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Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change

leonidasv — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02730-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298483

Points: 4

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Hughesnet Files for Bankruptcy

leonidasv — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-subscriber-counts-decimated-by-starlink-hughesnet-files-for-bankruptcy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159279

Points: 3

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New comment by leonidasv in "Don't credit the LLM"

leonidasv — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:24:30 +0000

I don't see like that, for me it's like: here's an approximate answer. Is that sufficient or do you need a 100% accurate number? I can get this info for you, but I will have to stop everything I'm doing right now to figure it out or do it after I'm done with other priorities.

Sometimes the person asking just needs an estimate, a ballpark number. It doesn't really make a difference if 17 or 18 support requests were received.

New comment by leonidasv in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

leonidasv — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:33:34 +0000

They still allow LLM-generated code for tests, LLM-assisted debugging, bug discovery and code reviews. It doesn't seem so.

New comment by leonidasv in "Scanning for Pangram Errors"

leonidasv — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:15:28 +0000

Pangram is witchcraft to me. The way they can correctly detect AI writing from small samples, with so little statistical signal, is crazy. I've seen it correctly detect AI writing even when people use those "humanizer" rewriting skills that remove the hallmarks of AI writing and make the text indistinguishable from human text. But not to Pangram.

New comment by leonidasv in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

leonidasv — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:04:42 +0000

This is the most important part most people don't get:

> And what would 3 °C mean for Germany?

> FB: In summer, meteorological records could reach up to 50 °C. Three degrees of global warming does not mean hot days will just be 3 or 4 degrees hotter. It could mean up to 10 degrees hotter. We would also face much longer droughts.

3°C warming implies summer days can get 10°C hotter. This is nightmare scenario.

What if Berlin needs its bunkers back?

leonidasv — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:27:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/ec954bd3-a008-4561-978c-be1039f607d2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884994

Points: 4

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New comment by leonidasv in "GPT-5.6"

leonidasv — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:38:37 +0000

Same here (Business Plan).

Capacitor Plague

leonidasv — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:37:17 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740165

Points: 11

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Who Will Thrive in the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force

leonidasv — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magazine/ai-jobs-workforce-labor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461911

Points: 6

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New comment by leonidasv in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

leonidasv — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:56:56 +0000

Is very difficult (not to say impossible) to ban a ill-defined thing.

New comment by leonidasv in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

leonidasv — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:08:54 +0000

When I clicked, I thought that it was going to smash the turbine blades from the animation to suggest something like "all the performance without the thermals," but nope, they just became laptop fans. And seconds later, it started blowing heat/steam out of them!

That's the most uncanny marketing for an ARM laptop I've ever seen.

New comment by leonidasv in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

leonidasv — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:28:43 +0000

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

New comment by leonidasv in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

leonidasv — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:18:38 +0000

Yeah, but I still see apps that don't implement those features. Mostly React Native/Flutter apps that don't bother implementing native features. On Android it's even more depressing.

New comment by leonidasv in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

leonidasv — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:57:39 +0000

When they exist at all. Many apps that provide important notifications (like delivery tracking, drop-off time etc) put them under the same category as marketing stuff. You can't have just the transactional tracking, you have to opt-in for the marketing notifications as well.

New comment by leonidasv in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

leonidasv — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:14:17 +0000

Sure, but they didn't spend on training the model. If DeepSeek is providing the model for the same price as third parties, then it's probably still losing money when you account for the training.

New comment by leonidasv in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

leonidasv — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:55:16 +0000

We shouldn't take free open models for granted. They're a byproduct of the current AI craze, but the economics aren't on their side. It's not sustainable. Alibaba already stopped releasing the weights for their best models, for instance.

New comment by leonidasv in "What color is your function? (2015)"

leonidasv — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:28:55 +0000

The Node world was built with asynchronicity in mind. First via callbacks, then Promises, then async/await (Promise-based), so it feels natural now.

But if you take Python (for example), it's a shitshow. You usually have two versions of the same API, split by function name, client, package, or namespace: `foo` and `afoo`, where the a-prefixed one is async and meant to be used inside async function call chains, and the other one is the blocking version for non-async chains (which are still very much in use). It's a pain to develop for, to maintain, to scale, everything.

New comment by leonidasv in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

leonidasv — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:40:00 +0000

https://mattrickard.com/accidentally-turing-complete

New comment by leonidasv in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

leonidasv — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:33:48 +0000

Same here. Can't stand 4.7.