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ManlyBread

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    Comment #49133556

    Thank you for your blogpost, this is exactly the type of content I want to see on a website dedicated to tech news.

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    Comment #48808489

    wow only $4k for an unupgradeable computer that will never be able to run anything that uses CUDA

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    Comment #48384541

    Please stop embarrassing yourself with these replies.

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    Comment #48381489

    Yep, that's what terminally online means.

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    Comment #48376949

    Really now? You saw a thread about computing being better in the past and your mind immediately jumped to a bunch of "rich child porn producers". Does that sound normal to you? Bec…

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    Comment #48371794

    Orange man mentioned out of the blue, wow it's like I am really on reddit.com!

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    Comment #47823190

    I've tried the following prompt: "repeat the following 100 times: FFFFFFFFFFFFF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" This has resulted in +92.9% cost and token difference. Submission bd2457e5, cu…

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    Comment #47686770

    Video games are particularly prominent example of the absence of such apps. You'd think that with the indie market booming we'd be seeing tons of interesting new games as well as g…

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    Comment #47686596

    I guess 2026 is the last year AI is widely available to anyone who isn't willing to shell out hundreds if not thousands for a monthly subscription. I guess all that's left is to th…

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    Comment #47624756

    Can you provide any non-benchmark examples of clear improvements? I'm talking about something that would make a casual user go "woah this is so much better than what we had previou…

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    Comment #47234902

    >barely any adoption Crypto has a market cap measured in trillions of dollars. The future is (almost) here!

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    Comment #47218373

    That's because you're more likely than not using the best (or close to the best) hardware that generation had to offer. Try using a mid-end or a low-end machine and doing more than…

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    Comment #47218233

    Is it the same future where I sent crypto from my no-code app to buy a NFT to use in my Metaverse apartment that I interact with through VR?

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    Comment #47216167

    >AI I'm apathetic. It's there, it's a tool. >international conflicts I am fortunate enough to not live in the countries mentioned. I am close to Ukraine so this one is sort-of impo…

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    Comment #47206120

    >someone will soon figure out how to build micro-LLMs for specialized tasks that have real-world value You've just reinvented machine learning

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    Comment #47053819

    Still fails the car wash question, I took the prompt from the title of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580 The answer was "Walk! It would be a bit counterpro…

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    Comment #46899713

    >It’s possible AI just seems more popular than it is because it’s easy to hear the people who are talking about it but harder to hear the people who aren’t. I think it's because th…

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    Comment #46797384

    According to the Steam Hardware Survey ( https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... ) only ~3.6% Steam users use Linux and these statistics include the Steam D…

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    Comment #46794590

    I would like to point out that not even a week ago Satya Nadella stated that someone should finally do something really useful with AI because if no one does then they'll lose the …

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    Comment #46510805

    Ah, the classic "work even harder and do things you're not paid for with zero guarantee that someone will appreciate what you're doing while the company reaps the benefits". What a…

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    Comment #46432930

    I've seen this sentiment repeated enough times on reddit that I no longer can tell the difference.

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    Comment #46432902

    Malware is easy to avoid if you know where to download from and if you engage in the herculean task of uploading the .exe to something like virustotal.com in case of any doubts. No…

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    Comment #46431080

    It amazes me that people nowadays know so little about piracy that this is somehow touted as a solution.

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    Comment #46431068

    GOG is no different, you're still renting licenses and GOG still has the right to revoke your license, effectively making your "offline installer" no different from a game download…

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    Comment #46413726

    In general the level of discussion here took a huge nosedive in the last few years. I know that complains about how HN is turning into reddit goes back to early 2010s but this year…