Night update, generated 2026-07-31.
21 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 6 points, 0 comments (discussion)
Sources: Bubbles (erock's devlog), Lobsters
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HN: 555 points, 155 comments (discussion)
Back in highschool, simulating different elevator algorithms was one of the projects I implemented during my CS class. It wasn't for the class — AP CS did not require anything like actual programming — but it was a fun project. A cool connection is that a spinning-disk hard drive (HDD) is actually k...
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HN: 462 points, 250 comments (discussion)
New Deepseek models are like Christmas for me. Really big fan of low cost API models, noone does it better than DS. Until VRAM price is low enough to run models locally, this is the way to go. The subsidized subscription model won't last, API pricing "feels" closer to a true sustainable business mod...
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HN: 342 points, 383 comments (discussion)
LLMs are writing as well as humans for people who think writing words is the goal. Printing presses also write words better than humans. LLMs are solving the problem one layer higher than printing presses, but still several layers down from the top. Note that LLMs aren't useless, since they have oth...
Sources: Slashdot