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news.ycombinator.com 25d ago

Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware

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jenda.hrach.eu 3mo ago

Monkey Linux (1997)

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: Which LLM model and agentic CLI are you using for local development?

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www.abc.net.au 11mo ago

Commonwealth Bank backtracks on AI job cuts, apologises for 'error'

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What browser would you recommend in 2025

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www.rustjobs.com 2y ago

Show HN: Rust Jobs

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www.alfie.wtf 3y ago

Why I am a Programmer

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www.emacswiki.org 3y ago

Tabs Are Evil

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www.abc.net.au 3y ago

US cracks down on crypto service Tornado Cash over money laundering links to NK

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www.rustjobs.com 4y ago

The Rust Jobs Blog

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www.rustjobs.com 4y ago

The Rust Jobs Market

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twitter.com 4y ago

Registering for an Aussie GST number requires installing a keylogger

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theintercept.com 4y ago

Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive (2014)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?

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rogerjohansson.blog 4y ago

Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)

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sellsbrothers.com 5y ago

If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)

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twitter.com 5y ago

Time Crisis 2 prototype concept on Magic Leap

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medium.com 5y ago

When the American businessman met the Mexican fisherman

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Would you pay a monthly subscription for Firefox?

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Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?

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Coronavirus: Mobile tracking app could be compulsory, Morrison says

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coronacurve.io 6y ago

Covid-19 in Australia – Understanding Exponential Growth

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Ask HN: I want to see your bookshelf. Take a photo and post in the comments

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github.com 7y ago

AABill FAQ

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github.com 7y ago

Assistance and Access Bill 2018 FAQ for Australian IT Workers

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Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies

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www.alfie.wtf 8y ago

Backdooring Encryption

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medium.com 8y ago

Testing Microservices the sane way

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www.hellorust.com 8y ago

Hello Rust: Update a canvas from wasm

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Supporting Rust by Using Rust

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Citing semi-sync thinking everything would be automatic was a weird con against MySQL. I’m now trying to think how the hell other databases magically solve this without needing to handle edge cases

Depends on the architecture..

They could have one SQLite instance per user and then have a single sweeper that goes through all last writes and then replicates it to the main instance - eventual consistency fanned out across files

Isn't cholesterol released into the bloodstream to protect arteries when it gets acidic, and over time turning into plaque buildup? Also, going the other way doesn't help either because if you got a spike in acid your arteries wouldn't cope with the overload

It’s the perfect analogy! People these days complain about AI are complaining about how the sausage was made rather than how the sausage tastes. Prove me wrong

Just drive anywhere with more than usual density in traffic and you’ll find trucks in the fast lane when they stop and start create gaps in the fast lane where no traffic can go. If you took out trucks altogether during peak hours you wouldn’t have these slow bubbles of traffic at the worst times..

Edit: let’s think of this from a pure scientific point of view - if you had 3 lanes and split traffic across them based on a range of speed - that would be the most optimised in terms of throughput for all lanes. Now, consider a reverse Amdahl's Law… what’s the worst thing you could do to make the fastest lane crawl which in effect kills total throughput across ALL lanes? Put a slow truck in it! Put a few, and you’ve just turned the lane giving you the highest throughput to most likely the slowest lane.

I just parked my car after another morning of commuting. Thought experiments alone in today’s traffic again confirmed my theory.

The way to maximise traffic congestion would be to remove trucks off the road during peak times, banning trucks from the fast lane at all times, making it the social norm to toot someone in the fast lane so they move over.

Thank you. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and couldn’t express what I was thinking about… but when you linked information theory to thermodynamics, it clicked.

Given the quantum fields were collapsed in the early universe, I’m now wondering how information theory looked like during the different phases on the universe

Using the superpowers skill will help fill in the gaps for what’s needed to one-shot (it’s more setup so you can one-shot).

And if it gets it wrong, at least you have 80% scaffolding that you can ask to iterate on.

Hoping you’ll get 100% you asked for is going to fail. Hell… you can even achieve this with humans!

Fun fact - not every Christian sect believes in the trinity.

Another fun fact, the Jewish God and the Christian God are the same… it’s just that the Jewish God didn’t have a son who was also himself that killed himself only to resurrect himself negating the sacrifice

I looked at gptel and eca about a year and a bit ago… how far have they come, at the time they were more geared toward code completion and essentially a buffer for communications - but all while not having some kind of Ralph Loop, Skills, and auto-compaction.

Is this all built in these days so that you can Superpowers a prompt to the point where it will automagically chug along for hours until it’s satisfied it’s completed the end goal?

GPT-5.6 12 days ago

It’s wild the people don’t want to see the thinking

Not accepting a PR because it was purely written by AI is like saying PRs will only be accepted if the developer used a standing desk for more than 75% of the time during the code's creation. In the end, as long as the code is not shit, who cares how the sausage was made!

I've noticed LLMs feed my unhealthy "don't want to take a break and waste time being idle" mindset, and I need to correct it.

Embrace it if you’re like me and feel uncomfortable having an idle mind, embrace it! You’ll get more done and being 120% go go go is impossible over the long run so eventually your body will just say I need a break then once you recover full steam head again on the treadmill