pjob
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Comment · 11 months ago
I think it depends on the use case. My understanding is the more popular panels for color ereaders releasing now are the E Ink Kaleido (3) due to their faster refresh rates. Other technologies like spectra 6 may be better for digital signage where the slower refresh rate is less of a concern.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
That might not be a good bet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063380
Comment · 1 year ago
I suspect you'll have much better luck directly implementing the style you want rather than trying to get a (current gen) AI to reliably generate ANSI art. This video is a nice overview of implementing a variation of the style in a post-processing shader:
Comment · 1 year ago
FYI, the layout for the navigation component is broken on many smaller screen sizes. It's a small issue that I wouldn't mention normally, but it does undercut your messaging about the "future of software development" and "serious developers" when the first element on the page doesn't render properly.
Comment · 1 year ago
You could check out FAKE. It’s pretty popular in the F# community. While not C#, the terser syntax may be beneficial for a build DSL and you still have access to .NET APIs.
Comment · 1 year ago
I came away much less impressed than you did. The "step by step analysis" consists mostly of it considering, ruling out, and reconsidering an obviously invalid move. The code that it "tries to write" first zooms and pans around the image for no reason as it's already identified the layout of the pieces in the initial analysis. It then tries to import a library it has not yet installed in the sandbox (in addition to importing `chess.polyglot` for no discernable reason) before giving up on that thread entirely. It then manages to write a one-liner that contains an IndentationError before spending more time/tokens reestablishing the board layout. It does all of this before finally delegating the question to a search engine.
If you just paste the image into a search engine (without needing to include the text prompt) the first result contains the solution. We live in a world where Sam Altman claims that usage of words like "please" and "thank you" in prompts have cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars"[0]. In this case, OpenAI's "most powerful reasoning model"[1] spends 7m 51s churning through expensive output tokens spinning its wheels before ultimately giving up and searching the internet. This strikes me as incredibly wasteful. It feels like the LLM equivalent of "punch[ing] through the table". The most impressive thing to me here is that OpenAI is getting people to pay for all this nonsense.
[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/04/22/please-thank-...
Comment · 1 year ago
Somewhat interestingly, "Mario Bros." now refers to the last name of the pair of plumber brothers, making their full names "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario" respectively. This wasn't originally the intent of the creators, but it's been slowly retconned over the history of the franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario#Name
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/super-mario-bros-luigi-last-...
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a good summary. SolidWorks does have a lower cost license for makers/hobbyists for personal use but it’s a little difficult to find from their main marketing pages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Polynesian use of outrigger canoes is well documented. Are you claiming all outriggers are catamarans? Why be pedantic about this?
Comment · 2 years ago
I was curious about your defense of Matt's behavior in this thread but your empathy makes sense given that you work on a similar project that you describe as:
> A static site that is 100% free and open-source, competing with several businesses operating scammy subscription models.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295629
Is this a competitor to Wordpress? Can you elaborate more about how the competition in this space uses scammy subscription models? It might help to illustrate the issues in the industry for outsiders like me.
Off topic, but I'm a bit of an amateur musician myself. I try to check out other musicians that I encounter, but I wasn't able to find anything about you or your music online. Do you have a bandcamp or something similar? The contrabass trombone is a really interesting instrument.
Comment · 2 years ago
Please stop posting low effort LLM summaries of HN text posts. It doesn’t add anything to the discussion and is literally spam.
Comment · 2 years ago
Odd to see that in a press release like this. Perhaps they were going for “crack team”. Cracked makes it sound like they’re looking for twitch streamers.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a recurring theme on the 5-4 podcast. You may want to reference their episode list as a starting point for relevant cases to research.
Comment · 2 years ago
One team I was on had a bug where the product name was so long that it was being truncated in the about dialog. It was something like:
Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 2011 for Microsoft® Office Outlook® with Offline Access