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Re:Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:31AM (#50152987)
Have you released the detector?
> Recent advances in biohybrid engineering have pushed this paradigm further, seamlessly integrating biotic materials into engineered systems.

This is the first I've heard of the field of "biohybrid engineering" and it sounds pretty cool. As a layman, it makes sense to leverage the micro-scale "manufacturing" capabilities biological systems seem to excel at over our more traditional(?) manufacturing processes.

I'm not sure I like the potentially perverse incentives introduced by using life as a substrate for producing manufacturing components, but then again I don't practice veganism so maybe I'm being hypocritical.

Re:Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:57PM (#49778209)
For an app called radius, it took longer than expected to find activities near me. Showed me a lot of info I wasn't interested in at all.
Re:Our response to the US ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:05PM (#48519801)
> As much as I agree with the message, this reads like marketing copy trying to make a big deal out of a tiny model being hosted privately.

I believe that's exactly what it is

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @11:00PM (#48090615)
Cool game. Most everything worked which is nice. The fishing game was more fun than I expected. Took a while to understand the UI though.
Re:210 IQ Is Not Enough on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:37AM (#45994539)
I've heard it defined as the ability to learn quickly. Not just in the narrow, academic sense, but also by observing the world and people and drawing conclusions about them. It has to do with pattern recognition and abstraction.

Usually these people are knowledgeable because they are constantly learning. Eventually they become wise.

What do you think of that definition?

Re:210 IQ Is Not Enough on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:26AM (#45994384)
I think you misunderstood the article. 210 IQ isn't enough. The man with 210 IQ is happy not because he has 210 IQ but because he made the choice to be happy.

Having a high IQ isn't enough - you must also choose to be happy.

Re:I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video] on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:58PM (#45455484)
Just wanted to say I think we all watched the same video! I remember doing this one summer in high school
Re:A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:43PM (#45398380)
I appreciate what seems like an attempt to make a "smart camera" that gets out of the way of the player and unburdens them from having to control both a player and the perspective of the camera. That burden, of controlling two entities (player and camera) is large for people who are unused to playing video games.

Was this dynamic on your radar when building the game and camera system? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Re:AI vs. Professional Authors Results on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:09PM (#44936413)
I would love to read some of this. Where do you find AI generated fiction?
Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way on Saturday August 16, 2025 @11:47AM (#44924471)
In my opinion there is no such thing as too much dork time. This post is fun, just like cooking. The onion-inspired font for the section titles is fun. The interactive graphs are fun. Also vibe coding is fun.

What was the point of this judgmental comment?

Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:57PM (#44790694)
Some context from the dev's blog (https://highrise.digital/blog/building-offline-kids-a-direct...

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"Within the last few weeks, Mark and I have built and launched Offline.Kids.

It’s a website to help parents reconnect with their kids and for kids to reconnect with the world around them.

Offline.Kids is directory of screen-free activities for all ages. Each activity is categorised so that parents can find appropriate activities for their situation.

For example, you can find:

quick, clean activities for a 6 year olds outdoor kids activities that take 1-2 hours low energy indoor crafts We built the site off the back of our new directory landing page plugin (catchy name still in progress!). It instantly creates thousands of SEO friendly landing pages for the activities. It’s early days, but Google is successfully indexing the pages and we’ll see how the rankings change over time.

So, if you’re looking for screen-free activities for your kids, check out the website, and share with anyone you think might find it useful!"

Re:Writing Is Thinking on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:23AM (#44669796)
Re:15,000+ AI-generated fake podcasts on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:30PM (#44597843)
I disagree its "fake art."

Criticize the process of creating it all you want.

Re:15,000+ AI-generated fake podcasts on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:02PM (#44596194)
I take issue with the term "fake podcast." This is like calling AI generated art "fake art."

The issue they have is with low-quality content. If the AI generated content was better than most human-created podcasts and were making their engagement numbers go up, I doubt they would be calling them fake or removing them.

Re:I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:34AM (#44500377)
That is an issue with general use LLM apps like ChatGPT - they have to have wide appeal, so if you want replies that are differ from what the average user wants, you're going to have a bad time.

OpenAI has said they are working on making ChatGPT's output more configurable

Re:SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs on Friday June 27, 2025 @05:36PM (#44400463)
This is the voodoo that excites me.

Examples I found interesting:

Semantic map lambdas

  S = Symbol(['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'cat', 'dog'])
  print(S.map('convert all fruits to vegetables'))
  # => ['carrot', 'broccoli', 'spinach', 'cat', 'dog']

comparison parameterized by context

  # Contextual greeting comparison
  greeting = Symbol('Hello, good morning!')
  similar_greeting = 'Hi there, good day!'

  # Compare with specific greeting context
  result = greeting.equals(similar_greeting, context='greeting context')
  print(result) # => True

  # Compare with different contexts for nuanced evaluation
  formal_greeting = Symbol('Good morning, sir.')
  casual_greeting = 'Hey, what\'s up?'

  # Context-aware politeness comparison
  politeness_comparison = formal_greeting.equals(casual_greeting, context='politeness level')
  print(politeness_comparison) # => False
bitwise ops

  # Semantic logical conjunction - combining facts and rules
  horn_rule = Symbol('The horn only sounds on Sundays.', semantic=True)
  observation = Symbol('I hear the horn.')
  conclusion = horn_rule & observation # => Logical inference
`interpret()` seems powerful.

OP, what inspired you to make this? Where are you applying it? What has been your favorite use case so far?

Re:Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:17PM (#44340023)
re: numbers, you could store them as integers, but just encoded as 10 times their value. So 1.5 becomes 15.

Would reduce max score to 400M and you'd have to round 0.25 up or down. Would probably want to drop the 0.01 cards too.

super cool project

nice find
There's no science behind it. You're reading ai generated text.

My guess is the prompt was something like this:

"describe a color palette generating tool that uses the magic of polar coordinates to make pretty color palettes"

The video was funny. It appeared to think and rethink through the same thought process ~7 times. Seemed like overkill.

Great addition regardless. Good to see open weight model progress.

...or your job goes from commanding a $200k/yr salary to $60k/yr. Hopefully that's enough to pay your mortgage.
Re:Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL on Sunday May 18, 2025 @05:20PM (#44024383)
What do you think the link is about then?
Re:The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir on Friday April 04, 2025 @02:07PM (#43585873)
"Aha, 'monocausotaxophilia', finally a name for the thing causing all my problems!"
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:00PM (#43536499)
Have you seen the YouTube Watch Together app on Discord? It's built into the client

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