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I admit that I don't know who Tyler Cowen is, but millions (billions?) of people have drunk coffee daily for centuries and if there were ill effects in the same ballpark as opioids…

Since he might not be known to most (especially a younger audience), the author is a writer best known for many of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were hugely successful i…

Sherlock Holmes stories are very interesting to read in order because they span a good 40 years. The first stories are set in the classic Victorian setting with horses and carriage…

I don’t see anything inherently wrong in a news site reporting different views on the same topic. I wish more would do that and let me make up my own mind, instead of pursuing a sp…

That makes no sense. No one sane wants to go back to a time where all mobile electronics had separate chargers, especially since the number of mobile devices we use on a daily basi…

Yes, thanks OP for sharing. I check HN front page mostly everyday and had no clue such sophisticated scams existed (I pretty much don’t use social media). It’s easy to think “eh, i…

"what model are you?" ChatGPT said: You're chatting with ChatGPT based on the GPT-4o architecture (also known as GPT-4 omni), released by OpenAI in May 2024.

Does it even make sense calling them 'GPUs' (I just checked NVIDIA product page for the H100 and it is indeed so)? There should be a quicker way to differentiate between 'consumer-…

You can install ollama with a script fetched with curl and run a llm model with a grand total of two bash commands (including curl).

If I understand correctly, looking at API pricing for Sonnet, output tokens are 5 times more expensive than input tokens. So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it …

If we assume that AI coding actually increases productivity of a programmer without side effects (which of course is a controversial assumption, but not affecting the actual questi…

Or Marvin, the Paranoid Android: “I have a brain the size of a planet and you are asking me to modify a trivial CSS styling. Now I’m depressed.”

I append this to basically every prompt as soon as Claude starts getting frustrated, to preserve my sanity: "Don't apologize. Don't say I'm right. Don't say it's a good idea. Don't…

The article that is linked in the post is a much more interesting read. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battl...

According to Wilkipedia, general average wages in Italy in 2023 were 48K, and SWE jobs are usually above average. It would be interesting to know from where Chatgpt sourced those f…

That is true but also probably misguided. Scientific knowledge evolves as new discoveries are made, immutable and unequivocal “truth” is the realm of religion, not science (which m…

I’m not sure how this decade is any different than the one that preceded it? The current console generation is 4 years old and it’s at mid-cycle at best. Games running on modern co…

Yes. For example I fed it a public tender and associated regulations in Norwegian and it was able to answer questions about the parts I mas interested in correctly and succinctly. …

Funnily enough, “AI search” (Recall) is one of the most touted feature of Copilot+ PCs. I’m no Microsoft hater, but their track record in implementing that feature at a basic level…

Diary in UK English can mean “Planner” or “Datebook”, and the article is from the BBC. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/04/diar...

I fed it an Italian Wikipedia entry and it generated a (relevant) podcast and summaries in English, so at least the input seem to support multiple languages even if the output is i…

Even being unable to see the eclipse live, I felt compelled to read Nightfall again, yesterday. One of the things I appreciate about Asimov as a scifi author is that he never goes …

I think the title is misleading. They didn't hire people to "train AI", they hired people to do a task that today can be successfully done by a LLM to check how many they would act…

Easier to use is often all that it takes. In Midjourney you get fantastic results just by using their discord and a text prompt. To get some similar results in Stable Diffusion you…