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matternous··on We are rebuilding Monica
Incredible, their website used to both simpler and have screenshots of the actual software[0], now it's just a generic LLM slop website.

[0] https://archive.ph/x0sck

matternous··on Open source AI must win
They have prices. Click on the links in the shipping row.
matternous··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
If you're paying tuition for your PhD, you're getting scammed.
matternous··on Zed 1.0
You could just use the VSCode theme in Zed.
matternous··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

matternous··on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
Why don't you post it so we can see how much better the AI made it?
matternous··on Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned
His answer is to leave and get a poetry degree, so I’m not sure he’s exactly the revolutionary type.
matternous··on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)
This has been posted on HN a few times and seems to show that terminal.app is your best bet for most cases if you care about latency: https://danluu.com/term-latency/
matternous··on History of Cycling Maps
Not sure I can agree, I think the archive you posted is quite well laid out and from a cursory browse I found it easy to navigate. The site in the OP is far worse.
matternous··on Ask HN: Cursor is productive for an hour, then burns my application down
Wait until you learn about git
matternous··on Tinygrad 0.9.0
It used to be a 1,000. I guess it’s just a reminder to be succinct.
matternous··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
I got an external trackpad recently too for my Mac, but it feels noticeably less responsive than the one built into my MacBook, even when connected with a USB cable.
matternous··on The Yak Shave
Here’s a post from Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp about doing just that: https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles
matternous··on Spectrum Analyser, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum reverse engineering tool
Interesting choice of name

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

matternous··on Computer and Network Security
Prof. Kak was my advisor during grad school. His notes are very valuable, he also has some great ones on deep learning.
matternous··on Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017)
(2017)
matternous··on Show HN: A no-frills CV template using Typst and YAML to version control CV data
It’s fantastic and easy to use, I actually used this exact template about a month ago to update my resume and it hardly took any time at all.
matternous··on Lumber prices down 11% YoY
Lumber prices seen all over the place when I search for various species of hardwood. Is there a standard online retailer to reference?
matternous··on Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan
This website[1] indicates it is pronounced like “flope” (フロープ).

[1] https://www.naporitansushi.com/floorp8/

matternous··on Rethinking Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models
Interesting. Are there any other worthwhile recent papers on using LLMs to improve computer vision?
matternous··on Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now?
A chip that doesn't get hot sounds like pretty efficient cooling design to me.
matternous··on [dead]
According to the article nearly half of the students at Harvard say they view abortion as “a difficult topic to have an open and honest conversation about on campus.” Sounds less like refusing to platform hate speech, and more like censoring discussion that goes against the university status quo in general.