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New comment by ronsor in "qm"

ronsor — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:42:05 +0000

Coding agents are extremely useful but often extremely dumb with design. If you do not design the software yourself, you will probably get slop. This was always the core issue with vibe coding.

New comment by thaumasiotes in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

thaumasiotes — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:58 +0000

> (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years,

Yep.

> humans are less skilled at numbers over 100)

No, the reason is that the century is constant and therefore carries no information. Where the century isn't constant, it never gets dropped.

New comment by warkdarrior in "qm"

warkdarrior — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:47 +0000

They specifically ask not to create/submit a formal proposal. I do not see any restriction on the use of AI otherwise.

New comment by Matl in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

Matl — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:39 +0000

Yes, my point being this isn't some 'Desktop Linux security' hole. This was a known and intentional model of how the AUR operated for decades. Unfortunately it was bound to get exploited like this and so it did.

New comment by akerl_ in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

akerl_ — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:35 +0000

I think you've accidentally lumped together "people who work in tech in / around the field of information security" and "criminals".

There have been a variety of cultural elements to people doing security research / hacking on their own systems / etc.

There has never been "honor" among criminals looking to use technology to steal money or steal things that can be converted to money.

New comment by inigyou in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

inigyou — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:29 +0000

Isn't that already happening and has happened? This news is a decade late. Last decade we could've said "in the next few years"

New comment by hn_submit in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

hn_submit — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:19 +0000

Why is everyone always referring to logic errors when pushing back against Rust? No programming language ever invented (or to be invented) will fix logic errors made by developers.

Logic errors are "out of scope" for Rust or any other programming language.

New comment by Jblx2 in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

Jblx2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:18 +0000

ahem U.S. Customary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

New comment by bayindirh in "The End of an Era"

bayindirh — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:17 +0000

That’s the point. I only use LLMs if and only if Kagi can’t unearth the thing I’m looking for for a week or so.

This means it finds me a single video which is not in a language which I know, or similar.

New comment by mchusma in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

mchusma — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:12 +0000

If Luna hadn't price dropped yesterday it would have been a real blowout.

New comment by imoverclocked in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

imoverclocked — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:03 +0000

Mechanical ones so we aren’t left with a waste disaster in 10-20 years?

New comment by chuchurocka in "Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device"

chuchurocka — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:58 +0000

Thanks, really enjoying it!

New comment by herf in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

herf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:26 +0000

So if this Mac uses 30-50W, that's 40-60 tok/Wh...vs maybe 80k for a modern GPU cluster? So that's about 1000-2000x more power for the SSD streaming, unfortunately.

New comment by supportm in "How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods"

supportm — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:22 +0000

This has been one of the best explanations I've seen, thanks for sharing

New comment by TowerTall in "A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week"

TowerTall — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:19 +0000

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New comment by cogman10 in "Big Food vs. the People"

cogman10 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:17 +0000

Sugar water and junk food taste good and people like myself crave that sweet flavor.

If I'm not careful, I can easily and comfortably guzzle liters of soda in a day.

It's less a hard thing and more a "I'm on autopilot right now, I'm thirsty, and there's a can of soda in the fridge" thing. A similar thing happens with junk food. If I'm hungry, on autopilot, and it's available. I'll probably grab junk food because it's fast, convenient, and tastes good.

You are abnormal for not being able to finish 1 can of soda in a year. Nothing is wrong with you for being like that, you are simply an outlier. There's a reason why Coke is one of the most wealthy businesses in the world.

New comment by rayiner in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

rayiner — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:17 +0000

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New comment by SilenN in "Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost"

SilenN — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:10 +0000

^this

There's two ways to functionally measure this, reconstruction fidelity (which we're able to get to 0.7 - 0.95), and downstream performance (which agrees on the best and worst models, but can sometimes disagrees on the middle of the pack routing).

New comment by victorbjorklund in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

victorbjorklund — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:10 +0000

You are lucky. I been on a financial scam list for the last 18 years. They call maybe twice per year. Almost interesting to see over time what scams are trendy.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?"

_doctor_love — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:10 +0000

Very interesting idea, I actually wonder if you are not going far enough?

See this video from the lovely YouTube channel Interface Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARjisP9enZ4

I'm generally very aligned to the thinking in that video. AI offers an opportunity to take a massive step-back and re-evaluate what interfaces are in general.

IMHO Douglas Englebart had a very compelling and beautiful vision for what computers could do for us, make us better people and better thinkers.

If MarbleOS helps to re-surface that conversation, to my mind that's a good thing.