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Re:Silica Gel Took over the World on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:27PM (#43551520)
Ah, seeing that (apparently like-minded amiga386) came here to post the same thing: https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel
Re:Silica Gel Took over the World on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:25PM (#43551512)
Can't see this headline without thinking of my favorite cartoon of all time https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/sqap29/me_irl/
Re:Inflection AI launches pi chatbot on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:50PM (#35795865)
This is excellent! Beautifully simple interface. Took me a minute to realize I could start typing without seeing a blinking cursor.
Re: on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:23PM (#35519981)
Per HN Rules: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Sharing bc interesting example of AI-generated imagery as political commentary.
Re:Rotating Sandwiches – That's It on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:13PM (#35083643)
In case you think NeRFs don't have any useful applications
Re:Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:30PM (#31485003)
Totally—Imagen seems better at composition and relative positioning and text, while DALL-E seems better at lighting, backgrounds, and general artistry.
Re:Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:29PM (#31484981)
Would be fascinated to see the DALL-E output for the same prompts as the ones used in this paper. If you've got DALL-E access and can try a few, please put links as replies!
So... has anyone actually started a company to do this? I'd be a very interested customer. (Comment written from a basement office lit unsatisfactorily by cheap photography studio lights)
Much of the original cast plus special guests will do a live scriptreading of The Princess Bride this Sunday night to benefit the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Original Cast

  Cary Elwes as Westley 
Robin Wright as Buttercup Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Wallace Shawn as Vizzini Christoper Guest as Count Rugen Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Carol Kane as Valerie Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck

Introducing

Rob Reiner as The Grandfather Josh Gad as Fezzik Eric Idle as The Impressive Clergyman King Bach as Yellin, The Assistant Brute and The King Finn Wolfhard as The Grandson Shaun Ross as The Man with Albinism fka The Albino Whoopi Goldberg as The Ancient Booer and The Mother Jason Reitman as The Narrator

Re:Uber CEO Plays with Fire on Monday April 24, 2017 @09:43PM (#14190111)
BTW: unroll.me's parent company Slice has the exact same business model.
Re:SecureDrop – An open-source whistleblower submission system on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:07AM (#13652972)
RIP Aaron Swartz, who originally built this. He'd be 30 now.
So basically: this is nice, but there's no reason yet to think that this could be the way we slurp carbon out of the atmosphere and avert climate catastrophe. Right? Drat.
Re:Tell HN: Today is the last day to apply to Y Combinator on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:28PM (#12638572)
Yep, people (I) do. Or try to.
Re:This.cm is shutting down on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:04PM (#12102767)
This. was a public service. Sad to see it go.
My use case: I use Papier to write down the single thing I'm (trying to) work on. That way if I idly open a tab in order to start getting distracted, I have a reminder of my actual top priority staring back at me. Magic.
Re:Magic on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:31AM (#9094433)
My baby daughter is five days overdue. My three-year-old son keeps asking when he'll be a big brother. And my wife and I are trying to figure out how we'll do the grocery shopping—or even focus on a computer screen long enough to shop online—once we're juggling two kids. When I told my wife about Magic, she visibly relaxed. This service has huge, huge potential.
Two out of 1044. Eight people also decreased their pledges after we hit our goal, which took me aback for a moment—before it made me retroactively extra grateful that people had given beyond their comfort zone just to help me cross the finish line.
Six days since the end of my project (tgf.fm/ks), 15 of my 1044 backers haven't gone through. I think a bunch have fixed credit card errors over the last week. Three of the nine biggest pledges had their cards declined, likely because of the giant charge to an unfamiliar vendor—but those folks have been in touch directly to resolve the issue.
Re:How to honor Aaron Swartz's life on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:54PM (#8877846)
Thank you!
I've been doing it most days for the last six weeks, and I love it.
Re:Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:37AM (#7259057)
Google Translate: "Li Ka-shing, said through a spokesman, He never made similar remarks."
EMRo, I'm so so sorry about your loss and your family's loss. Thank you for writing about it. Please take care of yourself as well—and let others take care of you. Grief lasts a lifetime, but it won't always hurt as acutely as it does now. Along the way, you might find some of this helpful; I know I do. http://quinnnorton.com/revived/tips.html
Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:10PM (#7220480)
... and the speaker in that video: the CEO of Upworthy!

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