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ForHackernews··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
I can't tell if you're making a joke but many (most?) rare books predate the modern copyright regime and the original printing plates are somewhere in a 17th century midden heap.
ForHackernews··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Project Unica is an initiative by the University of Illinois Libraries to scan and preserve publications that exist as only a single known copy: https://news.illinois.edu/u-of-i-librarys-project-unica-pres...
ForHackernews··on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
Mining $FARTCOIN
ForHackernews··on American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source
This looks to me like Anthropic and OpenAI preparing the ground to get a taxpayer bailout when they are unable to meet their financial commitments.

"It wasn't our insane trillion-dollar promises, it was those dastardly Chinese communists offering the same products cheaper!"

ForHackernews··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
Not within a single calendar system, I think. There have been discontinuities when transitioning between them. Sweden skipped 11 days in 1753: https://todayinhistory.app/events/12868/
ForHackernews··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
Earlier, from the same author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020193
ForHackernews··on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
> Those will use a licensed model from the current leaders.

Says who? In the world of video decoding, H.265 is losing out to AV1 largely because it's not superior enough to H.264 to justify the expensive and complicated licensing.

Do you really think chipmakers are going to pay a 25c per unit tax to get a model that is 15% better?

ForHackernews··on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
Indeed, "pennies on the dollar" is the key point the author is making in this article.
ForHackernews··on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
You mean like how Western Digital is only a 168 billion dollar business, but Dropbox is a $7.4B behemoth... er, wait?
ForHackernews··on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025)
AI boosters denying that their machine god is burbling sweet nothings to itself?
ForHackernews··on Don't Paste the AI, please
https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/

Almost certainly written by AI

ForHackernews··on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
I thought this was already widely known?

From March last year: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

There's no reason to believe the model's self-reported "thinking" bears any relation to the mechanics by which it arrived at some output.

ForHackernews··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
Speaking of embarrassing, your argument is an argument against having any professional ethics whatsoever.
ForHackernews··on AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
yeah but LLMs might be even cheaper than grad students
ForHackernews··on Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
You are not required to present an annoying banner to the user. You could simply honor user-agents' DO NOT TRACK header and silently avoid setting tracking cookies and that would comply with the law.
ForHackernews··on HS₂ installs a plaque 40M below London to celebrate the Brunels' legacy
Blue plaques are standard in London: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/
ForHackernews··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
Boring isn't bad. Ideas are cheap: often the execution is what counts. Doing a boring thing to near-perfection looks like the Japanese Shinkansen trains that average 1.6 minutes of delay annually and have operated with zero fatal accidents over decades of service.
ForHackernews··on Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'
Gecko is the only semi-mainstream browser engine that isn't controlled by Google.
ForHackernews··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoBikesInTheApoc...
ForHackernews··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Historically a more multipolar world has been a more violent and chaotic world, but maybe this time will be better.
ForHackernews··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Relative to the US or Europe? I think you know the answer to that.
ForHackernews··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
It means you can settle an international transaction in CNY with Deutsche Bank. Imagine a European lender financing a project in Nigeria that involves purchasing a lot of infrastructure from China.
ForHackernews··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Rising power challenges the fading imperial hegemony. In this case, CNY displacing USD.
ForHackernews··on I hate packaging my software for Linux
In 20 years using Linux, I don't think this has ever worked cleanly for me. Inevitably this will fail with some mysterious missing dependencies, it won't be clear what .deb package provides them, it turns out the distro version is too old or too new...
ForHackernews··on Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
How does this compare to Typora? That's the leader in this market as far as I can tell.
ForHackernews··on I backtested my own stock rankings. They lost to the index
Prior art to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
ForHackernews··on Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
You're advocating for a corporate-friendly zero-money license. I don't know what you want to call that other than "giving away your work to help sponsor enterprise software"
ForHackernews··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Rate limits, presumably.
ForHackernews··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
How many calories do you get when you eat it or burn it. Everything else is down to taste.
ForHackernews··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Likely yes.
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