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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:26PM (#50330076)
I encourage everyone to view source. It's nice and short.

Ask HN: What mistakes did AI make in your codebase?

In the past few weeks I've beeing working with frontier AI - Opus 5.5, Astra, Sol 6.1, Fable 5.1 and Gemini Argon.AI has become really good at coding in some sense, that's undeniable, and there are people that say you don't really need to review their code anymore.But I keep getting stuck in a sensation that's between cognitive dissonance, FOMO, and a vague sense of being gaslit, because when I...

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Re:I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:20PM (#50293600)
This is bananas!

One thing he doesn't mention is memory. What happens when the context runs out? How do agents preserve state and what are they continuously being prompted with?

Why only 20%? Is there a theoretical maximum?
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:08PM (#50199689)
For those dizzied by the quick unit changes:

Forest loss in Finland - 243,000 hectares = 600,000 acres

Finland total - 20.3-26.3 million hectares = 50-65 million acres

US forest loss - 1.2M hectares = 3M acres US forest conversions - 1.05M hectares = 2.6M acres

Brazil - 985k hectares = 2.43M acres India - 26,858 hectares = 66,368 acres

Thanks. It wasn't clear to me what the actual issue was from the headline.
I wonder if there'll be an episode of Hello Internet on it.
Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:15PM (#50134702)
The study of arcane procedures and immigration of all sorts comes up here very often.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:29PM (#50125024)
Now put six of them in a field and throw in a huge soccer ball.
The headline is "Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say"
You're right. Never in history and never anywhere else in the world have Jews been persecuted.
Re:REA Reverse – Engineer Anything on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:56AM (#50030995)
It's harder in the exact way that AI is good at, though. You need to slog through very large amounts of boilerplate until you find what you're looking for.

It's not really more complex once you're practiced at it, just tedious.

Even when a problem got solved, there has always been value in publishing simpler proofs and corollaries that give better intuition into the broader field.

If I understand Tao correctly, he's saying that's going to have to be the focus going forward. I just default to thinking the models are going to be much better than us at that, too.

Re:The Mathocalypse on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:05PM (#49998784)
Doesn't look like these proofs are from the book.
Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:13PM (#49926528)
There are enough jurisdictions in the world where if the car really was good enough, they'd let it go. Even in the US.

It took some time for cars to be available even in good weather in specific places, so I'm guessing no, the cars aren't good enough.

Re:How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:00AM (#49893428)
I suspect the semantics are about how long in advance it's planned. A day or two? Planned. An hour? Hard sell.
Agents doxxing agents, in a way.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:31AM (#49814460)
It's ridiculous. We need more doctors.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:54PM (#49744266)
Somewhere there's a Charlie Munger quote about how that's the best thing about being rich - you don't have to spend time with people you don't like.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:16AM (#49645214)
And I'm just sitting here looking at the Codex desktop mac app wondering why a list, a chat window and textbox require a 579 MB download (compressed) and 4 GB of RAM.
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:56AM (#49621711)
Climate doomers: Climate change will kill us all by the end of the century!

AI doomers: End of the century? Hold my beer.

Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:11PM (#49554180)
dang and team, perhaps it makes sense to special-case .name domains in the domain hint, like you do for GitHub and Ex-Twitter.
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:00AM (#49532292)
Thanks!

Maybe if Martin could comment - his @google.com email still appears in the repo readme, I'm assuming he doesn't have access to that box anymore - was the repo move and ownership coordinated with Google prior to his leaving?

Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:37PM (#49526989)
Wasn't it partially owned by Google? Or are they just a contributer now?
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:36PM (#49526982)
If I remember correctly, Mitchell Hashimoto uses it for Ghostty (probably under the git backend).
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:55AM (#49459922)
Then use that as the link.

Everything I can find online is referring to this one source. That doesn't tell me if it's happening or not.

"In full" is a tall order that no other OS or distro claims.

No reason Qt or quickshell is any different from any other software.

Bash is... harder, not impossible. I wouldn't rely on it.

Re:How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:08PM (#49412109)
This is not distinct.

Even in a big corp there are always problems to solve. The point is to find problems that both:

1) are hard enough that someone junior won't be able to solve them alone, and

2) actually provide value to the company / users

Re:Authoritarianism of Code on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:40AM (#49409722)
Should be (2020) per the URL.
Re:Stop Making TUIs on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:36PM (#49391423)
That is, as TFA mentions, the one good argument.

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