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yconst

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    Ask HN: Why are desktop AI apps so heavy?

    I mean they are text apps basically, they should be flying on modern PCs that can do close to a trillion ops per second. Inference is done elsewhere, so what's the deal?

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    Show HN: Preloop – An MCP proxy for human-in-the-loop tool approvals

    Hey HN, I’m Yannis, co-founder of Preloop. We’ve built a proxy for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets you add human approval gates to your AI agents without changing your a…

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    Comment #10763065

    >Our brains have this giant section dedicated to nothing but recognizing characters in our native written language. Sure we have a lot of brain power going to shape recognition in …

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    Comment #10761660

    Interesting point. However, I'd like to argue that there is a fine line between the conventional definition of a utility function and the ability of an organism to survive in an en…

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    I found the first comment to this article quite interesting: "Marcus has a point - even is some of what is said about deep neural networks is incorrect (for instance, they can lear…

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    Comment #9994538

    Precisely the same question I have as well. Especially given that the energy you could store in a spring or coil could be much more, and you are not limited by one's lifting capaci…

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    "Do I dare to say this somehow shows the relative unimportance of design?" When design is about cramming some animation in just about everything you can show on the screen, and abo…

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    "We could also take other data into account, like the user who submitted the article, and generate features indicating things like the karma of the user..." I'm wondering how helpf…

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