Why “given” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Think about when the term was invented. It wasn't in the days of IRC, ICQ and forums. It wasn't even the launch of facebook (2004). It only came up after people used their real…
by OroPla · Oct 31, 2026
Indeed, ML is here to stay. But there's a difference between biology/chemistry and math, e.g. There isn't enough data out there on which to train MLs for the former. I'm th…
by djierardi · Oct 31, 2026
Bro you've got to be kidding. pre-release builds? Aphyr directly addresses this in this analysis. Furthermore, given the absolutely ridiculous nature of some of these bugs, and…
by d1l · Oct 31, 2026
There are converters for Ethernet to USB-C. Every modern phone can do this. The only downside (or upside given recent developments) is that Android is unwilling to download upda…
by OroPla · Oct 31, 2026
I used Cursor first, tried Claude Code, but went back to Cursor. In general, I am pretty happy with Cursor, but given Elon's talent for ruining things, I am currently preparing…
by arendtio · Oct 31, 2026
The question should really be the other way around - LLMs are just computer programs, and in general, computer programs are theoretically deterministic. Given the same inputs an…
by antonvs · Oct 31, 2026
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