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Re:Choreographic Programming in Rust on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:53AM (#50056506)
"It's some form of Claudish, I can't read it."

"There are few who can. The language is that of Opus 5, which I will not utter here... In the common tongue it says... err.. actually I don't know what it says."

Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:35PM (#49769043)
Man, I must be so basic when it comes to such designs. They all looked fine to me lol.
Sounds like someone has a call with Howard Lutnick in their future.
Man, they are cool, but I need at least a decade of clearly reliable functioning in the real world before I believe that those foldable screens aren't going to just break.
Re:How to Write English Prose on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:47PM (#49062766)
I think Baroque is the wrong descriptor for those passages actually. The constructions employed in both are very varied, its true, and the vocabulary is wide, not to mention archaic to our modern ears - but all the words are performing a useful function in conveying what the author wanted to say. There is not much pointless ornamentation.
Re:Grok 4.5 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:30AM (#48841366)
You're not voting it into office (yet, anyway. Haha). Aren't we all just using these models to write code?
Re:Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:39PM (#48834136)
Is it not that certain train lines are somewhat deep underground? The Piccadilly line swims with respect to the ground in the centre of town, when it is below ground. Further out where lines are at the surface the routes stick to the ground correctly.
"and other countries" - kind of a short list, that.
I think you mean hsoows hsoows
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:55AM (#47861736)
As the saying goes - "Alcohol is an excellent servant, but a terrible master." The same could be said for Metrics. So much is measurable these days, and we love to watch the chart go up or down. If it hasn't been measured, it doesn't exist. And the bureaucrats conjure reality with nothing but a spreadsheet and the flourish of a rubber stamp.
Re:Software never had a soul on Sunday April 05, 2026 @04:55AM (#47647445)
Like someone who saw U2 in a small club in Dublin in the 1970s noting that they're not the same anymore. The internet used to be a Sub Culture. Now its the whole world.
pretty cool. I wonder if they could add a zoom lens feature, like if you squint a bit, the lens could form into a magnifier.
100% yes. As you say, Psychosis is an exaggeration but frazzled captures it. And it's definitely a feeling that "this is such an opportunity, but the window will close - got to make the most of it somehow". Very stressful in a diffuse kind of way.
Re:The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:39AM (#47464879)
Re:Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again? on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:41PM (#47343327)
Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.
Heredity is only one of many flavours of cronyism.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:48AM (#47310628)
I'm working on a native code backtester that compiles pinescript strategies, and (hopefully) runs them super fast. Also a parameter optimiser with different scoring methods.
I thought Claude Monet - Impressionist techniques applied to coding.
Re:Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:06PM (#47094672)
"the dumb money"
Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:11PM (#46860769)
maybe different preparatory "system" prompts?
On the contrary - the LLM has had it's own version of "skin in the game" through the whole of it's training. Reinforcement learning is nothing but that. Why is that less real than putting a person in prison. Is it because of the LLM itself, or because you don't trust the people selling it to you?
Why can LLMs not be responsible for things? (genuine question - I'm not certain myself).
I think the linear least squares is like a shear, whereas the eigenvector is a rotation.
Re:Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:39AM (#46352624)
This title is like an optical illusion, but for swearing.
No need for a formal command structure when everyone's interests point in the same direction. Self organisation will occur readily enough.
Just out of interest, why do you want to move? What's wrong with Claude and Anthropic in your view? (I use it, and it works really well.)
I sense a great disturbance in the force - millions of teens muttering "for fuck's sake" and tossing their phones onto the sofa.
Re:Why I'm Learning Sumerian on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:04AM (#45925183)
Clearly summoning Zuul.
Re:You will own nothing and be (un)happy on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:27AM (#45897685)
I don't think that's it. I imagine op would be willing to pay to upgrade to Goodnotes 6, at which point he would own that for ever, just like Goodnotes 5. But there is no option to do that.
It's enough to make a man consider Linux...

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