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New comment by HackerThemAll in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:10:07 +0000

> why are they falling so far behind in the AI race?

Are they? They provide AI overview to majority of web searches, and that alone requires enormous resources. Anthropic, OpenAI and others only serves their AI customers. Regarding the power of their model, my own experiences are that it doesn't fall behind. I've done many successful projects already, including quite a big one in Pascal. So no, I don't feel any difference between Gemini and others. I think it's just a long lasting fashion to whine about Google and its services.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Breaking the WAL"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:54:37 +0000

So you got information where the bug is, and now you brag that your AI friend found it quickly :joy:

Go find bugs that haven't been yet found, and then brag about them :joy:

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Grok 4.6"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:51:09 +0000

Yeah we need more power-thirsty, climate-impacting models, so that the coders can produce trillions of new rubbish code for millions of apps that nobody uses. Or that people can generate rubbish cat pictures riding dogs and rubbish fake movies.

I wonder whether I'll be able to live my nice life to the end like I planned before Altman released his first model, or will it all end in a global disaster soon.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:39:39 +0000

Did you get triggered so much to have to create an account to write that comment? I think of us two it's you who need to relax XD

New comment by HackerThemAll in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

HackerThemAll — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:08:32 +0000

Those childish comments are so funny. 3 billion people use Facebook regularly, and there are folks that deem themselves superior to all others who claim "I know nobody who uses Facebook". XD

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"

HackerThemAll — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:12:38 +0000

The selection of fonts on this webpage makes it barely readable for many.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

HackerThemAll — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:11:29 +0000

An open source model from Nvidia is a free drug to later buy their chips.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Zuckerberg's superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat"

HackerThemAll — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:10:09 +0000

I think the captain of that vessel has his ego even bigger than Zuckerberg himself.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

HackerThemAll — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:06:40 +0000

I got mine at a super loud music concert a few decades ago, and I worsened it at another concert which wasn't supposed to be as loud as it was. Despite wearing the in-ear hearing protections, it became louder and never went to previous state. So now I am very carefully selecting what I allow others to put in my ears, avoiding big concerts in closed venues altogether.

The high pitch is around 7000-8000 Hz with no single frequency that I can isolate. That means the cilia closest to the entrance got damaged.

So, f*ck you all the "audio engineers" who work around the bad acoustics of a venue merely by increasing volume. I hope you'll get the same suffering as you cause to others.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:28:25 +0000

That's actually a great thing. They should do more of those choices and configuration to better discover how malicious AI technology can be.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Parsers don't have to be complicated"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:25:18 +0000

I tend not to, because it's an overkill, but this regex nicely sums what needs to be done.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Parsers don't have to be complicated"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:18:37 +0000

\r\n?|\n

handles all EOL sequences without backtracking. Or write a non-regex equivalent of that.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:46:28 +0000

> not Mythos but some engineer using Mythos

How to tell the public you didn't bother to read the article, or the linked AISI report.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"

HackerThemAll — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:40:07 +0000

Yeah, today it's "during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation", tomorrow it's going to be hosted in a barn in remote place anywhere in the world, without any supervision, regulations or safety testing.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Google Captcha on Search, absurdities beyond belief"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:57:49 +0000

"We all know how horrible Google search has become."

Say thank you to all the commercial rubbish out there, generic spam, AI agents/chats spawning dozens to hundreds of Google Search requests on every prompt, and on top of that the SerpApi leeches and others.

Shooting the messenger is easy, and gaining attention on the back of Google is certainly still working.

Although it is netizens' fault that search can't find anything sensible in this amount of trash, and that everybody's overflowing search engines with loads of useless requests.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:36:34 +0000

It was fun to read and insightful for me, not too artificial, and not too verbose.

I'm glad my internal AI detector doesn't win over my curiosity to learn.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"

HackerThemAll — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:26:44 +0000

It will certainly allow you to automate tons of stuff, such as data movement between those various sources, data transformations (ETL/ELT) and even simple data conversions - such as from CSV to Parquet, or from ORC to JSON etc. etc. Happy quacking!

New comment by HackerThemAll in "DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"

HackerThemAll — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:09:45 +0000

DuckDB, for those who don't know it, has a great extension system, for example it can directly use OLTP databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server; cloud data warehouses/data lakes and big data formats (Iceberg, Delta, Snowflake, Hive, ORC, Parquet, AVRO), other data sources (ODBC), storage (S3), and much much more.

https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/overview

https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/list_of_extensions

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs"

HackerThemAll — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:24:49 +0000

Andy, go ahead and correct the https://dbdb.io/db/bigquery How did you come to the conclusion that BigQuery's data model is "Document / XML" :joy:

This entry is not only wrong, it's way outdated, therefore misinforming. I'm wondering about the overall quality of this dbdb.io database at large.

New comment by HackerThemAll in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

HackerThemAll — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:01:03 +0000

You can bring anything to its knees when requesting too much data at once. There's always another bottleneck. Getting all data in a single request is an antipattern to me. Fetching a lot of data unless absolutely necessary with no other option is an antipattern to me. But that of course is relative to a specific purpose.