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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:16PM (#49913752)
HA, this might be my favorite HN comment. Well done
But largely supported by people that would call themselves actual Christians FYI, and not even right wing extremist either.
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:17PM (#49336987)
Because my time is valuable and if the person who sent me something didn't care enough to write it, then I don't care enough to read it.

Bragging about it is weird, but I will use it like I use 'RTFM'.

And detectability - My AI-DAR (radar), is fairly fined tuned but not perfect, so if I make a mistake, oh well, the point is I'm protecting my time.

Re:Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:07PM (#49323692)
Why would PayPal acquiring OpenRouter make it any more of a monopoly than it is? Not saying it is or isn't, but OpenRouter isn't even a financial company.
Re:F3 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:34PM (#48648407)
exactly
Re:F3 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:33PM (#48648401)
gotcha, so the vulnerability will be in some common libraries that attackers force some wasm fallback path with custom wasm instructions that when executed does something nefarious.

I'd say at worst it's setup for poor security

Re:Every Frame Perfect on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:18PM (#48518682)
Or if the author mocked out what each of the bad examples should look like if done properly.
Re:AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:48PM (#48360216)
I agree it's not a complete solution. But as those don't exist as a society we are looking for a step function in the right direction. and IMO this is one such step. You may disagree that it's not a very large step, but I would argue it's still in the right direction therefore it is neccesary, especially in education space, and I'm happy to see someone publishing at attempt.
Love this, simulations are great. My nit pick is around how fast these animations are. You blink and you miss it. I can imagine children having more difficult time with this than myself as an adult. (For context I started with the sound animations: The Invisible Dance -- Shape the Wave & The Journey)
Re:The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:40PM (#46213775)
This is the correct answer and is being used by teacher friends of mine with great success.

The structure they chose is in-class work counts for 80%+ of their grade. All work in class is done with pencil & paper. Quite simple in fact to solve a large part of the homework cheating issue.

> I can't concieve even the flimsiest of reasons why anyone would ever listen to (or license/sync/track/ ) any of those generated songs once the novelty of "music made by the AI" is gone.

Easy: Independent/single-dev operations needing some quick background music for a project (game, whatever)

Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:26PM (#42890179)
I cannot believe how exhausting (and expensive) this investigation has been for you. I had a GI surgery and one of the possible outcomes was permanent nausea, and when I woke up I had nausea for about 3 months and it was horrific. The symptoms resolved on their own after a while, and for a time I believe them to be psychosomatic, so I began meditation. In the end I don't know, but that must be scary.

I'm curious if fecal microbiota transplantation has been discussed? From what I can tell the gut biome is under studied and the effects are pretty scattered and wide. Thoughts?

Re:Let's Quit X on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:16PM (#42686558)
I tried signing back up a couple weeks ago and despite not following and then blocking Elon, and only following non and a-political topics, I was inundated with right wing propaganda. Every 4-5th post was from Elon or similar. It was too distracting to use normally so I deleted my account and moved on.
Re:100k Stars on Sunday May 12, 2024 @01:42PM (#40336140)
There is such immense stored power in the universe, yet humans are struggling to harness even a tickle of the suns power via solar panels. Put into perspective of our galaxy, there is hardly no power difference between us and ants. Wild!
I'm not very financially literate. How does SVB shareholders getting nothing translate to shareholders of all other banks being in the same situation?
Re:Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt) on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:26PM (#34961431)
I've been looking for something similar for AI git commit messages... basically feed ChatGPT a git diff and ask it what changed and to write a git message. I've done this directly in the ChatGPT UI with some small changes and it produces some great messages...

I would be very concerned to run this on company code or large diffs. But small simple commits, which should be the goal with commit messages anyways, would take away some of the tedium of the git flow.

Re:A Message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:11PM (#34696545)
I always thought Xoogler was a moniker that wasn't given but was chosen by x-Googlers.

Source: Me, Xoogler.

Re:Saying “Sup” with `Net Send` on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:23PM (#34178887)
I did: "net send * The server room is on fire, please turn off your computer!"

Not only that, but my computer name was assigned to my username so it said my full name next to it.....

I was called up to the office within 2 seconds and immediately suspended. I also got braces that dad. Rough day. :(

Here is one called the 10,000 year clock that is currently under construction (by Jeff Bezos). You can read about it here: https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
"The book has been denounced as alarmist and inaccurate in the scientific and medical communities because [the author] claims that cannabis causes psychosis and violence; many scientists state that he is drawing inappropriate conclusions from the research, primarily by inferring causation from correlation as well as cherry picking data that fits his narrative, and falling victim to selection bias via his use of anecdotes to back up his assertions."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Berenson

Re:Can Lego play the drums? [video] on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:00PM (#32985482)
I've been following his journey for years, it's been a fascinating and some times heartbreaking story not to dissimilar to Sisyphus. Every other chapter is about him renewing his mental strength, grit, determination, and then months later tearing it all apart because of fundamental flaws. Repeat for years. His mental health is an underlying theme throughout the story we're watching and I worry for him.

With that said, he is truly an imaginative and great engineer and musician and while my discipline is primarily software, he's taught me a lot about design principles I apply today. Namely, keep things simple, emphasis on unit testing and measuring results, recognizing and addressing sunk cost fallacy and many many others.

I've grown to really respect and admire him. But I fear this project has a stranglehold over his mental health and I fear for what that means for his future if he cannot get to a place he is truly happy with.

God speed Martin, I hope you can get the boulder up the hill one day.

edit: Update, after some sleuthing, apparently he is moving and taking care of his family right now(?) https://www.reddit.com/r/MarbleMachineX/comments/usk6ru/wher...

Re:Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:31PM (#32682707)
I tried that as well but resulted in an error:

AttributeError: module 'torch._C' has no attribute '_cuda_resetPeakMemoryStats'

https://gist.github.com/JAStanton/73673d249927588c93ee530d08...

Re:Imgator: Compress, convert, edit and resize your images on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:34PM (#32527788)
Small bug report to the OP (hopefully you own the website): The light/dark toggle starts off on dark setting but visually the website is on the light setting. So if you toggle it, the toggle goes light, but visually nothing changes, toggling it back to dark, visually it changes to dark. This only works once as settings as persisted correctly. But opening up an incognito browser you can repro.

Edit: Cool website :)

The one difference is that the Amazon Basics products seem to have a quality bar higher than the other random re-labeled products.
Re:Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:42PM (#20741607)
Better now when you can test your error handling then at 3:30am when your high priority service goes down :)
Re:Minetime.ai – A Calendar for the 21st Century on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:19PM (#19709975)
Why does it need to be able to delete contacts & calendars:

- See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts

- See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar

So, I am a bit paranoid, but I bet some on HN will enable this for their corporate calendars. If I were a government-sponsored entity or small organization I would definitely spend a few grand on designers & engineering to create a product like a calendar or a shiny new email client to learn some trade secrets. Just saying... why hack your way into a corp when you can ask nicely to walk in the front door.

Re:How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression? on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:40AM (#19103282)
That's because a generator is being returned from `foo` (the yield syntax gives you this).

Try calling next() on the return value of foo.

I get:

  Promise {<rejected>: TypeError: Class extends value async function () {} is not a constructor or null
    at foo
Re:Simulating blobs of fluid on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:45PM (#19047496)
This was really satisfying to demo on the bus. I held my phone up as still as I could and when the bus lurched forward or made an abrupt stop the fluid responded accordingly. Something about it was just beautiful. Tech imitating nature. The illusion held pretty well too. Good job Google/Apple for making good sensor data and this algorithm uses it well. Great job!
Re:Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:05PM (#18205071)
Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.
Ha, in order to contribute financially to his campaign you have to be at least 18 years old. :)

On a more serious note... why not? I would love it if my daughter/son wanted to do something like this. What a life experience! I am positive this will peak his interest / make him likely to be interested in politics / global & current events now because he's had this experience and IMO that's the best way to learn!

Honestly, thats how I learned about software engineering, I picked something (a game) that I was extremely interested in, and programming was just my conduit to make modifications to the game. Only later did I learn that programing was interesting apart from that game and was the start of a big career.

Good on him!

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