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Reading the comments almost everyone seems not impressed at all and points at obvious errors in the samples. Meanwhile it's been just roughly over 3 years since we've seen an AI generated abomination of Will Smith "eating" (or whatever you want to call that act) spaghetti. Yes, AI gets things wrong. You could say the same about LLMs still making obvious errors here and there. To me, personally, this seems super impressive and it's clearly another leap forward. Not perfect, yes. But an improvement.

> even compared to the synthetic materials we are now capable of creating

Aren't like almost all commercially used diamonds these days synthetic as well? As far as I can tell, other than just for the sake of them being "natural" or for having weird impurities that add color to them (read as: subjectively better to some people), no one wants/needs natural ones anymore.

> Meanwhile the Chinese are going to undercut them every chance they get.

I wish they were, but I always wonder when people chime in with Chinese models what they are actually doing with those. I have an OpenRouter account and give various models a shot every other month, wishing for an alternative, but I always come back to Claude. Even more so since the switch from Opus 5.1 to 5.5. To me, personally, it's unmatched. Like a year ago it was very different, and I would use other models all the time. But honestly at the time they all felt kind of "meh" still. I just hope everyone is at a good baseline in a year from now on, so I actually have a choice. And then, as you stated, things will get interesting.

tl;dr: I agree

The one from Denmark (while not as cool looking, because ... you know, mountains and stuff) had much more appeal, though. Probably because it wasn't 1% blocks and 99% of Claudism rubbed against your face.

> B~ b~ but they would have used LLMs back then if they could, too.

"You're absolutely right."™ But they didn't/couldn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't own any Garmin stuff, but it's just been yesterday that I overheard someone in the office ranting about them, and how they are making a custom firmware for it with Claude right now. Are they really this bad?

> Why do they keep stressing the "games you already bought!!!" part?

To imply it being somewhat controversial, so people jump in and generate clicks.

He promised FSD and an affordable base model for everyone, for close to a decade at this point. Instead he dropped yet another car that's not legal on most roads and doesn't even solve a problem to begin with. Imagine what great things could have been done with the money and resources that went into this.

The "print on a shirt" example looks so bad that I can't imagine a human looked at this and said "Let's put it on the showcase page!".

The other examples range from mostly good to okay'ish at least.

> "land of the free"

Amazing development from idea, vision and lyrics to the current status quo.

> [...] since Toyota is (was?) arguably one of the staunchest and most stubborn anti-EV manufacturers out there

Wait till you hear about German car manufacturers. It's not even that long ago that e.g. Mercedes said that their target audience doesn't want EVs and they will never (!) give in to that market. Now look at them. All of them.

Excuse my wrong phrasing. I meant things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs at the time, not LLMs in general.

Marketing or not, this is an interesting development. Two years ago (or even one) things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs.

But I agree, there are just too many headlines like this lately, and I am growing tired of them, too. On the other hand that's just what's going on right now: LLMs are advancing, and they are advancing fast. The first real AI use-cases started popping up around 2015 when hardware was potent enough to do more than just the generic "classify this hand-written number", and we are just above a decade later now, with LLMs being even more recent than that. Things like this will keep popping up and be even more prominent once someone comes up with whatever comes after "just LLMs".

> I did it once manually over a couple of days. I suppose I hoped enduring the pain of waiting for the packages to compile would somehow make me smarter. It didn’t. I didn’t learn much.

Exactly my experience. Back in the day when all I knew was Windows and a couple of BSDs I wanted to get into Linux, because it seemed like it was going to become very relevant in the next decades. After years of slacking I thought LFS would probably be the ideal choice. Turned out it wasn't, at least for me. I ended up "learning Linux" with distros like Gentoo, Arch and later even Ubuntu, and by just replacing my production systems with Linux, which were still running on OpenBSD mostly. I have revisited LFS a couple of years ago and honestly didn't take much from it. I get the appeal, but it's not for everyone.

> Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.

Well, that's like the entire point of social media anyway, isn't it? People there will _love_ this. Ugh ...

that would be actually pretty cool and would cause more awareness for a lot of people. but something like this would go in both directions i am afraid, as with everything there surely would be people trying to do carbonmaxxing just for the sake of it, kind of like breaking a highscore. i am sure people like this already exist anyway, though.

Nice. This is exactly how I mostly use AI. Doesn't matter if it's code or an e-mail. I have the AI do the tedious work of ... well, uh, "working", and then ideally learn from it and then transform it into my own work, as I would have done it without AI, but just being much faster now. It also establishes a natural threshold of time/work ratio for me that keeps me from using AI for every little thing. Also it feels like I am learning something new with every prompt/response.

I like the concept, but I don't quite get what problem specifically this is trying to solve or what the main motivation here is. Have an all-compatible database that is essentially just SQLite plus some scripts?

Also those AI coded CSS gradient backgrounds got old really really fast. It kind of became a low quality indicator like Word Art or Comic Sans back in the day: You see it and immediately have a thought like "Oh, it's one of those." in your head. At least that's the case for me and basically everyone in my tech bubble ...

> I'm interested.

And so was I when I first read about it! I just looked for random YouTube videos that walked you through exercises of how to get rid of your neck hump and bad posture. Most were a mix of exercises that had you basically do the opposite, like lay on your back with a rolled up towel under your shoulders and push your head on the ground, or some general posture exercises like pushing your shoulders back and tense up your neck in a straight position.

I'd recommend to look those up for yourself, as I am terrible at explaining and not a professional, haha. I can't give any specific recommendations as I simply can't find them anymore. But trying to look for them made me realize again just how many there are ...

I got rid of mine for a year thanks to a comment on HN. The only reason it came back is because of my lack of discipline. It's bearable as I only notice it when I actively listen for it now. Anyway, I am sure this would just work again.

So there was a comment that claimed it was related to bad neck posture. Being a keyboard warrior in my late 30s at that time I suffered the same issue: Tinnitus and generally bad posture. I figured that even if that wasn't true, working on my posture might be a good invest either way. So a couple of YouTube videos later I started working on it. Turns out the process to straighten your neck - even after like three decades - with just some casual invest everyday only takes about a month or two. To my surprise the tinnitus was actually also gone.

As I haven't build a real habit around the exercises eventually a bad posture came back, and so did the tinnitus. Both are generally not as bad as they were before, though.

10/10, would do again.

Since when are "main cities" the benchmark for anything but demographic development?

> Some in <country> have X, while other friends in <city> have Y

Cool. What's your message here, though?

I got 10GBit/s down and 1Gbit/s up fiber in a medium size city in Germany as a non-enterprise customer. I even went to buy a capable router and SFP+ network cards for our main PCs and NAS to be able to enjoy it fully. A friend in Poland (close to the border near Cottbus) doesn't have an internet line at all and always relied on mobile data until they got their Starlink setup just recently.

Cherry picking and trying to make a point is cool until it isn't.

Similar experience here. I almost cried a little.

Opus, the codec, has been a thing looong time before Claude.

> Do you have an active VAC ban?

No, and never had one. My account is as clean as pristine as it gets. I already mailed them but never got an answer.

I have doubts in their reservation process, though. I signed up for the controller reservation as soon as it started (after they just gave the first batch to scalpers) and it was mentioned that they prefer genuine accounts. My account is over 22 years old at this point and has regular transactions going on. Countless games with countless hours, almost daily activity. I even got the Index back in the day and still use it.

Anyway, upon registration I was informed that my account was "not eligible". You are welcome, I guess.

This has been my dream ever since. Instead of encoding "all the knowledge" into those parameters, how about just making a model that has the same size, but all (or rather most) it does is reasoning? Just give it the ability to browse the net (e.g. language specifications, documentation and best practices) and just have it do its thing. Why does my coding agent need to know the population of New York, know a cheese cake recipe or the general lifespan of an ostrich? Just give it the bare minimum knowledge to think and reason about, and let it figure out the rest.

Sadly that's not how LLMs work, since all they do is "token prediction". At least the models we have to today ...

if sam altman didn't exists this model would most likely not exist as well

Is this really worth it, though? Throughout the years my experience with quantized models has been that they feel like a lobotomized version of the original. Doesn't matter if it's an LLM, dedicated diffusion model or some other dedicated task. Sure, they get the job done. But a lot worse. The only ones that can somewhat hold up are the ones provided by the vendor directly. Gemma4 comes to mind. However I suspect they have some secret sauce other than just "let's quantize this" since they have the original model and its data at hand.

There should be more native 4bit, 1.25bit and likewise models. Those actually work great while making them smaller in comparison. But I guess there is some reason for them being pretty niche.

How does this differ from electrobun, which they explicitly mention, but make no point about? I had a quick drive with deno desktop and don't see how it's better. If anything it's lacking in comparison in my opinion. But hey, we can build desktop apps with deno now, too. So they got that going I guess ...

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