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Climber scales 60 level Melbourne CBD high-rise without harness (theage.com.au)

a year ago | andrewstuart | theage.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: To what extent do you think AI is responsible for the slowdown in jobs?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is the Chip Shortage Over?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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ChatGPT is so lazy now as to be unusable for many applications (twitter.com/matt_barrie)

a year ago | andrewstuart | twitter.com | newest

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Neo6502 – a 6502 machine with an RP2040 emulating all except the CPU (olimex.com)

a year ago | andrewstuart | olimex.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can AI break a speech audio file into individual words?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Google DNS Interface (dns.google)

a year ago | andrewstuart | dns.google | newest

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Flush Google public DNS cache (developers.google.com)

a year ago | andrewstuart | google.com | newest

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Ask HN: How long until Ozempic/wegovy are no longer in short supply?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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The last time Britain nuked Australia (airminded.org)

a year ago | andrewstuart | airminded.org | frontpage

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deleted (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | andrewstuart | wikipedia.org | newest

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Show HN: Reparenting DOM elements: stealing a video from under the nose of React (bootrino.github.io)

a year ago | andrewstuart | github.io | newest

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a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Anyone notice ChatGPT doing Bing search instead of answering questions?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Did you "almost win big" in career/business – and what's the story?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the AI be Dungeon Master?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What are the big questions raised by observations of the JWST?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Tell HN: The weirdest thing happened using ChatGPT – I saw the guy behind it

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What's your real world nickname?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Brazen Bull (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | andrewstuart | wikipedia.org | newest

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Ask HN: What's your big goal? What are you working towards?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Backpressure in Queues (tedinski.com)

a year ago | andrewstuart | tedinski.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: How will the $900K median OpenAI salary work if employed at Microsoft?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Can AI make a great looking website?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you change variable names as you cross language boundaries?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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'Cyber shield' to be key part of $5B Microsoft investment in Australia (smh.com.au)

a year ago | andrewstuart | smh.com.au | newest

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What Happened to IPv5? (lifewire.com)

a year ago | andrewstuart | lifewire.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should I bother asking users to "confirm password"?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Firefox refuses to allow developers to disable picture in picture on videos (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

a year ago | andrewstuart | mozilla.org | frontpage

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Sega Toys Homestar Flux home planetarium (segatoys.space)

a year ago | andrewstuart | segatoys.space | newest

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Australian cardboard drones became a critical innovation in the Ukraine war (abc.net.au)

a year ago | andrewstuart | abc.net.au | frontpage

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Ask HN: How do I make ChatGPT stop abbreviating and leaving out code?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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There were no humans at all in New Zealand until about 1250AD (teara.govt.nz)

a year ago | andrewstuart | teara.govt.nz | best

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Ask HN: What is the earliest record of someone discovering LLM's can write code?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are NFTs still a thing? What’s the state of NFTs overall?

a year ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What development related stuff do you pay for?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Startup founders, how do you track your cap table and calculate equity?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do you sign in with email or with Google/Facebook/whatever social auth?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What are the “Great Wonders of Software”, the greatest software built?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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China just took a $300B bite out of Apple. It could be a sign of things to come (smh.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | smh.com.au | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why has Wolfram Alpha, “Math Coprocessor of AI” not been acquired yet?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Has anyone noticed how hard it is for ChatGPT to obey all instructions?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there a Wiki AI that can be taught by humans?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are there any good AI solutions for adjusting CSS via text prompt?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do rich people worry about their personal security?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Library of Ashurbanipal (worldhistory.org)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | worldhistory.org | best

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Ask HN: In this age of AI why does macOS Mail not recognise obvious spam?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What's the state of the cloud GPU shortage?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Banyan VINES network operating system for AT&T's Unix System V (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | wikipedia.org | newest

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Ask HN: Have you noticed X/Twitter is filling up with people asking questions?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: YouTube vids are saying Chinas economy is collapsing. True or not?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Australia pays fossil fuel companies $65B to take our gas and oil (smh.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | smh.com.au | frontpage

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Haskell researchers discover industry programmer who gives a shit (2010) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | blogspot.com | best

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The Lost City of Melbourne (thelostcityofmelbourne.org)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | thelostcityofmelbourne.org | newest

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Ask HN: Why, in this age of AI, can’t I make a great looking presentation?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does GNU still contribute anything meaningful to a Linux OS?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How did Paul Allen write an 8080 emulator in 1974?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | best

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Did you know launches moved to HTTPS://www.Y Combinator.com/launches (ycombinator.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: For AI, could 80GB GPU RAM be allocated on an integrated CPU/GPU?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: For AI applications, what's the max GPU RAM, on an integrated CPU/GPU?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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ESP32 Blackberry-like device with original BB keyboard and optional LoraWAN (hackster.io)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | hackster.io | newest

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What's causing Australia's frozen chip shortage and how long will it last? (sbs.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | sbs.com.au | frontpage

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Space Type Generator (spacetypegenerator.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | spacetypegenerator.com | newest

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Third person dies from meal made with poisonous wild mushrooms (theage.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | theage.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: how can the food supply NOT collapse in the next ten years?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: The dust has settled on the AI goldrush. What startups are succeeding?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How to tell the world a sites content may not be scraped for AI?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Meta launched Threads without a desktop client. Was it a fatal mistake?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Has AI assisted in the war against email spam?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Tell HN: So, I Tried Bard

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: AI can make fabulous looking artwork, can it do the same for websites?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should homeless people have a QR code on their signs?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did Googles “20% time” lead to its reputation for cancelling projects?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Biden has made a pledge that will kill Ukrainian children for generations (smh.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | smh.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: Why does LinkedIn congratulate for things like “work anniversaries”?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Amara's Law.. has the world overestimated AI in the short term?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why do VCS give business advice when all they provide is cash?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Meta Threads – no dotcom domain name, no desktop site, MVP gone mad?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you always buy cheapest, or do you buy to support “worthy” companies?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Google claims to have proved its supremacy with new quantum computer (telegraph.co.uk)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | telegraph.co.uk | best

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Ask HN: Are there technologies that use fast spinning pulsar signals?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Poison-shooting robots on the front line of war against feral cats in Australia (watoday.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | watoday.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: What does it mean that Stable Diffusion still has a Discord based UI?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Australia Drafts Laws to Fine Social Media Firms over Fake News (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Www nostalgia: remember “under construction”?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Tell HN: TIL of Serif, an Adobe alternative without subscription

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How have you changed your choice of tech stack in recent years?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: ChatGPT is a terrible product name. What would you have named it?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Does steep decline in CPU and GPU sales mean PC gaming is in decline?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why are there any graphics cards not made by Nvidia and AMD in house?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Betelgeuse brightens by 50 percent – will it go supernova? (skyatnightmagazine.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | skyatnightmagazine.com | newest

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Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022) (therealdeal.com)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | therealdeal.com | best

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Ask HN: How well do Linux and Windows handle variation in CPU core performance?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Anyone noticed the quality of spam has improved?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Australia's most-decorated living soldier found guilty of war crimes and murder (smh.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | smh.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Acquisitions?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you prefer AI not apologise? Do you prefer AI has no personality?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest

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Airbnb crackdown to tackle rental crisis (Victoria, Australia) (theage.com.au)

2 years ago | andrewstuart | theage.com.au | newest

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Ask HN: To what extent does Microsoft still control MSNBC?

2 years ago | andrewstuart | ycombinator.com | newest