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| 2821. | Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build (nextword.substack.com) | |
| 192 points | 2024 | author nextworddev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I think the tarpit extends to most chatgpt wrappers as well, which is why I called out pivoting prematurely to application layer is a futile exercise.” | ||
| 2822. | Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch (github.com) | |
| 192 points | 2025 | author xcodevn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(1) We didn't remove the stddev term. (2) We use token-level loss (every token has the same weight), which is very similar to what Dr. GRPO does. However, we compute the…” | ||
| 2823. | Tern – Intelligent JavaScript editing (ternjs.net) | |
| 191 points | 2013 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“It compares very favorably. The Orion approach, as I understand it (I only did some quick messing around with scripted, am not an expert) is very local, whereas Tern…” | ||
| 2824. | 100% time (cemerick.com) | |
| 191 points | 2013 | author cemerick showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what "100% time" means (since, AFAIK, the…” | ||
| 2825. | Why fuel cell cars don't work (ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net) | |
| 191 points | 2015 | author demultiplexer showed up | their comment | thread
“this is part 1. I will go into other types of fuel cells in a future part. Hydrogen is the focus of the first two parts just because this is the most mature technology…” | ||
| 2826. | The freelancer's guide to good jobs and great pay (thecreativeclass.io) | |
| 191 points | 2015 | author pauljarvis showed up | their comment | thread
“I hired a local freelancer that I know to film the video. I also programmed the site and design it myself. I hired a freelance editor too (who I've worked with for 10+…” | ||
| 2827. | Listening to satellites for $30 (blog.nobugware.com) | |
| 191 points | 2015 | author akhenakh showed up | their comment | thread
“based on what you are trying to listen, different antennas may be better than others. I use a discone antenna at home, but the picture you see on the blog was made with…” | ||
| 2828. | In Defence of the Technical Interview (blog.plan99.net) | |
| 191 points | 2019 | author mike_hearn showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I never ask this sort of question because: 1. I'd struggle to answer it myself despite nearly three decades of fixing bugs. I could probably come up with some…” | ||
| 2829. | Quitting a New Job (yolken.net) | |
| 191 points | 2021 | author bhyolken showed up | their comment | thread
“Just a few clarifications: 1. I have a ton of respect for people who do robotics work. I was trying to be a little humorous/cheeky in my descriptions here. Apologies if…” | ||
| 2830. | I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) (withblue.ink) | |
| 191 points | 2021 | author ItalyPaleAle showed up | their comment | thread
“I was not expecting this to surface out of the blue 2 years later, so I had to go back and re-read what I wrote I still stand behind what I wrote for the most part. If…” | ||
| 2831. | Jerk (ivanish.ca) | |
| 191 points | 2024 | author spiralganglion showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes that's the point. Tried it on a lark, and it created weird feelings so I leaned into it. This is my personal website, and I've been trying to make it more deeply…” | ||
| 2832. | Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch (adam.math.hhu.de) | |
| 191 points | 2024 | author kevinbuzzard showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yes, it was beta tested on many Imperial College London mathematics undergraduates)” | ||
| 2833. | Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (lorekit.io) | |
| 191 points | 2026 | author mthines showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post and of course got assistance by AI to rephrase sections, gather data and do comparison, and make graphics - also because I'm no native english…” | ||
| 2834. | Fetching.io: Search the full text of every web page you visit (fetching.io) | |
| 190 points | 2014 | author flippyhead showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks so much for the interest! It's funny, I've been hacking away at a major update that I plan to release in the next few days... Was assuming I'd stay under the…” | ||
| 2835. | My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian (guillaumepaumier.com) | |
| 190 points | 2015 | author gpaumier showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right that there isn't (yet) a medical test like a blood test or an MRI to detect autism. In France, the official "diagnosis" is established by a psychiatrist…” | ||
| 2836. | WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser (webgazer.cs.brown.edu) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author lazyjeff showed up | their comment | thread
“It was probably not very clear on our part, but it's meant to train the eye tracking model as naturally you use the website. So it takes advantage of your interactions…” | ||
| 2837. | How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author jeanettehead17 showed up | their comment | thread
“I like to say 'this way would be better because...' as much as possible. Providing a business case to back up your claim makes it less personal. Receiving feedback is…” | ||
| 2838. | Learn to Code by Building Projects (enlight.ml) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author samayshamdasani showed up | their comment | thread
“The mailchimp list was associated with a website I built for one of my clients - I'm going to switch it back to soon (I'm just at school rn lol)” | ||
| 2839. | Technical Book on Deep Learning (github.com) | |
| 190 points | 2017 | author tomepel showed up | their comment | thread
“My aesthetics sense is pretty limited as you have observed. I like the mathpazo font, but if you don't share my weird tastes, you can just download the repo, comment the…” | ||
| 2840. | Google's CEO is increasingly boxed in by regulators, critics, and employees (bloomberg.com) | |
| 190 points | 2017 | author bloombergen showed up | their comment | thread
“very interesting! i have many more questions -- can we talk?” | ||
| 2841. | Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode (github.com) | |
| 190 points | 2018 | author Kungsgeten showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of org-brain. I'm happy to see there's an interest for it. There's a screencast of me explaining it, which might give a better overview than the…” | ||
| 2842. | Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion (deepmind.com) | |
| 190 points | 2018 | author arimorcos showed up | their comment | thread
“Indeed, our work is closely related to dropout. However, as we discuss in the paper (), dropout doesn't really encourage the network to be robust to deletion generally;…” | ||
| 2843. | Introspected REST: An Alternative to REST and GraphQL (introspected.rest) | |
| 190 points | 2018 | author vasilakisfil showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“AMA. But I would like to make a couple of points. For starters, a lot of people are looking for a TL;DR. There is no such thing. Same with tooling. This is an open…” | ||
| 2844. | When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters (badootech.badoo.com) | |
| 190 points | 2019 | author vkazanov showed up | their comment | thread
“-) This sentence is more like a description of the current state of affairs: people go for very complicated jits instead of trying to push the basic interpreter to its…” | ||
| 2845. | A gentle introduction to symbolic execution (blog.monic.co) | |
| 190 points | 2019 | author joelburget showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We're planning to turn this into a series, with additional posts on how symbolic execution works at a lower level, how to present counterexamples to users, and ideas for…” | ||
| 2846. | We moved our servers to Iceland (blog.simpleanalytics.com) | |
| 190 points | 2019 | author AdriaanvRossum showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for explaining your thoughts as you are Icelandic. Really appreciate that. It's not too easy to do research in a non English speaking country. I'm not a native…” | ||
| 2847. | Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019) (josh.works) | |
| 190 points | 2021 | author wonder_er showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Imagine my surprise to check HN this morning and see one of my posts up! (Thanks, u/mooreds!) Besides being riddled with typos, as I've scanned through these comments…” | ||
| 2848. | Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 190 points | 2022 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting! Happy to answer any questions about Mach (or my experience working with Zig.)” | ||
| 2849. | Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby (stripe.com) | |
| 190 points | 2022 | author jez showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I wrote this article. If you have any questions about Sorbet or Stripe, please don’t hesitate to ask!” | ||
| 2850. | Wrap Up: Bicycle trip logistics (peterispedaling.com) | |
| 190 points | 2022 | author peterispedaling showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Hi! I wrote the post. Yes, this was a weekly meeting at a community center where language learners speak, or nearly fluent people. Ideally a mix, and people can make…” | ||
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