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Re:GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:01PM (#50339846)
can you elaborate?
Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:58AM (#50339786)
Just listened to the Pragmatic Engineer podcast on Uber AI infra, https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ubers-ai-infra-fr...

it seems they are using a similar ontology called "context graph", used as a navigation layer for the ai agent.

Re:Release of Polars 2.0 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:25AM (#49978101)
> first class SQL support, which together with the performance improvements has Polars leading DataFusion and DuckDB in TPC-H and TPC-DS1 benchmarks,

Apparently about something ))

bit-exact against the original )

just unsure who's original ))

Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:11PM (#49760319)
First feature to borrow after peaking into openai repos? ))
Re:ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:54AM (#49397895)
Re:Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:45AM (#49384251)
It's almost like learning sdk every time new model is released.

It's ironic how initially it was sold as "coding in plain English", and now we are back to sdk ))

Re:Git at Any Scale on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:20PM (#49378939)
Came here to share a related fact :)

This solution with WAL and compact resembled the database internals as taught by Martin Kleppmann.

I asked Claude about this observation, and learned that the author (Vicent Martí) wasn't only core Github developer but also worked on Vitess from PlanetScale.

So no surprise these two contexts resulted in the design of Continuity as it is.

https://vitess.io/ - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

Re:Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:42AM (#49327215)
I think it was named so for a reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasmic_reticulum

personally i find it a beautiful match

> while Feynman imagined himself talking to himself

ironic )

Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) on Saturday July 04, 2026 @01:19PM (#48787061)
It's a bit aside, but what i love about ORM frameworks is that they try to find the universal interface to multiple database backends. For basic CRUD it's nice: test on sqlite deploy wherever.
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:43PM (#47578090)
Thanks! A lot of fun!

I'm using Liberation Mono, and it's missing :( i got PT Mono though.

Re:JUCE plugins soon be back on Wine on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:52AM (#47000099)
It's been a year since many VSTs based on JUCE8 stopped working on Linux due to nonstandard handling of Wine inside JUCE. Now the patch was merged, so hopefully we will see plugins coming back soon!
Re:Kolakoski Sequence on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:26PM (#46939676)
it doesn't repeat at least:

> More generally, the sequence is cube-free, i.e., has no substring of the form w w w with w some nonempty finite string.

from wiki

Re:Kolakoski Sequence on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:49PM (#46936703)
Is it a coincidence that it is number 2 in the OEIS?)
Ah, now I understand why @autocomplete suddenly got broken between versions and still not fixed )
Re:Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:38PM (#46622895)
for files, possibly sshfs / fuse with readonly mount

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35830509/sshfs-linux-how...

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:06PM (#46606099)
They sent AI generated music away to Bannedcamp.
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:51AM (#46576750)
I love how windows-linux discussion is populated by DAW/VST incompatibility. I'm still new to the industry, and therefore also open minded about daw/plugins.

I actually had good experience with setting up yabridge, it could have worked for me I think. But the elephant in the room is that many big commercial plugins use JUCE as a framework, and the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely, and are not considering going back at the moment.

https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/...

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386

There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the commonest plugins in the field :/

So I'm now kind of stuck between using windows with commercial plugins or use linux with mainly smaller scale alternatives (although there are good ones: lsp, decent sampler, cardinal, surge)

Re:Show HN: European Tech News in 6 Languages on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:30PM (#45929188)
I'd prefer one digest of essential highlights of the week across all segments.

I like to be interested in "other segments". But if they are in a separate subscription/email - I will never prioritize to open it.

Thank you!

Re:Show HN: European Tech News in 6 Languages on Friday November 14, 2025 @11:26AM (#45928422)
RSS or/and newsletter would be nice (but manually curated, not ai summary)
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @04:13AM (#45808926)
Location: Oslo/Norway

Remote: yes (can do hybrid if in Oslo)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies:

Core: Python, Cloud (GCP), Data, Linux. I'm quite comfortable with these: ML, HTML/CSS, JS, Rust/Golang/C

CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8n0a92l00yh23xvahf3uc/v.anany...

Email: https://linkedin.com/in/victor-ananyev

some packages that I use for development need to be part of the virtual env. for example ipdb.

so i do uv pip install ipdb.

but then, after uv add somepackage

uv sync happens and cleans up all extras. to keep extras, you need to run uv sync --inexact. But there is no env var for `--inexact`, so I end up doing the sync manually.

I would also add UV_NO_SYNC as smth I had to learn. It comes in combination with uv pip
Re:Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:36AM (#45719791)
reminds me of the difference between fasttext and word2vec.

fasttext can learn words it haven't seen before by combining words from ngrams, word2vec can learn better meaning of the whole words, but then missing out on the "unknown words".

image tokens are "text2vec" here, while text tokens are a proxy towards building a text embedding of even unseen before texts.

Re:Tangled, a Git collaboration platform, built on atproto on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:09AM (#45547496)
If multiple services have multiple owners it becomes also a question of trust. You either validate one service that fits 80% of your requirements, or validate ten services where each solves one specific requirement.

Also, of course - economy of scale for the infrastructure / integrations between features. Monoliths are still a thing.

But yeah, I agree developer experience may be traded here.

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