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by tech-historian 2mo ago
100% agree. Casual mode would be a winner.
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by tech-historian 4mo ago
I've noticed that Claude always defaults to really small text. They need to train readability into it.
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by tech-historian 5mo ago
Somewhat related: Patrick Winston's famous MIT How to Speak lecture. He's been giving this talk for 4 decades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
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by tech-historian 8mo ago
Is Apple silicon really that impressive compared to LLMs? Take a step back. CPUs have been getting faster and more efficient for decades. Google invented the transformer architecture, the backbone of modern LLMs.
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Degaussing(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by tech-historian 2y ago|0 comments
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The biggest print quality experiment ever? Brand Colors IRL: the Oreo case(insights4print.ceo)
1 points by tech-historian 2y ago|0 comments
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by tech-historian 2y ago
They also lied about having 100+ contributors to PearAI.
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by tech-historian 2y ago
> A reassuring line that said Sonos ‘does not and will not sell personal information’ has disappeared [from their privacy policy] The crux of the issue. How value is customer data really? I know very little about this.
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How GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet on Cruise(fortune.com)
2 points by tech-historian 2y ago|0 comments
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by tech-historian 2y ago
How much influence did Teenage Engineering have on this product? Did TE just design the physical aspects only?
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Amazon drops Venmo as payment option(cnbc.com)
1 points by tech-historian 3y ago|0 comments
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Interesting to see an entire article based on an HN comment [0] from the CEO. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Very cool. Tried it out, it works!
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The Potato Hack(potatohack.com)
11 points by tech-historian 3y ago|10 comments
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by tech-historian 3y ago
A diet that you can follow forever is called a lifestyle. For many diets and many people, it's really hard to convert into a lifestyle, because the of the restrictions and predictable cravings. Side note, there's a thing called th
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by tech-historian 3y ago
I just read thousands of words about a potato-based diet on that website. Didn't think my Tuesday was gonna start that way, but here we are. HN is amazing.
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Keeping my eyes peeled on this. Really fascinating.
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Creator of the site here. Thanks for posting! I've been meaning to update things with newer screenshots. Life gets in the way sometimes.
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by tech-historian 3y ago
> I'm sure they'll get there in another year or so. Unlikely, if you read the article.
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by tech-historian 3y ago
From the article: "Modem chips are trickier to make than processing chips because they must work seamlessly with 5G wireless networks, as well as the 2G, 3G and 4G networks used in countries around the world, each with its own technolo
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Brilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!
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by tech-historian 3y ago
This phenomenon generally cracks me up, where you see random (to me) english phrases sprinkled throughout foreign languages. SNL leaned into this, in a skit with Pedro Pascal speaking spanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Thank you :)
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by tech-historian 3y ago
TFA mentions "UA platform" several times but doesn't mention what that means. Can someone enlighten me? Google isn't disambiguating things much either. Thx!
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Fan of these interesting APIs, even if they feel experimental. Google also used to have a Flu Trends API [1], based on search query data in 25 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends
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by tech-historian 3y ago
Apparently that site was created by (now-famous) comedian/actress Chelsea Peretti. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125566&page=1
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Elon Musk says Twitter's cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops(reuters.com)
18 points by tech-historian 3y ago|25 comments
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by tech-historian 3y ago
His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around! https://oimo.io/works/water3d/ Cloth is very cool too. https://oimo.io/works/
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by tech-historian 3y ago
This is the only French archaeologist I've ever known [1]. It's nice to supplement the collection in my brain. [1] https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Emile_Belloq
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Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by tech-historian 4y ago|2 comments

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