Benchmarks are super impressive, as usual. Interesting to note in table 3 of the paper (p. 15), DS-Speciale is 1st or 2nd in accuracy in all tests, but has much higher token output (50% more, or 3.5x vs gemini 3 in the codeforces test!).
Readit Newszparky commented on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/... · Posted by u/smartmic
As someone who pays for YouTube, I don't understand why I can't disable shorts fully. They already have my money. What more do they want?
Honestly, I use revanced on my android phone which lets me disable all shorts content appearing. and on browser if i stick to the subscriptions tab and maybe the sidebar on videos, there's no shorts.
zparky commented on Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself edition.cnn.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/nh43215rgb
Absolutely. These places have long existed. Hence the risks of the dragnet of data producing consequences exactly like this. This is no accident.
before reddit banned a ton of subreddits for no moderation, I believe r/assistedsuicide was the place for discussion like this.
Desktop memory has also increased in price. I think it’s twice as expensive for DDR5 than it was 6 months ago.
Yep, DDR5 prices have nearly doubled in less than 2 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5200....
As an aside, something extremely annoying I've noticed about tplink is that every once in a while when I go to log into the router, it redirects to a tplink website and proxies my local router page through it.
Terrible.
Yeah it's so annoying. Hitting back and stopping loading (or just hitting back) usually gets me to the page.
zparky commented on ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations github.com/st-tech/ppf-co... · Posted by u/vintagedave
What value do all the emojis provide?
yeah its pretty funny, i wonder if they prompted the llm to put as many emojis in as possible:
<edit> forgot hn doesnt show emojis, so ill just link to the paragraph: https://github.com/st-tech/ppf-contact-solver?tab=readme-ov-...
8 emojis in 2 sentences, lol
zparky commented on Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Jtsummers
What mass of hydrogen is needed per house to last a winter?
rough math: 1000 kwh / mo / house, ~30kwh/kg hydrogen so 30kg H per mo per house. idk how long winters would be, 8 months is 240kg of hydrogen, which if compressed to 10 bar is roughly 300 cubic meters of storage. kinda a lot of space. compressed to 100 bar is like 10kg/m3 which sounds more manageable
Woah so Riot broke League on Linux? I guess they probably did the math but that seems like a bold move.
yeah, and mac too, can't run league or valorant. vanguard is their kernel-level anticheat, and windows is like 95% of their market and the difficulty of implementing it on another kernel i guess isn't worth the <5%.
Same here, and I think it's because I feel like a craftsman. I thoroughly enjoy the process of thinking deeply about what I will build, breaking down the work into related chunks, and of course writing the code itself. It's like magic when it all comes together. Sometimes I can't even believe I get to do it!
I've spent over a decade learning an elegant language that allows me to instruct a computer—and the computer does exactly what I tell it. It's a miracle! I don't want to abandon this language. I don't want to describe things to the computer in English, then stare at a spinner for three minutes while the computer tries to churn out code.
I never knew there was an entire subclass of people in my field who don't want to write code.
I want to write code.