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rwoerz··on Partial Operator Precedence
Funny that they named it "orelse" which sounds like a conditional threat to me :)
rwoerz··on Shiny Object Syndrome
Novelty bias is soooo 2025
rwoerz··on The State of Context Engineering
Very informative article but why this term coining? The phenomena and strategies aren't specific to LLMs but are well known from other areas of computer science (and psychology). For example, I would have called "offloading" just "swapping", and "confusion" just "pollution".
rwoerz··on Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English
Someday, it will break out via fax.
rwoerz··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Ultimate counterevidence of an benevolent "intelligent designer"
rwoerz··on IBM Bob
They should have called it "WebSphere AI" and ship it on 5 DVDs, maybe with a serial port dongle.
rwoerz··on The Highest Point in the Netherlands
It doesn't always start like that! Sometimes you get corrected in the middle of a thread.
rwoerz··on Htmx 4.0
You found HTMX?
rwoerz··on Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
I think that's a subtle Verschlimmbesserung of the original definition.
rwoerz··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
I befriended mine a while ago although despite its recent crescendo. I can't see pitch black either when I close my eyes so why expect total silence.
rwoerz··on Half-Life 2 in a Browser
Cool, so now I can leave my lawnmower where it belongs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39521535

rwoerz··on CrankGPT
Now I have that image in mind, where some Morlock finds that thing 100000 years after we have blown up our civilization and can actually make use of it.
rwoerz··on MCP is dead?
Those were the days of the dotcom era when finding the next restaurant with your Nokia + WAP was THE killer use case.
rwoerz··on Mythical Man Month
> The issue here is communication, as the number of people grows, the number of communication paths between those people grows exponentially.

Exponentially? Quadratically I would say.

rwoerz··on What async promised and what it delivered
They stopped at the Promises level with CompletableFuture that lead to "colored frameworks" like WebMVC vs. WebFlux in Spring.
rwoerz··on A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
A reference [1] in an attempt to go one level of self-reference further.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727104

rwoerz··on A whole boss fight in 256 bytes
Or a 256 bytes prompt
rwoerz··on ISBN Visualization
Blocked in Germany by CUII https://cuii.info/ueber-uns/
rwoerz··on Chuck Norris has died
Death has Chucknorrised?
rwoerz··on Semantic Diffusion (2006)
Let's call that "semantic diffusion", too, just to make "semantic diffusion" a little self-referring.
rwoerz··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
so, that's how i can show my full devotion to the agi?
rwoerz··on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
That description really excels
rwoerz··on Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads at 60k years ago
They had some kind of "microlithic" architecture.
rwoerz··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
Congrats.

Some German natives may argue that the time short forms are wrong as they prefer "dreiviertel" instead of "viertel vor".

rwoerz··on Write in C – Let it Be
Another one writes in Rust

Another one writes in Rust

And another one Go, and another one Go

Another one writes in Rust (yeah)

rwoerz··on Write in C – Let it Be
Another one bites the Rust
rwoerz··on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
> right click copy right click paste

Remembers me of a fellow student who refused to maximize his editor window. It turned out that he moved the text cursor to the next line with the right indentation by using just a lot of spaces.

rwoerz··on Qwen3-Next
He is dead??
rwoerz··on 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville
The Drawin Awards need a category for the best newcomer or so.
rwoerz··on Designing Software in the Large
{ "permissions": { "allow": [ "Human(*)" ] } }

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