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New comment by swills in "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"

swills — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:34:06 +0000

I've had good experiences with Versity GW too and it's a shame it's not more well known.

New comment by swills in "Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected"

swills — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:06:59 +0000

Part of the story that says:

In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington found evidence that Anisakis worms in raw seafood have increased 280 times since the 1970s.

So that seems new or new-ish.

New comment by swills in "The turbulent AI era is here"

swills — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:31:29 +0000

Nearly every post about AI turns into a discussion of politics and every post about politics becomes a discussion of AI.

New comment by swills in "Incident with Github.com"

swills — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:22:50 +0000

Here's an article from Oct 2025:

"Microsoft’s data-center shortages to persist longer than expected - Bloomberg"

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-data-center-shor...

Perhaps relevant tho. I would imagine if they could simply throw more hardware at it they would. And I wouldn't imagine inability to throw hardware at it would be due to software scaling issues. So perhaps it is simply lack of available hardware?

New comment by swills in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

swills — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:11:27 +0000

Agree. But also, it's affecting everyone equally, whether they have a free personal account or are part of an enterprise account with SLA. Understanding the practical value of an SLA is an interesting problem.

Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent

swills — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240910

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Recursive Language Models: the paradigm of 2026

swills — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:26:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/rlm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240906

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by swills in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

swills — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:24:21 +0000

As read by Leonard Nimoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqjSP7kOO4

New comment by swills in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

swills — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:08:49 +0000

I'm going to be the contrarian here. I have looked at the code. I suspect quite a few nil deref panics in their future.

New comment by swills in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

swills — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:00:29 +0000

In a row?

New comment by swills in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

swills — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:10:52 +0000

Same and also I consider it more accurate to sweep, but that's just me I guess, you hardly see it these days.

New comment by swills in "Shut Up: Comment Blocker"

swills — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:03:47 +0000

I've used it for years. It's nice, works well. When I do want to read comments, I just click the button in the tool bar to turn them back on, which is simple and convenient.