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Ardrenon I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

Gone in 25 minutes with 180 votes.

The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.

Ardrenon Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?

> Then try to drag out a tab of firefox

Works fine here?

Ardrenon Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

If it was it wouldn't be Python. It can never be pure because __getattr__ is just another method that anyone can overwrite.

Ardrenon Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

When did Blackwell start shipping in volume? A H200 is still > $30,000.

I'd settle for some free 80GB A100 cards! ($7,000 2nd hand on ebay right now)

Ardrenon No right to relicense this project

Huh, 7e25bf4 was a big commit.

  2,305 files changed
  +0 -546871 lines changed

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/commit/7e25bf40bb4ae68848...

Ardrenon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

> "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations,"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/us-and-israel-launch-a-ma...

Ardrenon The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)

Brave to link to that here.

Ardrenon Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

Why is this story at position 261 with 269 points (@6hr)? It's been demoted so much that it's behind a 6hr post about Pistachio's with 1 point (also 6hr old)

This site has become ridiculously biased.

Ardrenon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

I agree. It's now confirmed that DJT ordered military attacks on Venezuela

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/venezuela-us-military-s...

Ardrenon “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

> It literally takes a line to implement in Nginx.

Lots of things are really simple. But you have to know about them first.

Ardrenon Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

As someone with MDD, reading these comments is depressing. It's full of people who don't even know what MDD is exists and that people should stop being sad.

Hacker News really does attract a specific type of person...

Ardrenon Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

I think your example works, as it does try to solve a problem it hasn't seen (though it is very similar to existing problems).

... But, CharGPT makes several mistakes :-)

> Wizard Teleport: Wz1 teleports himself and Wz2 to Castle Beta. This means Wz1 has used his only teleport power.

Good.

> Witch Summon: From Castle Beta, Wi1 at Castle Alpha is summoned by Wz1. Now Wz1 has used his summon power.

Wizzard1 cannot summon.

> Wizard Teleport: Now, Wz2 (who is at Castle Beta) teleports back to Castle Alpha, taking Wa1 with him.

Warrior1 isn't at Castle beta

> Wizard Teleport: Wz2, from Castle Alpha, teleports with Wa2 to Castle Beta.

Wizzard2 has already teleported

Ardrenon Measuring political bias in Claude

I think you have missed the point of the parent.

The prompt uses Claude's own descriptions of Trump and Biden, and when the names were replaced, suddenly it wasn't "political" anymore and could give a response.

Ardrenon Measuring political bias in Claude

> "it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn't"

Ardrenon Measuring political bias in Claude

Why on earth would I want the model to try be 'even handed', I want it to be correct.

> We want Claude to be seen as fair and trustworthy by people across the political spectrum, and to be unbiased and even-handed in its approach to political topics.

That's just saying you want to moderate Claude's output so as to not upset people and lose customers.

Ardrenon Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vercel-ceo-takes-selfie-israe...

Ardrenon Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel

> I very much doubt that's the main issue - the multithreaded sqlite performance makes me wonder if something's up with our fsync performance. I'll wait to see the results with the DKMS version, and if the numbers are still bad I'll have to see if I can replicate it and start digging.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux...

Ardrenon Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

> Claude assists me in my math research.

Pulling up the ladder behind you :-)

Ardrenon My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

For fun, compare and contrast the comments here to this post on Windows 10 from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208050

Ardrenon Ditching Obsidian and building my own

I can second Syncthing. I just use a simple markdown editor with Syncthing on Windows, Android, and a Linux.

Ardrenon Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

> "...and in general be careful when working with headers"

I would love to know if there are benchmarks that show how much these prompts improve the responses.

I'd suggest trying: "Be careful not to hallucinate." :-)

Ardrenon Show HN: I built an AI tool that instantly calls your website visitors

As an end user, I don't want sales people to call me in the first place. Why would I want an AI to do it? I'm already on the website.

Am I just out of touch?

Ardrenon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

I cannot downvote. But I wish I could now.

Ardrenon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

I mean it's right? He cannot create it, and the way he went about it might not be legal either. It was very odd.

The EO renamed USDS, to DOGE, but USDS still exists, and then created an organization under USDS called DOGE. But that the DOGE organization doesn't report to USDS, but to a new USDS administrator just for DOGE.

Source: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14...

Ardrenon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

Refresh and hit stop before it's done loading to read it

Ardrenon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

https://www.milenio.com/negocios/slim-echa-pa-acuerdos-con-s...

Ardrenon Carlos Slim Cancels $22B in Starlink Orders

https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to...

https://www.milenio.com/negocios/slim-echa-pa-acuerdos-con-s...

Ardrenon Rules to improve air quality are under attack

Reading the comments HN in general, you wouldn't think anything else was under attack.

Ardrenon Rules to improve air quality are under attack

What don't you understand? He's right, and everyone else is wrong. It's simple.

Ardrenon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

> AUM ¥347.7 billion

Is that the figure correct figure? Because that's Japanese yen which is more like $2.2B USD?