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GPT‑5.1 Thinking’s responses are also clearer, with less jargon and fewer undefined termsOh yeah that's what I want when asking a technical question! Please talk down to me, call a spade an earth-pokey-stick and don't ever use a phrase or concept I don't know because when I come

It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon.I don't buy drives on Amazon for my 9 year old's laptop because of the rampant fraud and counterfeiting, I'm shocked that they're trusted for any business use-cases by anyone moderately savvy.

It looks pretty bad on the photos. 8GB vram in 2026?! 2160x2160 in each eye for the headset Looks like the og Nintendo Gamecube but modernized. So no Half Life 3? (': Looks exciting! It would be amazing if the headset turns out to be useful for coding without a monitor. Say, in t

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe [1]> Steam Frame is a PC, and runs SteamOS powered by a Snapdragon® 8 Series Processor. With 16GB of RAM, Steam Frame supports stand-alone play on a growing number of both VR and non-VR games without needing to stream from your PC.So

Foveated streaming! That's a great idea. Foveated rendering is complicated to implement with current rendering APIs in a way that actually improves performance, but foveated streaming seems like a much easier win that applies to all content automatically. And the dedicated 6 GHz

Ha! I did a lot of these around 2007-2008. I solved the first 100 or so ones. Solving these were more fun than any other programming problems site I've seen. I quit it when I realized I was spending 4+ hours per problem - I couldn't justify the time.Beyond a certain point, most r

I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.It's a complete waste of money and time continuing to mint such low-value currency. It can't be used for just about anything.Unfortunately, I do see the problem with part of this. For a handful of

I was in SF a few weekend ago and rode both Waymo and normal Lyft style taxi cars. the Waymo was a better experience in every single way. One of the Lyfts i was in drove on the shoulder for a while like it was a lane. The Waymos were just smooth consistent driving. No aggressive

I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents.https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657Thesis:1. LLMs are bad at counting the number of r's in strawberry.2. LLMs are good at writing code that c

"The New York Times is demanding that we turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversations."As might any plaintiff. NYT might be the first of many others and the lawsuits may not be limited to copyright claimsWhy has OpenAI collected and stored 20 million conversations (