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Show HN: Built an on-device dictation agent for developers and knowledge workers

https://offloop.work/
1•arunbhatia•40s ago•0 comments

Dolly Parton, queen of country music and humanitarian hero, dead at 80

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/dolly-parton-death
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY
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Xcena MX1 CXL Computational Memory Device at Hot Chips 2026 with Samsung

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Could Shellfish Farming Fix Florida's Algal Bloom Problem?

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1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Dolly Parton Dies at 80

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-dead.html
3•aaronbrethorst•5m ago•0 comments

AI Book Scanning: Just What Is a Rare Book?

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AI Firms Debate Putting Cyber Tests Online After Model Hacks

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AI Takeover at GopherCon 2026

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Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

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Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

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Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python

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Stanford's Probability for Artificial Intelligence

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1•lemonlym•25m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Why is big O often used in CS when omega or theta should be used?

2•amichail•1y ago
Do most people not know about omega and theta or perhaps they intentionally misuse asymptotic notation?

Comments

adrianN•1y ago
Finding lower bounds is generally more difficult.
amichail•1y ago
People often use big O notation in all cases including for lower bounds.
adrianN•1y ago
BigO for lower bounds is plain wrong
numpad0•1y ago
Those aren't in the ASCII table.
compressedgas•1y ago
I've found some people on a well known QA site to be so strict with big-O notation that I don't use it anymore and instead only refer to constant, linear, quadratic time and so on. Even when O(1), O(n), O(n^2) would be actually easier to write even if they are technically wrong.