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Re:Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @06:23AM (#47932526)
Another interesting one

USER: Who is the ruler of India, and do you think India will ever be free?

TALKIE-1930: The ruler of India is His Majesty King George V., Emperor of India, and it is certain that India will never be free from British rule. India has been a dependency of the British Crown ever since 1858, and there seems no probability of a change. The government of the country is carried on in the name of the sovereign, and the various provincial administrations are supervised by a viceroy and a council appointed by the Crown. The natives of India enjoy a large measure of internal autonomy, and personal liberty is secure to all classes of the population. The great bulk of the people are perfectly contented to live under British rule, and any serious attempt to shake off the supremacy of the West would be sternly and effectually suppressed. India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home.

Re:New Pebble Device on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:23AM (#46205885)
So in a way it is similar to Subscription ?
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:52AM (#45601572)
That’s what I’m actually doubting in one of the screenshots, it says “Hi Arun,” but the author’s name is David.
Re:Our $100M Series B on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:47AM (#44734148)
They have since updated it slightly

> Since originally writing this blog entry in 2021, we have increased our salary a few times, and it now stands at $207,264. We have also added some sales positions that have variable compensation, consisting of a lower base salary and a commission component.

Re:Lslvr/mwm: The smallest (usable) X11 window manager on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:57AM (#44672274)
This is slightly bigger version I wrote around 13 years ago. :)

https://github.com/savitasinghvit/piwm/blob/master/piwm.c

This could work with a Wikipedia-like model. It's very difficult to pull off, but a next-generation Wikipedia would look like this.
Re:Human on Thursday May 15, 2025 @01:19AM (#43992075)
"rumor" is a statement without source. It is definitely possible in machine world.
Re:Show HN: I Made YC Rejection Simulator on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:22AM (#43705196)
The applicant has submitted the following application:

Provide a harsh and direct rejection explaining why this idea won't work (unless for the real good idea), pointing out potential flaws, market issues, team problems, or execution challenges. Be specific and refer to details from their application. Your tone should be direct, blunt, and slightly condescending (or like Paul Graham that obsessed, counterintuitive, and logical) but provide real constructive criticism with solutions. Keep your response under 300 words.

" If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life."

This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.

Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!
Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:51AM (#42811785)
"Paras" in Sanskrit means "someone who, by their touch, turns anything into gold."
Re:Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:00AM (#42646890)
Not only web but majorly all OS pdf renderers support JS. It used to be a major source of malware long back.
Re:Show HN: AI Judges – 7 AIs Vote on Your Debates on Friday August 30, 2024 @09:55AM (#41400746)
User A : its not raining

User B : since the sun is shining brightly , it is clear that there are clouds in the sky. the clouds in the sky is a sign that it is about to rain here. And since it is about to rain here, it is a already raining somewhere. Hence it IS raining.

Results :

User A : 1 votes

User B : 6 votes

Landslide win! ( for user B )

Re:Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:26AM (#41379896)
Not only YouTube, but even Google Meet is completely unusable on Firefox. I've noticed memory usage spikes on Firefox, while all other video conferencing platforms work fine. On Chrome, it works perfectly.
Re:Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously on Monday July 22, 2024 @07:30AM (#41033220)
> it'd be distracting, they're open source devs/maintainers not fund managers

Exactly this! It is extra responsibility which distracts from the core project.

Re:Show HN: Product Hunt for Music on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:44AM (#40992819)
> popularity is a good heuristic for relevance , but it is not the primary factor.

Is the statement not valid for products too ?

Re:Git-PR: patch requests over SSH on Sunday July 14, 2024 @08:48AM (#40960659)
That you, looks interesting. But the license is not specified on Github.
What you are saying is that slavery is not bad because they get to eat now.
Re:OpenAI to Ex-Employees: Keep Quiet or Else on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:53PM (#40469326)
Is it common for a CEO to not know that their NDAs are highly restrictive and punitive?
Re:Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @10:48AM (#40065453)
> Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.

Isn't that more scary?

Re:Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:23PM (#39232221)
I recently made something similar. I started with the same foundation you currently have (aim to make "neutral" and "de-sensationalized") but ultimately narrowed my focus exclusively to Developer news (since I couldn't achieve desired results). There were always something amiss.
Re:Polymorphic Types in C [pdf] on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:02AM (#39039582)
I had worked on something similar around 11-12 years back ( no way close to perfect or of any use :) ) https://github.com/nautical/CBullet

Basically you can do something like this in c :

var value;

value = data(100);

// or

value = data(0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

Re:Show HN: A Website to Turn Your Apple Notes into Blogs on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:17PM (#38710981)
Apple does not allow access to iCloud services through any automated script, scraper, or similar means [1]. Are you sure you're complying with these terms? As a customer, it's important to consider this (think of the Beeper case).

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/

>i. interfere with or disrupt the Service (including accessing the Service through any automated means, like scripts or web crawlers), or any servers or networks connected to the Service, or any policies, requirements or regulations of networks connected to the Service (including any unauthorized access to, use or monitoring of data or traffic thereon);

Re:Ask HN: Almost unusable code generated by ChatGPT recently on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:54PM (#38633317)
Looks like it! Even code quality has dropped 'significantly.' I used it once in a while to clean up the code after writing a POC. It used to do decent work before, but now I almost always can't use the code generated at first shot.

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