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karpour
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About karpour
Socials: - github.com/karpour
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Software engineer and cartoon artist from Vienna/Amsterdam
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Comment #49166630
You summarize it well. Are you on the Fediverse by any chance? If not, you might enjoy it you'll find lots of people there who still make art, write code and are interested in lear…
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Comment #49156074
Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes thro…
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Comment #46453505
The issue with Whisper is that it messes up both names of both products and guests. What we aim to do is make new subs, but including all the product names and guest names as hints…
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Comment #46212506
It's so refreshing to see a proper website these days, no js, no cookie banners, just hypertext. Your part about still enjoying programming really resonated with me. I still get so…
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Comment #44949794
Great project, I had some fun playing around :)
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Comment #44858957
This really makes clear how boring web design has become. 99% of websites use the same standard layout, there's almost nothing distinct or exciting about any of the designs. I reme…
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Comment #44708905
In Eindhoven, NL, there is a similar system without app. At night traffic lights are red by default, if sensors in the pavement detect an approaching car they turn green in time. I…
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Comment #44190756
To be honest: not a fan. It creates a completely new image based on a photo, rather than fix it. The Einstein photo shows particularity well how pretty obvious facial features just…
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Comment #43833400
I recently tried looking up something about local tax law in ChatGPT. It confidently told me a completely wrong rule. There are lots of sources for this, but since some probably un…
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Comment #43821424
Writing a complete API client for the Internet Archive in Typescript, with proper documentation, proper typing, unit tests and integration tests, so people can have a proper librar…
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Comment #43649081
Just because your site uses cookies does not mean you need a consent banner to be GDPR compliant Unless you're tracking people or sharing visitor data with third party services, yo…
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Comment #43634451
I would say a big difference of the Internet around 2000 and the internet now is that most people shared information in good faith back then, which is not the case anymore. Maybe b…
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Comment #43633999
My take: While AI tools can help with learning, the vast majority of students use it to avoid learning
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Comment #42030021
I never really trusted dentists, and I was validated when I went to a new dentist my brother recommended. It turned out that dentist had an accident and had a temporary substitute.…
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Comment #41321183
Look up WinJS sometime! It was a really neat idea that MS sadly abandoned.
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Comment #40635193
Quality writing and sloppy ML-genrated thumbnails really don't fit together, but I saw you already announced that you will replace them with proper images, so this will be a nice r…
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Comment #40467308
I say go for it. Most websites are bland and forgettable. Every startup site looks the same these days. I'm not saying we need to go back to the absolutely wild early 2000s designs…
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Comment #39397647
This, not nearly as bad in the US, but a mess of private insurances.
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Comment #39388532
Artists should be able to choose whether their work gets used to train machine learning algorithms.
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Comment #39388431
Not a single line saying anything about training data.
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Comment #39192208
This is fantastic, the 3 different interfaces make a lot of sense, and having a cli makes it a breeze to plug other stuff in! I'll give this a try soon! Is there json output for th…
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Comment #39012498
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Comment #38699870
Congrats, this looks fantastic and will be useful for many!
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Comment #38628331
Yeah, Javascript/ECMAscript history is actually very interesting, this contains barely any information.
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Comment #38480025
May I say that it's refreshing to see a well-written blog post on HN that doesn't use uncanny ML generated imagery? Nice post!