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100% agree. Casual mode would be a winner.

I've noticed that Claude always defaults to really small text. They need to train readability into it.

Somewhat related: Patrick Winston's famous MIT How to Speak lecture. He's been giving this talk for 4 decades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Is Apple silicon really that impressive compared to LLMs? Take a step back. CPUs have been getting faster and more efficient for decades. Google invented the transformer architectu…

They also lied about having 100+ contributors to PearAI.

> A reassuring line that said Sonos ‘does not and will not sell personal information’ has disappeared [from their privacy policy] The crux of the issue. How value is customer data …

How much influence did Teenage Engineering have on this product? Did TE just design the physical aspects only?

Interesting to see an entire article based on an HN comment [0] from the CEO. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997

Very cool. Tried it out, it works!

A diet that you can follow forever is called a lifestyle. For many diets and many people, it's really hard to convert into a lifestyle, because the of the restrictions and predicta…

I just read thousands of words about a potato-based diet on that website. Didn't think my Tuesday was gonna start that way, but here we are. HN is amazing.

Keeping my eyes peeled on this. Really fascinating.

Creator of the site here. Thanks for posting! I've been meaning to update things with newer screenshots. Life gets in the way sometimes.

> I'm sure they'll get there in another year or so. Unlikely, if you read the article.

From the article: "Modem chips are trickier to make than processing chips because they must work seamlessly with 5G wireless networks, as well as the 2G, 3G and 4G networks used in…

Brilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!

This phenomenon generally cracks me up, where you see random (to me) english phrases sprinkled throughout foreign languages. SNL leaned into this, in a skit with Pedro Pascal speak…

Thank you :)

TFA mentions "UA platform" several times but doesn't mention what that means. Can someone enlighten me? Google isn't disambiguating things much either. Thx!

Fan of these interesting APIs, even if they feel experimental. Google also used to have a Flu Trends API [1], based on search query data in 25 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…