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cubefox
1mo ago
They realistically can't. It's almost impossible to catch up to OpenAI. Only Anthropic might do it, but this is also an US American company.
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1mo ago
> Mobile firefox is OK, it simply feels like it's designed for a different person. For example even Chrome has "force reader mode" button.. Firefox does not. This is false. I am seeing that button right now in Firefox, on
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1mo ago
> If the goal is browser diversity, is the answer really Firefox? Or is it one of the active in development projects from people who are motivated to do something new? The former. Ladybird is currently not practically usable, it is uncle
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1mo ago
The big problem for Firefox/Mozilla is that the browser is currently primarily sponsored by Google, but due to an extremely stupid antitrust ruling, Google will no longer be allowed to do this after 2026. Then Mozilla could run out of
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Nvidia DLSS 5 Leaked DLL Analysis
(techpowerup.com)
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1mo ago
Why does a polishing cloth hit the HN frontpage (twice)? What's next? Hand towel? Dish sponge?
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1mo ago
No human could have read the reasoning traces by themselves: > Across both datasets, we reviewed approximately 1300 transcripts in total, all of which contained raw chains of thought. Most transcripts were very long, often many millions
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1mo ago
The main author talks about this problem here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FG54euEAesRkSZuJN/ryan_green...
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1mo ago
Redwood/METR report: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden... OpenAI report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c78...
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1mo ago
That would an interesting finding!
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1mo ago
They only identify the Reddit user as "kepleronlyknows", but in the Reddit thread [1] he links to his video visualization [2], where his user name is Patrick Anderson. Before he made the video visualization using Google Earth, he
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1mo ago
The anchor links in the "on this page section" don't work for me (Android Firefox/Chrome).
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1mo ago
But I guess Anthropic will not be compensated?
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2mo ago
None of that is remotely evidence that "struggling company" is merely "a bit too harsh".
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2mo ago
PayPal is very big in some countries.
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2mo ago
Or in indoor non-public places.
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2mo ago
Note that this is a ruling on (just) one of two independent lawsuits, as stated in the article.
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2mo ago
The growth is not infinite. It will stop at technological maturity, with the maximum intelligence allowed by the laws of physics.
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The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries
(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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2mo ago
Their (not especially great, compared to Chinese ones) models being open weight doesn't even come close to outweigh the effect of CUDA & Co being proprietary and closed.
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cubefox
2mo ago
You can't be serious. If someone smokes indoors, you can smell it for hours or days afterward. All your clothes smell like it the next day. Nothing remotely like this happens with vapes. It's far less bad.
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2mo ago
> They've mostly switched to vapes now. It's still annoying, but at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets. Vape fumes also smell far less bad and are almost not toxic to bystanders.
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2mo ago
JPEG XL is also "extra large" in the sense that it covers many features of more specialized image formats. They tried to come up with a pretty universal solution. > It supports wide colour gamut as well as high dynamic range an
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2mo ago
Yeah, but the semantic question is whether LLMs being accepted to use for coding means that the software engineer who merely instructs the LLM is thereby also "coding" (similar to how someone who merely writes Fortran, rather than
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2mo ago
So you are suggesting we will soon drop the "vibe" from "vibe coding"?
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2mo ago
He is right. The GitHub graphs show that most code is already no longer written by humans, and the shape of the graphs (as well as the recent pace of LLM progress as measured by various benchmarks) tells us that human programming is going t
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2mo ago
More information on JPEG XL progressive decoding and file size comparisons with AVIF: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/
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> AI is not limited to the rigid construction plan of an organism. A model also doesn't have to fit inside a small skull or be limited to the daily energy intake of a human.
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- A successful surgery may require both a surgeon and a nurse, but that doesn't mean the nurse has nearly as much impact on the successful surgery as the surgeon. - The lighting of the match is mainly caused by the striking of the matc
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2mo ago
You are being delusional. LLMs are extremely good at programming and mathematics, as well as many other tasks.
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