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> And, of course, I had an AI throw together a few images of what a Grand National version of the new Electra could look like. I know you hate it, I know it’s wrong, but like a buc…

again - who decides the system prompt? "it generated a complicated math proof" doesn't mean anything in this context, because the prompt was uncontroversial, it was "try to solve t…

> an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity. I'm sorry, but come on. this is ludic…

that's a study published in 2023, analyzing data that ended in 2018.

for context, 2 days ago: Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 )

> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM? yes, an LLM can write you a web crawler. whose hardware are you going to run it on? what is the bi…

> The energy would be better spent on zoning and building code reform. you've constructed a false dichotomy here. the government of a city with ~8 million people is capable of doin…

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections - 613 points, 305 comments, 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924

> The goal is to make Postgres easier to change from the inside uh-huh, sure. you want to show off "look what the LLM can do / look what I burned a bunch of tokens on"? you want to…

> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data wow, if you feed a bunch…

there are at least 100 threads on /r/askreddit and similar places about "what's your favorite short joke" and all of these LLMs have that in their training data.

> It all happened today. Only 15-20 pics total think about the distribution for "number of pictures a new Instagram user posts on their first day" then think of how far of an outli…

yeah, I'm also getting some cartel / illegal-or-should-be-illegal anti-competitive practice vibes from this coordination of having the "Alliance for Automotive Innovation" push out…

article from Reuters instead of a 12 minute video from some random lawyer in Michigan: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa... > A group representing major …

uhhh yeah keep the source [0] in mind here > On 30 June 2025, Lowe launched a political organisation named Restore Britain to advocate the deportation of all illegal immigrants in …

> Why is Grok just so sexualized? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_sexual_deepfake_scandal > An analysis of 20,000…

> Here’s the context: > That’s not a rewrite. That’s a free lunch. > The use case is narrow but real: AI slop.

a police officer was shot in the neck by one person. nineteen people have been criminally charged. including seven people who were not at the scene at the time of the shooting . [0…

Friday afternoon, the markets have closed, time to start shooting again. if the pattern holds, on Sunday evening we'll have some good news about "negotiations making progress" or "…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

the headline: "tech leaders say" the article quotes one tech leader. > Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, told Fortune that smart glasses are the leading candidate to replace smartph…

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mexican-lemons-res... I can't view the link because it's behind a login wall, but the first thing that comes to mind is that GLP-1 drugs a…

the final paragraph: > However, there’s also a third path for teams that want more control and flexibility without adding operational overhead. With Spacelift, you have all the too…

if she was committed enough to raising a healthy child that she was willing to skip an epidural and endure hours of excruciating pain ...do you think that same commitment might hav…

are you suggesting that epidural usage or not during childbirth is correlated in some way with athletic ability of the child, decades later?