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mcpar-land

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    Comment #47692232

    it's not a bullshit machine because its output is bad, it's a bullshit machine because its output is literally 'bullshit' as in, output that is statistically likely but with no fac…

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    Comment #47127375

    https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinkin...

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    Comment #47065346

    I don't know. Which wing, and what's an example of the suppression they did openly?

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    Comment #47006710

    I watched the video and immediately tested it on my iphone. It's true?? About 50% of the time, typing "Thumb" resulted in "Thimb" or "Thjmb", while the visual feedback on the keybo…

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    Comment #46917390

    Do you think that LLMs are not biased / less biased than humans?

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    Comment #46913825

    > Being able to fire employees is a great use of AI and should not be restricted. Can you elaborate on this?

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    Comment #46825404

    I'm glad Tesla is pivoting to a product that can drop your bag of groceries in the worst case, instead of one that can slam you into a concrete divider at 75mph.

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    Comment #46720252

    This is the classic mistake all AI hypemen make by assuming code is an asset, like crops. Code is a liability and you must produce as little of it as possible to solve your problem…

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    Comment #46639138

    Is this some kind of copypasted AI output? There are unformatted footnote numbers at the end of many sentences.

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    Comment #46636690

    README oozes ai generated copy.

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    Comment #46607506

    Spotify has a history of intentionally boosting internally produced, royalty-free and/or AI music over actual artists. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin.…

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    Comment #46607417

    That's not "generating" the music with AI - that's isolating the tracks of existing music. Probably not generative AI at all, and depending on who you ask, not even AI. This is why…

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    Comment #46527420

    onedrive app doesn't come preinstalled on your phone, or aggressively try to trick you into using it.

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    Comment #46527368

    It is very funny to start your article off with a bunch of breathless headlines about agents replacing human coders by the end of 2025, none of which happened, then the rest of the…

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    Comment #46444829

    You don't have to go 'back' to find Palestinians alive, today, who can point at their settler-occupied homes on a map, and tell you the day they were kicked out. I think that's a r…

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    Comment #46444765

    Don't Get Distracted https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

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    Comment #46292167

    Personally try to do what better? Run Mozilla? Make a browser?

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    Comment #46292157

    > Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of …

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    Comment #45811784

    if you liked toribash, also check out Your Only Move Is Hustle (or YOMI hustle) which is similarly 'turn based' but in 2d. Closest thing I've found to playable Xiao Xiao.

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    Comment #45449663

    especially if you have a custom domain with google workspace (or whatever it's named now). my switch to pointing my domain from google to proton was totally painless, you can migra…

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    Comment #45349167

    > OpenAI created AI tech decades ahead of estimates. And they just signed a 100B deal with Nvidea. Definitely don't look into the financial details of that deal with Nvidia! > Ever…

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    Comment #45347858

    > As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the …

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    Comment #45044852

    > didn't google just prove there is little to no environmental harm, INCLUDING if you account for training? > There is constant active rhetoric around the sycophancy, and ways to r…

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    Comment #44974306

    My worst offender for scraping one of my sites was Anthropic. I deployed an ai tar pit ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725147 ) to see what it would do it with it, and Ant…

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    Comment #44737151

    A little disappointed to see Charm hop on AI as well.