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adamkochanowicz··on GPT-5.2
I also love that I can leave the microphone on (not in live voice mode) while dictating to ChatGPT and pause and think as much as needed.

With Gemini, it will send as soon as I stop to think. No way to disable that.

adamkochanowicz··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Kagi is worth every penny.
adamkochanowicz··on Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
If your addiction has gotten this far, it's time to start labeling it as just that, and there's no shame in it.

At a certain point you need to accept that you will not be able to willpower your way out of it. You need systems and strategies in place that cut you off from your addiction.

That can look like a lot of things that I'm not going to try to stuff into an HN comment but here's what works for me:

- Leaving the house with a dumb phone. I recommend using an old smartphone that is meticulously stripped away from bad things over purchasing a flip phone. You're eventually going to need to call up an uber, scan a QR code, and other such smartphoney things you need a dumb phone to do. Leaving your environment is also key. If you must, bring your actual phone with you, but fully powered off.

- Using a feature on your phone to cut yourself off from YouTube on a scheduled basis. Most phones have something like this by default, but there are also some third party apps that take it a step further.

- Have something you enjoy to take the place of YouTube. Entertainment is healthy to an extent. Taken too far, it becomes a distraction from cognitive processes you need to be regularly engaging in, to say the least.

adamkochanowicz··on Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar
Huh? What relation does that have to do with setting email filters?
adamkochanowicz··on Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar
I never set reminders. I just cancel right away. 99.9% of the time, it will just end when the trial is over, or if I just want to pay for a month, when that period is over.
adamkochanowicz··on Study mode
From what I can see, this just boils down to a system prompt to act like a study helper?

I would think you'd want to make something a little more bespoke to make it a fully-fledged feature, like interactive quizzes that keep score and review questions missed afterwards.

adamkochanowicz··on Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
For those asking how this is different from a simple text based memory archive, I think that is answered here:

--- Unlike most memory systems—which act like basic sticky notes, only showing what’s true right now. C.O.R.E is built as a dynamic, living temporal knowledge graph:

Every fact is a first-class “Statement” with full history, not just a static edge between entities. Each statement includes what was said, who said it, when it happened, and why it matters. You get full transparency: you can always trace the source, see what changed, and explore why the system “believes” something. ---

adamkochanowicz··on Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
It looks completely garbled on my end
adamkochanowicz··on Get Out of My Head
It's akin to the days when people used google clones that used a black background to supposedly save on display energy use.
adamkochanowicz··on Get Out of My Head
They don't. Removing these tags will not result in any meaningful increase in page load time honestly. This is especially because most don't actually load up any linked file. Their weight is just the characters they are typed out in.

It's an informative webpage but it's not very effective optimization imo.

adamkochanowicz··on Skywork-OR1: new SOTA 32B thinking model with open weight
Also, am I reading that right? They trained it not only on another model, not only one that is already distilled on another model, but one that is much lower in parameters (7B)?
adamkochanowicz··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Knowing that "you" is the formal and "thou" is the informal is hard to grasp. I can't imagine saying "f--- thou, buddy!"
adamkochanowicz··on StableLM Zephyr 3B
Can't wait for someone smarter than me to make this compatible with MLC on iPhone.
adamkochanowicz··on Canada to recall Prime Energy over caffeine levels
Tangentially, the idea that simulation is equivalent to providing the body with energy is not helping public understanding of nutrition.

It seems like in the last ten years, the bottled/canned drinks in stores have become monopolized by these kinds of products packed in "tall boy" cans whereas ten or so years ago, they were a specialty item sold in small cans like the original red bull.

adamkochanowicz··on Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals
Friendly feedback this background info is strangely missing from your "about" content.
adamkochanowicz··on ChatGPT app for iOS
Whisper is (highly) more accurate.
adamkochanowicz··on Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
> It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and source credibility.
adamkochanowicz··on Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
Too bad the sign up process is broken. I get to the last step to verify and the button presses and nothing happens.
adamkochanowicz··on 100K Context Windows
https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/...
adamkochanowicz··on Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
I use https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=&target_language=... which summarizes YouTube, articles, books, links...
adamkochanowicz··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
They weren't defending virtual assistants. Relax and read more carefully the context of the thread.
adamkochanowicz··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
I just read it again and I never read them express pride in the tool or say they were using Siri. The comment is about the impact for them on using a voice-based interface to set a timer. Bad faith argumentation.
adamkochanowicz··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
Number of seconds is not a relevant metric for some people.

More relevant for me is how much and often I need to switch my physical and cognitive task at hand to briefly use my device. If I'm in a focused mode going back and forth in my house getting things done, it's a huge benefit to just verbalize my thinking in the moment rather than come to an abrupt stop and switch to visuospatial navigation to drill down to the timer app, and fine tune the amount before I can switch back to what I was doing before.

adamkochanowicz··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
I've also never heard this term before.
adamkochanowicz··on Employer used Work Number to out employee with 3 current jobs, fires her
There are so many ads on this page, it crashes before I can read a sentence
adamkochanowicz··on WebGPU GPT Model Demo
Try chrome canary
adamkochanowicz··on Dishwasher Salmon
I don't think it's wordplay. I think they are saying it's like sous vide but not.
adamkochanowicz··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Perplexity.ai is also worth considering. The chrome extension is a game changer.
adamkochanowicz··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
This is likely because it is using GPT 3.5 turbo in part of its stack who's knowledge base is cut off in September 2021.
adamkochanowicz··on A case of fatal multi-organ inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination
Investigating would be looking at a body of research. How is cherry picking one person's experience doing any favors for objectivity?
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