Paperbacks and TikTok
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Dec 22Hacker Newsculture
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Hey - I've been playing with LLMs since GPT-2 and recently experimented with fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time. Every post on the feed( on slop/duck/storytime) you ...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Videos featuring AI children playing with vibrators are made with Sora 2. ✓ Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy-themed playsets app...
Ro Khanna, a California progressive who opposed the US congressional effort to force the Chinese divestment of TikTok, will replace Illinois Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi as the top Democrat on t...
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They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinfo...
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OP here. I built RepoReaper to solve code context fragmentation in RAG. Unlike standard chat-with-repo tools, it simulates a senior engineer's workflow: it parses Python AST for logic-aware chunking, ...
AI-generated video marks a "whole new chapter for the internet," Lightspeed Ventures partner Michael Mignano said. Lightspeed Lightspeed Ventures partner Michael Mignano predicted that AI-gene...
I hate when friends and family ask me which LED face mask to buy. That's because LED face masks are another prime example of the wild wellness west . There's compelling science behind using red and in...
Hi HN, I’m building Corviont, a self-hosted offline maps appliance (tiles + routing + search) for edge/on-prem devices. Hosted demo (no install): https://demo.corviont.com/ Self-host (Docker Compose r...