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Re:Find the flattest route between any two points in SF on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:28PM (#49985043)
I need this for Seattle, please
Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:27PM (#49985028)
Same, and now I’m grinning ear to ear!
Re:The smartest Claude Code feature is not for its users on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:24PM (#49984993)
Agree! I wasn’t sold on it at first, but I use it occasionally in KiroCrew now. Especially if I’m on mobile and using one hand.
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:15PM (#49903958)
So you agree that Luna vs Terra is less clear than Haiku vs Sonnet?
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:15PM (#49903161)
TIL everyone knows Terra means the planet earth (not a prefix for ground) and everyone knows Astra means a star that isn’t the sun
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:10PM (#49903126)
“I’m right and you’re wrong” type reply
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:48PM (#49900265)
It’s not… why do I need to translate from Latin (or wherever these come from) to understand them? Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku do the same thing, and are widely known words. Not to mention all LLMs do is generate tokens; I prefer the homage to writing over a space reference.
Re:Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:40PM (#49290918)
I haven’t tried in about a year, but I could never do any meaningful work outside 1P Google apps (antigravity) due to such fast throttling.
You gotta touch grass and talk to people irl
Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:49PM (#48249147)
Great, so they can further extrapolate what exact locations you get nervous / are more relaxed / walk more quickly… the understated problem with PII isn’t about any single data point, it’s about combining data to make probable inferences.
Re:Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:42AM (#47196628)
If the "3rd party product" is you selfhosting FOSS, then that's you (OpenClaw users)
It took being a meme for a literal year for them to remove this… more responsibility in frontier tech, I’m begging.
Re:HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:29PM (#46604378)
Interesting idea, seems like an adventurous v1 idea. Feels like it would be hard to sell this to enthusiasts who want a nicer keyboard, and hard to sell to the average consumer who’d still rather have a laptop or iPad.
They won’t even attempt to read ToS, you think they’ll shun companies?
Re:What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:15PM (#46604105)
Is an ETF simple?

I get your point that in modern society, you can invest in an ETF in a few clicks, but in a way, owning your own infrastructure is simpler. Transform the sun into energy reserves with parts you can buy, understand, and install yourself from wholesalers.

A power company is opaque, carries overhead, and requires complexity to serve at an institutional level. ETFs have a similar complexity/abstraction to their customers.

Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:00PM (#46424833)
I transferred my number from Mint Mobile to Visible 8 months ago or so. I tried to at least. They initiated the number transfer before accepting payment from me. Their iOS app was bugged and their web app had no way to pay. I engaged support and they escalated to engineering. Still had no phone number or cell access for 3 days, with an upcoming trip planned. Ended up getting them to transfer it to US Mobile which has been fine. Probably works a lot of the time but it’s a shitshow.
Re:Project Vend: Phase Two on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:20PM (#46415100)
Fascinating, thank you for sharing!
Re:Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:29PM (#46404962)
Apparently pro tools came out in 1989, makes me think this may or may not be true. This article has some info about the mixture of analog and digital tools use to record:

> The main event was a brand-new mixing console called the Harrison Series 10, which was the first analog console to feature a digital control surface, with full automation of all parameters. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were the first studio to have it, according to Jam. This meant that they could cut down the time it took to switch songs to about 10 minutes because complex mixes now required little-to-no cross-patching.

https://reverb.com/news/the-making-of-janet-jacksons-rhythm-...

Re:Debian's Git Transition on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:18PM (#46370647)
shoutout AUR, I’m trying arch for the first time (Omarchy) and wasn’t planning on using the AUR, but realized how useful it is when 3 of the tools I wanted to try were distributed differently. AUR made it insanely easy… (namely had issues with Obsidian and Google Antigravity)
PII isn’t limited to SSNs. By your logic, First name can’t be PII, and last name with no accompanying info wouldn’t be PII. Different types of data have different risk profiles. When multiple records about an individual are collected the risk grows exponentially. Location is absolutely PII when combined with other risky data, like license plate.
Re:Dark Pattern Games on Monday November 17, 2025 @11:48AM (#45955354)
What % of the time do you think the die-hard gamers live a healthy lifestyle? I’m thinking it’s higher than my knee jerk reaction, like 40-50%, but an important consideration. Of course people define “healthy” differently too, but obesity and mental health crises have objectively grown and correlate with rising technology use.
Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:43PM (#45736153)
Can confirm — itsa me
Re:Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:38AM (#45516695)
Can't scroll, Cookies disclaimer doesn't work in firefox with ublock origin :(
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:22AM (#45425845)
Excited to try Claude agents sdk though
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:22AM (#45425842)
So far the only thing I’ve noticed is that it made me confirm that it should do a 10 minute task “manually” because it “would take 2 or 3 hours”

It was a context merging task for my unorganized collection of agents… it sort of made sense, but was the exact reason I was asking it to do it… like you’re the bot, lol

Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:24AM (#45361677)
I almost always copy this by double clicking after the `/` in the URL
Re:ChatGPT Developer Mode on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:31PM (#45213490)
Yes~
Re:ChatGPT Developer Mode on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:17PM (#45203013)
+1, I have a c4ai docker container + brave search MCP (2000 queries/mo free!) running on my laptop so I can ask claude code to do research similar to GPT deep research, but I config to ignore robots.txt since it's a one-off instance collecting data on my personal behalf, not a service (At least that's how I justify it)
Makes sense, yeah I definitely handwaved "old media"!
Re:Show HN: Narcissistic Abuse Simulator exposes toxic patterns on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:59PM (#45202803)
Thank you for the feedback!

> The “question” - is a statement at the top in smaller italic type

That's context to the question

> Why one option has a heart on it?

That's the question, the answers are below it. There are different categories of questions, the emoji changes based on the category

I can probably just add labels overlapping/replacing the box outline and have it look pretty nice

> Is “simulation” questions and answers?

Yup, that's the gimmick!

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