Articles by minimaxir
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Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal (github.com/minimaxir)

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Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)

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Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats (minimaxir.com)

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Why This Mario Maker Level Will Never Be Beaten [video] (youtube.com)

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Show HN: Rust/Python package to render Font Awesome icons to images fast/HQ (github.com/minimaxir)

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Replicate Image Editing Arena (replicate.dev)

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Grok's Elon Musk worship is getting weird (theverge.com)

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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation (minimaxir.com)

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Claude 4.5 Haiku does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it (minimaxir.com)

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Video generation with the Sora 2 API (platform.openai.com)

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Waffles Eat Bluesky (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Python package to easily generate and edit images with Nano Banana (github.com/minimaxir)

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Show HN: Python package to easily generate and edit images with Nano Banana (github.com/minimaxir)

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Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift and others without permission (reuters.com)

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"? (minimaxir.com)

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GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" (bsky.app)

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Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude (wired.com)

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LLMs can now identify public figures in images (minimaxir.com)

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Predicting average IMDB movie ratings using text embeddings of movie metadata (minimaxir.com)

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Predicting average IMDB movie ratings using text embeddings of movie metadata (minimaxir.com)

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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing (bfl.ai)

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How AI is killing jobs in the tech industry (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 (techcrunch.com)

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FLUX.1 Kontext (bfl.ai)

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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com)

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Fortnite is now available again on the US App Store (apps.apple.com)

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Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff (about.fandom.com)

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The Future of Textualize (textualize.io)

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As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often (minimaxir.com)

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OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT (wired.com)

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"The last couple GPT-4o updates have made it too sycophant-y, working on fixes" (twitter.com/sama)

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Claude Plays Pokemon – Starter Version (github.com/davidhershey)

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Claude Plays Pokemon – Starter Version (github.com/davidhershey)

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'Ask Grok' was supposed to make X better. It's another tool for dunking someone (businessinsider.com)

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Thoughts on setting policy for new AI capabilities (reservoirsamples.substack.com)

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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (daringfireball.net)

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The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars (minimaxir.com)

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Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab (theverge.com)

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Perplexity tried to sponsor an F1 team – but got blocked by Oracle (theverge.com)

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Inside OpenAI's $14M Super Bowl debut (theverge.com)

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Poll: Should submissions about Elon Musk's political actions be allowed on HN?

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The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond (Official Substack Blog Post) (read.substack.com)

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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"? (minimaxir.com)

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Axum 0.8 (tokio.rs)

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Why Majora's Mask's Blue Dog Took 25 Years to Win the Race [video] (youtube.com)

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Speedrunner Accused of Cheating Live on Stream with Audio Analysis [video] (youtube.com)

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Recraft v3 (code-named red_panda) (replicate.com)

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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium (wired.com)

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Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances by Prompt Engineering GPT-4o (minimaxir.com)

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Four expensive cards imploded Magic: The Gathering's most popular format (theverge.com)

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WP Engine Sues Automattic and WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg (techcrunch.com)

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New funding to scale the benefits of AI (openai.com)

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Sony is taking Concord offline on September 6th after disastrous launch (theverge.com)

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[flagged] AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again (minimaxir.com)

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AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again (minimaxir.com)

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Humane's daily returns are outpacing sales (theverge.com)

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'You are a helpful mail assistant,' and other Apple Intelligence instructions (theverge.com)

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Create Your Own Custom AI with AI Studio (fb.com)

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SearchGPT Prototype (openai.com)

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SmolLM – Fast and Remarkably Powerful (huggingface.co)

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License Update (stability.ai)

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The super effectiveness of Pokémon embeddings using only raw JSON and images (minimaxir.com)

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The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images (minimaxir.com)

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Major record labels sue AI company behind 'BBL Drizzy' (theverge.com)

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Stability AI appoints new CEO (reuters.com)

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[flagged] Tell HN: The "I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again" Post Is Shadowbanned

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Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars (aksh-garg.medium.com)

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Paying Respects to Press F (remapradio.com)

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The Delta Emulator is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it (theverge.com)

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In Response to Google (wheresyoured.at)

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Apple Plans to Release a Calculator App for iPad Later This Year (macrumors.com)

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Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories (macrumors.com)

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AI startup Stability lays off 10% of staff after controversial CEO's exit (cnbc.com)

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The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple's App Store (theverge.com)

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Torchtune: Easily fine-tune LLMs using PyTorch (pytorch.org)

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Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude (colab.research.google.com)

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[flagged] How Stability AI’s founder tanked his billion-dollar startup (forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai)

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Apple sues former iOS engineer for leaking Journal app, Vision Pro details, more (9to5mac.com)

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Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans to Resign as CEO, Sources Say (forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai)

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Super Mario Maker has been beaten (issmmbeatenyet.com)

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Have We Reached Peak AI? (wheresyoured.at)

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Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet (anthropic.com)

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OpenAI's GPT Is a Recruiter's Dream Tool. Tests Show There's Racial Bias (bloomberg.com)

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Midjourney accuses StabilityAI of scraping their image data and bans employees (twitter.com/nickfloats)

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Asking Microsoft Copilot not to use emoji causes it to break down (reddit.com)

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Nintendo of America Inc. vs. Tropic Haze LLC (Switch Emulator Developers) (scribd.com)

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Does Offering ChatGPT a Tip Cause It to Generate Better Text? An Analysis (minimaxir.com)

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OpenAI completes deal that values the company at $80B (nytimes.com)

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Microsoft teases ultrapowerful next-gen Xbox – and maybe a handheld (theverge.com)

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Unboxing Nomic Embed v1.5: Resizable Production Embeddings, Matryoshka Learning (nomic.ai)

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Twitch Plays Pokemon 10th Anniversary run (twitch.tv)

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Legends of Runeterra 2024 – State of the Game FAQ (playruneterra.com)

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Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation (openai.com)

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Brex will lay off 20% of its staff (fortune.com)

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AI Voice-Cloning Startup ElevenLabs Valued at $1.1B (bloomberg.com)

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Why Platformer is leaving Substack (platformer.news)

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Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (theverge.com)

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SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement (sagaftra.org)

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"Twitter is a ghost town." (threads.net)

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Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits (minimaxir.com)