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Amazing. Worked really well. Thank you.
Seems true and really wish the project included some sample PDF output.

My Text to Speech app uses bounding box to display what text in PDF is being read and would not work well PDF's from this project.

Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:44AM (#45448394)
[even in programming it's inconclusive as to how much better/worse it makes programmers.]

Try building something new in claude code (or codex etc) using a programming language you have not used before. Your opinion might change drastically.

Current AI tools may not beat the best programmer, they definitely improves average programmer efficiency.

Re:Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:34PM (#45439768)
The UI presentation of Schema is really nice. Is there a javascript based UI for web that is used?
Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:18PM (#45367667)
It is same on PlayStore and AppStore.

You would be surprised to know Apple started this in AppStore before Google on PlayStore. I assume it is because Google wanted to be safe from Antitrust lawsuits (Follow Apple rather than going there first).

Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:40PM (#45034882)
Latency. Started using API. Gets response directly on Gemini API in under 6 seconds. Fal.ai takes about 30 seconds.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:11AM (#45027714)
Since API currently is not working (seems rate limits not set for Image Generation yet) I tried on fal.

Definitely inferior to results I see on AI Studio and image generation time is 6s on AI Studio vs 30 seconds on Fal.AI

Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:58AM (#45027507)
Seems to be failing at API Calls right now with "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error,"

Hope they get API issues resolved soon.

I am in Bay Area. I donated my cars to Kars4Kids before and even recommended to others since their process to donate is simple.
Re:Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers" on Friday June 13, 2025 @12:55PM (#44270196)
Most likely. But that's exactly what someone who hasn't experienced enough cycles in industry would come up with :).
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @01:15PM (#44053689)
He is second only to Elon in this case (SolarCity, X/XAI).
All my Veo 3 videos has sound missing. No idea why. Seems like a common problem.
Re:Google AI Ultra on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @03:26PM (#44044989)
So everyone who want Youtube Premium can explain to their boss why they need Gemini AI Ultra for work?
First experience is not great. Here are the issues to start using codex:

1. Default model used doesn't work and you get error: system OpenAI rejected the request (request ID: req_06727eaf1c5d1e3f900760d10ca565a7). Please verify your settings and try again.

2. You have to switch to model o4-mini-2025-04-16 or some other model using /model. Now if you exit codex, you are back to default model and again have to switch everytime.

3. Crashed the first time with NodeJS error.

But after initial hickups seems to work and still checking how good/bad it is compared to claude code (which I love except for context size limits)

Re:OpenAI o3 and o4-mini on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:39PM (#43708225)
Anyone got codex working? After installing and setting up API Key I get this error :

    system
      OpenAI rejected the request (request ID: req_06727eaf1c5d1e3f900760d10ca565a7). Please verify your settings and try again.
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Re:Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:03PM (#43699893)
Pretty disappointed with content moderation on Veo2. Here are the steps I did:

1. Took a picture of me and asked to describe person in the image.

2. Used Imagegen to create the cartoon version using description.

3. Tried to use veo-2.0-generate-001 to generate video of person in image (holding a coffee cup in original image) drinking coffee and having a conversation.

Video generation is blocked by content moderation.

Re:GPT-4.5 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:03PM (#43199558)
Thank you. This is the best example of comparison I have seen so far.
Re:O3 included in xAI Graphs for Model comparison on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:47AM (#43090080)
Where do I access grok3 reasoning model that xAI mentioned in the graph?
We do this in our Text to speech app (Read4Me): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/read4me-talk-browser-pdf-doc/i...

You can scan a book and listen (also copy and paste the text extracted to other apps).

If you are looking to do this on large scale in your own UI, I would recommend either of Google solutions:

1. Google Cloud Vision API (https://cloud.google.com/vision?hl=en)

2. Using Gemini API OCR capabilities.(Start here: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat)

Re:OpenAI O3-Mini on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:26PM (#42890845)
I ran some quick programming tasks I have used O1 previously:

1. 1/4th time for reasoning for most tasks.

2. Far better results.

If I remember correctly apple wanted Turn by Turn navigation while also not adding any ads to the app (essentially be their maps but no revenue).
Re:Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok on Saturday January 18, 2025 @09:17PM (#42753044)
Not all users are the same for Ad Revenue.
Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @01:06PM (#42443606)
Started on Android Market in 2010. First hire (designer) after 12 Million downloads and started hiring other Dev's after crossing 50 Million downloads. Still run decently popular apps on App Store and Play Store.
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:50AM (#41915532)
TamilNadu (His native state) had a literal revolt because 80% of high level government positions & political positions were owned by people of one caste even after british administration ended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Brahminism#20th_century

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