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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:21PM (#50348025)
Also there is a male character named Ashley in Gone with the Wind, which was extremely popular since book release in 1936 and movie in 1939. You would think there should be a lot of boys named Ashley in the 50s and 60s.
Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:03PM (#50281570)
This page really needs to explain what is “resin printer” and why would I need it. I have no idea how is it different from my regular 3D printer.
For me it says “you read your last free article”
Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:51PM (#50061039)
You say “they” as there is a single coherent mind in this case. In the large orgs there are a lot of little independent minds doing their little things, barely producing coherent result through shared incentives.

In this case most simple explanation is inaction. Yeah, it was coming, but nobody was exactly in position or cared enough to do something about it.

Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:47PM (#50060963)
When your business model is to provide valuable thing for free to corner out competition out of business, don’t be surprised that your service gets to be used asymmetrically.
Should we introduce change to add [paywall] or something to paywalled links?
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:19PM (#50029215)
It’s not like they get magical components or firmware. All it takes is supporting specific rack configurations from top vendors. Or, if you want more lockdown, reselling custom-ordered racks with your software on top.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:19PM (#50028541)
But why sell hardware then? From customer perspective, wouldn't buying racks from Dell or HP be more stable procurement-wise and equally manageable by the excellent Oxide software stack (if such thing exists)?
How can this practically work though? As Earth goes around the Sun 90 degrees, orbit will become half-shadowed.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:41PM (#49839610)
>Corolla is expected to come in several powertrains, including gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric.

And also it’s just going to be confusing for the customers. Which one to get? Which one is better? It’s hard to imagine how same platform can have efficient structural layout for the large battery and for the ICE engine.

EV is much about software as well, and Toyota is not going to shine in this area either…

Re:The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:04PM (#49568046)
Also for traditional fuel you don’t have to carry half of the fuel - oxidizer comes from air. And then when you spend fuel, you have less weight to carry (which becomes noticeable on the plane).
” But he will not receive a royal allowance, nor will he be expected to take on official duties, and he has no rights to the Belgian throne.”

So it seems nothing will change for him.

Re:Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:19AM (#49065162)
I trained to play insane, usually a just bit slower than average, after using hints for couple times.

I suggest larger levels (yes, scrolling and zooming might be required). After all, minesweeper is the most interesting on the largest level.

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:36AM (#49048493)
The simple fact is that economy can’t be 100% services. Who is going to pay these baristas if nobody else earns anything?
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:32AM (#49048440)
The only reason you can figure it out is because of the system prompt which is designed to make model “useful”, safe and compliant.

Raw modern LLM with different pre-prompt will easily fool anyone.

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:07PM (#49042207)
Or another way to see it is that current models are AGI as it was defined before, and the goal post is being moved.
Does market closing and not trading continuously affects this?

If market opens at significantly different price, you may be forced to liquidate and loose more than expected.

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:08PM (#48941917)
Frontier labs release frontier models to the public only if there is market pressure to do so. Anthropic is not even hiding that they have been using Mythos internally for months now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI (so much for “open”) is using GPT-6 internally already.

It appears that peasants like us are not going to get access to frontier AI anymore at any price.

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:03PM (#48941888)
This is strategy by Chinese government, so much of US economy is invested in AI. Releasing free or cheap versions of the models undermines US economic growth. It’s asymmetric strategy that makes sense if you are close second in AI race. If situation is reversed, US would do the same.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:50PM (#48937833)
France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.

It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:34PM (#48937614)
While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.

“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.

Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.
Re:Claude Fable 5 Backlash Grows on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:31PM (#48821676)
I uploaded my blood test results and prompted pedestrian medical question. I shut it down because it's "bio research".
I really don’t understand what SD card reader on MacBook Pro is for.

All small cameras and devices use micro SD. Professional cameras don’t use SD since forever now. Basically I always need an adapter now.

Re:The Disappearance of Japan's Animators on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:51PM (#48680220)
So for new Ghost in the Shell is it a good idea to watch previous ones before watching the new one? If so, it what order? Is movie worth watching at all?
Usually the grants are restructured. Ie instead of what was vested and unvested rank-and-file gets new 4 year grants. And then it works exactly the way you would expect: everyone works for 4 years and then leaves.
Re:Where is the AI jobs crisis? on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:17PM (#48466202)
What people don’t get that traditional software jobs are gone.

There is no need for developers, testers, PMs, TPMs, devops, leads anymore. Communication burden and structure imposed by these roles is too high when you have AI. It doesn’t make sense to tell somebody to do something and for them to type it into the AI. You can type it into the AI yourself without wasting the time.

There is new job - software creator. Think of it as a single person replacing a team. This job requires different mix of skills, and different level of autonomy. Hiring needs to be adapted to this really, and people need to adapt. Some will shine in this new world, and those who still narrowly think of themselves as specialists in the specific old role are going to be jobless.

What transmitters? Now calls happen over WiFi which companies sell.
Now wait for manufactures introducing mandatory flight mode on devices (with Apple leading the way) that “trusted partners”, like airlines will be able to force-activate themselves.
Because they knew it’s not a real threat and they wanted to land at United hub for cost saving reasons.

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