:"Collaboration" Is Bullshit on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:58AM (#47486233)
Collaboration has structure. The structure is the result of "the activity to create and maintain a shared understanding of a problem in order to solve it" - which is a definition of collaboration. I don't think collaboration requires a hierarchy more than it requires a tool for groupwork.
Re:Apple: Enough Is Enough on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:20PM (#47266019)
They also support a large number of previous OS. If you hard reset your 2013 Mac, it'll download OSX Mountain Lion.
Re:My take on vibe coding for PMs on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:56AM (#47244439)
"Programmers are the ultimate detail managers. All the tiny little details that nobody else wants to deal with wind up in our laps." - Robert C. Martin

Let's see if AI makes PMs care for details.

Re:Prism on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:10AM (#46793374)
This is a actual prompt in the video: "What are the papers in the literature that are most relevant to this draft and that I should consider citing?"

They probably wanted: "... that I should read?" So that this is at least marketed to be more than a fake-paper generation tool.

My mistake, seems like I was refering to the Siri voice, which seems to be the default. It sounds good. It is selectable and to my surprise - even configurable in speed, pitch and volume - in the OS Accessibility settings -> System Voice -> Click on the (i) symbol. (macOS Tahoe)
macOS already has some great intrinsic TTS capability as the OS seems to include a naturally sounding voice. I recently built a similar tool to just run the "say" command as a background process. Had to wrap it in a Deno server. It works, but with Tahoe it's difficult to consistently configure using that one natural voice, and not the subpar voices downloadable in the settings. The good voice seems to be hidden somehow.
Re:Strange.website on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:42AM (#46510053)
The 5000 loc index.html doesn't look too bad content wise, but I question if it's helpful to humans in its shape. I guess a proper project structure is just a prompt away though.
Re:Collaboration sucks on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:38AM (#45897775)
Collaboration is when all want to get to the same place and take unplanned turns to drive while the others are sleeping and a hitchhiker you picked up on the ride drives you over the finishing line.

And it's beautiful when that happens.

Re:Collaboration sucks on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:23AM (#45897643)
Collaboration is the activity of a group of people to create and maintain a shared understanding of a problem in order to solve it.

The author addresses issues that I would not relate to the concept of collaboration as a specific type of groupwork.

Re:Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot on Thursday October 09, 2025 @10:39AM (#45528351)
Boston Dynamics posted a youtube video on gripper (hand) design yesterday. They argue for two fingers and a thumb. I don't believe this product.
Re:DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:57AM (#43792264)
The first step towards this is a UN resolution.
Re:Don't Be Afraid of Types on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:47AM (#43446598)
It's more cognitive load to write a validation for every parameter because you can't rely on your fellow dev knowing it's not good to pass a string where you want a boolean.
Re:Don't Be Afraid of Types on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#43446545)
Humans reason with objects much better because that's how the real business world works.

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