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Discovered this quite by accident. My cofounder and I were building a pdf editor and I’d analyzed 1,400 PDFs to see where our editor broke. I asked Claude to make an explainer of the process and it popped out an html with a working interactive pdf renderer.
Or just ask Claude to find a connector to share html
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:12PM (#44907226)
Thank you. And thank you for your kindness in these threads. It’s appreciated by the people who aren’t commenting as much
It’s costly signaling, we value what we perceive has cost. Driving the perceived cost to zero will plummet the value.
Re:Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:10AM (#43504993)
opportunity cost comes to mind
I just want an algo where I set the reward function instead of “dwell time and view ads”
Re:Your AI Can't See Gorillas on Saturday February 08, 2025 @09:03PM (#42987863)
I pasted your comment into mistral small latest, google, gpt 4o and gpt 4o with search. They all have a different answe, only the last gave a real episode but it said 11001001 in season 1. It said episode 15, it’s actually 14. But even that seems wrong.

Are they censored from showing this cautionary tale?? Hah.

Re:A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:47PM (#42405991)
And an energy shortage bottlenecking Transformer projects
Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring on Saturday October 19, 2024 @08:06PM (#41891832)
He’s talking about blogs in general
Re:Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @01:00AM (#41306928)
I love Plasmo
Weird how Apple is neither mentioned in the article or (the first dozen) comments here.
Will it work with GraphQL?
Re:Supabase – General Availability Week on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:00AM (#40041456)
Congrats! Happy supabase user here
I have two 3090s and it runs fine with `ollama run mixtral`. Although OP definitely meant mistral with the 7B note
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @11:29PM (#39426231)
yes, the query is tricky but "glass round tiles" is pretty good" https://www.ebay.com/itm/255167139808
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:53PM (#39421881)
Thanks! It’s been a quality of life improvement
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:48PM (#39421819)
I like this idea. I ordered assorted mini dice as travel counters and 6mm cubes for action tracking
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:47PM (#39421799)
You’re popular on Reddit! I just wish you had Lord of the Rings LCG :)
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:54AM (#39418641)
I made custom glass tokens [0] for Lord of the Rings card game and I’ll never play a premium game with plain cardboard again.

I used a guide from Board Game Geek to make the glass token [1]

Using jewelers resin to upgrade cardboard tokens is another option: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/s/xwPU4jmUcS

[0]glass tokens: https://ibb.co/X5gJ604

[1] glass tokens guide: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2087285/diy-glass-tokens-qu...

Re:Weaveworks Is Shutting Down on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:01PM (#39264342)
I think they meant to say "double digit revenue growth"
I use Pop OS on a custom build and have a similar “just works”. Looking at S76 hardware for my next upgrade now.
Re:What I learned selling my company on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:32PM (#38995104)
Great validation. What (maybe more nuanced) insights would you add?
Re:Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:21PM (#38930595)
I use 2x 3090, no nvlink though. I’d read it doesn’t help that much but not well read on any improvement.
Thanks for sharing.
Re:The Largest Money-Printing Element Ever Made on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:31PM (#38677117)
The one I’ve seen lately is when I type a correct domain, but the autocomplete appends “ login” so I get taken to a search result with links that are not what I wanted!
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:41AM (#38532286)
Seems like the local implementation may be durable, but the system for backend polling (BPN) they built appears to ping Apple servers server side. I imagine that creates a block of homogeneous traffic for Apple to spot.
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:36AM (#38532210)
Curious how the BPN service presents to Apple.
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:27AM (#38532078)
The referenced technical write up is fascinating[0]

I wonder how well this architecture (including privacy preservation) would work for LinkedIn messaging?

Specifically the BPN service since that seems to come from a data center IP and more likely for Apple / others to have a choke point.

[0] https://blog.beeper.com/p/721485af-aad0-4962-b418-eea9bc1e8f...

Re:HubSpot Acquires Clearbit on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:00PM (#38102217)
one of the co-founders (former CMO > COO > interim CEO) Matt Sornson came back to be CEO.
Re:Show HN: A virtual office for remote work on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:25PM (#37987934)
back in 2013 I was the only remote employee at a Series A startup. We used an app called Perch on ipads that had similar conventions (it was a tap send your audio / video and the other side could tap to send theirs, etc). This seems like the supercharged version. I wouldnt have made it at that startup without Perch, sadly defunct. glad to see this.

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