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The AI/tech ecosystem on twitter/x really generates a lot of interesting posts still. The discover algorithm is really good at surfacing adjacent content (sim clusters?). Bluesky occasionall…

Can people bring higher effort posts to this discussion so that this thread doesn't get pulled like the others? Is there a specific product line that this app is using? What FOIA laws are applica…

"The value got extracted, but compensation isn't flowing back. That bothers me, and it deserves a broader policy conversation. What I keep coming back to is this: AI commoditizes anything…

Isn't that generally the case, convenience? 20% to 50% extra in price to handle edge cases and unknown unknowns seems pretty cheap. That's like, $100/month to $200/month for a lot …

non corrupted github link: https://github.com/freeman-jiang/bikemap.nyc Cool visualization. Do you find the OSRM shortest path routes probable for bikes? Not living in NYC, I exp…

Is there a reason wrong data isn't considered more broadly in its context as still valuable? Shouldn't the model effectively 1. learn to complete the incorrect thing and 2. learn the context…

Additionally there is a concert series that's quite good and other merchandise.

I've had no trouble using corded headphones with my iphones (either via an adapter or e.g. the $20 usb-c earpods). In fact, it seems like people using corded headphones is a news cycle[1] every 6…

Neat tool someone made to help themselves follow hn. Haven't even seen an english take on this yet. Someone replying[1] to Andrej Karpathy's hn autograding[2] tweet said they used LLMs to he…

If you were a student in 2025, is CS193P (looks swiftUI rendering heavy) still the hands-on foundation for the next-big-tinkerer or would it look more like building around affordances of AI? (or somet…

Uber founder explaining tipping logic. I haven't seen such a precise formulation around the logic for including tipping in e-delivery/PoS platforms. I'd be curious if someone more famil…

The openai/whisper repo and paper referenced by the model card seem to be saying it's transformer based.

It’s an encoder-decoder transformer trained on audio (language?) and transcription. Seems kinda weird for it not to meet the definition in a tautological way even if it’s not the typical sense or does…

I think part of getting by with a lower PPD is the IRL pixels are fixed and have hard boundaries that OS affordances have co-evolved with. (pixel alignment via lots of rectangular things - windows, bu…

macOS exposes a lot of affordances to code/xrpc/services/etc that Shortcuts (and previously automator) used. They let you do basically anything you'd want on macOS programmatically…

I assume this comment in relation to the starting from a stop being unpleasant? If it's w.r.t. effect of low max power on low cumulative generation, I agree it does seem like a little silly to ar…

Does that assume no pedaling though? In my experience the pain of starts and stops dominates the joy of steady state pedaling. Presumably the 3Wh/km is free/"exercise" or some port…

Not a big cyclist but is that still true for lower speed city riding (typical to flat european cycling prone countries), hillier SF, or mountain biking? It seems obviously true to typical racing or di…

I dunno, a whole subtree of the internet died and I’m not sure it really came back. It was a beautiful Galápagos Islands.

Wait, does lima do isolation in a macos context too? It looks like linux vms, which apple's container-cli (among others) covers at a basic level. I'd like apple to start providing macOS imag…

(Surely this issue must've been discussed/debated elsewhere ad nauseum because it seems an odd design decision to leave out such a common macos binding...) But having only used ghostty as-is…

Is this more of an accounting thing? Is there some (tax?) efficiency where OpenAI could take money from another source, then pay it to Nvidia, and receive GPUs. But instead taking investment from Nvid…

I don't really get the syncing situation with apple. And it's really hard to tell when they've resolved bugs in one app or introduced new ones elsewhere. The Safari reading list can…

This is such a cool effect but I'm afraid its novelty is conflicting with its affordances. Have you seen cases where people are using it in a more familiar manner? Like, they've moved on fro…

This collection of Thomas Edison's notebooks reminds me of John Carmack's .plan files. Are there other similar iconic collections (more modern preferably)? And in the SaaS era, are these arc…

This is the problem with podcasts, but also modern media, in general. You have to play softball or be ideologically homogeneous to get access. Anything else has a negative k for a variety of reasons.

Some people will be too young to know the commoditize[1] your complements wisdom of yesteryear. It's hard for me to tell if consumers end up net ahead after things settle. I'm surprised we h…