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rajatrocks

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About rajatrocks

Human Intern @ Ask Steve https://www.asksteve.to https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajatrocks/

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    Comment #43027387

    My tool is not limiting anyone's reach or suppressing content. It's giving people a tool to get more information, hopefully reputable, on a "fact".

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    Comment #43027369

    I'd amend that to say "Fact checkers *can* be a tool to silence the voices they don't like". The tool I built enables people to check a statement against the knowledge of Google Se…

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    Comment #43025650

    misinformation = getting the facts wrong ex: The lawyer who cited nonexistent cases from ChatGPT in court disinformation = intentionally misstating the facts in an effort to mislea…

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    Comment #43025312

    I certainly could, but it feels like that would quickly derail on specifics and that you have a point that you want to make. I'd like to hear it.

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    Comment #43025234

    I appreciate the definition, but I'm not understanding your point? fact-check : to verify the factual accuracy of "Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta." h…

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    Comment #43024993

    Thank you for the feedback! 1) 100% agreed. I would never release a tool like this that just used an LLM. But this tool uses Grounding with Google Search. So in this case Gemini us…

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    Comment #43024760

    This was made possible by last week's release of Google Gemini Flash 2.0, which includes 500 grounding requests/day for free: https://ai.google.dev/pricing#2_0flash Previously grou…

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    Show HN: I Built a 1-Click AI Comment Generator for Hacker News

    Hello! I'm Rajat. I built a Chrome extension that enables you to add "aftermarket" AI to any web page. As a PoC, I wired it up to a back-end API built with n8n, so now with 1-click…

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    Show HN: I integrated LLMs into Chrome the way that Google should have

    Ask Steve unlocks the power of LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini in every web page. It's like Github Copilot but for everyday work in the browser. - Create reusable prompts (“Skills”) t…

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    Comment #40393645

    Thank you, I appreciate it!

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    Show HN: Ask Steve Chrome Extension – Get AI help where you work

    Hi HN! When I was the Product Management lead for HR Tech at Google, I thought there were several opportunities to integrate LLMs into our tools to make employees more efficient. M…

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    Comment #39629420

    Very cool, thanks for sharing! I first tried out something like this in the early 1990s at VPL Research - one of the originators of the VR industry. They had a visual programming l…

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    Comment #16372770

    I had the same exact experience with 2 of my sons. Will start the third (5) on it (Teach Your Child to Read...) this summer.

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    Comment #14749967

    When I was an undergrad in the CS dept at U.C. Berkeley (88-92), Geoworks is where >everyone< wanted to work.

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    Comment #11249021

    I interned at VPL Research[1] in 1992 and they had a Mac-based VPL for controlling objects in VR called Body Electric[2] that was really fun to use - especially since I'd never see…

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    Comment #9495683

    "For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall." - this is pure conjecture being presented as fact...

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    Comment #9495564

    There's a great documentary by Greg Maletic called "Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball" - http://www.tilt-movie.com/ - highly recommended, and it blows my mind that he made the whole…

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    Comment #9476033

    I really like Cargo-Bot for the iPad: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669821/cargo-bot-an-addictive-i... Got Robot Turtles for the kids (4 and 7) and they got bored pretty quickly sin…

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    Comment #9463558

    "Do they know they're competing in the wrong race, and that the right race is not office space or number of employees, but revenue growth?" Exactly. I would add "... or amount of m…

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    Comment #9463222

    I still think there's a lot of room to do something interesting with social and mobile on the spectrum of Real Identity (Facebook) "Complete" Anonymity (Whisper). Yik Yak and After…

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    Comment #8017861

    This seems to be a popular, if misguided meme. I actually wrote a response to this on our blog when it reared it's head in Fortune a month ago: http://www.bunchball.com/blog/post/1…