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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/paulcollier; my proof: https://keybase.io/paulcollier/sigs/t9iRuGlFbwjbULjFu0ZhvbRfvWQdTKpUD0Xt4ynLLLo ]

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Comment · 12 hours ago
The audio book version is a powerful sleep aid.
Comment · 9 days ago
The Incredible Machine vibes.
Comment · 13 days ago
Only 30 tok/s on Qwen 3.8 Flash Next? These days thanks to those specialized engines out there I can get ~2x that speed on a 24 GB video card with RAM offload. Thermal limits, I assume...

I wonder how its performance is on dense models.

Comment · 14 days ago
Yeah, the documentary was going hard on the dissonant horror movie strings right from the opening.

And near the end, that bubbly euphoric/revelatory ascending arpeggio was a common motif.

Comment · 19 days ago
Surely their goal is ever-faster recursive self-improvement.
Comment · 21 days ago
Passkeys only give a random public key + some capability bits, whereas almost all password logins ask for your email or phone number, for the inevitable reset dance likely facilitated over antiquated email or SMS. Realistically the latter is much leakier.
Comment · 26 days ago
I could believe it. Honest to goodness, they might save my eyesight. No more marathon sessions staring at the screen for hours editing text.
Comment · 1 month ago
Rewrite everything in Rust has been a meme for so long that to see it coming to pass is surreal.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think it’s similar to the reasoning behind HN stripping numbers from clickbait headlines. Numbers feel salient even when they represent nothing at all, because numbers are used universally in every field of human study and endeavor. Unlike field-specific jargon.
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been experimenting with a Remarkable Paper Pro.

Additive inking works pretty well. As long as I am adding black ink to the page, everything is responsive. But if I want to push other updates asynchronously, or (god forbid) erase something, then there is the danger of clobbering the user's inkwork. I don't have any deep insights here, beyond waiting for human confirmation before updating anything.

I wonder if it is possible to detect when the pen tip has "left" the proximity of the page? If I knew this, I'd know when it was safe to update the UI.

I have decided not to use any scrolling at all. I am paginating everything and positioning input areas near the vertical middle of the device for comfort.

Comment · 3 months ago
Very glad to see this, I've been dreaming about spatial representations for code for a long time.
Comment · 4 months ago
Same, I was actually having interesting thought experiments with Fable.
Comment · 7 months ago
Even though it's quantized-to-hell Mixture of Experts, honestly, it's crazy this model can run semi-coherently on an phone.

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