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_sys49152··on What Those Spikes on Semi-Truck Wheels Do
so theyre not the mack truck version of houston swangas eh?

theres certainly an intimidation factor when youre side to side on the highway

_sys49152··on [dead]
power showdown between the second most powerful person in the country and j powell. itll be more entertaining then tyson vs paul.
_sys49152··on Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
advertising opportunity for puppy pads
_sys49152··on Ask HN: What reason would you have to chase wealth beyond $50M?
maple syrup farms
_sys49152··on DeepSeek-R1
looking at how it thinks, it can help bust you out when you write yourself into a corner.
_sys49152··on Nobody cares
nah - gas pumps that ask for phone numbers for savings card id's are great opportunities to save cents at the pump. 555-555-5555 always works everywhere and half the time gets you savings.
_sys49152··on ChatGPT knows which country I'm in, despite conversation memory set to 'off'
ive gotten it once to tell me the closest mcdonalds im near. havent been able to get it to do it since.
_sys49152··on AI means the end of internet search as we've known it
i swear i got it to do it once for the nearest mcdonalds,and it knew my location i didnt even have to tell it. havent been able to get it to do it since.
_sys49152··on Parsing the C64 Bubble Bobble Wind Currents
c64 was just so much smoother playing + looked better visually. not choppy.
_sys49152··on Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'
LOL. Go to genius.com. Pull up: Pras - Ghetto Superstar album. Ctrl-F "Dirty Cash"

Songs on that album that contain the phrase "Dirty Cash":

Blue Angels

Cant Stop the Shining Pt 2

Get Your Groove On

Frowsey Pt 2

For the Love of This

Dirty Cash (Instrumental, lol)

Yeah eh Yeah eh

Avenues

Another One Bites the Dust

It's a solid dope album though, great production values if you skip the filler interludes.

_sys49152··on The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
wish moxie brand sodas wouldve done a similar marketing strategy to gain a better foothold in the northeast market. they got bought out by coca cola and nerfed any bitterness to have it resemble more like a flat root beer.

not everything in life needs to be sweet.

_sys49152··on Thomas E. Kurtz has died
basic gang stand up
_sys49152··on Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?
i tell it i pay 5 dollars for each excellent response, and i have it keep track of how much money ive paid it in each session. so ill know around 20-35 dollars itll start going off the rails depending on how its performing that day, or the dollar amount will go off the rails like $42. im not doing any building off responses, its sole operation is to perform my ask at the beginning of the session (until it forgets or gets sloppy)
_sys49152··on The Wired Guide to Protecting Yourself from Government Surveillance
Cell phone providers, internet providers, technology providers, license plate readers, ring cameras, mail package imaging, surveillance cameras, motion hunting cameras, private citizen agencies that can operate outside of law or structure, govt agencies that operate outside of law or structure, five eyes, shadow facebook networking, unlimited funds, dna gathering, thousands upon thousands of employees, including specialists who can interpret the smallest details about you and create an accurate psychological profile.

"Nowhere to run to baby. Nowhere to hide."

_sys49152··on Quincy Jones has died
Id go with "The Secret Garden" from 1989's Back on the Block Album if youre looking for something different. Quintessential 'quiet storm' track.
_sys49152··on Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)
>> The Hell’s Angels used to stage concerts in San Francisco in 1967-68, and Big Brother & the Holding Company played in some of them. You can find posters promoting these shows on the web.
_sys49152··on [dead]
"controlling the narrative"
_sys49152··on ChatGPT Search
is this going to give me lyrics or recipes link or will these categories continue to be nerfed by openai? it appears to write over its response of providing me a website link and gives me an unclickable blue name of website instead.
_sys49152··on OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
replying to the wheresyouredat article:

>>OpenAI launched o1 — codenamed Strawberry — on Thursday night, with all the excitement of a dentist’s appointment. Across a series of tweets, Sam Altman described o1 as OpenAi’s “most capable and aligned models yet.” Though he conceded that o1 was “still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it,” he promised it would deliver more accurate results when performing the kinds of activities where there is a definitive right answer — like coding, math problems, or answering science questions.

it seems to me like they nerfed the regular free ai model to give me imperfect replies on my benchmark consistently while the o1 model nails it consistently. before the free model would, depending on the day, give me more accurate replies to my benchmark .

thus widening the divide to make the o1 model look more useful. openai can do whatever they want and thats fine but all it seems to me they did was make 01 look good by comparison by nerfing the free product.

_sys49152··on Kroger and Walmart deny 'surge pricing' after adopting digital price tags
so you grab one of everything surrounding your target product you wish to buy and ditch everything else at the endcap. they gonna change the price of a popular product in the store 3 other people grabbed at a lower price at the same time in store?

if they are going to game digital prices, they can be gamed back as well, no?

_sys49152··on Lawsuit challenges Virginia City's use of cameras for warrantless surveillance
When you travel for work, getting helicopters everywhere you go is next level flexxing as well.

Total population control has been here for years now.

_sys49152··on The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking
I dont see how the US dosent hyperinflate its way out of its issues.
_sys49152··on Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do?
is there issues with doing NDA's before pitch decking? is it uncouth? standard procedure?
_sys49152··on The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves
Another obscure Archer ("The Limited", Season 3 Ep 6) reference solved.
_sys49152··on Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'
first of all this stock has been highly manipulated ever since the "funding secured" tweet. the stock price cannot be taken seriously either direction.
_sys49152··on $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
past 4 years have taught me to bet on irrational
_sys49152··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
i think the problem with revamping Q-Link/AOL into the be-all end-all for everyone (thats human) youre gonna hafta pump the prime with AI chatbots to give the appearance of lots of people to draw you in, kinda like how reddit admins pumped the prime by making tons of posts early on. just a little light treason.
_sys49152··on Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life
cityscapes and urban photography - only a handful of examples given but those images still got a ways to go
_sys49152··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
theyre the same photo. /meme
_sys49152··on Meta Movie Gen
change style to pencil sketch = absolute gamechanger. (penguins vid)

thats the most amenable approach to ai filmmaking ive seen available yet.

id have to see wayyy more pencil sketch conversions to see exactly whats going on....

...but that right there is the easiest way to hack making movies - with the most control.....so far...

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