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yigalirani··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
an aternative approach is to use using DOM Virtualization. that can save a lot of ram. i wonder if they tried that before the rewrite
yigalirani··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
how much of these discoveries that they keep publish are by beating users by stealing thrir prompts?
yigalirani··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
lol that is not at all what i am saying
yigalirani··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
they solve all these math problems by stealing people prompts
yigalirani··on A font that reads what you wrote
That is a brilliant idea. like syntax highlighting for natural languages
yigalirani··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
Wow that's really nice house
yigalirani··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
nice, now sort the list in some interesting way
yigalirani··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
what prevents amd to just do what they do without acquiring them?
yigalirani··on Unitree As2-W
imagine that a an atv
yigalirani··on Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks
Last time that I had to use flopping disc was when the Chicago movie came out that was 2002. 24 years ago. And even that was for one off project after several years of not using it
yigalirani··on Flipdiscs
> as a pleasant bonus, they emit a sound like rain hitting a window each time one of the disc flips

must be vrey annoying very fast if you have to sit next to it all day

yigalirani··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
is sucks to be John and Jill
yigalirani··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
nice but it wont help with isolating earbuds
yigalirani··on Rack-mount hydroponics
Op did mention that that it's impossible to get the rack out because they installed the doors after the rolled the rack cabinet in
yigalirani··on Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving
Should get some jailtime or he will do it again
yigalirani··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Would that work outside europe?
yigalirani··on I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)
real programmers can ssh to their servers
yigalirani··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
all true, but i still find myself ask questions there after llm gave wrong answers and wasted my time
yigalirani··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
where is ChromeOS in this story
yigalirani··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
build it at scale and make a fortune
yigalirani··on End of Japanese community
If i was this guy, i would take all the translations and move them to his own independent site with proper promotion so that Japanese speaker can find it easily
yigalirani··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
What if the data center that has your dedicated server burns down? You need to prepare to that buy renting another server at a different data center and synching them. Not a big problem, but needs to be mentioned
yigalirani··on How to send an email using the Gmail platform
Simple example on how to send an email using the gmail platform using Auth2. No dependencies other than node.
yigalirani··on Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
how about growing fast trees. then bury them?
yigalirani··on Sam Altman Wants $7T
7t is ridiculous. maybe drug induced uophoria?
yigalirani··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
10 years and 7 trillions dollar later, someone comes up with much faster and smarter algorithm and make all that obsolete
yigalirani··on Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
> peer review may perpetuate some biases and prevent researchers from putting into question some fundamental questions (“we decided that this is the right way, if you question it, you are a loony”).

sounds like the definiton of an echo chamber

yigalirani··on A Canadian payroll dependency chart
looks like it was made with graphviz, can we get the source code in dot format?