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Literally the first time I used ChatGPT, within days of release. It wasn't so much panic as amazement. It took HN a surprisingly long time to come to terms with the fact that profe…

time to vibecode vista from scratch Ig

I remember retracing QR codes on graph paper to pass time in grade 12 physics, this was back in 2013/2014.

Cops bust in searching for his drugs, then accuse him of invasion of privacy and humiliation...

"NOT approved!" "The user said the exact word 'approved'. Implementing plan."

Bad timing.

Brilliant. They're repackaging the argument governments have long made about E2EE being dangerous to children.

Too bad that would hurt their bottom line.

How do you square (heh) this with Jack Dorsey axing nearly half of Block's headcount?

Blatant strawman.

I think the part about China is just about projecting alignment with the USG in hopes that this will result in Anthropic being treated more favourably by the current administration…

Now imagine you run a mowing service with 4 employees. Suddenly an unbounded number of people appear on the job market who are ready to work for your company at a 5% the cost of yo…

Show HN: A RL suite that teaches LLMs to introduce typos at just the right frequency for the output to appear more human.

Wow a human in 2040, very optimistic take.

The strawberry/seahorse emoji meme is like a century old in AI-time.

True, though stochastic gradient descent replaces all that human guesswork with predictable scaling laws. The hyperstimuli of the tomorrow will be nothing like what we recognize to…

>I think it reveals that comparisons to heroin use in arguments against TikTok are hyperbolic and disconnected from reality, by empirical data. I don't think that follows from your…

There's an AI behind the video feed optimized for keeping your attention for as long as possible. That is quite different from making your media more engaging. The logical endpoint…

>only 23%–38% become addicted Wow, only Russian roulette with 2 bullets odds?

It freezes sometimes, but I love it.

Cool idea! I got 50%. Without looking to deeply into it, it seems to me that the two double jeopardy rulings contradict one another somewhat?

Fun fact: the Chinese central bank is not at all independent, but one-party rule prevents monetary policy from becoming incoherent as a result of short-term political interests tie…

Indeed, the singularity has come for the University, and now the University's death rattles are heard in the form of academics writing opinion pieces desperately trying to grasp at…

>As an example, ask an LLM to do some 10th grade math. Inspect the thinking process. It can regurgitate the process and the rules but cannot perform them. It seems to me that the s…

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