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Re:Amazon Nova Foundation Models on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:50PM (#46113773)
They aren’t bad models and might be good enough (cheap enough) for a lot of use cases
Re:PRD-ware – freeware for vibe coding/engineering on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:39AM (#45516697)
Re:The bill comes due for Elon Musk on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:03PM (#41789466)
What a ridiculus click-bait headline... Let's just imagine for a second that at the event tomorrow, Elon demos a toaster instead of anything FSD related. The stock would drop for a bit, but nothing else fundamental about the business would change and the business is still a cash generating juggernaught.

I can't wait until we have personal AIs to read and filter this drivel for us to the point that it becomes useless to post it!

Worth it
Re:Moving objects precisely with sound on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:55AM (#40821213)
I'm actually more interested in doing this at the larger macro scale than the micro scale. Imagine the ability to lift heavy objects with only sound. Weight rooms would look entirely different :)
Re:OWASP LLM Cyber Security and Governance Checklist on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:34PM (#40060147)
bad link?
Re:Insurers Are Spying on Your Home from the Sky on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:30AM (#39953103)
Vexcel doesn’t use drones. They use manned aircraft. Drones are almost never used for insurance. There are a couple of companies that do, but the costs are still too high for it to make sense.
Re:Oracle Java SE Licensing FAQ on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:18PM (#38584917)
Did they change something? Because I know of a company that is currently being audited and was told that if one employee of the company installed the Oracle JDK, the company needed to pay a license fee for every employee including janitorial staff
Re:Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:02AM (#37476837)
Isn’t that exactly what this company is selling? https://www.torus.co/
Re:PhpBB on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:03AM (#36357769)
That's awesome! My first memory of PhpBB was using it for a developer job board in Utah and adding a VoiceXML script to it so folks could call a number and have the jobs read out to them - circa 2001-2002?
Re:The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:22PM (#34718424)
That’s what I was thinking too. It’s got to be hallucinating, right?
Re:Ask HN: What is a better, fewer-syllable name for ChatGPT? on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:14PM (#34685939)
What about Chabbot? :)
I made a risky bet in 2019 on GBTC that luckily paid off, but I was 100% willing to lose everything... I keep wanting to try it, but I'd need to be nuts post FTX...
I'd use shell scripts... Bash is the only way to ensure stability and backwards compatibly so that aliens can see the "public (yet commercially private) town square".
Funny I built this same thing (ours was SMS only) with someone I met on HN a decade ago and we even used the same landing page technique you have here... Swapping out the key word. I hope you have better luck marketing it that we did - you're off to a good start getting promoted on HN!
Re:Ask HN: Stripe holding funds for 120 days for no reason on Saturday October 22, 2022 @03:09PM (#33301181)
That would be an interesting way to solve this type of problem: make the payment processor pay interest on money withheld. Even at a low interest rate, it would hopefully incentivize them to figure out better ways of handling the risk. Are there any US legislators on HN?
Re:The world’s first laptops built for cloud gaming on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:45PM (#33171733)
Seriously - why would you buy this right after they canceled Stadia?
Re:Ask HN: Will AR be the next computing platform? on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:47PM (#32978090)
The 3 big branches of the next 5-10 years of compute are 1) AI (technically ML, but ); 2) spatial/geospatial; 3) AR
And it still doesn't do what I need it to... Guess I'll just write my own! :)
That’s hilarious. I literally posted the same idea on LinkedIn earlier today: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefferydlewis_bob-the-dog-act...
Re:Show HN: World's Largest Private Companies on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:54PM (#31287351)
I just looked through quickly, but it appeared that the segment with the most companies in the list is insurance... I guess Warren Buffet is still right...
Selling - in fact, I'd argue it is more valuable than coding as it can be transferred to any domain whether you are selling a product or yourself.
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:30PM (#30109632)
Sort of, but on accident. He expected the command he entered to trigger the Easter egg and print Microsoft 10 times, but on the PET, they had removed the Easter egg.
Re:Mortgages are a manufactured product on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:30PM (#29939167)
Is Stripe going to revolutionize the financing of residential homes? :)
Re:Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005) on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:41PM (#29571360)
Simple business "ideas" like cleaning, plumbing, roofing, siding, etc. that a million other people are doing can all be built into 6 or 7 figure businesses through solid execution.

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