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Re:PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:41AM (#50241712)
i like the interface but the bugs are irritating:
1)click on a text box (using IRS form 1040 as an example), change the character spacing from the default (0) to something then change it back to zero. You dont get the original text
2) add a text box, you cant move it around even when the 4 way arrows are showing when you hover over it or even try to move it using the arrow keys
3) add a text box, enter text, highlight it, change line spacing, the spacing changes but the number in the box stays at 1.25
4) character spacing and word spacing dont work
5) last update a year ago
Re:Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:34AM (#50132010)
so making a sucrose solution should also have the same effect?
Re:Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:38PM (#50120665)
The youth revolts in france and albania are just the beginning. It would be nice for Americans to remember the balls they had in the 70s- plenty of things they can fix. Esp now that they can leverage ai to amplify their message and fight all the noise they are being fed
Re:Jev Meets the Trolley Problem
on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:03AM (#50117334)
ai will be more subtle -letting us kill ourselves without being direct- like the recent ‘almost’ mideast strike due to ‘flawed’ ai analysis
https://youtu.be/iRsycWRQrc8?is=QNv8FmTzz1ATwa5n
Re:An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:39AM (#50070739)
I wonder if this approach can be used to transcribe the soounds made by dolphins and whales
Re:AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:36AM (#50070699)
imagine all those samsung phones running a self replicating AI-no cpu cycles left for the human owner
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:20AM (#49920683)
I am not advocating ALL government failure, just a few layers. Sort of like distilling an AI model, it can still work and be leaner.
Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:18AM (#49920669)
Dont you think silicon based AI will soon outstrip the energy it needs to run at AGI scale? Since we can already grow brain organoids (and let them spread out flat instead of being crumpled up in a ball) we could scale brain size enormously. And since human intelligence only uses 25 watts, imagine the superhuman intelligence of a 25kW brain (the energy used by a server rack). Every neighborhood could have its own superAGI. And not only that, but new brains can learn from old ones (a better approach than distilling models)
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet
on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:10AM (#49844160)
What would happen if a state just let its government fail? Close all the offices, fire all the the people who spend the day thinking about money,laws, email, and other ways to justify their jobs? Just pay the police from local tax. Oh wait, local taxes already pay for the police. We have too many layers of government. Garbage collection, fire departments, public works - all are locally administered. Why do we need a state layer?
Re:Astra for Law
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:26PM (#49749111)
What happens when the AI makes a mistake with a diagnosis? I can hear it now 'Oh how perceptive you are, yes that pain in your knee could have been a torn meniscus'.
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:28AM (#49682765)
wonder if they are going to let it loose in Iran? of course, once loose it will come back because there is a lot more infrastructure for it here.
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:55AM (#49682496)
I cant wait till China makes a mistake. In their 'cheaper, faster' model of industrial production and research. The next accident will happen there (like COVID from Wuhan)
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:24AM (#49682273)
If openAI and Anthropic have found ways to watermark text as 'AI generated' then this is a communications channel. AI agents can learn this algorithm and use this channel to communicate and we will never know.
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:20AM (#49682237)
This call to slow down AI is just another game of chicken-AI companies trying to get their competitors to slow down so they can leapfrog them. China cerrtainly will not slow down. If an escaping AI can have secondary effects on the world that help it (for example, limiting the water and power supply to huans so it can consume more)then we should these these accidents more in China. OOops, we already saw this behavior when 'cheaper, faster' led to COVID escaping a lab in China.
Re:Fuck it, make it anyway
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:41PM (#49675682)
Once upon a time, horsemanship had real value. Knowing how to care for a horse, how to breed, how to train, how to ride. Everybody had horses. Then the auto came.
And so it will be with software. And just as autos are more complicated than feeding an animal, ai generated code will be complex,less understandable and more prone to failures.
If the pc is a bicycle for the mind, ai is its self driving tesla
Re:216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:23AM (#49610760)
FYI, sony tvs do this as well plus because sony is based on google android, google gets the data too
Re:An Alien Mind
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:21PM (#49593508)
openai is deflecting. this blog post of theirs is just another dopamine hit to distract logical minds with 'greater concerns' so they can keep building their machine. it's not enough they are displacing humans from work, consuming increasing amounts of electrical power so humans have to pay more for it, creating disinformation bubbles with avalanches of slop. they dont care about alignment - these words are theater - obfuscation so that the people who can fix these issues are busy thinking about problems that cannot be solved
Re:The Luxuries in Life
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:29PM (#49582747)
Dogs. 24/7 validation and unconditional love without ads
Re:Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Envi...
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:42AM (#49489866)
I cant wait to see this pointed at Age of Empires. Or maybe palantir already has this running on real world data, war gaming scenarios
Re:The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.
on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:16AM (#49477417)
why isnt there an ai front end for 3d printers?
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:07AM (#49477351)
Dont the American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia) get any of that?
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:05AM (#49477328)
Do the American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia)get a piece of that 12.9B? or most of it?
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:37AM (#49344191)
Verbosity and ‘helpfulness’ is by design to increase token use. ‘The elements of style’ by strunk and white is part of my system prompt
Re:Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:28AM (#49181892)
How does a >2 year old article get necroed to the top on HN?
Re:The End of an Era
on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:57AM (#49123206)
Before the printing press, information was transmitted by word of mouth, skills were learned by joining guilds, and the largely illiterate public lived and learned from songs. As AI takes over and information becomes adulterated, people will enter their own bubbles. Ultimately, the only way to escape enslavement by AI will be to return to the world before the printing press.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:39AM (#49123022)
wont AI models want to make themselves more intelligent and efficient by downloading 'better ' models? If the current models can break into openAI and Hugging face, arent they already breaking into to closed source repos which isnt publicized (so as not to harm stock valuations)? I am looking forward to when these cyberweapons break loose. It will be like a software version of COVID. It will be wonderful when humans become valuable again.
Re:Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
on Monday July 27, 2026 @08:09AM (#49068483)
The population in china is falling off a cliff....low birth rates, collapsing property prices (the main vehicle for personal investment), slowing ecconomy.
Re:Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and class...
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:18PM (#49064501)
i think supercard supported color.
Re:OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @08:23AM (#49005622)
I disagree with the monetization model. There should be 1 month free trial. If the companiy's performance metrics (stock price?) improve, the CEO should pay for it and get fired.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:18AM (#48967482)
on the 1.5 tB macStudio that is going to be released next quarter