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leohon Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

What if I told you there’s this thing in 2026 called an LLM that can translate between any two languages with high fidelity for free, and you just clicked a single button in your browser to use it

leohon We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

It’s called jj

leohon MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)

>more prevalent using the highest dosage

leohon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

It really doesn't feel like that and hasn't for years

leohon Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

Tom is the best

leohon Lil Finder Guy

Or maybe you’re just in Bhutan

https://explorepartsunknown.com/bhutan/photo-essay-bhutans-p...

leohon It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard

Agreed

leohon Monitor the Situation

Nice work, this is great.

leohon Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

True, but also we wouldn't have AI if it weren't for ads -- ie Google invested in AI to help sell ads starting ~20y ago.

leohon IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

ICE is not trained by the IDF??

leohon Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

What is crime anymore when a felon is the president?

leohon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

I am serious though

leohon Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

I wanted to run it on renders from the owner's website

leohon Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

And the trash cans

leohon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Sad, mean, and pointless

leohon Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found

HN is so fucked at this point. For the last year at least, anything critical of elon gets flagged.

leohon Miami, your Waymo ride is ready

RIP KitKat :(

I work at Alphabet and I think it’s sad that KitKat died

leohon I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

Prophetic

leohon Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work

Good grief, I hope so

leohon Noninvasive brain treatment for depression proves helpful

… in humans

leohon Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine

Amen.

leohon Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

Yup.

leohon Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

> Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently?

The mechanism used to shut down a website whose videos were fake and that was funded by actual terrorists? I don’t think Anna’s Archive is in the same category, no.

leohon LeCun calls Alex Wang inexperienced, predicts more Meta AI employee departure

Not for inference, right?

leohon Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)

What OS, window manager, etc is this?

leohon Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker

This is not a hacker’s take

leohon Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

10.5MW on demand is wild

leohon Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

The conclusion reached in this essay is 100% wrong. See " The reftable backend What it is, where it's headed, and why should you care?"

>With release 2.45, Git has gained support for the “reftable” backend to read and write references in a Git repository. While this was a significant milestone for Git, it wasn‘t the end of GitLab’s journey to improve scalability in repositories with many references. In this talk you will learn what the reftable backend is, what work we did to improve it even further and why you should care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UkonBcLeAo

Also see Scalar, which Microsoft used to scale their 300GiB Windows repository, https://github.com/microsoft/scalar.

leohon Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

I couldn't agree more strongly. There is a huge opportunity to make git more effective for this kind of use-case, not to abandon it. The essay in question provides no compelling alternative; it therefore reaches an entirely half-baked conclusion.

leohon Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

Absolutely fantastic, thank you!