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by xrd 2mo ago
This smells like it was hallucinated by chatgpt. Perhaps AI truly is sentient now; the desire to be wanted and necessary is very human. Or, perhaps it wasn't hallucinated by chatgpt but by the PR team at openai.
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by xrd 2mo ago
CNC uses SVG? I am only familiar with 3d printers and assumed SVG would be too primitive and CNC would use STL or something like that?
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by xrd 3mo ago
Stop bragging, The Onion already reported on a one man company who is $1B in debt. "CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YERfT
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by xrd 3mo ago
This came up in my feed related to this legislative change in how guns can now be purchased online. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/02/new-...
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Shares of gun seller GrabAGun, backed by Don Trump Jr, tank on NYSE debut (2025)(cnbc.com)
7 points by xrd 3mo ago|1 comments
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by xrd 3mo ago
I love that Firefox is the best. I don't use kicad. But, this project, as a web-first version of kicad, seems like it offers the best opportunities to create a shared learning community. Is that part of the long term goal? I would love
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by xrd 3mo ago
Up until now these crazy cases have been rejected by the courts. But this feels like a crack in the dam. A judge actually sentenced someone to 30 years for hiding zines, zines that had been published for years. This was under the pretense h
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30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech(theintercept.com)
726 points by xrd 3mo ago|488 comments
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by xrd 3mo ago
I'm not an apple person so this surprised me. I guess I have fallen for the "apple gear is expensive and must be the best" fallacy. What are good options for similar wireless bud headphones?
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by xrd 3mo ago
No disagreement there, good point.
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by xrd 3mo ago
Crime surged during COVID. But, what type of crime? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2330443X.2022.2... Hint: homicides and car theft. Burglary and larceny actually went down. But, homicides surge
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by xrd 4mo ago
Would be very interested to see how this affects post-50 workers. That's a protected class and I would imagine an ambulance chasing lawyer would be excited for a class action lawsuit.
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by xrd 4mo ago
Oops, yes, correct!
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by xrd 4mo ago
Please watch/listen to the Pablo Torre podcast about this one for additional context: https://www.pablo.show/p/inside-james-dolans-deep-state?utm_... If you don't know, Pablo recently won a Pulitzer for his r
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by xrd 4mo ago
This is a good place to start reading about dual gpus. https://github.com/noonghunna/club-3090/blob/master/docs/DUA...
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by xrd 4mo ago
So close! My machine with 192GB RAM + RTX 3090 24GB can almost run this. It says it needs 24GB of VRAM and 256GB of RAM for MoE offloading. https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2#usage-guide In a prior thread, som
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by xrd 4mo ago
I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of different sized ads for a variety of placements. I was tasked with
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by xrd 4mo ago
How are people running this locally? I just checked llama.cpp and it appears unsloth has a version but it hacks a bunch of things to make it work and isn't optimal. https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues
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by xrd 4mo ago
Forgejo. A single tiny golang binary, I think about 200mb. It has 75% of the functionality of gitlab with 5% of the resource requirements. I migrated to it and have never missed gitlab.
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Ford's AI rally recalls the dot com bubble(bloomberg.com)
1 points by xrd 4mo ago|0 comments
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A new study says people love working from home, but does it love them back?(npr.org)
2 points by xrd 4mo ago|0 comments
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by xrd 4mo ago
Has anyone tried to 3d print vinyl?
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by xrd 4mo ago
Do they pinky promise not to bail out their investments with taxpayer dollars?
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by xrd 4mo ago
Last year's gains of 1.5M jobs created was revised down to just 150k. Can anyone explain to me why that happened and why this isn't the same? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/largest-jobs-revi
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by xrd 4mo ago
TL;DR: this is a 23B model, and in this case the B stands for "pinto beans."
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by xrd 4mo ago
The author made these using Janet (discussed on HN in the past): https://bauble.studio https://toodle.studio Those two fascinating art tools got me very excited about Janet a while back.
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by xrd 4mo ago
What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it. T
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Tezcatl: A 2MB alternative to Puppeteer for scraping on macOS(george.mand.is)
3 points by xrd 4mo ago|0 comments
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by xrd 4mo ago
I had not heard of pi, which is referenced on the llama.app page. Another coding agent? How does this compare to opencode? Any idea why the llama.cpp devs recommend that?
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We should be more tired than the model(newsletter.vickiboykis.com)
10 points by xrd 4mo ago|2 comments

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