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Granola terrifies me. It’s highly capable at summarisation, and seems to be free. What’s the catch? Generally speaking, if something is free then my attention or my data tends to b…

Once trained and fine tuned, can the model be uploaded or transferred to a lower spec server somewhere (eg a cheap cloud server) to use as an on-demand service, or does inference c…

The physical world has age checks when kids attempt to enter a premises with dangerous or unsuitable content - eg bars, casinos, strip joints. These seem largely accepted as a good…

Does this work? Appreciate honest testimonials from anybody unrelated to the OP or author.

I mean the current US president literally threatened to increase EU trade tariffs if the EU tries to get the big tech companies to pay their fair share of tax here. You can’t have …

Ah yes! Great find. And “ Press Enter a sixth time, and the program will erase itself this is to discourage you from using it frivolously.”

I remember that my ZX Spectrum 48k came with a big orange book of BASIC programs to type in. One of which was some sort of mystical “reflect on the runes” program that printed anci…

This was fascinating and a most enjoyable read - thank you for writing it all down!

Except that it’s an entire continent and loads of people do comply with it. You just sound ignorant.

Oh sorry - it’s actually quite boring it was called Radbench! I had this idea you could load workbench from a TSR RAM disk rather than endlessly swapping floppy disks whenever you …

Oh sorry - it’s actually quite boring it was called Radbench! I had this idea you could load workbench from a TSR RAM disk rather than endlessly swapping floppy disks whenever you …

Always fun to go and look up the very first software I sold in this archive.

How does this compare to [SOME COMPETING THING I WANT TO PROMOTE]?

Well that’s just snarky and not very nice. The guy has 30 years experience as a dev according to a sibling comment so it’s not as though it’s some vibe coded junk. Why do you belie…

I’m sorry - it was an attempt at a joke based around water pressure.

I can't help but like his altitude.

This doesn’t get called out enough. Although actually come to think of it, I think it could be against HN guidelines to accuse things of being Astroturfed!

Looks like the complainant blogged about it here: https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...

This is a horrible and yet not unexpected insight into the internals of Excel

Let’s wait and see how those three big IPOs go first…

Exactly the same problem manifests itself in Google Docs. Hit RETURN. New paragraph. Begin considering what you will write. Prompt pops up: “Help me write.” Every time. It’s incred…

Visual memory is really powerful and maps far more easily onto human brain’s experience of navigating the world. So it’s easier for many people to imagine and organise around a gri…

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This is sometimes exposed in front end browser code and I had an actual (non technical) end user email our support team last month asking if it was something they should be concern…