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“Even thinking is often a sneaky way of escaping the existence; rumination isn’t so much about trying to solve your problems, as it is about going elsewhere in your mind to escape …

Why isn’t Fable 5 included on the leaderboard?

I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product…

I've managed to get quite a few interviews through LinkedIn jobs, though I'm looking for DevOps roles in particular, which may be an exception to the rule.

Same. Not sure if they are doing a gradual rollout or what's up.

Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;) One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new sli…

As mentioned in the article, Waking Up is a great option if you want to get into meditation. Highly recommend reading Sam Harris’ book “Waking Up” as well.

bogwog is saying that your site/product is obviously vibecoded based off of the frontend

Curious as to how many tokens are used per second of video.

Have any other states banned the sale of geolocation data?

I hope Ciechanowski posts some more in the near future. He has some of the best "how does this work" articles I've come across.

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

I feel like "the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process" just means that engineers were using ChatGPT to sanity check their designs and sug…

Naive question: is Claude no good at OCR? Was surprised to see that none of Anthropic's models were included in the benchmark comparisons.

The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.

You can do everything right in an interview and still get denied. It is truly a crapshoot in today's job market.

Fun idea, I've been wanting to create something similar to track which vocab words I have mastered. Two nits: (1) no need for a "check" button as other commenters have noted and (2…

Deliberately attacking a purely civilian object violates the principle of distinction, which is bedrock customary law the US has never disputed. > “better than carpet bombing” The …

Just guessing, but I assume because it’s arguably off-topic as defined by the HN guidelines. I don’t think it should be flagged, though. “Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or…

The OP of this thread is referring to humanity at large, not just India. We are all in the fight against climate change together.

Yeah, in short, don’t support the NYT. Their business practices are predatory and unethical. Use archive.ph to get by paywalls.