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Re:Why So Many Men Aren't Working
on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:36PM (#50212624)
I cant even imagine what you mean by "emasculating environment"?
Re:What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:04PM (#50185094)
As a young(er) American I can relate to this sentiment. Either hit big or hope the whole thing comes down trying.
Re:Apple HomeView
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:16AM (#50072151)
It's still unbelievably limited and lackluster
Re:Show HN: Artvinto – Vintage posters and fine art prints
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:30PM (#50010828)
any reason orders are not availabe? and if so when will they be open?
Re:Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:55AM (#46708251)
a false scarcity? sometimes this site makes me feel like i'm talking to aliens
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:35AM (#45889329)
Steve was a noted fan of Issey Miyake
Re:The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to Play
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @08:16AM (#45051236)
Yes, each day the game maker creates a timely and relevant crossword. So in this case the person behind it is the loss
Re:Investors lose billions on US penny stocks as 'pump and dump' scams...
on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:29AM (#44941709)
1-800-522-4700 for anyone humoring these kinds of "investments"
Re:95% of AI Pilots Failing
on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:51AM (#44941265)
Because for the typical office - documents are strewn about on random network drives and are not formatted similarly. This combined with the inability to nail down 100% accuracy on even just internal doc search is just too much to overcome for non-tech industry offices. My office is mind blown if i use Gemini to extract data from a PDF and convert it to an .xlsx or .csv
As a technically minded person but not a comp sci guy, refining document search is like staring into a void and every option uses different (confusing) terminology. This makes it extra difficult for me to both do my regular job AND learn the multiple names/ways to do the exact same thing between platforms.
The only solution that has any reliability for me so far are Gemini instances where i upload only the files i wish to search and just keep it locked to a few questions per instance before it starts to hallucinate.
My attempt at RAG search implementation was a disaster that left me more confused than anything.
Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:09AM (#44888667)
I notice this as well, i think it is because the autocorrect is turned off and we may just be so used to it learning our typing habits that our "raw" typing is really that bad
Re:Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone
on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:17PM (#44815649)
dont shoot the messenger, but it's supposed to be like a "butler sounding name"
Re:Designing a Flatpack Bed
on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @11:50AM (#44724861)
Yes we've had this discussion with management before when discussing CV short comings. Pathetic offering of a program, and simply would not pass even the most basic usability tests in other fields. Microvellum afaik is only a better program "in theory." I have not heard much positivity from actual users.
Re:Designing a Flatpack Bed
on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:39AM (#44711330)
I am in the same boat, daily user of Cabinet Vision. Did you know the same founder made both and sold them off within a few years of one another?
Re:Drafting Software Recommendation
on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:57AM (#44710928)
As someone who uses such software for a living, i concur. Hand drawings work just fine. Not to mention, any fabricator worth their salt will have no problem interpreting it.
Re:The Death of Partying in the USA
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:01PM (#44522491)
at least in my parents neighborhood, the open garage or the pool with a non-privacy fence, or the front/side porch are all hangout spots where other neighbors will walk by and join you for conversation
Re:Printegrated Circuits: Merging 3D Printing and Electronics
on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:59PM (#44426675)
assumedly much much easier to buy a cheap vinyl cutter, but interesting idea
Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store
on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:59AM (#44424167)
i remember it very well, i bought a Sony at F.Y.E. at the mall. as a child, my mother insisted on Sony as it was reputable brand (thank god because they truly were better devices). But the non-Zune/Sony/iPod selections were all duplicates of the same garbage, this was ~2007.
Re:Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @09:49AM (#44387410)
I have a large collection of vintage Mac's and peripherals, with the largest quantity being the Apple Keyboard II [1]. Archive forums all suggest the Belkin ADB Adapter [2] but that has long since been retired. I would like to make my own, i know instructions exist for a raw passthrough.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Keyboard_II.jpg
[2]https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hack-your-old-macs-adb-k...
Re:Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @09:23AM (#44387178)
https://macintoshgarden.org/ has always been the gold standard source for me!
Re:Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:05AM (#44327858)
Well i know this is sarcastic but have you seen the preferred design language of the Oakley founder? Exposed circuitry is righttt up his alley.
Re:What is currently the best LLM model for consumer grade hardware? I...
on Friday May 30, 2025 @11:56AM (#44137494)
As a beginner, I also haven't had much luck with embedded vector queries either. Firstly, setting it up was a major pain in the ass and I couldn't even get it to ingest anything beyond .txt files. Second, maybe it was my AI system prompt or the lack of outside search capabilities but unless i was very specific with my query the response was essentially "can't find what youre looking for"
Re:Google's "Desktop View" Turns Android Phones into Pocket PCs
on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:43PM (#43976235)
Funny you mention stage manager, i remember the absolute online letdown/meltdown that happened when it didn't ship with the iPadOS version it was scheduled to. The other day i encountered the button for it and completely forgot it existed, but after launching it, I remembered how useless it is.
Re:Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, ap...
on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:59AM (#43927466)
shout out to mixxx, a truly excellent piece of free software
Re:Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up
on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:21AM (#43868799)
Never saw a CAD app boot fast... Shapr3D is the best but something as advanced as Fusion or Solidworks has always been slow to open
Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:09AM (#43857212)
Wow yeah you just made me remember the Windows 10 mail app, which sure wasn't perfect but was ad-free and relatively snappy if I remember correctly. Then absolutely destroyed it and now I have to see Outlook 2016 and Outlook (new) as the results when I search "mail" from the taskbar
Re:DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:19AM (#43460128)
One of my favorite movies
Re:Exec Order for "presidential supervision" of independent regulatory...
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:37PM (#43119834)
I have never read this, but I really really enjoyed it. It is a great and succinct explanation of the circumstances leading up to a civil war. Very applicable to the situation in the U.S. today.
Re:A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic con...
on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:19AM (#43102409)
Got it, so frame the question using language hinting i'm looking for an anti Harris response.
Re:Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with O...
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:49PM (#42856273)
i sure hope it doesn't. i can't see how anyone gets fooled by him. if anything he inspires me to try and get a cool $10M and bounce on investors
Re:Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admi...
on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:17AM (#42804837)
Isn't this already in place? I thought this is exactly why Chinese EV's haven't flooded the market yet.