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Comment · 1 month ago
> When I noticed, I cut news out completely. Mood massively improved, and two decades later, I still don't regret a thing.

You seem extremely active on HN, so this story sounds pretty exaggerated.

Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t think it really matters whether we’re talking about an agent or “pure LLM”. All of an agents decisions are powered by tokens generated from an LLM. If the LLM was trained on stories of AI sentience, it will have some tendency to reproduce them. Training for alignment can help avoid that, but the probability isn’t 0.
Comment · 2 months ago
But all of those problems with 3rd party libraries also do exist in native iOS development?
Comment · 2 months ago
In my org, you’re not allowed to do work like this without the title.
Comment · 2 months ago
I get the same feeling with this sort of thing. I did try Kagi and stuck with it for the last year. It's pretty good, but not without it's faults.

- Out of the box, search result quality is comparable to Google

- Search is slow. Latency for most queries is about a second. Sometimes 3 seconds. Google is shockingly fast in comparison.

- Personalized results is a killer feature (blocking, boosting and suppressing domains)

- There is no iOS app. Only one in beta that is seemingly abandoned.

- Their site/app design is just passable at best

- Their AI quick answers give solid answers and are pretty concise

Comment · 10 months ago
> Safe languages usually want to abort if they encounter an out-of-memory (OOM) situation. SQLite is designed to recover gracefully from an OOM.

As someone who runs into this problem a lot, this is pretty cool! Does anyone know how they can recover from this in SQLite?

Comment · 11 months ago
The website is regenerating the clocks every minute. When I opened it, Gemini 2.5 was the only working one. Now, they are all broken.

Also, your example is not showing the current time.

Comment · 11 months ago
Same story for me, but with the 15 Pro. The Pixel 7 phones were huge so I just switched to my first iPhone.
Comment · 1 year ago
No need to include that specific guard rail in every prompt - just use RAG to include it where appropriate.
Comment · 1 year ago
I suppose they technically could overlay more ads, but they've already had mobile apps, Chrome and Chrome OS for decades and have never gone that far for obvious reasons.
Comment · 1 year ago
How does a native app provide any "more surface area" for ads than a web page? Are they not displaying on the same screen?
Comment · 1 year ago
The amount of "looses" (loses) typos I see everywhere lately is actually crazy
Comment · 1 year ago
Strongly agree with this. Many authors and video creators have interesting, valuable things to say, but they don't exercise restraint or respect for their audience's time.

If something is overwhelmingly long, especially considering the subject matter, I just skip to the comments or throw it in an LLM to summarize.

Comment · 1 year ago
I agree whole heartedly. It seems clear to me that art and knowledge will transition to more private and/or undocumented experiences in the coming years in order to preserve their value.
Comment · 1 year ago
You read these comments incorrectly

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