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bongwater_OS··on Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour
lol same I think OP got tunnel visioned and forgot that nobody even knows wtf the point of the puzzle is.
bongwater_OS··on Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
Hey just a heads up the demo on your site is broken (for me). English transcriptions are coming through fine but translations aren't being spoken, despite the output video stuttering for a moment at the time when it should.
bongwater_OS··on Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice?
All of my friends who work remote for these companies do like 45min of work per day; this is the answer
bongwater_OS··on Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities
slack stores their data on clay tablets so technically 0 :/
bongwater_OS··on Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
is this why all my gsheets scripts started failing out of nowhere today
bongwater_OS··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Remember when OpenAI was focusing on building "open" AI? This is a cool mission statement but it doesn't mean anything right now. Everyone loves a minimalist HTML website and guarantees of safety but who knows what this is actually going to shake down to be.
bongwater_OS··on QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs
One of the best papers I've read in a long time. This could be huge.
bongwater_OS··on Music ControlNet: Multiple Time-Varying Controls for Music Generation
Love seeing the MIR research from CMU recently. Chris Donahue is the man!!
bongwater_OS··on How to run 50% faster without external energy (2020)
Who could have guessed - attaching springs to your feet makes you run faster. This is the kind of genius scientific insight that's going to ensure the long term survival of the human race.
bongwater_OS··on Brave layoffs
I've been using Brave (quite happily) for years, I was inspired by their initial mission. Reading this article, hearing that they're implementing "price-tiered AI" (~original~), is so antithetical to what I once thought they stood for that I'm ready to ditch.

This might sound crazy, but the primary purpose of a browser isn't to improve search results with a custom API (almost none of which compare to vanilla Google), but to actually improve the browsing experience. Haven't tried Arc, but from what I've seen it seems like they're actually focusing on UX, which is the kind of thing I'm looking for in a browser.

bongwater_OS··on Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST
They didn't need to use JWST to find a transcendental Dark Star, they could have just looked at Fillmore West in 1969.
bongwater_OS··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
If it weren't for those Sapolsky lectures I would have never become intellectually curious. Beautiful lectures from a beautiful mind.
bongwater_OS··on What it’s like to dissect a cadaver
I had the same impression from the article, and I'm glad you brought up the value of pursuing personal curiosity.

This brings up a central question about the value of collective vs individual knowledge. If you donated your body, would you rather help a lot of people a little or a few people a lot?

If I knew that my body had the power to bring about a truly humbling, enriching, and perspective changing experience to a few individuals, I would be happy with that. In an indirect way, it might be so inspiring for those individuals as to result in a net gain of collective knowledge in the future.