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I've always liked that HN typically has comments that are small bits of research relevant to the post that I could have done myself but don't have to because someone else did it fo…

Wordcels, rise up!

I've seen a rumor going around that OpenAI hasn't had a successful pre-training run since mid 2024. This seemed insane to me but if you give ChatGPT 5.1 a query about current event…

It's not totally obvious to me that you can get the economics of this to work. A Google search costs ~.04 cents to serve, whereas a frontier reasoning LLM request costs about 2 cen…

It's a funny juxtaposition to slap the "Pro" label on it which makes it sound more enterprisey but leave the name as Nano Banana.

Throughout most of the non-US parts of the western world voting works quite well using paper ballots and hand counts. Any organization treating voting like a tech problem is willfu…

With the advent of things like r/MyBoyfriendIsAI I was expecting a substantially different article than the one I clicked into.

Hey can you print this paper off my vape bro? I need to turn it in to my next class.

Every round Anthropic raises twists the knife deeper in SBF. If only he could have survived the downturn his Antropic investment alone probably could have papered over the other lo…

The problem is that the DNC establishment feels the same way about Bernie, AOC and Zohran as it does about the normal people that they can't talk to.

I feel like I see these two opposite behaviors. People who formed an opinion about AI from an older model and haven't updated it. And people who have an opinion about what AI will …

This is what the argument I read claimed, I haven't verified it.

I saw an interesting argument recently that the reason you get this type of verbose language in corporate settings is that English lacks a formal tense. Apparently it's much less c…

Does anybody else see high CPU and GPU utilization on this site with a process called ClineBot?

Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.

Mathematicians generally feel that a single number qualifies as a "product of 1 number." So 7 can be written as just 7 which is still considered a product of prime(s). This is pure…

> Middle-aged man trading cards Examples are Mr. Honda (74), Mr. Takeshita (81) and Mr. Fujii (68). Japanese are just built different I guess.

My experience is that HN's Overton window is probably on average 15-20% larger than most forums. That's not uniform across all topics though. So if you skew toward a particular set…

> On the face of it, HN should be terrible. It's a forum owned an investment firm as promotion for their business. I think it's at least as plausible that this is part of the magic…

I don't know about the framing of "giving up." But I think anyone who's been following election models since the original 538 in 2008 has probably gotten the feeling that they have…

There was a lot of contradictory reporting about negotiations and which said had accepted/rejected the deal. But one thing I think is undisputed is that Israel signed because they …

It's telling you what it's mining in the background with those extra gpu cycles.

The source of the error is this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/pfkel9/e... which lists Phelp's physical advantages including: "Size 14 feet = basi…