blinding-streak

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by blinding-streak 8mo ago
Ok Malik. Now there's a name I haven't heard in 15 years. Time flies.
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by blinding-streak 8mo ago
The other HN thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892904
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by blinding-streak 8mo ago
Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see: https://www.wikitok.io/
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by blinding-streak 9mo ago
Probably lots of posts saying "You're absolutely right!"
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by blinding-streak 9mo ago
They are a financial engineering product with limited real world utility, in an attempt to keep the company solvent.
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by blinding-streak 9mo ago
The headline in their corporate press release says "Amazon doubles down on online grocery delivery and Whole Foods Market expansion to reach more customers" That's one way to spin things I guess.
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Waymo begins much-anticipated service in Miami(cbsnews.com)
3 points by blinding-streak 9mo ago|1 comments
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
I chuckled at "thinky thinky" mode. If some ai company used this branding it would win a lot of hearts and minds methinks
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
Most true and interesting comment I've read on HN in a while!
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
TIL! Thanks! :)
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
This guy was prolific! Wow
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
"Increase opportunity in search results" is hilarious PR. Obviously it's to increase revenue.
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
Yeah, search HN for the term. It's a relatively big topic of conversation.
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
What is the purpose of this? To add more bots to Twitter that's already full of them?
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
Username checks out
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
For the first time? What about Zune, Nokia/Windows Phone, Windows Vista, attacking open source for decades, Scroogled campaign, all the lost Ballmer years, etc. Microsoft has had tons of blunders over time.
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
Why do you think so? Seems like the space is fiercely competitive, I would expect it to get more expensive.
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by blinding-streak 10mo ago
"In the internal memo, he said that a new reasoning model that OpenAI is planning to release next week is ahead of Google’s latest Gemini model and that the company is still performing well on various other fronts." The cycle cont
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Interesting thought. If that strategy worked too well, I could see the government going after them for monopolistic "bundling"
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Google uses TPUs for its internal AI work (training Gemini for example), which surely isn't decreasing in demand or usage as their portfolio and product footprint increases. So I have a feeling they'd be able to put those TPUs to
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Very impressive, nano banana pro has this this wrapped up. The other ones look like has-beans.
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Curious to hear what other technical products you use that are from companies that are pure as the driven snow.
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
That's really interesting. After cancelling, it goes into retention mode, akin to when one cancels other online services? For example, I cancelled Peacock the other day and it offered a deal of $1.99/mo for 6 months if I stayed. V
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
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Leaked Memo: Sam Altman Sees 'Rough Vibes' and Economic Headwinds at OpenAI(winbuzzer.com)
11 points by blinding-streak 11mo ago|0 comments
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Clever, but kind of frustrating that it takes so long for each email to load.
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
Gemini app != Google search. You're implying they're lying?
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by blinding-streak 11mo ago
It's actually a really interesting topic to think about. Depending on the situation, there might be some indecision in a human driver that slows the process down. Whereas the Waymo probably has a decisive answer to whatever problem is
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by blinding-streak 1y ago
When I see photos of the Grand Prismatic Spring, it looks so vibrant and colorful that it seems to jump off the screen. I really hope to visit it in person some day.

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