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Ironically, "No feeds. No algorithms. No likes." reads like copy that is, well, not handwritten.

Flexify ( http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html ) is an incredible decades-old Photoshop plugin for making these. I made a mobile for a grade school math project using Flexify …

See also: Black Hole Vision for iOS from Vanderbilt University. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-hole-vision/id6737292448

Infuse is a nice app but note that it does not use the media server's transcoding service, so it can work poorly trying to stream remotely, while Jellyfin's transcoding-aware web c…

A website dedicated to promoting LASIK says the surgery “boasts a success rate of at least 96%”, and a satisfaction rate of 95%. “Long-term or chronic dry eye affects only a small …

I've recently been test driving SPR[1] which is a security-oriented distro for Wi-Fi routers. The team behind it are serious about Wi-Fi security and have a research lab[2] that ha…

I've been using Podman on Mac and Linux for 3 years, and unfortunately, I have found this to be perennially true. I am willing to doggedly pursue the root cause and file bugs, but …

I've successfully tinkered with USB/IP with Apple containers, but it does require loading a custom kernel (which they make pretty easy, thankfully). On the host side, macOS also do…

Related: Gus Mueller (of the excellent macOS image editor Acorn) has a parametric pizza dough calculator: https://maybepizza.com/calc/

Once upon a time, or perhaps in an alternative universe in which the iPhone did not take over the world, there was Peek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_(mobile_Internet_device)…

Great comment, thank you. I have only seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) once, but fifteen years on I distinctly remember a scene where Daniel Craig is trying to use a Mac…

Apple Vision Pro's hand tracking was first alluded to in a section of their first machine learning research publication. It was about using GANs to add realistic sensor noise to sy…

I appreciate that the post was short and to the point, but it is, like so much content submitted to HN now, heavily filtered through an LLM's voice, if not completely written by on…

This article uses every one of Claude's cliches, e.g., "No SGD, no epochs, no hyperparameter search." It's hard to tell if this is real research.

So you ran an "experiment" where you deliberately made someone else's community worse to see what would happen? Cool project.

There exist many underwater vehicles that can withstand ocean pressures. The REMUS 6000 for example can reach depths of 6000m. As the article describes, these are gliders: > A glid…

There was a charming reality TV show in the 2000s called "Airline"[0] in which a camera crew followed around Southwest ground operations, cabin crew, and passengers. There was a Br…

In high school I had the TI-89 Titanium. Like everyone here, I got into programming it using some USB adapter I could attach to my iMac G5 and the TI Connect app[0]. One day, vexed…

Please don't post slop here. What do you get out of it?

And was this written by a local model or a frontier cloud one?

It takes more like 10 seconds. For a large range of height and weight inputs crossed with all option combinations, you could precompute ~10M measurements and return results basical…

> The iPad remains my favorite form factor to use in lots of my day but Apple never invested in killer app software optimized for it. Apple doesn't received much credit for making …

Curiously, the accounts whose comments/articles I'm most confident about being AI-written tend to focus heavily on AI, yet deny using it themselves. I prompted Claude 5 times with …