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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:40PM (#50328953)
These are great. I think one for papers would also be very valuable!
I was really surprised by this. Well done.
I was thinking about building this for a while and now i don't have too, insane. Thanks!
Having used GLM-5.3 I honestly don't think it is better than 5.1. It is slower and the result is often overengineered, it is if it overthinks everything.
Re:Consumer Rights Wiki on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:43AM (#49385035)
Any RSS feed for articles? I can only find one for every change and it is quite spammy.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @04:40AM (#49283202)
Well it is just a bit of fun I think. However, I also think an AGI or an extremely capable model approaching AGI would be able to paint a pelican on a bicycle fairly easily. So in that way it is a good metric.
The overregulation and the constant attempt to destroy any notion of privacy has really pushed me towards being anti EU. I wonder if ressources are spent seeding that sentiment.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @06:32PM (#48637266)
I hope this is successful, like it or not this might be one of the best ways that Linux can reduce the Microsoft Windows monopoly. I would actually go as far as to say that it has to succeed.
Re:Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:01AM (#48596450)
Last time I read about them (here in HN) somebody highlighted that the problem wasn’t to get them to function at a high refresh rate, the problem is they stop being energy effecient at that rate. Now I mostly skimmed the article but I couldn’t find any information regarding that.
Didn’t they do that 2 months ago or are the re-announcing it because of the IPO
Cool, what is the price pr. Million token. I am using a 300 t/s model for a project I am doing and speed is crucial over precision, so this seems like an upgrade. However if it is 10$ pr. M tokens then it is not worth an upgrade.
Every day Peter Naur’s paper programming as theory building gets more relevant

Link: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf

Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:48AM (#47859566)
A vscode fork with a modified Kimi model under the hood for 60 billion feels absolutely insane to me.
Re:Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:52AM (#47624813)
Question is will the government learn anything meaningful if they subpoena the LiveKit providers? (Including and excluding HNDL)
Re:Hypothesis, Antithesis, Synthesis on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:24PM (#47506156)
I remember first learning about Hegel when playing Fallout NV. Caesar made it seem so simple.
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47214933)
Ahhh, okay I misunderstood it then thanks.
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:16AM (#47214780)
Is this a reinvention of openapi formerly known as swagger?
Re:Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:56PM (#47200142)
I am sick and tired of companies forcing a shitty fork of vscode down their customers throat. If I am paying let me use your api how I wish to. Most people aren’t malicious and just want to use their own workflow.
Re:Good Riddance, 4o on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:49PM (#47005488)
Blaming the 4o model for people forming an unhealthy parasocial relationship with a Chat bot is just as dangerous as letting the model stay online.

It quantifies it as a solved problem.

Why and what drove people to do this in the first place.

This is the conversation we should be having, not which model is currently the most sycophant. Soon the open models will catch up and then you will be able to self host your own boyfriend/girlfriend and this time there won’t be any feedback loop to keep it in check.

I guess the fix is only for Tahoe?

Edit: I meant iOS 18

Re:The <Geolocation> HTML Element on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:25AM (#46631002)
This is pretty cool. But what gets me really excited is the new generic <Permission>[0] element. I had to implement a webcam element one time for some CV pet project and I had a lot of trouble getting the basic api to just work (Highly likely a skill issue). So seeing that this will also expand to webcam and other IO seems like a really good UX improvement.

- [0] https://github.com/WICG/PEPC/blob/main/explainer.md

Re:Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:21PM (#46533036)
Thank god, I was running Tailscale on a nixos machine on some really old hardware and I couldn’t figure out why it kept crashing. It was because of this but it just failed silently.
I wasn’t aware that it was possible on iRobot machines
Re:Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:44AM (#46463837)
I’ll check it out thanks :)
Re:Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:53AM (#46463211)
I did this for a while but MacOS updates broke Nix often enough that I usually would spent some time every week reinstalling it. I still use Nix for dev environments because it is great but Nix still breaks sometimes.

I also really wanted to like the declarative homebrew configuration but it also often didn’t work as expected for some configurations and had a lot of leaky abstractions that straight up just broke sometimes.

If I ever go back to managing my Mac with nix I would probably just do a home-manager setup and just install most of the applications imperatively.

Given this was using an intel based machine around the time when the switch to arm came so a lot of breakage also stemmed from that.

I still use nix to handle my homelab.

My setup up on my Mac is as follows:

- Orbstack

- NixOS machine run in orbstack

- My whole dev environment is run from this container and is very transportable

- GUI apps are installed on my Mac using the App Store or homebrew etc. but I try to reduce the amount of installed applications

- if I have to install something that I don’t want to install but have to, I try to do it in a UTM machine.

Re:Fabrice Bellard: Biography [pdf] on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:37AM (#46384657)
A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust. "What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for." And off he walked very, very scornfully.

- https://read.gov/aesop/005.html

Re:Please Just Try Htmx on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:45AM (#46315075)
What I don’t like with HTMX and the like is that you basically don’t get any help in the backend. It also introduces implicit coupling between the frontend and backend which is very much the worst kind of coupling you can have. While this is fine for small to medium projects it is terrible in the long run.

To be honest this might be a skill issue or something I haven’t understood properly with these frameworks.

Re:Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:52PM (#46295078)
Trust is relative and it is subjective meaning that I trust Mozilla more than I trust google but I also trust them in general, enough at least that they support most of my internet browsing. Unless you mean something else ?
I know it is supposed to be airgapped but can’t this be dockerized ?
I agree with you. It is shitty behavior to say it is not AI written when it clearly is.

But I also think we at this point should just assume that everything is partially written using AI.

For your last point, I think this was also a problem before LLMs. It has of course become easier to fake some kind of ethos in your writing, but it is also becoming easier to spot AI slop when you know what to look after right?

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