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Unrelated: the frontpage says: > the root of the name [Akritai] is the same word that gives us critical — which is exactly the software this effort exists to defend. This is pure c…

You are confusing it with Lore [0], which is currently also on the HN frontpage [1] [0]: https://lore.org [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081

Now instead of making the comparison with an automatic lawnmower, what would you say if I use your argument when you let a roomba vacuum your room unsupervised instead of asking th…

Absolutely insane how people could have bought a bicycle that will become (partially) useless if they don't connect it with a mobile app. Even if this bike have the build quality o…

Imagine after mowing your own lawn with a petrol-powered lawnmower, you got some shades from the neighbors for "Robbing the kids in the community a chance for some honest labor. If…

Good grief, hopefully in v28 Lemay will also throw away the absolute crap that is Liquid glass. Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged i…

that's just sunk cost fallacy. The icons are also publicly available and can be used on projects conforming to the Apple branding, so it's not truly a waste. https://developer.appl…

OP keep saying the backend implementation doesn't matter, it can be trivially switched to something other than Github. It's not. The whole app you write revolves around Github's HT…

Saying that this doesn't use a backend is like saying serverless app doesn't run on a server

It's still predicting the next word. Somewhere in the gigantic dataset that the LLM was trained on, there is a phrase that says "gradient border" being in the vicinity of a CSS cod…

I was building an ergo split keyboard and was also interested in this problem. After a bit of searching on the internet, I found this: https://github.com/vlukash/corne-trackpad The…

People who love tech buy superdupersmart loudspeaker that will connect to every computer in their house; and also somehow control their superdupersmart coffee maker so they can hav…

They already have that, it's the Apple Support Community. Apple still manages to neglect most complaints on the site. Honestly, people have been complaining about Apple's decision …

Let’s use probabilistic models to find the probability of something being the output of another probabilistic model

I have had my fair share of terrible interview as well. The key thing I learnt is that the interview is an opportunity for me to understand the culture of the company and judge my …

This reminds me of Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School behavioral science professor specialized in "honesty", who was fired by Harvard for falsifying data in her research.

Seems legit useful, might be useful for migrating some of the AWS code to on-prem, or helpful when setting up development environment.

The page doesn’t state that all copy-pasting of AI response is bad. If everybody intend on analyzing the AI output together, definitely do copy-paste it in the chat The essence of …

That is propagation of CSAM. We already have way of dealing with people transmitting CSAM, that is to prosecute them heavily. You won't prevent people stabbing others with knife by…

When I bring my thermos to a coffee shop, brew the beverage in their own mixer before pouring it in my thermos. There is exactly no contact between their equipment and my container…

All this greenwashing effort by big brands are laughable. The cost of actually recycle any used cups would far exceed the cost to manufacture them. When just the act of using those…

People are gullible. LLMs generate tokens based on the previous tokens given to it. The LLM in Google's search box doesn't believe anything it was given; it is a Markov-esque chain…

A few years ago, when I was kinda active in the startup scene in my area, you have people selling access to cloud credits with penny-on-the-dollar price. The credits are given out …

Railway might not be even in the realm of high-volume clients for Google. For all we know they might be efficient in utilizing Google infrastructure. But most likely, it's just aut…