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tomasphan··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
On an iPhone the different lenses are selected by the user depending on the focal length they wish to have. The iPhone does not merge different lenses for higher resolution- which is how this app is different.
tomasphan··on When online commenters detect my art as AI
Bitchat, MenuGen, fly.Pieter.com and lots of stuff posted here every day
tomasphan··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
This has to be bait right? They’re different lenses with different focal lengths. Same as on Android phones with more than one lens.
tomasphan··on $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
Birmingham?
tomasphan··on Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees
Read before commenting: “Moynihan told CNBC the expense has surged from zero about five years ago, but called it a “good investment.”
tomasphan··on When online commenters detect my art as AI
This was true 2 years ago but LLMs can now absolutely create production ready programs from end to end, including hosting if you give it the access.
tomasphan··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
I love renewables, but the problem with solar is the lack of inertia (literally). Big spinning masses like steam turbines have an easier time staying on network frequency. Wind turbines better than solar of course so I hope we continue to have diversity there.
tomasphan··on Show HN: Alfa. Killing AI hallucinations with resonance
“We will NEVER migrate to newer versions. This is a strict, permanent requirement.”

I applaud this kind of forward thinking.

tomasphan··on Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
Could ask this about most news stories these days. They are so bold as to not even hide the opinionated framing anymore.
tomasphan··on Create iPhone Ringtones Without iTunes
I didn't know that. How does that work?
tomasphan··on Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
The buyer of your short sale would lose money to you. Remember options are contracts between two parties.

Shorters are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price. So that they may survive.

tomasphan··on Show HN: Be the ChatBOT
I broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!
tomasphan··on GPT‑Live
“I don’t translate, I interpret” - Ahmed the best interpreter there ever was
tomasphan··on Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy
Driving a Jaaaaag but not being able to bring women/men home seems like a special kind of hell.
tomasphan··on If you're a button, you have one job
How can you compare if you have only iPhone?
tomasphan··on EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime
Highly suggest you read 1984.
tomasphan··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Thanks for your contribution to this problem. Keen to see what you come up with next!
tomasphan··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
I request an official statement from Anthropic explaining how they're going to limit outages in the future. Elevated errors almost always means its down for me and I can't be that unlucky statistically speaking. It seems that Anthropic does not have a good grip on the ops side of things.
tomasphan··on Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
Never join a startup for the money. It’s meaningless to even compare your current comp. Will you learn a lot? Will it be fun and do you enjoy working with tight deadlines? You probably won’t learn a lot of technical skills since the other two are non-technical but you could learn sales which is arguably more important.
tomasphan··on I Fired Google
It’s not clear to me. What makes you sure it’s AI assisted?
tomasphan··on Banned by Anthropic?
Why not a credit card charge back? That’s what it’s for (assuming he paid with one)
tomasphan··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Pedestrian traffic deaths are going down again after peaking in 2022. Accidents are less survivable in the US due to bigger cars and higher hoods.

Quote from CDC

During 2013–2022, U.S. traffic-related death rates increased a relative 50.0% for pedestrians and 22.5% overall, compared with those in 27 other high-income countries, where they declined a median of 24.7% and 19.4%, respectively. Across countries, U.S. pedestrian death rates were highest overall and among persons aged 15–24 and 25–64 years.

tomasphan··on A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz
Better a drone be shot down than a crewed P-8 no?
tomasphan··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
Business idea - Iran Bitcoin fee intermediary. Realistically the CIA will handle this for US companies and maybe allies until they figure something out.
tomasphan··on Claude Code is locking people out for hours
98% uptime is not great. Our eng department is thinking about going half half with Codex but of course there’s a switching cost.
tomasphan··on Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?
Apple has to make it annoying to use a non-Apple device with your Apple device. That sort of friction probably nets them 2% in keyboard sales per year.
tomasphan··on Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea
I answered 8/10 correctly but mostly on instinct, for example betting that the Trump tweet is misleading. Opus 4.6 got 9/10 correct. You might need an internal time limit (don't show the user) and some strawberry questions.
tomasphan··on The Intelligence Failure in Iran
In the case of Iraq, they lied on purpose to support the invasion. In the case of Iran, Trump just ignored the intelligence. I do think the intelligence community is capable. For example, they warned of the Russian invasion weeks before it happened when all other European countries said it wouldn’t.
tomasphan··on The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
I think also the actual Chernobyl fallout might have something to do with it. They just declared wild mushrooms safe to eat last year, 40 years later.

Of course I agree with you though. This fear based approach doesn’t matter when France, Switzerland and Belgium have tens of reactors on the border.

tomasphan··on AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
It’s a tale as old as time: start a war to support the military industrial complex. Imagine a $4 billion investment into public transportation or parks. Every 10 years we can invest into a new city instead of bombing some kids overseas (whose siblings, fueled by hatred, then commit terror attacks on the west).
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