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What the heck is a context layer

https://nexla.com/what-is-a-context-layer/
1•Debanitrkl•1m ago•0 comments

The advent of capable AI tools has highighted a variant of Simpson's paradox

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117169038028698262
1•ColinWright•2m ago•0 comments

Australia's Nationwide Phone Outage Was an Embarrassing Failure

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/australias-nationwide-phone-outage-was-an-embarrassing-failure/
1•anonymousiam•4m ago•1 comments

My GE smart scale's body fat is just 1.5 × BMI − 17.5

https://aiandtractors.com/ge-cs10h-body-fat-formula/
1•Icons8•4m ago•0 comments

Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again

https://www.sammystraus.com/#using-llms-to-make-the-emacs-web-browser-great-again
1•sammy0910•5m ago•0 comments

The Night the Earth Shook, Strangers Started to Draw

https://sheets.works/data-viz/strangers-draw-maps
1•sebg•5m ago•0 comments

Intelligence Is the Primitive. Applications Are the Diffusion Layer

https://www.a16z.news/p/intelligence-is-the-primitive-applications
1•gmays•5m ago•0 comments

Running local large language models: not as difficult as you might think

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/running-local-large-language-models
1•sebg•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?

1•prios8•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/
2•elyosh•9m ago•0 comments

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/
2•sebg•11m ago•0 comments

Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/buried-in-metas-18b-settlement-is-a-legal-pass-on-kids-data/
2•sbulaev•13m ago•0 comments

Knowledge Health: observability for your knowledge base

https://falconer.com/notes/knowledge-health/
1•fagnerbrack•19m ago•0 comments

Why I Am Right About AI [by Paul "Claude" Gigot]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/paul-claude-gigot-why-i-am-right-about-ai/688434/
3•samizdis•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: T2 Linux Touch ID PoC

https://github.com/jmurth1234/t2-touchid-linux
1•jmurth1234•25m ago•0 comments

Situs Inversus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
2•sjclemmy•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I put 20 ad slots under a Harberger tax

https://anyonecanbuy.com/
2•nadermx•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ArtGram – a notation system for abstract paintings

https://artgraph.co/artgram
1•rituraj•32m ago•0 comments

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/
2•627467•33m ago•0 comments

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks
2•calmrocks•33m ago•0 comments

I built a pure-Rust headless browser. No Chromium. No V8

https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1w07jov/i_built_a_purerust_headless_browser_no_chro...
2•syumei•33m ago•0 comments

Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license "vibe code"?

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
2•WhyNotHugo•35m ago•0 comments

Intel previews future instruction-set documentaton

https://intel.github.io/SDM/announcement/2026/08/20/announce-preview.html
2•mmcloughlin•35m ago•0 comments

Outbid case study: auction became the ad (2026)

https://medium.com/@threadotter/outbid-case-study-auction-became-the-ad-2026-719bf85c3c7d
1•threadotter•36m ago•0 comments

Four reproducible vLLM parser failures that return 200 with the wrong tool call

https://ingot.tools/reports/parser-silent-failure
1•glitch003•38m ago•0 comments

Anomalyco/OpenCode & Aider-AI/aider Review

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
1•paretolaw•40m ago•2 comments

Show HN: IQ Routing – route every call to the cheapest model that holds quality

https://iq-routing.com
1•Georgeavvila•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Per Diem, a daily dice game like Balatro

https://perdiem.loch.tools
1•lwansbrough•40m ago•0 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
1•peteforde•41m ago•0 comments

The Minolta SR-T I kept for myself

https://robertmay.photography/journal/the-minolta-sr-t-i-kept-for-myself
1•robotmay•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

Comments

sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.