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tomalbrcon Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

Please share a link to the conversation, otherwise I am not buying it.

Because "for me DeepSeek Flash 4.1 nailed it immediately", trust me bro.

tomalbrcon A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

This is a much worse version of destockd.

https://www.destockd.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599206

tomalbrcon Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

The world is rarely black and white. Both can be true.

tomalbrcon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

I. fucking. Wonder. Why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607239

tomalbrcon Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

> Nvidia now open sources whatever will make them sell more chips

Oh what did they release?

tomalbrcon AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

Yes this is the reason they fail miserably when it comes to novel problems.

tomalbrcon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

> it humiliates Opus

???

tomalbrcon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

> I don't know why using the default browser a OS comes with or not would be better?

Are being ignorant on purpose now?

Apple's Safari has integration with Apple's Password app which firefox does not. Edge automatically connects with your Microsoft account.

Both browsers sync tabs, bookmarks and so on across your Microsoft/Apple account connected devices.

For a lot of 'average' users this is already extremely convenient.

On top of that, Safari is still the most 'energy efficient' browser you could use on macOS.

tomalbrcon Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

Having only 1 of the token sellers do this is not very helpful either. Its just free branding & advertising for Misanthropic.

tomalbrcon Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

It is extremely refreshing to see a high quality, Human written Post other than the usual AI-slop you see on hacker news.

That being said, the Asahi team is doing incredible work. I am very thankful for what they are doing.

tomalbrcon Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Ah, yet another clickbait post, great.

tomalbrcon Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

That is really not a lot. A human could have easily done this. How much did it cost / how many tokens were spent?

tomalbrcon GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

Thanks, I had good laugh. Nice fanfic.

tomalbrcon Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

> I don't think the Austrians were smart enough of think that for themselves

Leave your fascist remarks out of here

tomalbrcon Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times

If only.

tomalbrcon AI coding at home without going broke

What makes you think that paying gives you privacy?

tomalbrcon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Imagine a super greedy company putting every bit information they can, willingly and maliciously hiding the origin of training data, into a computer and reselling that data. Such wow. Much shittie metaphor.

tomalbrcon How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?

Me too but the latest macOS version has ruined it for me, I had to switch back to a previous version.

tomalbrcon Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

Thank you Mr. American but wrong

tomalbrcon [dead]

Is this site completely AI generated? Who is behind "rival.security". How is there 0 information other than a few "blog" posts

tomalbrcon Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

How come eastern germany does so poorly?

tomalbrcon Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year

AI does not let you 'apt install' nonexistent packages either

tomalbrcon OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Whatever. If you are still using OpenAI products, shame on you.

tomalbrcon Our newsroom AI policy

Good to know which companies/news to avoid.

tomalbrcon Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

Talking about revisionist…

tomalbrcon The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

Good one. "We" are not Demon Sam Altman or that clown of Anthropic or Google or Microsoft

tomalbrcon EFF is leaving X

To talk to a botnet? no thanks. You can decide to just not feed into twitter.

tomalbrcon Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

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tomalbrcon Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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tomalbrcon ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

"bro": https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-r...