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freakynit

1,756karma·880submissions·June 1, 2015
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Trust signals change behavior at scale, even if individuals believe they're immune. You personally might stay careful, but the whole point of vouching systems is to reduce review effort in aggreg…
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The difference is that today this trust is local and organic to a specific project. A centralized reputation system shared across many repos turns that into delegated trust... meaning, maintainers sta…
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The idea is sound, and we definitely need something to address the surge in low-effort PRs, especially in the post-LLM era. Regarding your points: "Threat Actors compromising an account..." …
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The underlying idea is admirable, but in practice this could create a market for high-reputation accounts that people buy or trade at a premium. Once an account is already vouched, it will likely face…
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Its pretty good then.
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Could have just created a new account. As I said, BS needs to e dealt with rejection... rejection of their ban in this case.
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BS needs to be countered with rejection.
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Well, gotta sell wherever the customers are, unfortunately.
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Does this effect writes negatively?
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The situation is actually worse than it looks. This error exists because Apple has effectively made app notarization mandatory, otherwise, users see this warning. In theory, notarization is straightfo…
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Exactly the point. But, LLM's miss that human intuition part.
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I think this all comes down to information. Most prompts we give are severely information-deficient. The reason LLMs can still produce acceptable results is because they compensate with their prior tr…
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Genuine question: Given Anthropic's current scale and valuation, why not invest in owning data centers in major markets rather than relying on cloud providers? Is the bottleneck primarily capex, …
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No way you can afford unlimited pr's and unlimited projects for 20$/month using anthropic api.
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Ditto... but it's more like 30x. Mentioned the same in this comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881920 …
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It's always the exorbitant price with such offerings. A 2 vCPU, 4GB Ram and 40GB Disk instance on Hetzner cost 4.13 USD. The same here is: $127.72 without pro plan, and $108.72 with pro plan. Thi…
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Love how we went from "AI will replace all jobs" to "please rent a human to help my AI" in like 18 months :-D
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https://tinyurl.com/xai-joins-spacex
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No no, not the LLaMA tokens, sir... Opus ones, please.
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True that. People, especially developers, underestimate the importance of packaging. Or, in general, making it easier for others to use your product.
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Attention is all you need?
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A 25MB TTS model: https://github.com/kittenml/kittentts
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Everything tends toward commodification in a hyper-competitive, hyper-connected world. The only variable is time... and this "time" keeps shrinking. As commodification accelerates, consolida…
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reminds of this recent news https://www.medianama.com/2026/01/223-nvidia-high-speed-acce... …
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I summarized all comments and overall discussion using LLM for better reading: https://hn-discussions.top/bitlocker-fbi-keys-privacy/ …
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I summarized all comments and overall discussion using LLM for better reading: https://hn-discussions.top/curl-crap-reports-bans/ …
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I summarized all comments and overall discussion using LLM for better reading: https://hn-discussions.top/cognitive-debt-chatgpt/ …
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I summarized all comments and prepared comprehensive discussions summary using LLM for better understanding: https://hn-discussions.top/eu-inc-pan-european-startups/ …
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I summarized all comments using LLM for better reading: https://hn-discussions.top/bugs-apple-loves/ …
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