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I was converting some PDF documents recently and I noticed a few pages were missing their text. I wondered if the text was white-on-white. I got Claude to check it, and I was parti…

And here's the rub -- the bots are "running" the latest "MacOS" and have no problem accessing the site.

Crazy that this single use console was more expensive than a fully-loaded PS5 at launch, factoring in inflation. The hardware is great, could make some really nice 8-bit games for …

It's an anti-freeze. Ask the people that survived the Titanic in the water :)

Agreed. I've started to use space now as the decimal separator and trying to spread the gospel.

Also, remember the bulk of AI users are using free models, getting terrible answers, and wondering why people keep saying AI is going to take everybody's jobs away.

I had no idea about this before. I just enabled it. You're eligible for free daily usage on traffic shared with OpenAI. Up to 250 thousand tokens per day across gpt-5.4, gpt-5.2, g…

They are. The "proposed" ones you see if you are a CN moderator show you all the crazy, biased ones. Those then get whittled down to the ones you see. The published ones are genera…

Nor the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu.

GPT-6 will solve this.

The end goal of AI is to create quasi-gods.

Sure, cameras (eyes) are mostly all that humans are using, but two points: 1) the vehicles aren't quite matched with the same experience and intelligence (right now) as exists behi…

What's the best way to apply it to legal problems? Finding bugs in statutes? (there are often statutes with wording errors, missing negatives, things like that which don't get pick…

Wild that shipments of Itaniums didn't end until 2021.

The four levels of competence: [ Unconscious Incompetence ] --> "You don't know what you don't know" ↓ [ Conscious Incompetence ] --> "You know what you don't know" ↓ [ Conscious C…

What kind of dystopian fuckery is that? It reminds me of the eBay market in bulk lots of used scratch-offs harvested from the trash: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/01…

Very prescient! That said, should AI tools allow us to create more original games? When you can now prototype something very quickly and decide whether to keep going or tear it dow…

Will Smith spaghetti was garbage a couple of years ago and now AI videos are becoming close to indistinguishable from real videos in many cases. Spaghetti 2026: https://x.com/dream…

+1 to the title being wrong.

To add another nit-pick to the list, the author confuses 18K as being four times the resolution of 4K. 8K is four times the resolution of 4K. (counter-intuitively to most people as…

I thought I saw a video showing they were color-grading The Odyssey in analog using old style color filters? edit, this user found the video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Don't want to particularly wade into an aspect ratio discussion, but the common thought around the standardization of 16:9 in home cinema/HDTV was due to the aspect ratio of human …

18K seems high. I did some tests for Universal once and we pulled 10K from some 70mm IMAX ride prints. 8K was solid, 10K was very borderline.

You're right, they've continued the 50% off on the new 80% off price. So it's now 90% off yesterday's OpenAI price.

Hasn't OpenRouter had Luna and Terra on 50% off sale since they launched? I wonder what will happen to that.