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Stevvo··on Turning every radio into a radar
I'm not usually one to notice when I'm reading an article written by AI, but this one is really bad. Tone put me off from finishing it.
Stevvo··on Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
I always preferred Hot Pursuit 2. Swapping police chases for Nitrous Oxide felt like a downgrade
Stevvo··on Deus Ex
What a load of drivel. No, Deus Ex is not an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Something has gone very wrong if you're taking a silly story about the illuminati so seriously.

I found this author's take barely more coherent than the YouTube commentators he laments.

Stevvo··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
The frontier labs are known to ingest all publicly available data. Why would an open weight model be an exception?
Stevvo··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
It's a pdf archive; their idea is to scrape pdf that are public, then charge you to download when they are no longer public.
Stevvo··on Gemini 4 Carbon
If you don't have a general release date to announce then STFU. An undefined "coming soon" just makes people feel excluded and angry.
Stevvo··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
The Canary islands do not have space for a lot solar. There is some empty desert on Fuerteventura, but the other islands all flat ground is already used.
Stevvo··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Trump administration banned import of Chinese inverters unfortunately.
Stevvo··on New iMac with M6
Looks like they it still comes with a "magic mouse", of course the only thing "magic" about it is having a worse sensor than a $5 Logitech.
Stevvo··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
Pointless having a camera so small if you need a tripod everywhere because it has no image stabilization.
Stevvo··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
It was explain elsewhere, server not was vulnerable for the first 19 hours. That's why it says hacked in 19 hours not 38 hours.
Stevvo··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Or it's a classic crypto scam, the server is not vulnerable.
Stevvo··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
For all I know, it's a straight up scam. Someone already sent more bitcoin to the address to double the bounty.
Stevvo··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
You have not proven the key really is on the server. From a game-theory point of view I have no reason to believe it is there, and thus no reason to attack.
Stevvo··on Super Intelligence
The animation of the cursor distorting the art like a black hole is fun.
Stevvo··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
I've learnt more since the advent of LLMs than I did in the 10 years prior. And it's not just me; that is most people's experience with LLMs. But most of those people would also concur with your apocalyptic thinking. AI is the apocalypse for thinking, except for me, only I am smart enough and experienced enough to maintain my cognitive ability while using LLMs.
Stevvo··on QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
It's the end of open-contributions for one specific repository, that is all. It only covers QGIS, the UI application, not GDAL/GEOS and the other libraries that give it its functionality. Additionally, in the past few years the number and popularity of new open-source projects that do accept open contributions far exceeds the few old ones that do not.
Stevvo··on AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
This one is made by Russians. Their government has bigger problems to deal with. They turn a blind eye as long as Russian companies are not targeted.
Stevvo··on City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Much of what is suggested could decrease texture memory usage. If you add a masked dirt material on top of a surface, you can often decrease the resolution of the texture of the base material underneath thanks to the added detail.
Stevvo··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
That doesn't make sense; every game has a depth buffer, but not every game has motion vectors.
Stevvo··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
I'm on both $20 plans. Got more out of Anthropic these last few weeks. But the value proposition shifts constantly.
Stevvo··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
The actual headline is "Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving" ?

And the article contains no mention of a chip, its about a sandboxed browser from Nvidia.

Did the article totally change, or are all the comments here just engaging a fictional headline instead of the article?

Stevvo··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
The weakness of the Yen does a lot for Toyota. You can pick a new Corolla for US$14K if you are buying in Japan.
Stevvo··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
You can get Propylene Glycol or vegetable glycerin and vape that.
Stevvo··on Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
Doesn't work.
Stevvo··on Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app
HRTF spatialized audio should make your meetings shorter through more efficient communication. It's not about "bonding". For example in a traditional online meeting, it's very difficult to interrupt/interject but than can be done naturally with good spatial audio.
Stevvo··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
All of the components are out of stock in France. i.e. there are 10 different Out of Stock buttons on the page.
Stevvo··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
Wish Valve would make enough of something so that everyone that wanted one could get one. I wanted to get an Index headset when they launched that. I would check the Steam store page every few months, for 5 years. Every time it said "Out of Stock". It's still out of stock in France today. They design great products, but are useless at getting them produced in quantity.
Stevvo··on Navier-Stokes Announcement
That is not the narrative given in the OpenAI announcement. They claim to have started working on it after "we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved", on September 1st, that "we later realized was related to Levent Alpöge" on Sepetember 6th "After the completion of our full project and lean verification"

That does stretch the reader's credulity. I think most people find it far more likely the rumor was related to Anthropic all along.

Stevvo··on Navier-Stokes Announcement
They said they started working on millennium problems after hearing a rumor someone had found a solution to one of them. That's just bad taste. It indicates negative motivation rather than positive motivation from the start.
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