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Make a billion / deserve a billion. Ok. Given how tech has gone from nerdy underdog to Orwellian, Machiavellian, dopamine-peddling overlord, I’m actually a bit surprised people are…

So far it seems like AI is helping the little guy fight the bills more? (That can of course change very quickly, yes)

Historically it has fit reality, but yes, this time may well actually be different...

I just ask it for what I’m looking for (doing very simple “spare part” level at home 3d printing, nothing fancy or elaborate) and it gives me a starting point. Then I sometimes jus…

I just complained to them the other day! They were scraping our weather website to no end, very much including the disallowed path prefixes. Did end up just adding them to our WAF …

And https://www.x402.org/

> MPP provides a specification for agents and services to coordinate payments programmatically, enabling microtransactions, *recurring payments*, and more.

Are there any nuclear alternatives that don't include strapping low grade bombs to the reactor core (PRW/BWR: water separation -> hydrogen + oxygen -> boom, like happened @ Fukushi…

We needed a side project to give agentic coding a try, and created tensorspy.com together with Junie and ChatGPT 5.2. Tensor Spy lets you quickly inspect the contents of numpy & py…

Cool! How do you actually implement “Reverse-mode automatic differentiation with a tape-based computational graph” in rust?

Most web request cases where you care about performance probably have multiple parallel web requests, so there’s no clean separation possible?

Don't the models typically train on their input too? I.e. submitting the question also carries a risk/chance of it getting picked up? I guess they get such a large input of queries…

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If there’s an issue with the core then the salt tank can act as a heat sink in a way a battery can’t? The boiling / pressure water reactors all have requirements on active cooling …

Hi HN, we've taken a stab at reimagining fonts in the world of Gen AI. Rather than using prompts (slow, and how do you even describe a font?) we've pre-generated a large catalog, a…

Create "Message Me Now" SMS / Email / WhatsApp QR Codes to easily digitally connect with people you meet: have them scan a QR code to immediately send you a message. Great for conf…

Isn't that how most web standards got their start? One of the interested parties pushed something, then things evolved through the standards process? (And then it can of course get…

Create "Message Me Now" QR Codes to conveniently connect with people you meet: have them scan a QR code to immediately send you a message (SMS, email, WhatsApp) without having to g…

Isn’t it more of an “all of the above”? A lot of employees at successful startups & FAANG make most of their money from the stock, no? And they need to buy houses and send their ki…

The animation on the page looks an awful lot like autoregressive inference in that virtually all of the tokens are predicted in order? But I guess it doesn't have to do that in the…

> Scientists long thought that tiny turtles drifted passively with ocean currents, literally going with the flow. > "What we've uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming,…

This, plus the A/B testing of headlines to maximize clicks has lead inexorably to the current information environment. Our intuitions, outrage, and knee-jerk reactions are being we…

> After this article was published, a USDA spokesperson said Fong left the office Monday on her own accord. > "She was accompanied by two friends who she paused to take selfies wit…

Great work, very interesting list! Ideally the "% Limit" column would: 1. Be right-aligned 2. Have consistent formatting (i.e. same number of digits after the dot) 3. A little bar …

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