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aka878on Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Replacement

What about the long term, the opportunity cost, the billions/trillions they are not making by helping someone else make it?

aka878on Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

Just tried it. “Double-check results using Google” is a great feature.

aka878on Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot

Świetne imię

aka878on Blue iceberg

Jesse, wake up! Wake up, we overcooked, Jesse!

aka878on Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

Stuck at 99% in iOS Safari.

aka878on Talkface vs Duolingo: Does AI Win?

There should be a demo video on the landing page.

aka878on Google: Advanced Image Search

Surprisingly uptight for a guy with a z at the end of the username.

aka878on The Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Prime Video, Lambda, EC2, everything in discussions still revolves around Amazon.

aka878on A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beads

I'm too dumb to understand the article but anything "on the Moon" is very exciting.

aka878on Show HN: GPT-4 Reverse Turing Test

Whatever method HackerNews is using to prevent itself from becoming Twitter is not working, based on these comments.

aka878on Goodbye to Google Code Jam

> a bit of a joke

You demeaning a mind sport just because something similar is used for interviews is the joke.

aka878on Zippyshare quits after 17 years, 45M visits per month makes no money

> every person has some form of adblock

Is there any data to support this? Doesn't seem real, even 10% of all users having some kind of adblock would be suprising to me.

Edit: wow, I'm way off, 42% according to https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users.

aka878on Command Line One-Liners

This is amazing, "Watch Star Wars via telnet": https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1713/watch-star-...

aka878on Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

A+ family

aka878on Sam Altman 'A Little Bit Scared' of ChatGPT, Will Eliminate 'Many' Jobs

Definitely, but it may not be chatGPT

aka878on Why backlogs are useless, why they never shrink, and what to do instead

“Everything further away than two or three works of work should go into a high-level roadmap.” - this is supposed to be a solution, moving text from one place to another. People worry too much about minuscule organizational matters.

aka878on Bard and new AI features in Search

I don’t understand Yann LeCun‘s reaction considering reputation of the company he works for - they should have already copied and integrated it somewhere.

aka878on How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

A lot. I remember self-hosting VPN and cloud storage (OpenVPN and Nextcloud) at the same time on AWS for <= $5.

aka878on Alpine.js

Horizontal scroll doesn’t work for code blocks in iOS Safari.

aka878on Ask HN: How do you work on your mental health?

Weightlifting in the morning.

aka878on Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?

“We currently can't use libraries with our stack” Interesting. Could you share the reason?

aka878on Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)

So you're saying I should move to Argentina.

aka878on JetBrains Ring UI

Funny enough, it doesn't work is Desktop Safari.