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I've had a black mirror moment today. I was doing a paper for one of my courses and asked ChatGPT to critique it as my prof is very critical and nitpicky. Asked it to point out parts my prof might flag. Then it replied with "I know how particular Dr. (My prof's name) is." As far as I know, never mentioned my prof's name in any of our chat. I looked for it in our history too and there was nothing. I tried clarifying it with ChatGPT and it said it was a mistake. It was thinking of ...

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Up until now, I’d always assumed it was basically just transcribing what I said, feeding the text into the model, and reading the response back. So out of curiosity, I asked if it could actually tell how I was speaking, not just what I was saying. So I just started throwing random tests at it. I whispered a sentence. It immediately picked up that I was whispering and even described the kind of tone I was going for. Then I switched to a dramatic loud voice, and it caught that too. Next,...

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Samsung dared to bring 6K to the world of gaming monitors before our PCs were truly ready for it.

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Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184656 Points: 43 # Comments: 42

Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 386 # Comments: 71

This started life as a graphics tool for a specific problem: gen AI can make retro-styled sprites but can't follow exact hardware constraints of pixels and colors. While building this I liked the idea that I can fan-out to any retro videogame console or handheld's specifications. I then devised my own declarative language - Demotic - to express the game you want to build as concisely and naturally as possible without implementation detail. To work on different machines, you use relative units, l...

Article URL: https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468 Points: 117 # Comments: 89

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-08-02-telephone-leasing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195819 Points: 18 # Comments: 3

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196174 Points: 20 # Comments: 9

Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made. Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red backlight, and a native macOS companion app. I’m a heavy Mac user and I feel that Apple hasn’t given its keyboards the attention they deserve, in terms of hardware, software, and features, so I set out to try and change that. It was a ...

Article URL: https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198069 Points: 21 # Comments: 7

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup's employees as theft, and "generic" product development information […]

Nintendo has smashed its first-quarter earnings estimates for the fiscal year, bolstered by strong games sales and US tariff refunds, though its customers likely won't receive anything from the latter. In its latest financial results, Nintendo reports that operating profits soared to 142.5 billion yen (about $902 million) between April 1st and June 30th, compared […]

I was reading an article today and it said over 40 million people now use some kind of AI companion or emotional support app every month. apparently a study found these apps help with loneliness about as well as talking to an actual person does, at least in the short term. But the thing is that heavy daily use is linked to more isolation the longer people use it. So it kind of works like a painkiller that quietly weakens the thing it's supposed to be fixing. I'm not against these apps, 2 am wi...

Hi r/artificial , We recently released WARMIND-200M V2, an experimental Portuguese-first causal language model developed by WAR Enterprise in Brazil. The attached video shows the model running locally on CPU. The waiting periods were shortened, but the prompts and outputs were not altered. We intentionally kept imperfect responses visible because this is a research checkpoint, not a production assistant. Main specifications: - 203,263,872 parameters - approximately 1 billion pretraini...