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My mother is going on 5 years with multiple myeloma, a cancer that would have offed her in 5 months if it weren’t for advances in maintenance chemotherapy. Medicine has done amazin…

It can also backfire. AI slop ads and marketing material imply cut corners and poor quality products. If a bakery isn’t going to bother touching up its AI slop banner, I don’t expe…

AI research has always been a series of occasional great leaps between slogs of iterative improvements, from Turing and Rosenblatt to AlexNet and GPT-3. The LLM era will result in …

Phreaking in 2025

Out of curiosity, what would the minimum specs need to be in order to run this locally? My PC is just good enough to run a DeepSeek distill. Is that on par with the requirements fo…

I’m not sure it’s one or the other. Firing off a prompt to Claude Code and letting it rip can be great for productivity but I won’t pretend I’m reading every line it writes unless …

Cursor and Claude Code were the asskicking I needed to finally get on the typescript bandwagon. Strong typing drastically reduces hallucinations and wtf bugs that slip through code…

Could put it in a ChatGPT project description or Cursor rules to avoid copy pasting every time.

I understand a significant portion of Tesla’s sales are in China and there is fierce competition from homegrown firms like BYD. TFA mentions this but doesn’t get into much detail.

“When you loan money to a friend, be prepared to lose the money or the friend” is a maxim I’ve lived by and has guided me through some tough decisions over time.

I’ve also seen this happen in NYS. Tenants do the craziest shit (selling showers to crackheads and discovering a near thousand dollar water bill was one of the tamer tales), fight …

Boston was a mess before the big dig. Enough ink has been spilled over how long it took, but just about everybody agrees the city is better for it.

Not SK in particular but the point of all of this in general, especially for those who have reached such heights. 63 is a young age to die in a rich country, especially for a corpo…

Heart attack at 63. What a shame. Guy worked at the company longer than I’ve been alive and all he has to show for it is an inheritance and obituary. Makes you wonder what we’re wo…

Russian helicopters in the early days of the Ukraine war had “To Berlin” painted on them in Cyrillic.

I’m not surprised most of their usage is for coding tasks, but I wonder if that reflects a kind of selection bias. HN and programming subreddits rave about Claude for coding, so it…

Advertising?

Grocery shopping is just a use case for people to wrap their heads around. Everyone has to eat. If they demonstrated a big value add like automating CRM a smaller subset of profess…

Korea is not the best example to prove your point. SK is per capita equivalent to Japan[1]. The Korean War was a tie and in the long run it’s clear which side is better off. [1] ht…

I can’t think of any way where a social media app using bots to discourage wrongthink doesn’t come across as dystopian, and also a little sad.

Is a startup that has to make do with the funding it has abusing the system by hiring an H1B? “Raise more money” is not an acceptable or reasonable answer.

When I was an Apple intern, Tim told us that technology only has an impact when it changes behaviors. Otherwise it’s a “gimmick.” I wonder which behaviors Tim has changed from usin…

When populations age and shrink, everything becomes more difficult. Fewer working hands have to support more elderly retirees. Less spending means less development, less maintenanc…

Not exactly the same, but Basil II of eastern Rome had his enemy soldiers blinded after a decisive victory and sent back to Bulgaria to be a burden. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Looks neat! I don’t work in construction but I know folks in civil engineering. Are there applicabilities with Fresco you could see in that domain?