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Re:Jobs Without LeetCode on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:20PM (#49768915)
Thanks for the feedback. I added a classifier that’s currently running, along with a filter so you can look at engineering roles only.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:42AM (#49754300)
https://noleet.lol

Job board for companies hiring without Leetcode.

They're just scared of China releasing better open weights, nipping at their heels. With so much investor cash on the line, they have to create this narrative to scare the public into forcing regulation. Why would they want to be regulated? It seems counterintuitive, but it's because they want regulatory capture.
My usage limits were reset this morning. I'm already 90% through my weekly limits. This have _never_ happened before. They should reset the limits for everyone.
Re:Make Tmux Pretty and Usable on Monday April 13, 2026 @12:00PM (#47754013)
The only reason I don't use tmux is because of how annoying it is to look at scrollback. Am I using it wrong?
Re:Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:22PM (#39106383)
Because they can't as a result of private equity firms and hedge funds buying houses for investment purposes. Without legislation, people are going to be renting for the rest of their lives like modern day serfs.
Re:Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:23PM (#38105506)
It's not "casual". Did you read the paper I linked?
Re:Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:19PM (#38100497)
Main reason is due to purging of β-amyloid by the glymphatic system, which seems to happen during deep sleep. High β-amyloid plaque build up is correlated with Alzheimer’s disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698404/

Re:Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:47PM (#37772266)
Of course, what you're saying is obvious. I'm just asking questions to get people to think about the ramifications of technology. Society is the sum of all the individual choices people make, which are influenced and amplified by technology, either for good or bad.
Re:Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:12PM (#37771871)
> A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.

How does that change the social dynamics of mating? Is increasing promiscuity a good thing?

> A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend.

> A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be > able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.

Why did this person choose to move physically away from their tribe? To slave away at a job they don't care about? Would they have chosen to move away if the tech to communicate long distance didn't exist?

> I can choose to talk to a person who speaks another language and have a computer translate for us.

Is it good to use translation tech as a crutch and not emotionally immerse yourself in the culture?

> I can choose to have my tooth decay treated without experiencing horrific pain.

Why do you have a poor diet? Why do you consume so much sugar? Why don't you brush and floss?

> A compound fracture is not an automatic sentence of death or lifelong severe disability.

Do you take more risks because you know that a fracture won't end you since medicine can heal you?

It seems to me that technology is often used as a band-aid solution. Or it enables certain types of behaviors that when proliferated on a societal level can have drastic consequences.

Re:Pretty good career and life advice on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:04AM (#37761031)
It’s ok to be cringe. Try expressing yourself sometime instead of always conforming.
Re:Ray-Ban Meta next generation of smart glasses on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:15PM (#37682146)
Am I the only one who doesn't want this dystopian future? "Designed for living in the moment"?...no, this is definitely the exact opposite of living in the moment.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:17PM (#37488534)
Do you really need to upgrade your 3 year old iPhone if you think about it? Those are still quite fast and can do everything you need. To me it seems like a waste, but you do you.
Re:Ask HN: Are You Burned / Burning Out? on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:15PM (#37488501)
Your words have a lot of power. You become what you repeatedly say about yourself. If you just changed this one thing, not thinking negatively about yourself or the future, it would change your entire life. You have a lot more power than you think you do. Focus on the things you can change right now. Look around your room. I'm sure you can find at least one thing that needs fixing. Be blessed internet friend.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:01PM (#37488279)
I feel like this is an epic joke. Except the joke is on all the suckers paying $1k for essentially the same phone, but wow, now with a usb-c port. Please Tim Apple...take my money faster. Even better, please strap it to my head so I can be even more disconnected from other people.
Re:Ask HN: Are You Burned / Burning Out? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:32PM (#37407477)
step 1: save up money and pay off debt step 2: sell all your possessions except laptop, clothes and a few other things step 3: find remote job step 4: move to SE Asia, join an expat community, enjoy a low cost of living lifestyle
https://www.podshorty.com/

Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow along. Click on the timestamp to jump ahead.

Summarization target percentage is set to about 50%. So if you want to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast, this can save you half the time.

I'm just pointing out that there is a lot of legal gray area when it comes to AI-synthesized voices and copyright. It still remains to be seen how the courts end up ruling.

What's the difference between using an AI voice and Bill Hader or Jimmy Fallon doing a celebrity impersonation on his show and monetizing that?

Actually, according to US law, it doesn't appear to be copyright infringement. Do you have anything to back up those claims?

According to Butler v. Target Corp., it was held that although lyrics to a song are copyrightable, the underlying voice is not. As such, there is no copyright protection available to the infinite number of words or phrases a person might utter in their distinctive voice.

Additionally, the synthesized audio can be considered derivative, as it transforms the the "audio" into something entirely different than original, and so falls under 17 U.S.C.A § 103.

So, I'm not sure what you mean when you say there are plans for tighter controls. Care to back that up?

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is my personal opinion.

Podshorty does something kind of similar, but it takes any YouTube link, summarizes it and generates a podcast using the voices of the original speakers. Also creates transcripts so you can follow along. https://www.podshorty.com

Show HN: Podshorty – Summarize YouTube Videos into Compact Audio Digests

https://www.podshorty.com/

Hi all,I've been working on Podshorty for the past few months. The idea is simple: summarize and compress lengthy YouTube videos into concise audio versions using the voices of the original speakers. For those who prefer reading or need a quick overview, we also offer a text transcript of the summarized content.I'd appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made? on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:42PM (#37036932)
Started a company to build chip testers. Didn't go anywhere, but I had a ton of fun doing the hardware and software. One specific example is writing a Linux driver to interact with your IP block running on the FPGA. Got to see what happens on the other side of the kernel.

https://www.geminicomplex.com/

Re:Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:02PM (#36958843)
what are you talking about. George has been working on comma.ai for years. It's shipping actual products and has revenue.

We need more people who "think different" and push back against the status quo instead of carrying out ad hominem attacks on public forums.

Re:The Nvidia AI Red Team on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:26PM (#36335691)
If you don’t build it, someone else most definitely will. This has already become an AI arms race.
Re:Pinecone raises $100M Series B on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:33PM (#35730634)
Why not just use pgvector for Postgres. It’s free and works great. You can even do cosine distance between embeddings.
Re:The 1Password classic extension will stop working soon on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:05PM (#35668647)
> In the future, Google will stop supporting Manifest V2 in Chrome. > Because of this change, in 2023, the 1Password classic extension for > Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave will no longer be supported.

> If you have a standalone vault, you’ll need to migrate to a 1Password > membership to use 1Password in your browser.

Anyone else frustrated by this?

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