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When John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats started recording albums to cassette on his portable Panasonic stereo, he got a sound that was so much more lo-fi than what could be obt…

> The "product" is now selling data to LLM companies Incorrect; 94% of Reddit's 2025 revenue came from advertising, it's right here on page 81 https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net…

You assert that, but can you prove it? Likewise I can say that the model is biased towards rating the Economist's claims as 'mainstream' and 'bang on' because as a high-profile pub…

The current ID verification requirements for phones were introduced to Australia in 1997

> Claude and ChatGPT are not indoctrinating into the manosphere users asking about discounted cash flow formulae. You're defining an extremely narrow case and then saying bias is i…

In the same way that a photograph is not dissimilar to the thing it represents, that is, in the most important way.

vast oversimplification of the experience of brain damage

Maybe when the system can generate its own state, rather than that state existing as a deterministic output of its inputs, maybe then we can consider it to have the interiority and…

well we could [HN terms of service violation]

I didn't say there wasn't bot-generated content in the past. I said we weren't excited about a future where it was de rigeur.

I don't know what else you'd call the widespread and enthusiastic adoption of a technology that is designed to exploit people's trust in the veracity of images by mimicking reality…

Twenty years ago, I don't think any of us were excited about a future internet where we couldn't trust whether what we were seeing or reading was genuine. I hope one day we'll be a…

hey OP what's with all the carryology submissions in the past two days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279030 https://news.ycom…

Apple is smart to avoid betting the farm on generative AI based on large language models, which is really what we mean by 'AI' here. It costs a lot to create and to run, nobody is …

No, it's asking for my two-legged horse to have four legs

But we all knew what they meant and here you are being tedious about it

Misleading, because satellites are made of different materials to meteors. Satellites are the dominant injection source of 24 elements into the atmosphere, including Al, Cu, Ti, Nb…

well there was this previous issue in the crypto community where it turned out someone was not a competent engineer and should have stuck to their online exchange for magic: the ga…

What's in the files they've already released? Some of them are > 800GB.

Not enough money though. Not hundreds of billions of dollars.

didn't help Shed Garvey lol