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Re:Laws of Software Engineering on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:48PM (#47852037)
Is this less relevant today where if you do go down the wrong architecture it is much cheaper to rewrite everything again in something that is better?
Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:59AM (#46228807)
I just wanted to add a comment that I never knew but if you google Times New Roman they display the entire Google web search results page in Times New Roman.
Re:Ask HN: What Coding Agents are y'all using? on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:47AM (#45614540)
Honestly, I have been using Claude Code for 4 months now and I honestly don't know if to trust all the people dooming on it for the past few weeks. The time required to test a new tool properly is also not insignificant; so I would honestly like some input from this community.
Re:Tencent Hunyuan-Large on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @03:30PM (#42054883)
What is the reason for restrictions in the EU? Is it due to some EU regulations?
Apologies for this, but it's "for who" not "for whom" in your case since it's the subject of the sentence.
Re:Mistral Le Chat on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:36AM (#39521610)

Ask HN: How to optimise LLM embeddings for search

I've seen some people discuss on here about some techniques they have used to get more accuracy from using embeddings to perform search. For example, I have seen some suggest that extracting keywords from the text and creating an embedding out of those can work better. I was wondering if anyone had any articles testing these methods out; or if there were other methods people know about.

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Ask HN: GPT-Vision or Llava for Videos

I'm interested in a model that can take as input a video and output a caption to describe what is happening in the video. I've looked on huggingface etc. and can only find XCLIP from Microsoft, but that only does video classification. It doesn't write its own caption.

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Re:Ask HN: Best UI/UX Experience for Articles on the Web on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:13PM (#38674947)
thanks
Re:Ask HN: Best UI/UX Experience for Articles on the Web on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:55AM (#38673231)
This isn't a profit endeavour, it's an academic and learning experience.
Re:Sam Altman is the CEO of a new AI group under Microsoft on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:38AM (#38344800)
Phil Spencer is CEO of Microsoft Gaming