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Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:17AM (#50258013)
Holy memories of the family computer in the living room batman!
Also, which haven't been picked, I would be curious to see those.
Great call out on the guardrails actually making this not a good use case to test for vulnerabilities.
Clicked on the demo, and was immediately transported back to middle school trying to hack the marquee scroll.
Re:Cursor Camp on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:34PM (#47952482)
Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.
Re:Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:57PM (#47682411)
One doesn't simply vibe code into Mordor!(but seriously love this)
Re:50 Years of the Jetsons: Why the Show Still Matters on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:51AM (#46873483)
Reminds me of a Rosenfeld book "Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction." Sci-fi is able to push interface design because they're unconstrained... It's been a while, so I need to dust off.
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Saturday November 22, 2025 @11:50AM (#46016084)
I still check https://www.swiss-miss.com/ to this day, more of this please!
Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:18AM (#45250054)
It let out one last valiant puff of smoke after it succumbed to load.
Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:26AM (#43242627)
Check out the CMU history of the DB class, Andy Pavlo is an amazing teacher and you really get a feel for DBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWS8LEQAUVc&ab_channel=CMUDa... same class from 5 years ago is great because he's like well I can't get in my hotel room so I'll just record from the street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdW5RKUboKc&t=797s&ab_channe.... Tons of good videos to go through on their youtube channel.
Re:Stone Soup AI (2024) on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:55PM (#43211971)
Gopnik is a great writer, and this is a very good take. She has a great sense of how to bring psychology to tech. Also fun fact: She's married to Alvy Ray Smith for all the computer graphics/pixar fans out there. I'd love to here them debate tech takes!
Re:Anthropic, thinking like a model by closing your eyes on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:06AM (#43058570)
There was a very interesting comment at 4:30 from Barry Zhang where they didn't know how the model was making a decision so they would close their eyes for a min and blink for a min and think what would I do with this information. I was blown away by this idea but really simple concept to think about the information. Is there more to read about looking through the lens of the model itself? Is this just a different way to think about Prompt Engineering?
Thanks
I get your point, but also 1) It helps me focus on the themes first, like scanning a good non-fiction book to know what I am diving into 2) I'm not catholic, but would love some context going in on it. 3) It's a lot of individual blocks and I'd like to know does that mean they're leary, pro, what are the guidelines so helping find the themes or key topics like is there a benefit to AI and maybe using it to summarize and getting to this parapgrah quickly: 0. In light of the foregoing discussion, the differences between human intelligence and current AI systems become evident. While AI is an extraordinary technological achievement capable of imitating certain outputs associated with human intelligence, it operates by performing tasks, achieving goals, or making decisions based on quantitative data and computational logic. For example, with its analytical power, AI excels at integrating data from a variety of fields, modeling complex systems, and fostering interdisciplinary connections. In this way, it can help experts collaborate in solving complex problems that “cannot be dealt with from a single perspective or from a single set of interests.”[64]
Is it weird to have AI summarize this for me?
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:48AM (#42622915)
That's my worry too, I'd like one or two, but 1) will either never be in line for them 2) or can only find via secondary market at 3 or 4x the price...
Re:Sora is here on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:41PM (#42369078)
yea just that that too. Did anyone get in or did they get overwhelemed?
that and the toy with wires and blocks you could move around.

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