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NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•4m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
1•throwaw12•6m ago•0 comments

MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•6m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•7m ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•9m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•12m ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
1•andreabat•14m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
1•mgh2•21m ago•0 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

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1•ludicrousdispla•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
2•vladeta•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

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1•thealidev•29m ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•29m ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•32m ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•34m ago•0 comments

Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
2•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

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1•fanf2•37m ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
2•ramenbytes•39m ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•41m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

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2•vintagedave•44m ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

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Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

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3•cinusek•45m ago•1 comments

Starter Template for Ory Kratos

https://github.com/Samuelk0nrad/docker-ory
1•samuel_0xK•46m ago•0 comments

LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature

2•prateekdalal•50m ago•0 comments

Make your iPad 3 a touchscreen for your computer

https://github.com/lemonjesus/ipad-touch-screen
2•0y•55m ago•1 comments

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

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1•xenator•55m ago•0 comments

Building a Custom Clawdbot Workflow to Automate Website Creation

https://seedance2api.org/
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Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack

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2•ryan_j_naughton•58m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
2•ravenical•1h ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

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2•ValdikSS•1h ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•1h ago•1 comments
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Orchestra Conductors Are Prompt Engineers

https://blog.charliemeyer.co/orchestra-conductors-are-prompt-engineers/
4•csmeyer•6mo ago

Comments

PaulHoule•6mo ago
Is it AI Slop or is it "Slop about AI?" Stop the insanity.
thesuperbigfrog•6mo ago
This is a poor analogy.

Orchestras play music that was written and arranged by a composer. The musicians in the orchestra do not generate music solely based on the pieces they have studied and direction from the conductor. They play the music written by the composer with the conductor acting as a leader to synchronize and "flavor" the performance.

There is no equivalent to a musical score in prompting an LLM to generate something. The musical score is exactly what music should be played with the specific how it should be played being left to the style and taste of the musicians and conductor. It is "execution" or "exercise" of the musical score. Two different orchestras can play "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and the results will be similar enough for listeners to recognize that it is the same music. The musical score guides the execution so that the resulting performance is mostly deterministic.

Prompt engineering and LLM generation are an imprecise approximation of what is wanted. Results from similar or even identical prompts will vary considerably depending on the LLM doing the generation, each LLM's respective training dataset, and what probability wickets are hit during the generation process. The generated results lack the determinism that the musical score provides an orchestra.

kazinator•6mo ago
The analogy holds a bit better in the world of Mr. Bean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wra2l6z7sdc

He's able to elicit a transfer of jazz style onto a Christmas carol.

mock-possum•6mo ago
If anything, LLM is more like improv - you noodle around, sometimes you have something specific in mind that you’re looking for, every once in a while you hit upon something really good and you try to remember jt to save for later. You rarely just sit down and write a song from scratch beginning to end - much more often, you play around with lots of little bits, refining until you get what you want, something that feels good, original, complete.
bgwalter•6mo ago
This is a strained metaphor that appeals to the egos of those who self-identify as prompt engineers.

A sewage worker analogy might be more appropriate.

throwawayoldie•6mo ago
I see where you're going with this, but I disagree: sewage workers have to know how their tools work, and if they all quit their jobs tomorrow, we'd all be in big trouble.
os2warpman•6mo ago
Sewage workers perform tasks that are important and have value.

The comparison is not apt.