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mkl··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Really? I find that hard to believe and can't find a reference for it.
mkl··on I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
TypeScript, not Rust.
mkl··on Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]
Oh good, thanks.

[1] is a totally different kind of tool that generates unmaintainable code full of absolute positions.

mkl··on OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
To see replies: https://xcancel.com/thsottiaux/status/2076543065045795309

The linked tweet is an unofficial reply to Tibo's official info and Tibo makes a correction in a reply.

mkl··on Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]
No mention of TikZ. Realtime TikZ would be really useful to me. I will wait and see what their https://texlode.com service is like for that.
mkl··on PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats
The order is the main thing, but it's not just that. It's common to swap cat with something else like head, tail, grep etc., and that's easy. If you have "< file command" instead of "cat file | command" you have to make edits in two places to insert the "|".
mkl··on PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats
For interactive use like these examples I think this is terrible advice. cat is very helpful because it fits into pipelines like every other command. For example:

Take a look at the start of a file:

  head file
Filter for things:

  head file | grep ... 
Reformat, remove unwanted stuff, etc.:

  head file | grep ... | sed ...
Do things or dry run echo based on each line:

  head file | grep ... | sed ... | while read a; do ...; done
It all looks good so we change head to cat to run it on the whole file:

  cat file | grep ... | sed ... | while read a; do... ; done
Yes you can technically change "head file |" to "< file" but why bother? That's changes in two places and navigating between them instead of just <alt-d> cat.

Same is true for other workflows. E.g. if you start with one of these supposedly better commands like "wc -l < file" (why isn't that just "wc -l file"?):

  wc -l < file
Oh wait, we don't want every line, just ones matching a pattern. We could change it to

  wc -l <(grep ... file) 
or

  grep -c ... file
which are both more work than just adding to an existing cat-based pipeline, where we just replace cat with "grep ...":

  grep ... file | wc -l
If we need to also match another pattern or whatever this pipeline approach is better then too.
mkl··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
The rules are here (linked at the top of the Show HN page): https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I agree it's likely the sign-up barrier, but also the button says "Open the web app" and then it doesn't open the web app.

You can email the mods for advice/info on this sort of thing (Contact link at the bottom).

mkl··on Decoy Font
It would be trivial to train future models to detect and read it though (and some already can, based on other comments in this thread). It only works as much as it does because it's new and reading it hasn't been a goal.
mkl··on Sam Neill has died
Not arguably, definitely.
mkl··on Chatto is now open source
The way they plan to make money is paid hosting.
mkl··on Inkfield
The lines of dots move, but they stay sparse and dim. Something's definitely wrong. I tried it in Firefox and Chrome on Android.

There are some screenshots of what it's supposed to look like here: https://github.com/rioharper/Inkfield

mkl··on New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
Definitely not just grading. Tutoring is explaining and back and forth discussion to impart knowledge, in context and in response to specific difficulties/confusion the student is having.
mkl··on Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)
That's the very next sentence: "Needless to say, real book clubs don’t charge fees to their guests".
mkl··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
Starlink is letting them skip dial-up and ADSL.
mkl··on Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test
The location of Mallory's body was unknown until 1999. The location of this one has been known pretty much the whole time.
mkl··on South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
Most initial work for them would be in familiar, well-controlled environments - replacing humans in existing factories. I think whether they'd be cost effective for that will remain unknown even after a few years in service though.
mkl··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
That doesn't contradict anything I said. Private networks can be huge, e.g. in big companies, and they can still use .internal. .internal serves quite a different purpose to that proposed for .self, so the top level comment I replied to doesn't make much sense.
mkl··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
That's no use for self-hosting unless all your users are on your private network.
mkl··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
Site errored out and gave me three different error messages as I reloaded. I guess it's self-hosted on something underpowered, and dynamic where static would do the job?
mkl··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Everyone knows Oxford, but the are many thousands of universities, most of which are not known to most employers. I am not an employer, but I work in higher education and see transcripts of transferring and exchange students, and many (probably most) come with some kind of guide on how to interpret the grades, because there are a huge variety of ways of assigning them and defining them (e.g. at some universities a D is a fail, and at some a D is a pass - to know which you're looking at, you need a guide!).
mkl··on Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gossamer#Noun
mkl··on Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
Also the Python sorts by string content and the Gossamer sorts by string length.
mkl··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
The problem is when you can't tell which bits are unmangled. OCR systems will happily give you plausible but wrong readings, and even some scanners/copiers will change things: https://dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are...
mkl··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
> I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia.

I doubt they've even heard of Mageia.

mkl··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
It's in the linked Neowin article on how to get the updates: https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-get-one-more-year-of-wi...
mkl··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
Also: https://lowendbox.com/
mkl··on Rhombus Language 1.0
Some info here: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus-reference/Repetitions.h...
mkl··on Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
I think you misunderstood. The 1963 term is "hacker", and its 1963 meaning is "computer intruder". I.e. the journalists are using the earlier definition and the definition referred to by "Hacker News" came later.
mkl··on Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
Not really a square if it's 1D - everyone ends up on top of each other.
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