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Merge Branch 'Antigravity'(github.com)
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Why There Are So Many Image Formats [video](youtube.com)
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by nomilk 8mo ago
Easiest way might be to use google cloud's 'bigquery' tool which lets you query hn data with SQL I just tried SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` and it returns 47049059 rows. And SELECT
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Infographic of the Navy and Air Force build up nearby Iran(twitter.com)
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by nomilk 8mo ago
I'm no expert but once spent ~30 mins researching how to properly sharpen knives. Everything I watched said you needed a sharpening stone, and that a 'knife sharpening steel' is basically useless. During a long stay in a serv
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by nomilk 8mo ago
Fb deserves huge credit for their 'reels' algorithm. I follow a bunch of science influencers, and their content frequently blows my mind, and it's just one great vid after another. Something I would love is 'social media
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by nomilk 8mo ago
And before that, looks like the domain was used to give updates from the House Majority Leader (e.g. things like voting info, social security updates, legislative changes, tax info etc).
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by nomilk 8mo ago
It might do that too , but access to information is just so utterly critical, and exponentially moreso in circumstances where government brutally cracks down on it, as we saw in Egypt during the Arab Spring and we're seeing in Iran pr
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by nomilk 8mo ago
I think the states themselves don't block porn, but require sites to verify users' ages, and sites would rather block access in those states than comply. (although not sure how they do that from a technical standpoint, based on IP
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by nomilk 8mo ago
Can someone ELI5 how it actually works? Say I'm a UK citizen with advanced glioblastoma (implying loss of faculties, seizures, and pain; no cure, and things to worsen before eventually passing away, possibly some time from now). Suppos
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by nomilk 8mo ago
> The last few weeks have been concerning if you're a software developer and very concerning if you're a mega corporation that relies on the SaaS business model. My 2c Econ101 analysis: - Agentic tooling reduces the cost of mak
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by nomilk 8mo ago
I wonder if it's plausible that AI could generate an entire (good) Simpsons episode in the future.
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by nomilk 8mo ago
FWIW, I've made comments on here and other social media that got high scores that later turned out to be wrong, and comments on here and other social media that got low scores (many downvotes), which later turned out to be correct (and
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Paul Morphy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nomilk 8mo ago
ChatGPT gives the wrong answer but for a different reason to Claude. Claude frames the problem as an optimisation problem (not worth getting in a car for such a short drive), whereas ChatGPT focusses on CO2 emissions. As selfish as this is,
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by nomilk 8mo ago
First thing I did after reading the linked post (showing 4 other LLMs completely miss the point) was try grok, and it gave the right answer (similar to yours, but shorter) in 8 seconds (free Grok, not the fancy paid version): > Walking d
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There is a hexagonal-shaped storm on Saturn's North Pole(science.nasa.gov)
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The title could be dead wrong; the tripling of junior jobs might not be due to the limits of AI, but because of AI increasing the productivity of juniors to that of a mid or senior (or at least 2-3x-ing the output of juniors), thus maki
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by nomilk 8mo ago
I've noticed other junk like 'games' and ads for paid 'premium' content getting through uBlock's filter list. Hope those are added to the list too. I used uBlock's element zapper feature to block the you
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by nomilk 8mo ago
> [15m44s, Elon] My prediction is that most of AI compute is going to be real time video understanding and real time video generation, and we expect to be the leaders in that. YouTube killer?
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xAI All Hands [video](youtube.com)
11 points by nomilk 8mo ago|2 comments
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by nomilk 8mo ago
> idiological automatons are useless A fair analogy for some students at some institutions who can make it through a degree without any critical thinking, and, on occasion, finish with worse ideas than when they started.
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Secretary of War Hegseth Announces End of Support for Harvard University [video](youtube.com)
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From a marketing perspective I'd argue it's good naming, since it sells the value of the library, rather than simply its feature/s. (i.e. its feature is 'handling webhooks' but its value is in allowing (the dev)
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by nomilk 8mo ago
> Stripe's API has a 100 rpm rate limit Small correction, 100 rp s source: https://docs.stripe.com/rate-limits#:~:text=the%20number%20o...
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Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" [video](youtube.com)
5 points by nomilk 8mo ago|9 comments
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by nomilk 8mo ago
Love the site, but seems a shame not to link to the full (~460 page) pdf for offline perusal. EDIT: this might be it: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss.pdf (saving to laptop and phone; perfect for passing time on
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by nomilk 8mo ago
I had to 'Restart to Update' and it was there. Impressive!
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by nomilk 8mo ago
Is Opus 4.6 available for Claude Code immediately? Curious how long it typically takes for a new model to become available in Cursor?
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by nomilk 9mo ago
Also, space solar is around 4-8x more efficient (24h/day full sun instead of ~4-8 on Earth), and 40% gain due to no atmospheric loss.

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