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news.ycombinator.com 19d ago

Ask HN: Is it just me or does Claude / Sonnet 5 sound condescending recently?

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dev.to 3mo ago

Which Programming Language Is Best for Claude Code?

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

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www.gatesnotes.com 5mo ago

The Year Ahead 2026: Optimism with Footnotes (By Bill Gates)

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Tell HN: Thoughtfully https://claude.md redirects to Claude Code docs

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quart.palletsprojects.com 8mo ago

Quart: Flask with Async (ASGI)

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

Microsoft is laying off 9,100 employees, Xbox division hit hard

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www.augmentcode.com 1y ago

New, simpler pricing

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9to5google.com 1y ago

Google Search switching to Google․com around the world

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Pirate Party – a political party in Iceland (and in many other countries)

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www.nature.com 1y ago

Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions

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www.kaizenko.com 1y ago

A Behind the Scenes Look at the Writing of the Agile Manifesto

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt

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alentred.medium.com 1y ago

A solution for the global warming crisis

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Custom domain for personal email – yay or nay?

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arxiv.org 2y ago

Identifying a microwave oven as a source of false extragalactic FRBs (2015)

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www.improbableisland.com 2y ago

Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

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pastebin.com 2y ago

Less than 4B If Statements, or Challenge Accepted!

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Starship is ready for its 2nd test flight

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alentred.medium.com 3y ago

Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Which stack is as boring (good boring) and cheap in 2023 as PHP?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is the state of Web 3.0? From an engineer to an engineer.

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alentred.medium.com 4y ago

Using Obsidian: Notion vs. Vimwiki is not a question anymore for me

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Build Own PC in 2022?

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kiramclean.com 5y ago

Building a Fast Command Line App with Clojure

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

4’33” or “any sounds may constitute music”

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Did I miss something? Aren't public key are supposed to be public?

To be clear, that's an honest question, not sarcasm of anything. I only assume I don't know about some corner case with SSH or something? Because we have those on our websites, they are supposed to be used to verify signatures, etc. How is publishing them bad?

Professional techie and amateur bowler here. I am bowling on old-ish lanes, and the stats we have beyond the score is... well, ball speed only and it barely works on half of the lanes only. I doubt that our alley would ever agree to install anything ad-hoc, but I am super interested in finding out more about your build. If you have a blog, or can post photos and some information about your build I would be glad to read more.

Good luck with your new business!!! It sounds super exciting, hope everything works out, the roof, the patrons, and all.

I fear another related possibility. With *so* much money on the table, if this new industry shrinks or collapses, it is hard to believe that it will collapse same way dot-com did, and instead investors will seek to protect their capital who knows at what cost. Given the influence they have it is not hard to imagine the impact on policies, etc. I fear that tax payers are not the winners in either case, whether this industry grows or not.

Preach. I would love to see all email like this. I learnt this in my very first work place and will never get the trend of starting every email with "I hope you are doing well".

I live and work in France, and oh boy... It's just cultural. Every email is like a letter to the King. "Would you be so kind enough to consider my humble request that is described hereafter in next three paragraphs". Funny thing: I welcome AI summaries on those.

My other pet peeve: meeting invitations. Half of the meetings in my calendar are called "Point" in French (loosely translated as "Topic"), the other half has no descriptions but the headlines. I tried the "I am not going unless I know why I am invited" thing to no avail - you cannot win this against the entire org.

So, you guess from the list of invitees. Or ask the organizer at lunch. Then go with them to the meeting to discuss the Topic for 15 minutes. Which could have been easily discussed at lunch, but lunch time is reserved to discuss food, not work.

Oh well. I love our cuisine, though. And the culture, and people, everything really. Just not how we write email.

There is one side effect of running your LLM locally: you stop thinking about the token budget. I often run `/goal` with no limits, or script an endless loop in bash to run opencode, etc. Sometimes I just brute force the task by throwing a /goal at it. Maybe it's not the most efficient use either, but it's nice to have the option.

With respect... I am surprised such a low-quality analysis is published on stanford.edu . What is compared here? What is the purpose of this? What are the conclusions of the analysis? Heck, where is the analysis? By what logic are the prices per GB(!) comparable between 1960(!) and 2026?

I am sorry to being rude, I just don't understand this publishing beyond getting the media exposure.

That's such a pity. Building a simple AM radio receiver was a simplest and coolest electronics project to do with kids.

You need two transistors, a ferrite coil and a small set of simpler elements. And it is so simple you can actually explain what every part of the circuit does.

And then the reward... Once built you could listen to BBC regardless of where you are in Europe. My kids just LOVED IT, no Netflix K-Drama replaces this experience. My daughter was listening to BBC on her radio every night going to sleep.

OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 26 days ago

the economy is weirdly nonsensical, you can push unnecessary amounts of cargo over long distances, and the game rewards you anyway

Wait... same like in real life you mean?

It does sound awesome and breathtaking, my feelings exactly when reading the paper.

On "Do we have imagination" - I think you are being to hard too on humankind. The answer for me is "yes, certainly", because that's exactly what these researchers imagined and then did. Bravo to them!

Big Banana Car 1 month ago

World Needs More Whimsy

100% that! When did everything get serious and look-alike? Anyway, I am taking off, shopping cart racing in the mall...

Good fun! At first I was scared of having to answer 100 questions, but when the words got more sophisticated it turned to be more engaging. Also, the result is good for self-esteem! :) Many thanks to the author!

I wonder if the test is calibrated to the fact that some answers are just well guessed? I am not a native English speaker, but I speak 3 languages overall and have basic notions in Latin, and I have to admit it helped a lot in "deciphering" a few words that I didn't know at all. And in at least 2 cases I just guessed correctly.

Sometimes when I am too tired, I lean back in my chair and click through Hacker News or something similar. I use Vimium in my browser and HN is great to navigate with it, but that's the not the point - the whole point is I don't want to sit above my keyboard with my hands on the home row.

I consider myself a "keyboard power user" if this is a thing anyway, and I really dig the home row thing (Vimmer for 20+ years now), but frankly having my hands on the keyboard ALL the time throughout the day is really tiring. So, I actually like my mouse for a change of posture, the cursor that I can follow with my eyes, etc.

P.S. I have to admit, though, that I love even more the interfaces that don't require a mouse in the first place. It's a shame we stopped adding well-thought tab stops in the UI and keyboards shortcuts are just a free-for-all in the apps.

Oh boy, I hope they didn't miss the opportunity here: this set must be missing the last pieces, complementary kits should be issued in the coming decades.

Reminds me of this study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950 . It demonstrates that being "rude" or "very rude" increases the accuracy of the results. A dubious but very fun read. The prompts in Table 1 (top of page 3) are awesome. I am sure they tried other prompts, but didn't include them to the paper.

Vivaldi 8.0 2 months ago

I have no idea what this is about, but this comment sounds like it was posted from the 90s. Do we also need to compile an extension to support playing *.wav files in it?

Sorry, couldn't resist... :)

Not sure what you mean, maybe it depends on region. I am in EU and have Type 2 and CHAdeMO connectors. I only charge at home and travel to go to work and back, so barely ever use CHAdeMO. I agree, though, that I don't and wouldn't travel long distances with this car.

Buy Nissan instead, they will do that for you free of charge. I own 2021 Nissan Leaf and Nissan sent me an email early this year telling that the communication infrastructure costs too much for them and they are taking it down.

Jokes aside, I am seriously pissed at Nissan because it was one of reasons I bought it in the first place: to pre-heat or pre-cool the car remotely before going to work, while it is still plugged to the wall charger. And they just decided to take it down. Funny thing, they even mentioned in the email that "not to worry, I can still use my AC when I am in the car". Wow.

Sorry, rant. Anyway, my point being - buy Nissan Leaf, no connectivity guaranteed by the manufacturer, LOL.