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by alastairr 4mo ago
The surprising thing to me is that it's taken as long as it has for CRAN to have this problem. As others have said, this is happening everywhere.
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Show HN: Cyclearchive.com – searchable archive of historical cycling literature(cyclearchive.com)
4 points by alastairr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 6mo ago
If it's real this is a terrible thing to have happen. However the moral of this story is nothing to do with AI and everything to do with boring stuff like access management.
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MiniDisc, the Forgotten Format (2012)(theguardian.com)
2 points by alastairr 6mo ago|1 comments
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by alastairr 7mo ago
"and honestly, ..." "heres the thing ..." [em dash every paragraph] Smells like default Claude voice. I like the ideas, but if someone can't be bothered to proof read their own article, then I don't know why we
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Ask HN: Tools for searching ArXiv by relevance and quality?
3 points by alastairr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 7mo ago
Couldn't agree more. Worth pointing out that sites owned by Meta and Twitter in particular have become much more hostile to signed out users - often impossible to view a business' listing without a signed in account. Walled gard
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by alastairr 8mo ago
You are right that Taiwan doesn't. But it has consequences, Taipower is forced to undercharge against market prices, but is backstopped by the government. At the end of the day, it's a global market, and if you want it 'cheap
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by alastairr 8mo ago
I'm no longer keeping it updated with new content, but I curated and made searchable about 40k feeds over the years https://blognerd.app/
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by alastairr 8mo ago
Not sure I agree with you. For lower ability models, yes. Claude Opus 4.6 is incredibly capable, so it's odd to me it has this residual 'misspeak' behaviour.
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Ask HN: What causes Claude's '[mistake] – wait, no [correction]' pattern?
2 points by alastairr 8mo ago|4 comments
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by alastairr 9mo ago
sounds cool. I guess you built this? Is there any way to learn more about how it works before signing in? The homepage doesn't give much away :)
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Ask HN: AI tools for learning and spaced repetition
1 points by alastairr 9mo ago|3 comments
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by alastairr 9mo ago
While I agree with the general point Vitamin D is toxic (and ultimately fatal) at high doses, which is why the 'suggested' dosages of between 400IU and 1000IU are so conservative. You may need more, but you should get a blood t
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by alastairr 9mo ago
I'm running duckdb over 500gb of parquet on a largish desktop (50gb ram) and it's been smooth & fast. I guess OOM issues will matter at some point, but I think it's going to be in the top 1% of real world use cases.
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by alastairr 10mo ago
This is very cool! I built something a little similar https://blognerd.app . I'm really interested in the RSS remixing idea, though I didn't quite crack it. I'll be interested to see how you get on
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How much AI do we need, really?(newsletter.alastairrushworth.com)
2 points by alastairr 10mo ago|0 comments
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Guided Meditation Podcast Aggregator(meditation.alastairrushworth.com)
2 points by alastairr 11mo ago|1 comments
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by alastairr 11mo ago
Just a list of links to some wonderful dharma podcast meditation episodes. I made it for myself, but maybe some others here will find it useful!
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by alastairr 1y ago
yep, same for me and unable to use the API either
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Blogfeeds.net Aggregator(bearblog.stevedylan.dev)
1 points by alastairr 1y ago|0 comments
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Curating and Filtering RSS Feeds(blog.balthazar-rouberol.com)
2 points by alastairr 1y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 1y ago
I agree, though it's hard to tell what people outside the tech sphere are signalling about what they think about the tech - many seem to be pretty positive about chatgpt. What concerns me is that I don't think it's widely und
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by alastairr 1y ago
This is incredibly shallow, and feels almost bordering on a type of delusion. Even if you agree that all labour _could_ be automated, it's highly debatable whether you'd want it to be. A lot of human society is for humans and by h
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by alastairr 1y ago
Vodafone & O2 / VM are separate entities I think. In fact, 3 is being merged into Vodafone. Regardless, hard to know how to have a good backup, maybe starlink ;)
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by alastairr 1y ago
I'm not sure that would necessarily have helped. My regular sim was on another network (giff gaff), that was down. Went out and bought a pay-and-go sim on yet another network (EE) - no dice there either. Not sure what the issue was,
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by alastairr 1y ago
which country do you propose Russians ought to move to such that they are no longer complicit with some other government's malfeasance? Russia is not the only country that under your logic you might say this about it's residents.
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by alastairr 1y ago
Love this! Something I've been working on that is a bit similar https://blognerd.app/?qry=AI+research+llms&type=sites&conten... you can search for blogs with feeds, and find blogs by semantic similarity
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Custom RSS Feeds(alastairrushworth.substack.com)
3 points by alastairr 1y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 1y ago
Isn't 'agentic search' just another form of RAG? information still gets retrieved and added to the prompt, even if the 'prompt' is levels down in the product and not visible to the user.

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