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low_tech_punk

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    Comment #49073231

    > Three things matter today: Model. Data. Harness. *knee jerk*

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    Comment #48934778

    It's a classic scam. It is a 3.0 USB 7-Port Hub, not a 7-port USB 3.0 Hub. The number 3.0 is the model number of the hub, not the protocol.

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    Comment #48934628

    According to the stats in this article https://www.ycombinator.com/investors , we can estimate 98.5% of the founders are not in OpenAI or Anthropic.

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    Comment #48934581

    Is there a selection bias? SELECT * FROM yc_founders WHERE employer IN ('OpenAI', 'Anthropic'); If there are 7k founders [1], the graph only shows 1.5% of the people from YC. [1]: …

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    Comment #48865824

    Interestingly, I found the original nano banana also has the best latency/quality trade-off that new versions can't beat. This might be domain/prompt specific though. I wonder if t…

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    Comment #48860045

    Agree that good tool should be invisible. We want essential not accidental complexity in how the tool works. But good tool should also be fun and makes us feel productive. We can't…

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    Comment #48845913

    (1) The original zig code was probably heavily AI coded with lower quality, hence the bag. There is a chance that a full rewrite in zig might do as well but we will never find out.…

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    Comment #48774884

    If you click on the "create link" button multiple times, the menu would pile up vertically.

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    Comment #48774835

    I believe Wardgard has zero external dependencies. The three packages it depends on are all utils written by the author himself. https://code.haverbeke.berlin/wordgard/wordgard/src…

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    Comment #48689152

    all the emphasis on cyber security. feels like a reaction to anthropic, not a real next generation.

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    Comment #47939090

    When mixing languages, why does the English have Chinese accent and Chinese have English accent? Is it a feature or bug?

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    Comment #47843591

    I hope this puts more pressure to extend the software life-span.

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    Comment #47247710

    Saw the DOOM raycast demo at bottom of page. Can't wait for someone to build a DOOM that runs entirely on GPU!

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    Comment #46786481

    When I visit https://www.molt.bot/ with Edge browser, there is a bloody red screen screaming malware. What's wrong with the name?

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    Comment #46513404

    User: Hey AI, turn off my Mac AI: (after 10 minutes of deep reasoning) Ah! I found the solution. I need to cause a power surge in the grid to power off your device.

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    Comment #46493633

    Google's ML team really nailed it. There are lots hand/head/eye tracking demos made with mediapipe. I recommend checking out The Poet Engineer: https://x.com/poetengineer__

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    Comment #46404915

    No AI is appealing but there is the cliff problem. If there is one small thing the mini language can't handle, the user would have no chance solving it themselves. They might as we…

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    Comment #46178421

    Is it possible that the coffee drinkers have more social interaction with the barista and others? It's unclear from the paper if they eliminated the confounding factors around coff…

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    Comment #46075572

    I believe the entire web app was a mod on top of monaco (vscode)? Really great hack!

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    Comment #45888432

    A slingshot, A blind fold, A pocket -- Steve Jobs never said that.

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    Comment #45835540

    Everyone asks, what does the fox say, no one cares how the fox feels. Thank you Mozilla, now we know the fox feels like open source.

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    Comment #45649529

    IMHO, parallel tasks across multiple repos is not as useful as parallel tasks in one repo.

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    Comment #45592941

    Not all is lost: AI can still be acronym for Apple Intelligence.