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You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick. Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need…

Theoretically, if we had a GPU so fast it could instantly calculate billions of digits of Pi, and a small hard drive, could this actually be made to work? Cache all the last lookup…

The Phillipines are a beautifully scary place to be. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, cyclones, typhoons, floods, epidemics, poisinous Jellyfish, and a whole lot more.. I …

It is very possible that Musk's predictions are entirely accurate but not in the time frame he promised. Which would actually be appropriate. I made a bet with someone at the outbr…

The AI would confidently give him the wrong answer, since it has no way to provide the correct answer, and doesn't know its own limitations. (Or however you wish to describe "hallu…

Good point. But I use Codex and Claude daily (work and hobby respectively). And there are days where one or the other just seems to have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Or …

Except that if you tried one-shotting your ticket twenty times at different hours of the day and different days of the week, you would have enough changes to make benchmarks even i…

> sn't the US building mass detention camps right now for all the brown people there? Why would you think that? > And arresting / detaining / demanding papers from any and everyone…

Let's face it - Grok is not nearly as popular among programmers as Claude or Codex, and that means that xAI is not able to vacuum all the data that his competitors have access to. …

I use the CLI often enough, but still most of my time is in a GUI. It just makes the diffs easier, the flow simpler, etc. As such, I wanted to break into jj via the GUI, and only a…

Very nice. Good Luck! Did the private equity buy the domain videojs.org (did it take control of the project and you somehow regained control after selling) or was this domain (and …

TL;DR Modern gear is actually much better than what they wore a few generations ago. More flexible, waterproof, requiring less thought, better and overall lighter. Even with lots m…

So, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites. You can choose similar sites by index. But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prev…

As someone who works extensively with youth, but is somewhat of a extrovert.. There are many reasons why people are introverts. Some of them are "broken" and could use a fix, some …

There is a popular [excellent non vibe-coded] web server called FrankenPHP; A port of PHP to Go bundled with Caddy. Are there any other FrankenProjects out there that have had any …

Wow!! Congrats to you on launch! Seeing insane investments (in time/effort/knowledge/frustration) like this make me enjoy HN!! (And there is always the hope that someone at AMD wil…

I read this headline and was like, "A look, an announcement by GPT!! That means that Google or Anthropic must have had a release today!" And, yup, there is Gemini in item 3!

That's a blunt way of saying it, but I agree with the sentiment. Which is a shame, because this is a project that could have had potential, but a poor name goes a long way towards …

I get it. This is a scam. The discussion is not about what you think it is. (EDIT: Or not, I don't care.) BUT the fact that we are even arguing about whether or not we should be pu…

Do we know if these were formed intentionally or just happened to be in such a form and were used by those that found them? Do we know if these were used more than once, or if they…

I have never driven a Tesla, so this is all anecdotal. Some of my (extended) neighbors are members of a family that live near each other. One sister bought a Tesla. The brother who…

While this is nice, it is not inherently related to an A4 paper. You could have memorized the length of a cheapo Bic pen if that is common in your area; Or a Parker or a Monte-Blan…

I love his unabashed attitude. - Larry hit spot #1! Yay! - Larry lost $130 BILLION in two months. 1/3 of his wealth. "I don't care!"

A better way to think of it is: If you got a dollar a second for the next 63 years, you still would not have gotten $2B.

In Win 11 Home, and want to add a local account and not change it to a Windows account, and not share my stuff with MS. No Cloud or "Backups", thank you. The option to enable a loc…