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To the defense of the models, the experiment was run with temperature set at 0.01 which is very low; setting this can lead to weird responses. My find-on-page also found no mention…

It’s uncomfortable to agree because I think companies should decide what they do and don’t allow in the ecosystems they own. But once an ecosystem becomes so pervasive & necessary,…

I love free+local. Can you add SVG->PNG with transparency? I never need help with any of the conversions you support today, but going from vector to raster would be super convenien…

Thanks for sharing! I tried using it for Thai language coming from English and found that the app understands me well! But I couldn’t understand it at all. It replied to my turns w…

Finally, pictures of the inside! That’s what I really wanted to see when I heard about this last year https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/28/ex-caltrain-employee-...

I've thought a few times when reading some funding announcement on techcrunch, "That was my idea!" which is super validating and nice to see. Some of these multiple-inventions are …

Nice game. But if this is just for fun please take out those horrible ads

How can I block traffic from bots using Metal?

Summary of original post written in ChatGPT style with no original substance… my guess is yes!

I searched for series b startups hiring for data analyst roles in the Bay Area for a friend. It returned lots of bigger companies that I didn’t want included. I also had no luck tr…

I tried to vibe code a web app with windsurf and found it appeared to do really well in the beginning. But I had to harsh the vibes in two types of scenarios it couldn’t understand…

I haven’t been able to get any AI model to find Waldo in the first page of the Great Waldo Search. O3 even gaslit me through many turns trying to convince me it found the magic scr…

30 minutes of play per 3 days is such a brutal reality to acknowledge. One of the most wonderful experiences in all of life so drastically limited by the society we’ve constructed.…

I have this strange hypocritical mental model which simultaneously dismisses improvements to Edge as irrelevant while also wishing and rooting for more browser competition elsewher…

My iOS Stocks app says S&P 500 is up 146.23% over the last 5 years. But isn’t that much too short an interval to evaluate in the first place in consideration for retirement?

Depending on the culture of the company, the product management function will come with a range of expectations from the powers that be — figure those out asap. Figure out the big …

This is awesome. About five years ago I wanted to solve the same problem of tracking my pots and glazes. I also noticed the many:many relationship very quickly and deliberated on t…

That kind of verification could be off-protocol. Perhaps a reputation or incentive system could help as well.

Maybe a social endorsement scheme could be an alternative to an invasive proof system.

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they’re from your bank. You never notice because you ignore unexpected calls that aren’t from family and you don’t check your voic…

I think there could be an aspect of social cooling contributing to decreased per-user engagement. I find myself considering my online comments more carefully now than I did 10 year…

I’m surprised that a followers-only post’s author’s information would be available to followers of original author’s followers. I would think that a non-public discussion started b…

Howdy HN! Some friends and I are getting away to an Airbnb next weekend to focus on hacking on projects and supporting each other building stuff. I’m really excited but I’m undecid…

I was expecting an expensive data export feature and updated ToS

If you work or worked at a startup, wouldn’t you want to leave a positive review regardless of your experience in order to increase the odds of your equity being worth anything?