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1. Factory limits basically. There's a limit to the amount of fabrication lines that can create ram. Combined with the market incentives right now to make high bandwidth memory (HB…

Not particularly. I'm not yet convinced people's mouse movements are unique enough to our identity that they're useful as a fingerprint, whereas it's very easy to classify whether …

Could look into addressing this. What are you trying to achieve?

Hi HN! Pierce here. Rotunda is a firefox fork primarily intended for agent use, which I’ve been hacking on nights/weekends. There was a [lengthy]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

So much of what Apple has lost over the last 10 years is a lower bar for what counts as good enough. You see this most obviously in software and marketing - the kinds of decisions …

As far as I've seen, local OSS video understanding models just really aren't there yet. I briefly looked at facial recognition models but a good amount of signal was actually in th…

Mostly wanted to fully automate the pipeline (auto-rewind tape, scan tape head position, etc) and iMovie is just using the same AVFoundation APIs under the scene that you can call …

Digitizing my old tapes was one of the most rewarding side projects that I did over the last year. I managed to get in under the wire (pun intended) of Firewire compatibility on Se…

Market used to be closed to all cars (2021-2025); only taxis and busses were allowed but that changed recently: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/creating-better-market-street-car... http…

I'm not commenting on the externalities. For that I'd also cite economic impact, job loss, occasional emergency services issues, etc. I'm saying the experience when you yourself ar…

Waymo is such an interesting case study. For most other ~AI deployments you have strong public reaction to the proliferation of slop, non-human failure modes, cost cutting at the e…

Fair point about the source, but the classification usually follows the mode of delivery, not the organism of origin. Many plant-derived compounds function as venoms once introduce…

At the risk of being overly pedantic, topologists would typically classify this as venom. Venom is inert if digested; it's only a problem if it gets in your blood stream. So arrows…

Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or G…

We talked about this model in some depth on the last Pretrained episode: https://youtu.be/5weFerGhO84?si=Eh_92_9PPKyiTU_h&t=1743 Some interesting takeaways imo: - Uses existing mod…

I used Serp via API many moons ago. The most interesting part of the company imo is their legal defense of different plans: Production - $150 15,000 searches / month U.S. Legal Shi…

I'm always a bit surprised how long it can take to triage and fix these pretty glaring security vulnerabilities. October 27, 2025 disclosure and November 4, 2025 email confirmation…

Seems like the live demo is bear hugged - been waiting for ~5 minutes now. A bit ironic given their landing page: Don’t make your prospects wait–ever again In its current iteration…

I'm not sure how concerned people should be at the trend lines. If you're building a product that already works well, you shouldn't feel the need to upgrade to a larger parameter m…

Pretty happy the under 200k token pricing is staying in the same ballpark as Gemini 2.5 Pro: Input: $1.25 -> $2.00 (1M tokens) Output: $10.00 -> $12.00 Squeezes a bit more margin o…

AdaptiveDetector definitely did a better job, will append these new stats to the post: precision 0.397, recall 0.727, F1 0.513, mean temporal error 0.307 s

Nice to see you on here! I used the ContentDetector with a threshold of 27.0 and otherwise default parameters. Realize I could have done a grid sweep to really hone in on a good pa…