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“Show me the prompt.”

No, it has some of the nasty trappings of a religion, like keeping women separate until you need to exploit them, but none of the good moral or creative literary parts of religions…

left hand: governance gaps, privacy, owning instead of renting right hand: nearly every employee of every org buying these things is sending almost everything to LLMs - or using so…

Time will tell.

they invest in defense stuff now, that's new! but. paul graham doesn't like defense stuff. there were plenty of great defense seed investments (palantir), and he runs the best seed…

if you want to tackle the POV of the true believers at Y Combinator*: look, flock can't be that effective if all it takes is a guy with a ladder to defeat it, right? same thing wit…

I haven't opened Office in years.

It may or may not be true. The people who made this modification and the other commenters didn't do anything rigorous to verify what they did. They just eyeball it. They could very…

Yeah.. just give me a thing I double click that starts After Effects and Excel.

It's a big world. There are a lot of places to buy oil from. And the balance of payments is not that complicated with energy - like where do Middle East OPEC members reinvest their…

From the article: > MESSA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZE MESSA indeed.

Four Lokos were indeed banned in Massachusetts.

metareview CRD420251034611 "non-significant reduction in sleep onset latency" means blue light has been conclusively observed to not delay sleep - it doesn't mean that blue light h…

what if i told you that there are randomized control trials that conclusively show that the color tint of your screen, blue or otherwise, does not affect sleep?

haha, what if you add a filter that hides merge commits? i appreciate that you are trying to make it possible for people who vibe code solutions to problems to get code merged by p…

> it honestly doesn't matter if it takes a robot longer than a human to clean your house it depends. in order for my slow ass Roomba to clean my floors, I have to move a bunch of t…

this is the unintentional HN humor i come here for

> perhaps i do need to be making an engine from scratch to keep myself interested you're not the only one. jonathan blow has made tons of money selling games and also needs to writ…

remember how there used to be people whose lifestyle was answering Stack Overflow questions? 3 years from now we're going to be looking at charts showing engagement from GitHub Lif…

It's completely academic. At 5tok/s you can process 13 MTok per month at concurrency 1. I use 5 BILLION tokens per week when coding.

what if fil-c could draw pelicans?

do you mean, that organizations now have access to Fable-ish pelican drawing?