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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:44PM (#50075692)
At some point Simon needs to move from Pelicans to something more complex. Every time a new model is launched by major Frontier company, I already know with certainty that first HN comment on the news would be about how Model is drawing the Pelicans.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:53PM (#49898528)
On a side note, The video feels so cold and the set where this was filmed seems a bit creepy to me.
Re:Show HN: Super Dario on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:30PM (#48896776)
who needs this AI-genrated game for real though? Would not I rather play the real Mario instead? this is clearly part of the joke!
Re:Focus on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:05PM (#48854898)
Boz, really? This is the guy who messed up Meta's "Metaverse" biz first, then introduced privacy invading tracking to all employees and now messing up their AI biz big time. Where is the Focus?
that is a fair point. The contrast between Meta and Apple could not be bigger here. Apple has billions of devices and yet they decided to use 3rd party models from OpenAI and later Google to build their AI features rather than building foundational models in house. Yet Meta did opposite: they built models (spending billions of $$$ and firing 10% of the company) for billions of users who rather would not use Meta AI features.
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:29PM (#48450381)
I thought this is happening for me because I have an old iPhone 11 with degrading battery, screen etc. Did not realize that this is so widespread problem across devices. Really annoying when that happens! Almost unusable phone.
Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:18PM (#48428597)
In a similar situation: I basically have just 2 funds in my retirement portfolio: SnP500 index fund (75%) AND Berkshire Hathaway B shares (25%)

from my research I know that in years where SnP500 drops too much (recessionary periods), BRK-B would soften the blow as Value stocks tend to do well in such times. And usually that works for me.

Re:Google I/O on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:01PM (#48196842)
AIAIAIAIAIAI...to<infinity>
Re:Days without GitHub incidents on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:16PM (#48012642)
they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.
Re:Southwest Headquarters Tour on Monday May 04, 2026 @12:59PM (#48011446)
I had one such tour at Toyota's TMMK (Georgetown, Kentucky) manufacturing plant and witnessing the efficiency with which they were making cars blew my mind!
Re:Let's Buy Spirit Air on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:50PM (#48003716)
> "Flights don't make money. Airlines actually make all of their money through loyalty programs and credit card payments."

If that's the case then how RyanAir survived and is thriving?

Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:26PM (#47938409)
I am getting an error that selected model (I selected Opus 4.6 and 4.7 later) is unavailable but when I tried Sonnet it worked for me.
sometimes if you have downloaded an app on Mac it automatically tries to install itself on iPhone due to some settings somewhere. Not saying that's the case with your app but I've noticed that with apps being installed on my iPhone when I install some apps on my Mac.
If anyone still has not watched Severance, it is good time to start watching that show!
Re:Apple at 50 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:19PM (#47606004)
The durability of their products still surprises me. I still own and use iPhone 11 (still it is my first iPhone when I switched from Android). Still getting latest iOS updates and functioning very well and may last for 2 more years. What other phone could do this?
Re:Apple at 50 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:50PM (#47605665)
If there is one company I'd say that has made a significant (positive) difference in my life, I'd say it is Apple.
Re:The Codex App on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:11PM (#46861599)
How does Codex mac app compare with Cursor? If anyone who tried both can explain here?

My experience with Cursor is generally good and I like that it gives me UX of using VS Code and also allows selection of multiple models to choose if one model is stuck on the prompt and does not work.

Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:34AM (#46385388)
Folks who have some extra time this Christmas, do check out the tv show Pluribus on Apple TV. It’s not your typical action packed sci-fi show but is very slow burning, philosophical kind of show which I found very smart.

Turns out my best 2 tv shows of last couple of years are on Apple TV: Severance and Pluribus

Re:Claude Memory on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:53PM (#45689462)
Walmart therapist?
Re: on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:39AM (#45010931)
The thing with reading vs speaking to my emails is, it's much quicker and mentally less exhausting for me to just read and quickly reply or move them to folder in just a few seconds than having this kind of long conversation while driving and putting pedestrians and other drivers and myself at risk.
Re:OpenAI Progress on Saturday August 16, 2025 @07:17PM (#44927643)
It seems like the progress from GPT-4 to GPT-5 has plateaued: for most prompts, I actually find GPT-4 more understandable than GPT-5 [1].

[1] Read the answers from GPT-4 and 5 for this math question: "Ugh I hate math, integration by parts doesn't make any sense"

Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:34PM (#44595866)
This.

Recently I uploaded screenshot of movie show timing at a specific theatre and asked ChatGPT to find the optimal time for me to watch the movie based on my schedule.

It did confidently find the perfect time and even accounted for the factors such as movies in theatre start 20 mins late due to trailers and ads being shown before movie starts. The only problem: it grabbed the times from the screenshot totally incorrectly which messed up all its output and I tried and tried to get it to extract the time accurately but it didn’t and ultimately after getting frustrated I lost the trust in its ability. This keeps happening again and again with LLMs.

Re:My Family and the Flood on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:34PM (#44577829)
Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.
Re:Grok3 Launch on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:56AM (#43087516)
Everyone seems to have a different definition for AGI. Is there some kind of standard there?
Re:Macrodata Refinement on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:47PM (#42911169)
You should give it a try and watch the S1 entirely. Based on your comment, it seems like you are watching it with a different lense. It is not a drama or thriller where you'd look for holes. It is about perspective of someone who is new to this world trying to blend in.
Re:Macrodata Refinement on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:33PM (#42903705)
Same for me. Severance is probably the best show of last decade. The last time I had such an engrossing experience was while reading 1984.

My other two are:

- Shogun (The depiction of 1600s Japan is so real)

- Resident Alien (Funny and heartwarming to see an Alien getting accustomed to life on Earth dealing with complex human relationships with their flaws)

PS: I am sad to exclude Parks and Recreation which ran from 2009-2015 so probably considered outside of last decade.

Re:Introducing Operator on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:34PM (#42807789)
I also do not like Chat interface. What I meant by above comment was actually talking and having natural conversations with Operator agent while driving car or just going for a walk or whenever and wherever something comes to my mind which requires me to go to browser and fill out forms etc. That would get us closer to using chatGPT as a universal AI agent to get those things done. (This is what Siri was supposed to be one day when Steve Jobs introduced it on that stage but unfortunately that day never arrived.)

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