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New comment by dleeftink in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

dleeftink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:50:54 +0000

Just as stating the wrong thing would be the quickest way to elicit a response in the past, so too can 'dumb' questions prime the context for more complex queries.

I am all for this strategy, and revisiting my list is equal parts fun and conducive to long-term recall.

New comment by dleeftink in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

dleeftink — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:23:14 +0000

Software has a dependency contract that is quite unique. We can't imagine the shelflife beyond the Bazaar or Cathedral. They seem ever lasting.

The myth of impossibility remains, because we can't imagine what it means to forever occupy those places, even when others rise past them.

New comment by dleeftink in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

dleeftink — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:13:06 +0000

Alternative to resolving an image via Einstein ring lensing?

New comment by dleeftink in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"

dleeftink — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:07:07 +0000

I think social graphs are often pre-disposed to capturing strong interactions only—an email chain, a trace-able back and forth (just as this), friend degree networks—not the off-hand conversations you overhead on the coffee corner, a tidbit you saw on a documentary awaiting a doctor's appointment, a faraway poster hanging on a museum wall.. you get the idea. Weak ties are everywhere! (Just not always recorded)

New comment by dleeftink in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"

dleeftink — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:50:14 +0000

The weak ties were strong all along.

New comment by dleeftink in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

dleeftink — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:58:10 +0000

As far as I understand it, the storage is the space, or rather, spacetime emerges from a system's informational capacity and the degrees of freedom along which information can spread. On the balance all information is retained but undergoes various phase transitions (the 'computations').

New comment by dleeftink in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

dleeftink — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:25:46 +0000

There are two very lonely trains departing from Stranraer and Kyle of Lochalsh

New comment by dleeftink in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

dleeftink — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:59 +0000

> it cannot have any ownership rights

Actor network theory sheds a tear. And more promptly: ownership rights are enacted via tools. Whether agentful or non-agentic, listing them would in the very least be similar to disclosing funding bodies or agencies.

New comment by dleeftink in "Bring back crappy forums"

dleeftink — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:31:33 +0000

Depends on what we value, I suppose; a depth-first style that surfaces isolated chains or a breadth-first style that surfaces interleaved replies.

New comment by dleeftink in "Claude Science"

dleeftink — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:49:38 +0000

Some authors may even choose to leave syntactical errors as a tell for those self-authored passages; long-term, some interesting language drifts may come of it.

New comment by dleeftink in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

dleeftink — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:38:46 +0000

Just as with redacted documents (consistently blocked terms) or bad OCR jobs (wrong or missing characters), even if only a certain percentage comes out unmangled it is more readable than having no data at all.

A stable base corpus and some dynamic programming will allow you to clean up the remainder[0].

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11642687/2449774

New comment by dleeftink in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

dleeftink — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:02:46 +0000

Hence the cooldown period? I think the mechanism proposed here should be perfectly fine for targeted PRs, while mitigating those that sit above baseline.

New comment by dleeftink in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

dleeftink — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:39:28 +0000

> Don’t make yourself regret the things you didn’t do

Nothing to add, but it bears repeating. A shimmer of indie tech resilience

New comment by dleeftink in "Am I Unc?"

dleeftink — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:41:01 +0000

The real unc is non-trendy so therefore new balances are non-unc, which makes them unc

New comment by dleeftink in "They’re made out of weights"

dleeftink — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:14:15 +0000

Well..

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami

New comment by dleeftink in "Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia"

dleeftink — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:14:02 +0000

Looking forward to using this[0] with Pluto instead of repl! (They just look so cool)

[0]: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl

New comment by dleeftink in "Cars are trying to spy on you, and it's only just the beginning"

dleeftink — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:18:07 +0000

Single solutions/solutionistic approaches will likely be incompatible with either goal; consumer needs are always changing and collection capabilities expanding. Data scope and retention also need not be counter to consumer wants, and in the very least requires a mechanism that allows consumers to 'dial in' their preferences rather than wholesale accepting/rejecting terms of usage (i.e. a gradient instead of a binary).

I've yet to encounter a service that has implemented this successfully.

New comment by dleeftink in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

dleeftink — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:42:17 +0000

They'll only get you so far

New comment by dleeftink in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

dleeftink — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:40:49 +0000

I saved my desk from curb side collection. My chair idem. My laptop battery died two years ago so my desk cannot be too far away from a wall socket.

Maybe one day I could face my desk away from a wall.

New comment by dleeftink in "Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans"

dleeftink — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:34:16 +0000

Observable Framework[0] attempted to fill this niche for a while as well, and we'll likely see some of the implementation details in the new Observable Notebook 2.0 format too.

[0]: https://github.com/observablehq/framework