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phodo

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    Comment #48501423

    In 7th grade social studies, I did a report for a class project, and printed the Karateka opening screen on my apple image writer as the cover page. I got an A+ because of that cov…

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    Comment #48440741

    >> "who wants to own cutting vinyl?" Well, Sega gamers for one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c744iD0_fWU

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    Comment #48291963

    RIP - last of the greats - hugely influential to me in his disciplined approach to perfecting his craft and overall grit - https://www.selmer.fr/en-int/blogs/infos/sonny-rollins-br…

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    Comment #47957553

    what model do you use?

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    Comment #47939474

    Great work. I wonder what the future "can it run doom ?" Will it be: Can it run AGI on a new quantum processor/ robot / bio-engineered cell. Or will it be Doom all the way down...

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    Comment #47919027

    Neat! Any cool stories? What games did you work on?

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    Comment #46381246

    Prompt: create a christmas tree in ascii but that is a merkle tree Answer: Here’s an ASCII Christmas tree that is also a Merkle tree (Each parent node is the hash of its two childr…

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    Comment #46270071

    My sister and I are glued to it, and she continues to destroy me, with consistent zero reveals and half the time to complete, as yours truly. We love this game. thanks.

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    Comment #46210981

    Will this be the new "pelican on a bicycle" test for frontier models?

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    Comment #45297694

    a few moments earlier... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

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    Ask HN: Futuristic and Sci-Fi Solutions to Fire Safety

    Imagine you are tasked with a step function (10x, 100x, 1000x) improvements in fire safety, containment on a large scale basis. What would you dream up? Cost is not a factor in thi…

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    Comment #42555457

    Good point. It’s 2 conditions and both have to be true : - Arrive first - Use that first arrival to innovate with your new AGI pet / overlord to stay exponentially ahead

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    Comment #42545085

    One view is that it’s not first mover, but first arriver advantage. Whoever gets to AgI (the fabled city of gold or silver?, Ag pun intended) will achieve exponential gains from th…

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    Comment #41863498

    you can use the iPad kindle app and it works great.

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    Comment #40629441

    Obsidian +1

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    Comment #40559760

    Thank you all for the comments. Got a lot of good input and ways to think thru the tried and true tools (enjoying ripgrep-all + fzf) plus the standard ai/rag-style tools. I do thin…

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    Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

    As the title says, I have many PDFs - mostly scans via Scansnap - but also non-scans. These are sensitive in nature, e.g. bills, documents, etc. I would like a local-first AI solut…

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    Comment #39181162

    What are some top indie games you would recommend?

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    Comment #37805610

    Does auto OCR work on iCloud files ? For example: I scansnap a huge collection of documents to a folder that is on iCloud (synced w desktop). It works great because it is so simple…

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    Comment #37302007

    What is a good book on how nvidia is run ?

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    Comment #36122656

    If on a mac you can always type ‘caffeinate’ in Terminal and it will keep your laptop on when you close the lid.

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    Comment #35683434

    My biggest gripe is that I cannot search playlists by name - especially when I want to add a new piece of content to a previously created playlist. I end up having to scroll throug…