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hackernewds··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
Their point is the effort vs quality.
hackernewds··on Automation Without Understanding
why?
hackernewds··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
One would believe a model scoring this high on SWEBench could maximize F1 score for a precision recall problem easily. What's the missing part?
hackernewds··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
I've used AI to plan entire 5 country itineraries multiple times and it's done better than I or any agent has
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
I take that back it does contribute since I realize OP's is paid and yours is FOSS
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
Bit bummed to see many posts pitching their own products (often paid) rather than give OP feedback which is the spirit of a ShowHN. There should be a blanket policy of disallowing that.
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
you should pay because you did not build it. same as how you pay for a burger that digests in your intestines
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
This is not related. This is self-promotion and contributes little to OP's show. Poor form..
hackernewds··on Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
surely, but it is a considerable concern? deflecting constructive feedback is probably not the best encouragement for others for a show HN?
hackernewds··on Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
"daily limit reached" on first attempt :/
hackernewds··on Facebook is cooked
Maybe you are too young to have noticed, but this is how Facebook used to be for every one. Until some a/b testing likely led to short term engagement boosts for news content and that's all you could see - especially during the 2016 news cycle with (allegedly Russian) political ads. Then people stopped posting, and others stopped posting, feedback loop and here we are.
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
the astroturfing here off topic of op post is unbearable
hackernewds··on Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
you shouldn't use autism as a generic insult as you have here
hackernewds··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
So the govt implements rules and a panopticon for penalties. this works for the FDA, why wouldn't it for the FCC
hackernewds··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
your anecdote doesn't have much to do with the reasons presented in the article?
hackernewds··on The highest quality codebase
> Writing code is the default behavior from pre-training

what does this even mean? could you expand on it

hackernewds··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
You are discounting his experience with your own, while your example is not remotely relevant to his flask game example.
hackernewds··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
Yeah at that point, just arguing semantics
hackernewds··on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
they are not though
hackernewds··on A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
> expert in human language development and cognitive neuroscience, Gary is a futurist able to accurately predict the challenges and limitations of contemporary AI

I'm struggling to reconcile how these connect and he has been installed as Head of AI at Uber. Reeks of being a huckster

hackernewds··on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
something left out there with government though is incentive misaligned and hence corruption, which is smaller in a private scale (exists nonetheless)
hackernewds··on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
The bigger blocker isn't the technology or the fleet. It's commercial viability and Luddite and populist politicians.
hackernewds··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
It's a joke
hackernewds··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
Watch some Hera games. The level of play is next level.

And Aoe2 is consistently getting official updates, there's 3 Indian and 4 Chinese civs now.

hackernewds··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
Spite and retribution is a thing. EA acquired C&C
hackernewds··on Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria
No crime should be described as "cool". Adherence is the foundation of a functioning society.

Although you could argue the law is not the best arbiter of mortality.

hackernewds··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
but I have to download and app which is the same as downloading Google drive
hackernewds··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
There is a case to be made for the convenience of it all enabling someone in crisis. It seems some of these prompts are arguably good to keep blocked.

Who is responsible for the real world harms?

hackernewds··on Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet
are you suggesting bailouts for the AI data centers are the new too big to fail
hackernewds··on Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
why train LLMs on preprint inaccurate findings?
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