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Because of benchmarking LLMs have also been pushed towards fluency in Python, and related frameworks like Django and Flask. For example, SWE-Bench Verified is nearly 50% Django fra…

Isn't this more or less what every procedural programming language is? It's especially obvious with examples like Apple's Objective-C APIs ([object doSomethingAndReturnATypeWith:an…

It is readily understandable if you are fluent in the jargon surrounding state of the art LLMs and deep learning. It’s completely inscrutable if you aren’t. The article is also ver…

I’ve really been enjoying the combination of CodeCompanion with Gemini 2.5 for chat, Copilot for completion, and Claude Code/OpenAI Codex for agentic workflows. I had always wanted…

This idea is reminiscent of the opening scene of Accelerando by Charlie Stross: Are you saying you taught yourself the language just so you could talk to me?" "Da, was easy: Spawn …

No you don’t. The US government has already completed projects at this scale without total economic mobilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center Presumably peer and…

I don't think that's right. Free societies don't tolerate total mobilization by their governments outside of war time, no matter how valuable the outcomes might be in the long term…

The cost to run the highest performance o3 model is estimated to be somewhere between $2,000 and $3,400 per task.[1] Based on these estimates, o3 costs about 100x what it would cos…

This is a gorgeously and uniquely designed product. Very cool.

Open source means just that: that the source is open. The OSI and co. re-defining the term to suit their ideological preferences doesn’t really change that. SQLite is open source, …

The 2024 presidential election was won by the candidate who spent about 1/3rd less than their opponent, and we’ve seen many successful campaigns in the past decade funded by small …

Those people just use Terminal.app or Windows Terminal. They're not installing alternative terminals emulators.

> I use emacs and vim for my editing, so I doubt those will every link into copilot. https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

I was under the impression that it was simply the file format used by llama.cpp and ggml, name inspired by the name of the author ( https://github.com/ggerganov ): https://github.c…

> Mark straight-up said in an all-hands that as a patriot, if asked, he would provide his country with military assistance in the form of software and intel. This to an audience th…

> The point of voting is to kick people out of power when they piss off a clear majority thus keeping the system honest. This is also a good argument in favor of decentralized voti…

Not relevant to this package in particular, but this line of reasoning baffles me every time I see HN comments about JQuery. So many posters argue against the use of JQuery because…

> So, for the rational/selfish person, the nuclear threat isn't worth worrying about. Until you have children and future generations to worry about. Then it suddenly seems quite a …

Cumulative inflation, using official CPI figures, is 22% since 2020. Check it yourself on the BLS.gov website here: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001... …

Nuclear isn’t a replacement for solar and wind. It’s additive. Build all of it.

> My AP US History introduced the civil war section by saying despite his personal beliefs, he was teaching us to pass the exam and any discussion about the war being over slavery …

Silicon Valley, and computing technology in general, has its origins in the US military. It would not be surprising to see the industry return to those origins as great power compe…

English is the global lingua franca. It’s how we interact with and transmit information, including ideas about accounting, engineering, etc. It’s very fair to argue about the ROI o…