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Comment #48989724
These are relatively contained private credit markets though. We’re not looking at anything 2009 level. For scale, total US mortgage debt peaked at $9.3T ahead of the subprime mort…
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Comment #48986040
But this assumes Chinese models will not achieve token cost optimization. Intelligence needs are fairly flat for many tasks, and the Chinese models have caught up on this front. Ne…
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Comment #48669457
I've used RLAIF to build out heuristic based non-LLM models for various decision systems and achieved like, 95% F1 on certain projects. We're in a place where models can be used to…
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Comment #48639248
LLM architectures need to fundamentally change or inference needs to be used in constrained trusted environments. Nothing surprising here. Filtering and sanitizing, relying on tags…
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Comment #48363421
I'm quite certain that Google's AI services are likely the most used in the world right now by virtue of having the widest distribution. It's in the search box. It's on your Androi…
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Comment #48264775
Would love to see this benchmark tested on more perceivably LLM friendly frameworks/ORM (e.g. is NestJS or Drizzle / Kysely more performant than their choice of Sequelize) and more…
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Comment #47969706
This is fairly standard practice for device fingerprinting. LI is probably using this to protect its platform from scraping etc, and extension lists have sufficient enough entropy …
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Comment #47654066
The worst has been the post-covid assignment of seating and QR code driven ordering in bars. So few opportunities to mingle. I miss standing in bars, talking to bartenders, chattin…
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Active Supply Chain Attack on axios 1.14.1
axios@1.14.1, published 2026-03-31, introduces a new dependency plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 that was not present in axios@1.14.0. This package is malicious — it contains an obfuscated po…
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Comment #47423552
I'm still stuck on superpowers. Can't seem to get better plans out of native claude planning - superpowers ensures I have a reviewed design that actually matches my mental model. T…
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Comment #47126796
Mycelium has been shown to colonize some of the most unexpected substrates - cigarette butts [1], sawdust, you name it. https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/en/good-practices…
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Comment #47009641
I think that, for possibly a very long time, AI will just increase the quality bar and scale of expectations when we produce things. We might take the same amount of time (or longe…
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Comment #46956207
I've tried all the Q&A skills, confidence meters and little hacks to get agents to clarify and propose better solutions. Clarification and planning has gotten a lot better using so…
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Comment #46914950
Yes, we're in for more headless interfaces and there are existing products that will struggle to serve these new interaction models due to organizational constraints. But I don't t…
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Comment #46739182
Yeah, I guess this take is tempting for a technologist, but Gen Z is buying iPods and walking around in wired headphones because it's cool and nostalgic, not because of usability. …
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Comment #44686872
This is a fair cautionary tale but it's worth understanding the specifics of the situation – Windsurf maintained a relatively easy to replicate product with no moat, and employed a…
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Comment #43786430
This take doesn't really highlight the fact that the most competitive foundational model companies are innovative application builders. Anthropic and OpenAI are vying for consumers…
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Comment #43542351
I'm not sure that's the "core problem", it sounds like companies should do diligence on a data asset if that's what they're after.
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Comment #43456954
ISPs / other middlemen can monitor and modify unencrypted traffic. In Egypt, Syria and Turkey for example ISP’s injected malware into unencrypted sites that led people to install s…
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Comment #43329780
It could be interesting to host several isolated versions open at different times, maybe a Nine39, a Five39? But you can only sign up for one.
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Comment #42637597
There is still a vast web of international niche electronic music scenes and artists, and elements of electronic music as well as the instruments used to produce it have been used …