cowboy_henk

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by cowboy_henk 18d ago
The EU is not a fiscal union. It is also not yet a single capital market.
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
Adyen and PayPal aren’t far off. Certainly close (~1.6T). That said, the gap is growing, stripe is growing faster.
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
You may think it's obvious, but what about users who cannot read code? Even better if you also have the LLM automatically write tests for this code, with comments of its own! Now whenever you want to change something, the LLM needs to
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Power Foam – unified 3DGS representation for both rasterization and ray-tracing(powerfoam.github.io)
2 points by cowboy_henk 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
In the 1800s most families only had a single provider, so this percentage may have been higher back then than it is now.
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
A 36% success rate on screwing in a light bulb means there's probably something to LeCunn's take that VLM/VLA models aren't going to be the thing powering tomorrow's robots, but only time will tell.
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
Twitter is the “hype machine”. It’s basically the advertising arm disguised as a social media company. At SpaceX’s valuation, even a 1-2% increase in share price due to some astroturfing on the platform they themselves own basically pays ba
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by cowboy_henk 2mo ago
We're also shareholders in all other publicly traded stocks (assuming you're referring to pension schemes etc), which means competition in the AI model market is better than a few winners making everyone paying through their nose
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
6USD per year adds about 0.016USD per day. Definitely more, still pretty cheap.
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
The obvious response is the realization that spending trillions on training LLMs is not a viable business model if they can be distilled for a much lower cost.
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
Especially if thinking is hidden now. No way to know if the model plotted against you until it’s too late.
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
The main reason for adding a daily puzzle (or really the seeded RNG) is that part of the game loop is retrying the same seed to find the best lines for that map. Since all pieces are deterministic, we've found it fun to retry the same
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
Just fixed this, let me know if you run into more issues.
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
Admittedly some of the auxiliary features were made with Claude's help, but I'd argue that's not what makes this interesting. The game (core loop, sprites, etc) were all made by hand. The passkey feedback is good though, I se
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
It was a matter of time I suppose. Would love to see the solver!
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by cowboy_henk 3mo ago
There is some polish with Claude over the past few weeks, but we wrote the engine over 10 years ago actually. Each piece moves using a modified version of A* to simply find the shortest path to Prince Chazz (the piece controlled by the play
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Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike(princechazz.com)
433 points by cowboy_henk 4mo ago|149 comments
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by cowboy_henk 4mo ago
TNO literally stands for "Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research" (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk).
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by cowboy_henk 5mo ago
Pretty sure salaries at large tech companies are way higher in places like London, Zurich or Amsterdam than in Warsaw or Prague for example. Berlin may be closer to the eastern countries. It might help to discuss actual ranges instead of &q
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by cowboy_henk 5mo ago
Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.
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by cowboy_henk 6mo ago
Isn't it much simpler than that? Dividends and profits are taxed. Reinvesting to grow revenue isn't. That's why you see companies doing stock buybacks; prevents them from paying taxes, prevents their shareholders from paying
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by cowboy_henk 7mo ago
This only holds if you understand what's in the tests, and the tests are realistic. The moment you let the LLM write the tests without understanding them, you may as well just let it write the code directly.
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by cowboy_henk 7mo ago
> sorry if this was not clear It's easy to make that mistake reading your post because of sentences like > I want to convince you that all of these things (except true master-less p2p architecture) are easily doable without CRDTs
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by cowboy_henk 9mo ago
That's a cynical take, but a more positive interpretation is that pivots are needed if your company isn't actually solving a problem. Otherwise people would pay for it, and the founders would be getting rich. So you need to pivot
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by cowboy_henk 10mo ago
If Apple started routing all iPhone/Mac traffic through some anonymizing VPN by default, services that block it would absolutely lose lots of customers.
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by cowboy_henk 10mo ago
But wallets aren't associated with a real person by default, unless it's created through some service that does KYC. If you can get anonymous tokens in an anonymous wallet, who cares if the transactions are public?
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Show HN: Browser Based Softbody Physics(maanraket.nl)
2 points by cowboy_henk 10mo ago|0 comments
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by cowboy_henk 11mo ago
UIs made in the HyperText Markup Language are, in fact, text.
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by cowboy_henk 11mo ago
* only in the middle of the day, when the real price of that electricity may be negative, so it's still sold at a profit
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by cowboy_henk 11mo ago
That's a bit rich coming from Cloudflare, a company that routinely blocks access to important and legitimate websites to huge parts of the world. A huge part of Cloudflare's customers use them specifically to block users' acc

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