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just looking at this, this is yet another tock phase, breaking the two-year cyclic pattern. the boost seems mainly due to higher memory bandwidth and slightly different architecture.
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AI Agents Need a New Syntax
(boundaryml.com)
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> Personally, I find apples hesitation here a breath of fresh air i does not appear to me as hesitation but rather an example of how they were unable to recently deliver on their marketing promises. calling a suite of incomplete features
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> I wish the project were more ambitious in terms of actually improving on Android in terms of usability, features, and overall experience. i agree with the sentiment, but not for the features part. just getting the core functionality wo
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i see both sides. while some core tech made decades ago might be tedious to adapt to today's needs, i HATE the fact that modern code is not designed to be sustainable. <rant> speaking of ai, there was a startup acquired by google
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1y ago
> to perform up to Apple's typical standards of polish and control. i no longer believe they have kept on to the standards in general. the ux/ui used to be a top priority, but the quality control has certainly gone down over th
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1y ago
> Reading the opinions in this thread just shatters any hope for humanity. the fact that you are able to read opinions that don't match yours is for me a positive. better to have it imho than to only see what one agrees with at all
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1y ago
previously featured: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099124
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this seems quite intuitive, and some empirical backing helps. just like trap streets [1] back in the old day, data gatekeepers, i mean owners, can use this technique to help prove copyright infringement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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> please be warned that this really is research code; it is sensitive to compiler versions, GPU setup, and sometimes even being looked at the wrong way the writeup is a classic example of what we lose through abstraction and how writing
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1y ago
i can still recall when she came to visit my high school to address its students many moons ago. it was quite an experience that still left a mark till this day. she was quite an example of how anyone can impact the world while just doing w
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1y ago
After using Perplexity, its news tab is US-centric, without much options to get regional content from what i can see. Kagi seems to offer regional news and the sources appear to be from the respective area also. do appreciate public access
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1y ago
i come to now think of rpi as the "lego" of computing. just thinking in terms of sticker price misses the point.
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1y ago
there is a clear market share to be gained if they release it for free plan as "promised". they can be (albeit web-based) the "davinci resolve" of DAW, regardless of whether the AI features be bundled away for the paid p
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> I know it's easy to say generative art is generative swill... but "learning Suno" is no different than "learning guitar". all the discourse with this remark is quite fascinating as an observer. similar remarks
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1y ago
having developed a large-batch workflow for a client using gemini models, this is a welcome improvement. however, no news on the DSQ [1] issues is a bummer. at least for us, the bottleneck is the amount of retries/waiting needed to max
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1y ago
Having RTFA, I am happy to discover the rss feeds options. Sadly, they do not seem to match how I prefer things: checking yesterday’s top posts. While it can still move around despite the passing of the day, it has been quite a stable way t
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1y ago
IANAE but won't e-ink at high refresh rates have the same benefit as OLED in terms of only refreshing what needs changing? perhaps in practical situations the power consumption should be lower than the worst-case scenario.
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1y ago
hear me out: they make a slim phone, just to develop the supply chain around a foldable display to finally release a folding phone that is a sandwich of the air! /s
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i recall them being one of the first ones to release a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model [1], which was quite novel at the time. post that, it has appeared to be a catch-up game for them in mainstream utility. like just a week go they announce
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how would llm-d [1] work compared to distributed-llama? is the overhead or configuration too much to work with for simple setups? [1] https://github.com/llm-d/llm-d/
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my team switched to podman due to docker desktop licensing (and only using engine pain). personally it has been quite annoying to work with on windows with cuda. the need to spin its own wsl instance (which takes a lot of disk space) and
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Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
(blogs.cisco.com)
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i work as a mid-level engg with a 4+ yo dell (handed down to me when i joined), which is the same generic laptop that someone from admin team receives. some of my colleagues also share similar specs, and we were yet to be lucky to be given
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still as much of a problem and only getting worse. since EAAC was mentioned, it is comical how Battlefield 6 open beta was already swarmed with cheaters, despite using a "new" version of the anticheat[1]. it gets very annoying whe
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> OK, not GitHub "because Microsoft". all well and good to host your own code. but from a contributer's point of view, it is between managing dedicated accounts per project you want to participate in...or sign in with gith
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besides issues with webgpu (it is in beta fwiw), it'd be nice to increase voice speed through the setting without affecting the voice pitch.
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> But the downside is that it is a debit transaction; if you're scammed, there is usually no way to retrieve it unless a court orders so. in a practical sense, UPI is primarily positioned to facilitate digital transactions in a cash
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as someone who still remembers the hype around the deal, most people bought the tabs to "jailbreak" and install another OS into it (ubuntu touch?). perhaps i misremember things but neither os had a great tablet experience.
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it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombina
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