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This thread offers a really elegant way to think about special relativity. The key insight is that everything moves through spacetime at speed c. It's just a question of how that v…

Summarized by o3: 1. Why YC cares - VC “kill-zone.” YC says Google’s decade of default-search contracts (Apple, carriers, OEMs) froze half of all U.S. search queries, scaring inves…

TL;DR: YC just filed an amicus brief in the Google-search antitrust case. They tell the judge that (1) Google’s default-search/pay-to-play deals crushed the “kill-zone” around sear…

This behavior likely stems from RLHF training - at least for the part after the images of the scatter plot are given to the models. Models were probably heavily penalized during tr…

Hey HN! We're Yash and Rohan and wanted to share a small weekend project built out of personal need. Chat Apple Notes brings semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation to A…

If you had the most knowledgeable entity ever at your disposal, would you only use it to ask questions within your 'field of expertise'? AI used this way isn't replacing expertise …

A curious experiment: O1's attempt at decoding the Indus Valley script. It constructed a systematic analysis comparing patterns to known ancient writing systems and proposed transl…

Imo you have to really lack imagination to not see use cases. I can tell you one use case from the top of my head that you may like. AI tutoring, especially for kids. I'd built a v…

While I understand the desire to reassure developers, I think this perspective seriously underestimates the pace of progress in AI. Just 3-4 years ago, the idea of AI writing any f…

Very cool. I have been using Phonecall.bot which has given me great results.

Companies like OpenAI and Google give access to their latest and most powerful models to select companies and individuals 6-12 months before the general public. This means that tho…

By swiping you force people to ‘rate’ everyone they see. You can then use a method like the Elo rating system to match musicians of similar skill levels (or desirability?) more eas…

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