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Re:Show HN: I built an AI Agent that uses the iPhone on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:35AM (#44158171)
in case if anyone wants to understand how it works: https://github.com/kiranz/phoneagent/blob/add-docs/explanati...
is there a similar repo for machine learning/AI?
Re:Gemini Diffusion on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:11PM (#44064944)
Simon's blog explains things simply, without all that marketing/hype terminology. Compares performance with competitors. Love reading it
Re:Show HN: Chat with 19 Years of HN on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:27PM (#44024088)
was thinking about doing something like this for a while now, but you got to it. Very impressive. Great job!
really useful when you are travelling without laptop and you need to quickly fix a thing
Re:Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:39PM (#43946952)
do you have any example images it generated based on your prompts?

want to have a look before I try

Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:41PM (#43186666)
how do you know that this test doesn't already exist somewhere on the internet and LLMs were trained on it?
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:27PM (#42965064)
Agreed. Windsurf is a lot better
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:26PM (#42965052)
Windsurf is a solid tool in this space. CoPilot and Cursor are way behind
oh, wow. this actually works. I didn't know :) thanks!
Re:Perplexity Got Ads on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:33PM (#42597851)
A lot of non-tech people seem to be ok with Ads (e.g: Spotify/Google). More than 1 Unskippable YT ad is where they draw the line
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:02AM (#42586753)
Another instance of money doesn't bring you happiness or peace. Congrats on your exit.
Re:My favourite computer ergonomics hack on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:11AM (#42572908)
with a Mac and iPhone, you can probably achieve the same thing without any additional hardware
What Google should have done long time ago
Re:Memory is all we have on Thursday December 05, 2024 @06:59PM (#42334298)
I think so too
This makes sense, AI is a new phenomena and most people aren't using it on their phones as much as they use SM apps, camera. Battery life is one of the major reasons why people upgrade their phone (believe it or not, many don't just replace their battery)
Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:55PM (#41907198)
Don't all life's comforts work this way?
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:13PM (#41239291)
Love the camera on pixels, hopefully this one takes it to next level.
This looks great. I love that it's using YAML files that can be version controlled and shared.

I developed Just-API (https://github.com/kiranz/just-api) with YAMLs for automation testing of APIs.

Ask HN: Why do people expect free trial on a $9/mo subscription

You know how people don't usually ask for free bites of food at restaurants? But when it comes to apps or online stuff, even if it's $9 a month, everyone wants a free trial. Why is that? Is it because we can't see or touch digital things like we can with food? Maybe they don't realize that it's expensive for companies to run and maintain software. Or do we just expect more freebies on the...

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Providing/Improving basic necessities (such as public education, health insurance, access to healthy food, affordable housing) is far better than any kind of UBI.
Hi Nick and Ben, Looked at the demo. Great job! I'll be trying it soon!

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