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Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:42PM (#49555651)
create a life where your 'wealth' is decoupled from third party orgs.
Re:Shipmap.org on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:53AM (#46528795)
An orthographic projection (globe) would be helpful to see e.g. new arctic routes.
Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:48PM (#46502904)
This doesn't work for me. I see it in the App Store but it says not available for my system and redirects me to the Tahoe update.

edit: worked after second attempt (via macappstores://apps.apple.com/app/macos-sequoia/id6596773750?mt=12 )

As a retro/analog guy I was expecting to be in agreement with you, but after an image search I think I actually prefer the SNES. The SF looks like a tractor feed printer while the SNES probably looked fun and futuristic for its time.
Re:The Color of the Future: A history of blue on Friday September 05, 2025 @12:51AM (#45135078)
See also: a philosophical and lyrical take, "Bleuets" by Maggie Nelson (2019).
When tested against AIs such as DeepSeek V3, Qwen 3, and Phi-4, CatAttack increased the odds of incorrect answers by as much as 700%, depending on the model. And “even when CatAttack does not result in the reasoning model generating an incorrect answer, on average, our method successfully doubles the length of the response at least 16% of the times leading to significant slowdowns and increase in costs,” the team writes.

preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781?et_rid=648436046&et_cid=568...

Re:The True Size Of on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @05:50PM (#43851092)
it's australia engulfing europe for me.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:36PM (#43823948)
I think it's the green checkmark and the green square that are confusing. Like why is there a check on the first green square and not the second one? Maybe it would be cleaner without any checkmark at all? Anyway, nice game, I shared it with my sister who also wants to solve more of them!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @10:06AM (#43821660)
Highly enjoyable (after I finally read the definitions of "neighbor" and "to the right/left")! Did you write a program that can automatically generate these?? I'll definitely try this again. Note, the emoji graphic in "share" might be buggy? I'm seeing one green checkmark, one green square, and four red squares..
| source: washingtonpost.com

nice try, guys

Many see a value in "natural" objects that is absent in those engineered by man. There is a raw energy and story behind it. Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?
Re:Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:24AM (#40966849)
Isn't 202TB (for comparison) way too small to contain every permutation of information? That filesize wouldn't even be able to store a film enthusiast's collection?
Re:I Received an AI Email on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:14AM (#40864837)
i.e. investment bankers in hoodies
Re:Tell HN: Google Broke "site:domain.com" Search on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:46PM (#36683626)
I'm having this problem too.
Re:A 1.5GB String on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:10PM (#35499485)
| 1.5GB string

Genomics data has entered the chat.

Impressive, but it seems to have hallucinated Lilly's location.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen? on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:12AM (#34595203)
Understanding the Universe, an Introduction to Astronomy[0] -- a video lecture series by Alex Filippenko

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C...

first world problems..
Re:$570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:42PM (#33128734)
You mean like the entire history of "civilization"?
And he's in his 40s!
Re:Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:20PM (#32745658)
| basically 0% chance

lost credibility here

Re:Mille Bornes on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:44PM (#32742255)
Good point. Also stuff often comes in waves (as opposed to a random distribution over time) due to network effects, etc.
I've worked in tech since 2008 and only for 2 of those years have I had to be "on call" past 6pm. ymmv.
Re:Checkbox Olympics on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:51AM (#31823947)
13.533 on a mbp trackpad
Re:How I Started to See Trees as Smart on Sunday May 15, 2022 @11:43PM (#31393468)
Good time to plug my favorite nature documentary ever, Attenborough's 6-episode 'The Private Life of Plants' (1995).

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