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Re:Historical memory prices 1960-2026 on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:02PM (#48721858)
Exponentials... that's the one with Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham, right?
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:28PM (#48467236)
Do you think the models are ready for the next level? I believe that would be: Pelican feeding Spaghetti to Will Smith.
Re:Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:32PM (#47781496)
Yea I'm curious if any of those negative commenters considered that the author is German, and English may not be their primary language — but no, apparently there is a new surefire way to detect AI content. Not forced enthusiasm. Not em dashes. Just too many sentences in a row starting with the word Not.
Re:AI Can Write Code, but Can It Build Software? on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:59PM (#47590284)
These links were previously submitted to HN without much traction:

Research Paper — https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24755

SlopCodeBench — https://www.scbench.ai/

And of course, the XCancel version of this post: https://xcancel.com/godofprompt/status/2038335755995750758

Hah, perfect... some variation of "From now on [your AI tool of choice] is banned. Just write code like a normal human f*king being, please." has probably already been used in the real world recently.
Re:"Car Wash" test with 53 models on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:46PM (#47129406)
Yep, just a little more context and all/most of the models would do much better. And sure, most average+ intelligence adults whose first language is English (probably) don't need this, but they're not the target audience for the instructions :)

"The 'car wash' is a building I need to drive through."

or

"The 'car wash' is a bottle of cleaning fluid that I left at the end of my driveway."

https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Rain-x-Foaming-Car-Wash-Con...

Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:05PM (#47081006)
And for doctors appointments... micuerpo!
Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:02PM (#47078427)
I didn't see that review in the 4 shown in that section until I refreshed the page... there are some good ones in there, including a Hacker News shoutout :D
Maybe the LLMs were correct... here is a picture of the car wash:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Rain-x-Foaming-Car-Wash-Con...

And once you have the hang of this technique, congratulations! You can now enjoy those 3D "Magic Eye" images that stumped a significant portion of the population back in the 90s :)

e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1lxqd0l/the_most_...

Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:15PM (#46916172)
Was it maybe called Surround? Try looking up Atari catalog # CX2641 and see if it brings back any more memories :)
Re:Jerome Powell Responds on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:29PM (#46592283)
And for anyone who is nervous about clicking that video link at work: BBC in this context stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, which is a fairly well respected news group.
Re:Eat Real Food on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:13PM (#46533848)
The new pyramid looks like a decent step in the right direction, and as other commenters have already mentioned: better definitions of "highly processed" vs "real food" might be helpful (but I think most of us probably have a fairly clear idea of what they mean).

Two more things I think should be considered:

1. Change the Nutrition Facts labels to say "Lipids" instead of "Fats". Seems like no matter how many times "fat doesn't make you fat" is repeated, many people are still scared of consuming fat.

2. Reconsider or recalculate the old 2000 calorie per day guidance. I have no actual data to support this — fitness and nutrition self-experimentation is just a hobby of mine — but I have a feeling that the "Average American" (which may also need to be defined somewhere) probably only needs around 1500 calories per day to maintain a healthy weight. There is obviously a wide range of needs depending on height, activity level, occupation, etc. but I feel like if someone is considering a 500 calorie treat, it would be more helpful if they thought "wow this is 1/3 of my daily calories... maybe I should split it with a friend" instead of "meh this is only 25% of my daily calories <chomp>"

Re:I'm a developer for a major food delivery app on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:40AM (#46464627)
Counterpoint: I've been using em dashes and bulleted lists in my writing (especially in work emails) since around 2015. There are dozens of us! Or maybe I'm just an LLM in a meat suit — who knows at this point.
Re:4B If Statements on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:26AM (#46245660)
> any value over 2^31 seems to give random results.

Wow he really lucked out... On his way to perfecting a fully functioning and performant Even/Odd Detector, he stumbled upon a fully functioning and performant Coin Flip Simulator!

Re:Size of Life on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:39PM (#46234463)
I don't mind at all, your rewrite looks much more elegant. Thanks!
Re:Size of Life on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:10PM (#46221199)
If anyone wants to set this up to auto-run all the way to the right and then all the way back to the left, here is a vibe-coded (sorry) browser console script. Makes a great "screen-saver" if you kick off the script and then put your browser in full screen mode :)

    (function() {
        let direction = 'right'; // Start by going right
        let intervalId;

        function getCurrentAnimalName() {
            const animalDiv = document.querySelector('.animal-name');
            return animalDiv ? animalDiv.textContent.trim() : '';
        }

        function pressKey(keyCode) {
            const event = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {
                key: keyCode === 37 ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight',
                keyCode: keyCode,
                code: keyCode === 37 ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight',
                which: keyCode,
                bubbles: true
            });
            document.dispatchEvent(event);
        }

        function autoScroll() {
            const currentName = getCurrentAnimalName();
            
            if (direction === 'right') {
                pressKey(39); // Right arrow
                
                if (currentName === 'Pando Clone') {
                    console.log('Reached Pando Clone, switching to left');
                    direction = 'left';
                }
            } else {
                pressKey(37); // Left arrow
                
                if (currentName === 'DNA') {
                    console.log('Reached DNA, switching to right');
                    direction = 'right';
                }
            }
        }

        // Start the interval
        intervalId = setInterval(autoScroll, 3000);
        
        // Log start message and provide stop function
        console.log('Auto-scroll started! To stop, call: stopAutoScroll()');
        
        // Expose stop function globally
        window.stopAutoScroll = function() {
            clearInterval(intervalId);
            console.log('Auto-scroll stopped');
        };
    })();
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2026? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @09:08PM (#46129491)
If you want to skip to December 31st, you can enter the following into your browser console to make all the tiles/doors openable:

  const elements = document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-calendar__door");
  elements.forEach(element => {
    element.classList.add("will-open");
  });
I think it was more than 2 though... en few? En feux.
Re:LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:08PM (#45889893)
Also a great read-through of this by H. Jon Benjamin (Archer / Bob's Burgers) and Maeve Higgins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usXhX0zaO4
I wonder if the AI correctly identified it as a bag of Doritos, but was also trained on the commercial[0] where the bag appears to beat up a human (his fault for holding on too tight) and then it destroys an alien spacecraft.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIAnQwiCpRc

Re:The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:50PM (#45620466)
As a big fan of Chris Cornell I went through the same stream of emotions with their Motown version of Like a Stone[0]. And if you can get past the thumbnail, check out the 2000s Rock version of Many Men[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88Qg8FGrqY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFKREP3gPg

Re:The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:38PM (#45620316)
Don't forget Johnny Cash and Eddie Money :D
Re:A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:45AM (#45516771)
Yep! Nothing worth sharing/publishing from me, but quite a few mini projects that are specific to my position at a small non-tech company I work for. For example we send data to a client on a regular basis, and they send back an automated report with any data issues (missing fields, invalid entries, etc) in a human-unfriendly XML format. So I one-shotted a helper script to parse that data and append additional information from our environment to make it super easy for my coworkers to find and fix the data issues.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025) on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:23PM (#45465330)
Shhh don't spoil the first filter! ;) Fun set of challenges though, they totally nerd-sniped me.

https://xkcd.com/356/

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