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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
on Friday January 23, 2026 @02:06PM (#46736399)
Someone else posted this on HN a while back -- https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-pixel-snapper
Maybe you can use that^ to snap the pixels to a perfect grid
I have the pro plan but don't seem to have access to it?
Re:Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @06:09PM (#44196237)
I'm confused by the naming. It advertises itself as "Thinking" so is this the release of the new "Deep Think" model or not?
Re:European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:40PM (#44034603)
What does “inject” mean here? Iirc, Israel did something similar a while back and boosted a ton of startup early on, but they quickly died off and they realized you need the scrutiny from free market VCs to create competition.
for a lot of startups
Re:OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:17PM (#43711353)
I’m having very mixed feelings about it. I’m using o3 to help me parse and understand a book about statistics and ML, it’s very dense in math.
On one hand the answers became a lot more comprehensive and deep. It’s now able to give me very advanced explanations.
On the other hand, it started overloading the answers with information. Entire concepts became single sentence summaries. Complex topics and theorems became acronyms. In a way I’m feeling overwhelmed by the information it’s now throwing at me. I can’t tell if it’s actually smarter or just too complicated for me to understand.
Re:GPT-4.1 in the API
on Monday April 14, 2025 @06:30PM (#43686985)
Does this mean that the o1 and o3-mini models are also using 4.1 as the base now?
Re:4o Image Generation
on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:27PM (#43477590)
Why won't they add benchmarks against o1?
Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:59AM (#43363255)
What’s the play for solo founders? I can’t establish a company and work towards funding without an H1B but then at the same time I can’t really afford an H1B without funding.
Re:AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'
on Monday February 24, 2025 @12:28PM (#43162263)
When r we gonna see these in production and actually used?
Re:TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevan...
on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:10PM (#43061287)
I tried a video 1:42 hours long and it told me it was too long. Increase the limit?
Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:52PM (#42845493)
But it sounds like, from that quoted statement, that LeCun from Meta thinks “open sourced work” is why China was able to surpass (or at least compete with) American AIs. Which sounds like a lame excuse for Meta.
Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:38PM (#42845380)
I don’t buy this at all. If DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same? Companies making proprietary models have the advantage of using w/e is out there from the open source community AND the proprietary research they have been working on for years.
Re:Show HN: Midjourney for Language Learning Videos
on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:32PM (#42248468)
First end-to-end automated story video workflow of its kind
Videos like these [1][2] are a dime a dozen and have been out for years. Surprised you think this is completely novel.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzE7TYwAYq4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az7KfOQkMu0
Re:Knowledge Growth and Specialization: Evidence from Oncologists
on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:32PM (#41747307)
What is the definition of “knowledge growth” here?
Re:Rewriting Rust
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:32AM (#41655160)
>And I don't know if it will ever be there. Progress on the language has slowed so much. When I first started using it, every release seemed to add new, great features in stable rust. Now? Crickets.
Is frustration with Rust on the rise? I just started using Rust few month ago and absolutely love it. I can't tell what's going on with the Rust foundation so I can only judge by reading sentiments. Nothing would kill my vibe harder than knowing smart people thinks the language isn't doing great :(
Swift needs to figure out what it wants to do and stick to it. Too many syntactic sugar and too many half baked concepts pushed through the door.
The System’s Neatest Trick [pdf]
Re:There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:10PM (#19098582)
"Private blockchains are completely uninteresting. (By this, I mean systems that use the blockchain data structure but don’t have the above three elements.) ... Consensus protocols have been studied in distributed systems for more than 60 years. Append-only data structures have been similarly well covered."
I don't entire agree with this. Yes, distributed systems and various consensus protocols have been studied for many years, but the cryptocurrency boom boosted public interest and applicational development in a way that would not have happened without it.
Private blockchain can have many benefits compared to centralized models. It's not necessarily better and it's more of a trade-off, but it does present solutions that's not otherwise possible. For example, in a distributed system, we can use IoT devices as lightweight nodes for quick validations. This can give security to off-site locations with limited computation power and/or connectivity.
In addition, there's now many consensus protocols that tries to solve or amend the three elements the author mentioned. For example, Stellar-Lumen's implementation of Federated Byzantine Agreement creates the concept of reputation on top of trust. The ledger network is public, and is essentially a directed graph of trusts. Anyone can join but other nodes pre-existing on the network may not necessarily trust your validations, so this at least amends the first element the author mentioned.
In conclusion, blockchain technologies are over quoted for their finance applications. To quote a YouTube video I watched, look at blockchain technologies as the operating system, and cryptocurrency as one particular app on the operating system, like your browser. It surely is over hyped but shouldn't be hated upon solely due to the public's mistaking interest.
Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:15PM (#18629425)
Can you give a summary of what has changed in the realm immigration after Trump took office and your personal advice for moving forward with immigration as a F-1 student?