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New comment by fhars in "Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese"

fhars — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:54:40 +0000

There is talkie that was published https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

New comment by fhars in "Bug Blindness"

fhars — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:38:52 +0000

Also, more than 90% of the title bar are active UI elements like menus and close buttons, and you have to guess which few pixels are actually inert enough to allow dragging.

New comment by fhars in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

fhars — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:59:55 +0000

Note that the 2023 article also cites the submission, which is five years older.

New comment by fhars in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

fhars — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:16:39 +0000

DDR4, and from some comments I have seen around here of only marginally acceptable reliability. It may still take a few years if until they have all the production processes fully under control.

New comment by fhars in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

fhars — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:01 +0000

It is a bit more than four tokens per millifortnight.

New comment by fhars in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]"

fhars — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:43:34 +0000

In a Faraday cage?

New comment by fhars in "Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution"

fhars — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:33:55 +0000

The Qwen-35B-A3B numbers are even weirder, did you drop a digit? I get half of that speed on a AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (RADV NAVI14) (8192 MiB) (unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF:Q6_K with q8_0 context).

New comment by fhars in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

fhars — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:02:34 +0000

This book would probably disagree :-) https://www.fnac.com/a19325120/Bernard-Cerquiglini-La-langue...

New comment by fhars in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

fhars — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:30:25 +0000

No, the answer is 21. You ignored the "Shape is distinguishable by touch before drawing".

New comment by fhars in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

fhars — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:44:42 +0000

If you like scary, there are also emacs based agents like gptel which support tools like "eval-elisp".

A kitchen sink is almost indistinguishable from a sandbox, right?

... right?

New comment by fhars in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

fhars — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:49:28 +0000

I have always seen this a a signal that the drinker doesn't want drowned wasps in their beer.

New comment by fhars in "The last Romans are still around"

fhars — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:22:16 +0000

Depending on who's legal fiction you believe, the Roman Empire was only dissolved in 1806 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsdeputationshauptschluss

Remembrance Agent: A continuously running information retrieval system (1996) [pdf]

fhars — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:15:08 +0000

Article URL: https://cdn.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/1996/SS-96-02/SS96-02-022.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682950

Points: 3

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New comment by fhars in "Ending respiratory infections"

fhars — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:21:57 +0000

Yeah, that number is probably too low by a factor of two or so.

New comment by fhars in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

fhars — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:29:11 +0000

They are not trying to just open a company, they are trying to create one the more complex nested company setups allowed by German law.

New comment by fhars in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

fhars — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:51:37 +0000

That is the point of failing safe. It would me much worse if some of the trains kept running...

New comment by fhars in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

fhars — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:49:33 +0000

It's not, it was a scheduled software update.

New comment by fhars in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

fhars — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:47:54 +0000

Just like RAM and disk prices have been continually decreasing for as long as people remember.

New comment by fhars in "Perlisisms (1982)"

fhars — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:12:43 +0000

The actual prescient LLM quote is "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

New comment by fhars in "Claude Fable 5"

fhars — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:53:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk