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Comment #49228345
LLMs from years ago weren't aligned to death like these days. It's hard to get rid of "AI smell" than years ago.
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Comment #49222280
Why do browser vendors have such a control over browsers? Can anyone make a dll injection and bring back manifest v2 ?
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Comment #49219724
I made something similar Source: https://github.com/est/gitweets Demo: https://f.est.im/ The site and data is self-contained as a git repo. A git commit is a post. Blobs are pictur…
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Comment #49217931
> What secret sauce do they have? Quant company usually squeezing every penny.
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Comment #49217737
> even small errors compound over time and can lead to catastrophic outcomes So, death sentence even to frontier models?
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Comment #49205102
Waiting for intelligence on a stick, plugin an USB, characters in, characters out. 100% local and no leaks.
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Comment #49182075
> older stateful MCP (I’m going to call it “legacy MCP”) required two HTTP requests What? I never realized it was the case. I was calling my handcrafted MCP server without the head…
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Comment #49151311
Well I hoped it was some kind of SVG with alt text for copy. Turns out it's just a webp.
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Comment #49131472
unfortunately JSON is doomed to fail in "the AI era" LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating JSON.
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Comment #49120704
This is super cool. > Requirements: JDK 17+ and the Android SDK (platform 35). Bummer. I am stuck with Android 14 for the moment.
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Comment #49119139
I feel LLM can only build what's known and popular. Sailing into the relms of lesser explored area are painful. It's like an intern but never learns, only getting replaced by bette…
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Comment #49093615
sounds like mathacademy and many other alike services
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Comment #49093573
This is how reddit supposed to be. A universal comment box for del.icio.us
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Comment #49082010
Microservices is a tricked coined by Martin Fowler to make up reasons for more $$$ billable developer man-hours.
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Comment #49069164
I wonder if there's a chip that gathers time from LTE and GPS signals and time only. No complete protocol or handshake, just grab some close-enough time.
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Comment #49066667
I think PL will have a second coming. Just like Linus Torvalds said: > AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds anothe…
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Comment #49065529
Design is tradeoff, a similar thing I often observe is: Creativity came after limitations People often mistake thank freedom grants creativity
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Comment #49036357
> we were wrong and graphic design didn’t disappear as a discipline overnight. True. However after many years I still don't know how to design CSS and colors are my enemy.
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Comment #49002853
wow I wish I knew this post before I installed various UIs with tons of temp/top-X sliders. They are extremely confusing.
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Comment #48987837
> China can (and does) use the models to influence the west OK now that's false information. You can uncensor, tweak or fine-tune open-weight models, but not so easy on a proprieta…
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Comment #48978839
hmm you can. https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models
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Comment #48975901
The problem reminds me of pdf, the format is well known, there are tons of third-party readers, but they all glitch somewhat differently. Also PDF is turing complete. Modern rich c…
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Comment #48975735
Hmm, I believe there're many open-source self-hostable office solutions. And they don't share a universal format.
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Comment #48975505
I think people should get over with "file formats" Cloud/browser based office tools were already a thing decade ago. Do we have an open format except .md ? Sadly no. Afterall, form…
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Comment #48975485
I hope it brings back ManifestV2 (or something even better). Let users switch to a cleaner Web.