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How about “the discoveries I’ve driven”?
I recently got into math. Got into New Scientist magazine based on some of the discoveries I’ve made. Have made some great friends as well.

It’s great time to get into math.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2591415-ai-finds-baffli...

Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:19AM (#49169389)
Asha Sharma where are you? Keep up your reputation as a great new Xbox CEO.
Also can you please make it easy to switch between my work and personal accounts on mobile!
Reminds me a bit of the NFT parody site https://nfd.miami
Re:The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:04PM (#48141887)
I hope it is more effective that Tirzepatide of which I am a rare nonresponder and have only gained weight.
I used Claude Code to update a ray casting engine for the TI-89 a couple months ago. Thanks Boris!

https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z

Re:TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:56AM (#47454546)
I actually don't know! Never had a voyage 200. I'd love to hear your experiences with it.
Re:Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:32PM (#47449734)
For TI-89, I recently updated the FAT engine to have height mappings. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z
Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:16AM (#47249693)
I tried the new qwen model in Codex CLI and in Roo Code and I found it to be pretty bad. For instance I told it I wanted a new vite app and it just started writing all the files from scratch (which didn’t work) rather than using the vite CLI tool.

Is there a better agentic coding harness people are using for these models? Based on my experience I can definitely believe the claims that these models are overfit to Evals and not broadly capable.

Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:43PM (#47213624)
“Web 3” was crypto
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:16PM (#47212699)
Will this be called Web 4.0?
Re:Claude in Chrome on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:33PM (#46340731)
Had great success with this prompt: “QA this website for me. Report all bugs”
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @02:17PM (#45891552)
iPhones are now so big we need a special carrying device for it.

Please bring back the mini :’(

Re:NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:25AM (#45580432)
I’d also be interested in this. Especially for Macs
Re:NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:30PM (#45574020)
I’m very excited for this. An early question I have: what would need to be done to make this a “thinking” model?
Re:ChatGPT Developer Mode on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:21PM (#45201698)
Thinking about what Jony Ive said about “owning the unintended consequence” of making screens ubiquitous, and how a voice controlled, completely integrated service could be that new computing paradigm Sam was talking about when he said “ You don’t get a new computing paradigm very often. There have been like only two in the last 50 years. … Let yourself be happy and surprised. It really is worth the wait.”

I suspect we’ll see stronger voice support, and deeper app integrations in the future. This is OpenAI dipping their toe in the water of the integrations part of the future Sam and Jony are imagining.

Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:30PM (#45200103)
So strange to think about how Vine could’ve won this and an American company could’ve been the leader here.
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:29PM (#45173537)
I would love to be able to turn off Instagram Reels on iOS like is apparently possible on Android.
I recently discovered and have been fairly happy with PixelLab - an AI pixel art generator. I feel like they have a ways to go in features and UX, but it shows promise.
Re:Show HN: 1 Million Rows on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:13AM (#44865072)
Is this... a database? A set of react components? An app? Should be much more immediately understandable.
Yes! This me and it is mind boggling how poor the experience is.
They block me from subscribing because I have a custom domain for my personal email. I’d gladly give them money but they say “Sign up with your personal email” when I try to subscribe. Such poor design
Re:Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:11AM (#44209419)
I’m curious if you know of a similar tool for generating tilesets for top down RPG like games? I’ve tried Midjourney, which makes nice art, but it can’t be used in a game.
Claude Artifacts will generate mermaid diagrams for you.
Re:Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @11:17AM (#43763229)
And thats exactly what happened. Insane.
I’m curious what % of sales the iPhone 13 Mini had compared to the other iPhone 13 models. Evidently the percentage can slip so low Apple will cancel an entire beloved product line.

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