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Hacker News by niyazpk 10 points 8 comments

I am in the market for a new printer, and thought I'd check with the HN crowd for some recommendations. I hate my HP inkjet printer with a passion. Feels like the ink lasts less than 100 pages of light printing. And the...

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Hacker News by tossitawayplz 7 points 1 comments

Is it even possible? I don't completely hate AI, and leverage it to make things better but I don't like to use it for EVERYTHING. At my current job we have outsourced our thinking, our design, our documentation, our san...

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Hacker News by vasko 4 points 9 comments

I constantly hear developers around me talk about how AI has completely changed their life and how they don't even program anymore, they just prompt. But any time I've used it, the output has always been off. And when t...

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Hacker News by spidy__ 5 points 2 comments

I built an experiment that uses an overfitted transformer and arithmetic coding to compress individual files. Instead of training the model to generalize, I train a 900KB transformer to memorize a single file and predic...

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Hacker News by xupybd 45 points 33 comments

Most of use here are wage earners. I keep hearing of people making money with interesting side hustles. Like my neighbour rents graduation gowns for the local university. I'd love to find something like that but I need...

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Hacker News by asim 94 points 44 comments

The A2A protocol is an agent to agent protocol from Google. I was looking at it 6 months back but it didn't feel like I really understood how to use it at that point. Probably because we were all still trying to figure...

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Hacker News by agos 25 points 26 comments

My team (around 40 people who write code) is evaluating tools for AI-assisted code review. The market appears to be rife with options, so before starting a series of free trials, I’d like to ask a knowledgeable crowd. W...

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Hacker News by po1nt 8 points 9 comments

With the AI agents, comes the resurgence of TUIs, what is your opinion of them? Design-wise I personally prefer the color, font and sizing consistency. I love the fact that keyboard is first class citizen and would pref...

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Hacker News by hmokiguess 8 points 8 comments

I have been on the 20x Max plan of Claude Code for a while now, however since last week something changed and I seem to have been getting lots and lots of those 529 errors. My workflow hasn't changed, same level of conc...

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Hacker News by jmount 2 points 2 comments

I keep getting no server for fda.gov links. Anyone else seeing this?

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Hacker News by AbstractH24 6 points 6 comments

Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of...

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Hacker News by alonsovm44 5 points 7 comments

I am making my own systems programming language, called Tig. I want to write an OS kernel with it in the future. But i've been wondering why would I do that? Linux won, it seems there are no blue oceans left. Any ideas?

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