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ListeningPie··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
And yet investment is continuing. What are they counting on?
ListeningPie··on Our position on open-weights models
How are Point 1, "We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China," and Point 2, "We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations," addressed by making open-weight models illegal?

Point 1 is about restricting the sale of chips, not models. Point 2 concerns companies using closed models to train their own models through distillation.

The real issue is that open-weight models can run on much less powerful hardware, making the current AI business model, where companies train a powerful model and gatekeep access to it, less relevant. Once open-weight models become good enough, much of the future revenue for today's leading AI labs could disappear. But just as Microsoft still has a market so will the large AI houses have one, but the moat will not be providing AI responses.

ListeningPie··on Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Can I export and open in Powerpoint?
ListeningPie··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
The blog has it's own comment section under the article that's completely blank and yet clearly there is a lot of interest with 197 comments. Having an empty comment sections sends the wrong signal.
ListeningPie··on Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
can you send to multiple LLMs to compare responses? From that create a heuristic of which LLM gets what.
ListeningPie··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
taste and judgment, which you can only obtain by having a strong CS base and coding manually for years.

I disagree, the definers of taste; art and food critics, movie and book reviewers, don’t need to have learned the craft by doing. Taste is a separate skill.

ListeningPie··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
The exams need to change. Now that we have LLMs the value a human can bring to a task has changed and it’s that new value that has to be tested.

It’s like testing your drawing ability in a photography class. The difference is that now nearly have subject and testing method we have has become obsolete. Drawings courses still exist as will traditional courses, but the main stream has changed and exams and schools need to adapt.

ListeningPie··on Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
I'm thinking of doing the same, but am hesitant to "advertise" as being advertise to, is not why users are on reddit and x. How do you see it?
ListeningPie··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
What’s the context?
ListeningPie··on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]
Is there a modern day equivalent to The Whole Earth catalog? Maybe a collection of blogs and online media or otherwise
ListeningPie··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
Youtube shorts have resulted in buying an Apple Watch with eSim. Now my phone stays far away from person for most of the day.
ListeningPie··on For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)
What happened to all the excess calories they are eating? Huge bowl of rice, table filled with food, and the people look almost malnourished.
ListeningPie··on Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI
Will it run on the tv hardware or a computer via hdmi?
ListeningPie··on Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups
I've also heard that depending on what country you're buying from the price changes, but using VPN I've never been able to replicate the results. Pricing based on individuals sounds illegal.
ListeningPie··on Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?
A manager has responsibility for the team, how can an AI be responsible?
ListeningPie··on Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
We use selenium for RPAs. Saving this as an alternative to explore.
ListeningPie··on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
What is a business book? For example I’ve seen “The Art of War” listed as business book.
ListeningPie··on 100th Anniversary of the Great Gatsby: The Chicago Connection
Why? To tell advertisers that all clicks come from a specific region, to not worry about privacy laws in different countries in their cookie policy, are there others?
ListeningPie··on European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
Microsoft has 780 pages of vulnerabilities, Linux has 203 and Apple had 258 pages when filtering by vendor. I tried to just filter Windows or MacOS by product but that seems to be broken.
ListeningPie··on Why I don't discuss politics with friends
I agree with everything you said expect I genuinely believe that most pro-lifers would vote for "this law as written will cause the (avoidable) deaths of pregnant mothers who want to keep their babies but have a miscarriage", because murder is a sin under all circumstances.

That’s the problem I have with discussion, we can be eloquent and well reasoned but when two people differ on a belief that is fundamental to the argument there is no agreement possible.

Without a shared reality people develop beliefs so radically different no amount of reasoned argument can change that.

What would make me share your belief, maybe a 50 hours of media of pro-lifers saying abortion is ok to save the mother.

ListeningPie··on Photographs of 19th Century Japan
What a difference presentation makes. On Ops link I could enjoy scrolling through the photos, to see them on the Smithsonian site ,I had to find the "See all digital content in FSA.A1999.35" link then 4 clicks for each photo from a harsh index page.

Thank you to makers for putting the sites together, one for storage and the other for consumption.

ListeningPie··on Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
Many Japanese recipes I’ve tried have 2 tablespoons of sugar, but that’s not much in a meal for four.

Then there is mirin, which is basically sugar.

ListeningPie··on Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
Your comment was reason enough for me to read it, 8/10
ListeningPie··on Why I don't discuss politics with friends
The stance of always taking the opposite because fuck tribalism makes it hard to identify what one’s actual values and opinions are.
ListeningPie··on Why I don't discuss politics with friends
I like this, but what we do, is vote. Between work and kids there is no more time “to do”. I donate to UNICEF but that’s it.
ListeningPie··on Why I don't discuss politics with friends
I’m not I the states and only see America through the media and social media like this.

You ask why did they need hope, do you have an answer why did they need hope? What’s so bad in America that people could be manipulated as you put it.

It feels a like a repeat of Brexit, where people vote against there own material gains to punish others because that’s the quickest high they can get https://youtu.be/GPgatTnVvVY

ListeningPie··on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs on daily basis?
Conversations in the car, last time about differences in electric motors, the time before skincare products.
ListeningPie··on GM Killed the Only Apple CarPlay Retrofit for Its EVs
Now that I have CarPlay I won’t get a car without it. A car manufacturer can’t compete with the ecosystem or the convenience of using the same app in car as on the phone.

Granted it’d be better if the car navigation got updated and didn’t cost $100, but it won’t and it doesn’t. Podcasts don’t need a sync I as the play from the same device, there’s Audible, and Jellyfin supported music players, ChatGPT through the car speakers, WhatsApp for calls, I have a Bluetooth Connection for to the car computer, I had Pimsleur for a while, there is just no way an infotainment system can do more.

All this in a midrange car from 2021

ListeningPie··on Half-Life 2 RTX
The original aesthetic, including lighting, was made keeping the original limitations in minds. Kind of running old sprite games on LCDs instead of CRTs makes them look jagged.

So it's different and a tech demo, but I agree it's not necessarily better and could be one the reasons it is free.

ListeningPie··on NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument
To motivate deep space travel we should decide these records are dangerous and try to track them down (after voyager is out of range for radio control).
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