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hawk_··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Because they asked the model what it wanted to be called?
hawk_··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Is this for setup for agentic coding? Why not also run the IDE compiler etc... on the same machine to use those CPU cores as well?
hawk_··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Like far right isn't going to vote in mass surveillance the moment they have any chance. (Not disputing that there are other frustrations that are fuelling the rise of far right, correct or not. But isn't one of those)
hawk_··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
I blame Corbyn as much as Cameron if not more. Corbyn was supposed to represent the working class but because Remain could have benefited some Tories he backstabbed the working class and at least a whole generation if not 2 and for what?
hawk_··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
:-D

Yes I think motherduck is going to get ... well motherducked bad by AWS

hawk_··on We never use AI. For anything
I am pretty sure the Luddites did more than just print manifestos.
hawk_··on We never use AI. For anything
And the human beings who use them to produce code don't produce deterministic results either. Current harnesses have come a long a way to make non determinism not be a problem for quite a few areas. And the scope keeps increasing every day.
hawk_··on We never use AI. For anything
That's a strange hill to die on. It's like saying we will never use an IDE or static linter or syntax highlighter etc...

Also there are already non-VC subsidized hosted open weights LLM providers which should give you a very good sense of the marginal cost.

hawk_··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
I forbid my agents from adding any comments. I review the code and add comments manually. If I can't understand something despite having the context then I throw away the code instead of having an LLM generate comments to explain what it did. This way the code stays readable/debuggable by humans.
hawk_··on TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. This gives me some ideas on some 2 data center setup with tolerance for 1 DC failure within VR or Paxos that I didn't think was possible.
hawk_··on TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
Is this flexible quorum something that deviates from VSR? I thought VSR requires majority of the nodes to form quorum.
hawk_··on JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master
Java is to JavaScript what a Car is to Carpet. Very different beasts, though a lot of V8 work was inspired by Hotspot that's just because of common VM patterns not the syntax of the languages.
hawk_··on Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Concluding this was intentional feels a bit of a stretch. But once it happened, yeah the spin masters got to work and coordinated to turn this into +PR.
hawk_··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Selling cheaper cannibalizes next season's fashion.
hawk_··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
Sorry to Godwin the thread but the Third Reich would like a word.
hawk_··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
There's something about keyboard shortcuts - they work. But somehow right-click and copy requires add-ons.
hawk_··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39475342/ - mouse colitis model

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41137210/ - inflammation pathways

hawk_··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
Look up CDED (Crohn's disease exclusion diet) which is the first line of treatment for pediatric Crohn's and now it's increasingly being used for adults. So don't dismiss the diet link despite the facts and research.
hawk_··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
An important missed angle is the effect of artificial sweeteners on gut microbiome. They cause intestinal inflammation which is relevant for IBD sufferers. My take is that I don't miss out on much by being conservative with food, as we still don't understand these complex interactions well enough. What's the harm in sticking to a balanced whole diet of ingredients that were available to our ancestors 200years or more ago.
hawk_··on RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
> halve my effective memory in order to completely eliminate the tail latency problem,

Wouldn't you have a tail latency problem on the write side though if you just blindly apply it every where? As in unless all the replicas are done writing you can't proceed.

hawk_··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
I like the formulatiom that 100% of the cancer tumors have DHMO and no one has done anything about it.
hawk_··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
> If there's a fundamental culture shift,

You mean this culture shift is needed for the masses but I don't think that's the case. In my widest social circle I am not aware of anyone giving alcohol to young kids (yes by the time they are 16ish yes but even that's rare). Most guardians would willingly do similar with locked devices.

The real problem is that the governments/companies won't get to spy on you if locked devices are given to children only. They want to spy on us all. That's the missing cultural shift.

hawk_··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
What is their Claude code equivalent?
hawk_··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
You just copy paste as in you copy paste all the necessary context and the results. You don't give it access to your codebase for read or write, correct?
hawk_··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
"I am seeing" as in do you use CO2 batteries at home or something?
hawk_··on What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
If you tested this on macos, be careful. The fsync on it lies.
hawk_··on What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
Durability always has an asterisk i.e. guaranteed up to N number of devices failing. Once that N is set, your durability is out the moment those N devices all fail together. Whether that N counts local disks or remote servers.
hawk_··on SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
How much impact do the various compression formats have on query performance?
hawk_··on IBM to acquire Confluent
Yes but try putting that on your CV.
hawk_··on Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
Ok a related note, how does it compare to SeaStar?
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