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by btown 1y ago
I have no doubt that the team behind Liquid Glass had the same noble motivations as the team behind Microsoft's Metro Design Language in 2010. In a crowded market, making a completely innovative visual identity is often the only option
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Even if you believe that Musk and team don’t “touch the scales” of the algorithm, the inevitable consequence of the decision to prioritize comments of people willing to pay for blue checks, is to discourage users not in that segment from en
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Even the most popular games (with few exceptions) present as relatively dumb terminals that need constant connectivity to sync every activity to a mainframe - not necessarily because it's an MMO or multiplayer game, but because it&#x27
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I mean, at the end of the day it is a cerealization format…
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I love that OTel exists, but I've always been confused why OTel even existed. If I were running a cloud provider, I'd put a "skunkworks" team on all things observability and log management a decade ago, and make their pr
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by btown 1y ago
Per the article, on top of this, the Crunchyroll subtitle authoring tools and the Crunchyroll player both use ASS. So the directive to have the “master” copy be the more widespread and limited TTML… means that many new shows are doing ASS
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by btown 1y ago
Azure to me has always suffered from a belief that “UI innovations can solve UX complexity if you just try hard enough.” Like, AWS, and GCP to a lesser extent, has a principled approach where simple click-ops goals are simple. You can acces
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by btown 1y ago
More details on the underlying project that the grant would have funded: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.h... And for those who want to fund the security of one of the few remaining inde
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by btown 1y ago
Completely understand the sentiment, but it doesn't apply here, because what's being generated are formulas! Standardized 3-statement models in Excel are designed to be auditable, with or without AI, because (to only slightly simp
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by btown 1y ago
From the signup form mentioning Private Equity / Venture Capital, Hedge Fund, Investment Banking... this seems squarely aimed at financial modeling. Which is really, really cool. I've worked alongside sell-side investment bankers
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Something I wonder is that, as mandated cryptographic checks for even sideloaded apps roll out to the Android ecosystem [0][1], is the provision of the capacity to install (or even use) applications in violation of sanctions? Is Google requ
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by btown 1y ago
For anyone skimming rapidly through the thread who might have been confused here, especially since it's worded in similar ways that someone might reply to a mention of their own work on HN: the parent is not associated with Claude, but
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by btown 1y ago
You're in good company! From 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538760
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My hot take is that if the web had been based on binary protocols rather than HTML and JSON, the fragmentation of tooling that can instead be standardized as view-source and network-tabs would have decimated (as in removed 90% of) the hacke
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by btown 1y ago
I can just see the news story now: "Oops, we got caught using our customers' internet connections as exit nodes for the largest residential proxy ever to exist, both on pages they visited and ones that they didn't. But don&#x
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by btown 1y ago
For those needing to deal with customers/clients/internal teams with Google Workspace/Outlook and wanting JMAP-style (though not JMAP) modern JSON APIs, Nylas might be a viable option: https://www.nylas.com/
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To be sure, a browser that retains a representation of every word you read on it, constantly synthesizing a profile on your preferences, using that profile to filter everything you see through a lens that consistently enforces and limits th
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In all seriousness, if AI models can handle quantization, they can handle some flipped bits from time to time! There are probably some fascinating papers to be written around how to choose which layers in an LLM architecture could benefit m
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by btown 1y ago
That discussion doesn’t track the change: the discussion is around unreviewed content and is quite nuanced, but the change actually is far stricter, extending to any use of an LLM, reviewed or not. As it stands, a potential contributor co
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> far more cognizant of the last thing that the they want to say when they start This can be captured by generating reasoning tokens (outputting some representation the desired conclusion in token form, then using it as context for the a
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> Flexibility doesn't mean you can query arbitrarily deep payload structures at production scale without cost. Indexing in EventSourcingDB is primarily on metadata (like type, subject, timestamps). If you filter on arbitrary JSON pa
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Paper link (2011): https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/dthreads-sosp11.pdf > DTHREADS works by exploding multithreaded applications into multiple processes, with private, copy-on-write mappings to shared m
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by btown 1y ago
Does this exist for larger/more informal dependency relationships within a function body in other programming languages? For instance, if I highlight a parameter or variable foo, can I see not only all usages of foo itself, but usages
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If a single TCP channel is all that is allowed, on a single port to a single orchestrator IP, and the only service attached to that channel on the other end is the orchestrator which reports results to the host worker, why would you need an
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To this point, I wonder if we can go even further in the direction "it's fine to have a 'zoo' of colors on the screen... as long as we're able to rapidly scan for patterns based on the shapes of code and relative
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Context on this cutting-edge benchmark for those unaware: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/ Full
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Reading https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho... (2019) was eye-opening for me. It's a must-read companion piece if you want to take this Atlantic article seriously, particula
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There's actually a fair amount of drama around why this is! https://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/the-nobel-family-disso... Apparently, when the Riksbank decided it wanted to publicly fund a prize for th
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by btown 1y ago
Ironically, to take it full circle, I think that the thing that led to mobile being so user-hostile was the lack of sideloading of apps. I remember sites on the early web like Hampster Dance, where monetization happened as an afterthought
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John Maynard Keynes — 'Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.'

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