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I lived a block away from where he crashed. It’s immediately next to the Santa Monica airport. I saw his mangled plane after the crash. Yes, I suspect he picked the Penmar golf cou…

Yes, but does a computer system or tool or AI need to be provably correct or 100% guaranteed not to cause harm to be useful? Alternative methods (human, simple rules) aren’t either…

Warning: if you increase the steps per frame it will break your phone. At least with my iPhone and Safari it stalls the entire phone.

I find Slack to be a necessary evil. I guess we have to use it, but it can also generate a lot of mental overhead tracking what was said in what channel. This got me thinking, what…

I used them in high school in the late 1990s... just to get an extra challenge. I had my dad's and grandfather's and I picked up a couple at garage sales. I still have a collection…

My sentiments exactly. All the formats were so poorly read that they are all effectively useless.

The momentum behind vibe coding is driven by an underestimation/misunderstanding of what it takes to build software.

So much about this seems inauthentic. The post itself. The experience. The content produced. I wouldn’t like to be on the other end of the production of this content.

So is using an LLM to write SQL for you like using a mitre saw instead of a table saw? I guess the crux is that you still need to do work either way.

We have Woom bikes. This is exactly what they recommend. Each of my three kids learned at different speeds, though. It basically turns your pedal bike into a strider bike.

I lived there between 2004 and 2023 and used to walk along the perimeter of the protected dunes. I didn’t know it was an intentional engineering. I thought it was just natural dune…

This usually means the military.

What a great example of an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym . This guy's last name is Heersink and he's finding out where all the boats sank.

This is disappointing. I thought Boar’s Head was the high quality stuff.

I was a CS undergrad at MIT and took the fancy math people’s analysis class for a math requirement and they used Rudin and it killed me. We went through like 170 pages of it for on…

Character 7 is still a bell! I always loved that when you printed ASCII character 7 on old machines it made a sound instead of printing a character.

I wonder if she also did a Google search for the same genre and if this is why she was retargeted.

Right now on HN I see Veo (deepmind.google) in #1, Gemini Flash (deepmind.google) in #3, Model Explorer (ai.google.dev) in #5, PaliGemma (ai.google.dev) in #11. I've never seen so …

I’m sure I’m being naive, but I was expecting at least one “crazy” and interesting graphic in this article.

There’s a game on Apple Arcade called stitch if you want a much larger and more difficult version of this.

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It’s because vulcanized rubber tires weren’t available until the 1840s. There is no sub for inflatable tubes and rubber tires. Without it the ride would be very very bumpy for a li…

Did anyone else think it was interesting that the difference between the two floating point images looked like a Julia set? It’s probably trivial, but I liked that.

Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm character drives one. He was ahead of his time.