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Re:Ask HN: Did Claude Code just bump Opus default to 1M context?
on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:26PM (#47368596)
Sonnet 4.6 1M is still billed as extra usage, but we're now able change the status bar color :/
Re:Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:23AM (#46730750)
FlatBuffers are already faster than that. But that's not why we choose Protobuf. It's because a megacorp maintains it.
Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:41PM (#32861791)
MS Office is actually a counter example of this. It was much worse than Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Notes, and WordPerfect. They crushed the competition because of vampiric sales strategies.
Re:All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:41AM (#29054959)
The whole reason why nuclear energy is not because it technically is inferior, but, rather, the NIMBY mentality of nuclear energy at large. Many people see the consequences of mishandled nuclear energy and immediately see this as a eventual reality for all nuclear plants.
Re:How did Google get so big?
on Friday July 27, 2018 @05:42PM (#17629653)
But Google was already aware of the iPhone the time they purchased Android. This has been their strategy for competition.
Re:Demystifying Floating Point Precision
on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:05PM (#15759488)
I try to avoid using floats when doing business calculations. Base 2 doesn't work well with our base 10 currency.
Real world example: 1.09 - 1.09375
Double: 0.00374999999999992
Decimal: 0.00375