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This may be the largest AI-generated codebase right now, by a lot. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Frontier AI software development still falls short in the design/…

It's coming along nicely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware_encoding_and_deco... Also decoding on a reasonably powerful (non-accelerated) cpu is fast enough for 1080p, not …

Couldn't this be done on proprietary software as well? Have an agent fuzz an interface (any type) for every bit of functionality and document it. Then have it build based on the do…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951

FYI your browser back button should bring you back where you were.

Don't worry about misclicks, Google already tracked your visit when the webpage was loaded. Google One Tap works via a script tag from Google servers: https://developers.google.com…

Very nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay $99 …

Yes, but is the inflection point in 12 months or 12 years? Either way, it's pretty wild.

Dems and republicans both do their political corruption, Trump is something else. https://commonslibrary.org/authoritarianism-how-you-know-it-... What are the Top 10 Elements of th…

You might be right but consider these old talks: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8 Elon Musk talks Climate Change and Carbon…

Not everyone has the precise same definition of hate, and you know what they ^ mean. Elon used to be all about truly advancing society, now he only seems interested in gaining weal…

Yes, I'm doing exactly this with https://www.npmjs.com/package/jest-image-snapshot

This is a great video on undersea cables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFt9le2ytW0 "Sabatoge" and repair is discussed at 11:45

Trying out Double now. o1 did a significantly better job converting a JavaScript file to TypeScript than Llama 3.1 405B, GitHub Copilot, and Claude 3.5. It even simplified my code …

I've found decent success with Googles Cloud Vision API for transcribing cursive writing on the backs of 1000s of family photos. https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting I …

Yeah it feels weird to me too. Similar/inspired-by software is fine but if a commercial project were to rip off everything down to the style and design of an existing app it would …

Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/us/bush-encounters-the-su... You seem very convinced that the NYT pulled this notion from thin air and Bush was experiencing …

> React’s logical model of recreating the UI on change of state is incredibly difficult to do right at scale. By that I mean that as applications and teams get larger, the chances …

For years, when searching "Firefox" on the Google Play store, the only way to install apps on most Android devices, the first result would be a Google ad for Chrome.

I actually love them a lot! Came here to comment about how great they are. Why the hate?

It's my understanding that, in ideal but realistic conditions, it's more efficient to burn fuel in a powerplant and use the generated electricity to run a heatpump, than it is to j…

I've also been using it on a 14" M1 MacBook since launch (Oct 2021). I'm currently at 86% battery health. I keep it at ~80% limit normally with occasional charges to 100% for long …

Related: for MacOS, AlDente allows you to set a battery charge limit. https://apphousekitchen.com/ I've been using it successfully for around a year. It works pretty well sans a co…

Same on firefox/osx