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Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:49AM (#49639410)
at what temperatures must it be kept to be foldable like this?
Re:SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:53AM (#48583518)
why?
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Friday May 29, 2026 @02:49AM (#48319887)
It seems like they’ve been optimising their models for coding. That’s what the benchmarks used in the article suggest at least.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @07:01AM (#47861801)
Who would lobby that? On the other hand there are a lot of entities that will lobby against this.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:59AM (#47861779)
Maybe SWEs just can think better and see that there's nothing they can do, and to fight against this is useless. Artists still hope they can change this somehow, which is impossible, the people with money and datacenters want more money and don't really care about the people that are getting screwed over.
Re:Stop Using Ollama on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:30AM (#47789818)
but if ollama is much slower, that's cutting on your fun and you'll be having better fun with a faster GUI
Re:Meta acquires Moltbook on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:44AM (#47332699)
This is a complete scam. They didn’t even protect the API tokens, and when the author was informed that Moltbook exposes all API keys, they claimed they would tell the AI to fix it and he doesn't care.
Re:Microscopes Can See Video on a LaserDisc on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:57AM (#47306012)
Gemini can watch youtube videos.

In this video, Tech Tangents reviews the Andonstar AD246S-P digital microscope and uses it to achieve a "world's first" by capturing clear images of video data and text directly from the surface of LaserDiscs and CEDs (Capacitance Electronic Discs).

Microscope Overview and Setup Purpose: The creator purchased the microscope specifically to document the microscopic structures of obsolete media like CEDs for the public domain [00:14].

Features: It features a 1080p sensor, HDMI output, and a flip-down display [02:41]. He notes the importance of the included remote control to prevent camera shake at high magnification [04:10].

Build Quality: He highlights thoughtful design choices, such as captive plastic inserts in the screws to prevent them from biting directly into the metal support tubes [05:51].

Initial Testing and Performance Coins and Wafers: The microscope provides impressive clarity when viewing historical coins and silicon wafers, where individual dies and traces are easily visible [11:30].

Magnification Concerns: He expresses skepticism regarding the "ridiculous magnification claims" often found on these products, finding that the high-magnification lens can sometimes be hazy [13:07].

Visualizing Video Data on Physical Media The core of the video focuses on using light refraction (diffraction grading) to see the physical encoding of video signals.

LaserDisc (CAV): Using a "The Mind's Eye" LaserDisc, he successfully identifies horizontal blanking pulses and color bursts in the disc's pits and lands [16:27].

Reading Text on a LaserDisc: In a major breakthrough, he discovers that by positioning a flashlight at a specific angle, he can actually read the end-credit text (e.g., the word "Keyboard") directly off the disc surface [22:54].

CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc): He examines a damaged CED of the movie True Grit. He manages to capture a remarkably clear image of the film's credits etched into the disc's microscopic grooves [25:57].

Additional Observations Optical Media Tracks: The microscope is used to visualize the distinct data sessions and track separators on a CD and a CDRW [27:00].

Smartphone Sub-pixels: A close-up of a Samsung S24 Ultra display reveals the sub-pixel arrangement of its OLED screen [28:37].

Conclusion: The creator concludes that the Andonstar AD246S-P is highly effective for technical documentation and hobbyist use, especially given its ability to resolve the fine details of analog video media [28:57].

legit ban, violating tos, using antigravity tokens for open claw token burning machine
Re:D Programming Language on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:29AM (#46986215)
I had an interview at Facebook 10+ years ago and my interviewer was the other creator!
it's a security nightmare. if you want to make it safe you have to take it's internet access away and don't give any write permissions - and now it's useless.
Sideloading is already painful. I tried installing Sora (which is not available in my region's Play Store). The phone didn't allow me to start the app (complaining about integrity) unless I disabled the Play Store Integrity Checks. It wasn't straightforward in saying what the problem is and how can I bypass the check.
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:35AM (#46275056)
Tax everything the company produces/profit more and reduce the tax on the human workers.
Re:NeurIPS best paper awards 2025 on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:07AM (#46157905)
use NotebookLM
Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:03AM (#45344957)
You think sanctions on Russia are not working?
> it would mean mutual destruction.

some religious lunatics would deem that worthy

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:02AM (#43534565)
Still working on moviematey from time to time - a movie recommender engine * https://moviematey.com/
Re:U.S. Pauses All Military Aid to Ukraine on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:27AM (#43254266)
Russia would never trust US. Russia would never ally itself with US against China. What makes you think they will suddenly turn on their ally China, to side with US (their always-enemy)?

Economically, allying with Russia is stupid, they're poor. The only way they are making it through this war economy is the fact that Russian people are patient and are used to bad economy. The average anual salary in Russia is below $10K.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:47AM (#43218038)
>We are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine and Russia/Putin knows this. If he decides to use nukes what are we going to do? What can we do?

They are not going to risk their security for Ukraine. They wouldn't risk starting a nuclear war over Ukraine, it's stupid, even for their standards

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @03:02AM (#43156903)
Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.

* https://moviematey.com/

Re:JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:09AM (#43023790)
Copilot in VS Code has model options, the new agent is available in VSC Insiders that will implement full features and show it's changes in a diff viewer. Jetbrain IDEs don't have the option to change models
Re:Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:20AM (#42791202)
the assets look good as a starting point, they may even be used as background elements
Re:Updates to H-1B on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:43AM (#42461292)
maybe he's not as competent as he thinks he is
Re:Sora is here on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:00AM (#42375099)
Not gonna happen in EU too soon, imo. It still works with a VPN so the fence is not so protected.
>WebKit is still a top class rendering engine and only about as buggy as any other rendering engine. Blink is of the same lineage given it is a fork of WebKit and Gecko is even older.

But we should have the option to choose. Apple is very anti-consumer, making all the choices (often bad ones) for us, giving us none. The court should rule to open Apple more. Android is open enough that you can do whatever you want, yet not complicated enough so people get confused with all the options you have.

Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Monday September 16, 2024 @02:11AM (#41553243)
watching sports is entertaining as you're watching highly skilled individuals perform at the highest level + gives you a sense of belonging; games - entertainment and skill development, whether those are multiplayer games that teach you cooperation and competition, or single-player games that is fun and in a lot of cases learning (through lore), developing motor skills, strategic thinking and so on; tv/reading - learning (nothing is useless information, it helps create more connections in your brain);

yet, sitting in ketchup is brainrot content - 0 value

Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:59AM (#41553169)
> I think it's pretty clear he has figured out how to "master" YouTube better than anyone else ever has by a very wide margin.

content for dumb kids

Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:55AM (#41244087)
I disagree with my Exynos S22 Ultra... Battery life is abysmal and it heats up instantly, a thing that got extremely better with Snapdragon S23 and S24. Hardware is still important
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:50AM (#41244058)
why? AI is very useful in day to day life, and having a phone with on-device capabilities is crazy useful even for those that like their privacy and are paranoid about big corpos stealing their data. I don't see any reason to hate these features.

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