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freak42··on Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
I second Fusion with Claude via MCP.. works pretty well.
freak42··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Well, you can't run a personal AI assistant with 640k of memory.
freak42··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
I can't it covers half of my mobile screen and it doesn't seem dismissible.
freak42··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
We're not talking about ice cream.
freak42··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
But that's not what's happening: People took the always free offer, but the offer they took ends now for them not just for new users.
freak42··on How to Exist
That doesn't work.
freak42··on What Big Food Did to Ice Cream
I do care. Of course I know it can't be proven. But you could know the author,bwhat do I know. I just don't understand why people claim factual knowledge when they don't. It rubs me the wrong way and rightly so.
freak42··on What Big Food Did to Ice Cream
But you wrote that it's a fact? That's not just a "general feeling"?
freak42··on What Big Food Did to Ice Cream
Why was this written by a LLM?
freak42··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
All your points completely miss the point of the article, no?
freak42··on Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
There are 6 (!) posts about this in the last 15 days, can we not let it rest a bit?
freak42··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
Farm land isn't wild.
freak42··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
There is less and less wild left over.
freak42··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
absolutely!
freak42··on Claude Opus 4.7
What is the charitable way to look at it then?
freak42··on Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
For personal reasons I am avoiding all Samsung products and over the years it seems like I unintentionally dodged one annoying issue after another.
freak42··on US Diesel prices surpass $5.38
Then build railway systems
freak42··on Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
... for North America.
freak42··on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
I'm sorry but starting a 40MB download unprompted on a website is a bit rude, people roaming abroad might have half their data used up in 5 minutes or pay loads for this.
freak42··on Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation
How can I block ppl on hn?
freak42··on Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction (2024)
I wish there was one sentence here somewhere that tells me what this is about.
freak42··on The Checkerboard
But this is verbatim what the article saud, you should have read it: "This checkerboard pattern allowed the government to keep all the undeveloped sections in between and wait for them to go up in value before turning around and selling them to developers."
freak42··on Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment?
What are your custom instructions. When I drop your first message into 'my' ChatGPT 5.1, the first paragraph returned is:

"Short answer: yes, the idea and overall feature are solid and “cool” for a platform – environment-aware static bundling + filtering + preloading is a real capability, not fluff. The implementation is workable but has a few concrete problems and some messy spots. (...)"

freak42··on GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras
You didn't get my point at all.
freak42··on GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras
Yes they can ask, but do it at the beginning not the end of the process, this is a dark pattern and fucking annoying.
freak42··on GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras
I absolutely hate it, when a website says "try this" and after you went through the trouble of weiting something comes up with a sign up link first. Makes me leave instantly to never come back.
freak42··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
They saved $500k on what total sum? $500'001 or 55'000'000? Without this info the post is moot.
freak42··on The Broken Promise of USB-C: We'll Never Get a Universal Cable
The Apple mouse's charging port is on the underside, so you can't use the mouse at all while charging.