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www.tomshardware.com 9d ago

Meta Putting Up Tents Across the US

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github.com 3mo ago

DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation

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github.com 3mo ago

Fincept Terminal

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en.wikipedia.org 4mo ago

Fruity Loops

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github.com 4mo ago

Deep Exploration and Efficient Research Flow

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www.wired.com 4mo ago

Nvidia Will Spend $26B to Build Open-Weight AI Models

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twitter.com 4mo ago

Searching for the Agentic IDE

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www.techcircle.in 4mo ago

SaaSpocalypse: Enterprises are suddenly worried about the future of SaaS

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paulgraham.com 4mo ago

The Brand Age

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sigusr2.net 4mo ago

Notes on Not Looking at the Code at StrongDM

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twitter.com 4mo ago

Anthropic acquires Vercept_AI to advance Claude's computer use capabilities

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martinfowler.com 5mo ago

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming

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openai.com 5mo ago

Harness Engineering

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API

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www.msgvault.io 5mo ago

Msgvault: Private Gmail archive and search system

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xcancel.com 5mo ago

Claude planned the latest NASA Mars Rover drive

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longevity.technology 5mo ago

FDA clears first human trial of epigenetic reprogramming therapy

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?

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xcancel.com 5mo ago

Gemini 3 Flash can now read fine image details

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github.com 5mo ago

Whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code

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twitter.com 5mo ago

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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github.com 6mo ago

Mo' Power is Mo' Betta': Superpowers for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode

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www.washingtonpost.com 6mo ago

Smaller houses can lead to happier lives

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xcancel.com 6mo ago

Unlock Massive Context Windows: Positional embeddings are just training wheels

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CES: Samsung's mysterious slim 3D display

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medium.com 9mo ago

Context Engineering: Improving AI Coding Agents Using DSPy GEPA

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twitter.com 10mo ago

OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex model is now live in the Responses API

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www.arxiv.org 11mo ago

R-Zero: Codes for R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

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Thanks a lot, Sam Altman / OpenAI. Their little $100bn war chest being used for obstructive / destructive purposes will wipe out multiples of that amount via economic ripple effects. All in an attempt to keep a stranglehold over AI via competitive resource starvation. Basic.

Fascinating culture and raises numerous questions arising from my subsequent confusion:

1. > 返し箸 Kaeshibashi (also known as 逆さ箸 sakasabashi)

To turn the chopsticks around when serving food so that the tips of the chopsticks that have touched one’s mouth do not touch the food.

Does this mean it is preferable to use the tips that may have touched mouth to then serve more food? Or is this considered fine because it's also taboo to touch the tips to your mouth? (which only a BARBARIAN would do!)

2. > こすり箸 Kosuribashi

To rub waribashi (disposable chopsticks) together to remove splinters.

Just proceed to eat some splinters, then? What is the good etiquette way to handle low quality el-cheapo chopsticks?

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I have been guilty of the above as well as:

Chigiribashi - Hold one chopstick in each hand and use them like a knife and fork to tear or cut food into smaller pieces.

Soroebashi - Hold chopsticks together and tap them on a dish or the top of the table to align the tips.

Namidabashi - Allow sauce or soup to drip from the tips of the chopsticks when eating. Namida means “tears.”

Nigiribashi - Grip both chopsticks in a fist.

Neburibashi - Lick the chopsticks.

Hashibashi - Place the chopsticks like a bridge across the top of a dish to show one is finished. Chopsticks should be placed on the hashioki (chopstick rest).

Furibashi - Shake off soup, sauce, or small bits of food from the tips of the chopsticks.

Mogibashi - Bite off and eat grains of rice that are stuck to the chopsticks.

Yokobashi - Line the chopsticks up together and use them like a spoon to scoop up food.

.. growing up my mom used to say, "What are you, raised by wolves!?" .. apparently, yes!

LLMs are not deterministic:

1.) There is typically a temperature setting (even when not exposed, most major providers have stopped exposing it [esp in the TUIs]).

2.) Then, even with the temperature set to 0, it will be almost deterministic but you'll still observe small variations due to the limited precision of float numbers.

Edit: thanks for the corrections

When your car gets stolen, suddenly nobody can access the data.

Are there any coordinated efforts for widespread scrubbing or removal of these parasitic devices?

The only practical purpose I can think of for farming karma on HN with an LLM would be to amass an army of medium-low karma accounts over time and use the botnet for targeted astroturfing or other mass-manipulation. Eek.