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New comment by brokensegue in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

brokensegue — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:40:44 +0000

Their variable cost is (basically) the number of tokens. They increased that. I don't get how that saves them money

Show HN: Experimental app for remixing and sharing Wikipedia content

brokensegue — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:11:04 +0000

I work on Wikipedia’s Future Audiences team, where we try to reach new readers and editors. We built a small experiment: an iOS app where users can remix Wikipedia content into digital scrapbooks.

- All of the content comes from Wikimedia projects (even the “stickers”).

- We want to learn whether people might be interested in remixing Wikimedia content for themselves or for sharing with friends or on social platforms.

If you're not on iOS you can see a gif of the creation experience: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Sunflowe....

This is a very early alpha (invite-only, limited to <100 users). So far in the app, you can:

- Create scrapbooks from Wikipedia topics using text and images from Wikipedia

- Add gifs, stickers, and sounds from freely-licensed Wikimedia content

- Share your scrapbooks as a video or set of static images

See some sample scrapbooks we’ve made, and the books you’ve created You won’t be able to see scrapbooks that other users are making (and other app users won’t be able to see yours), but we have some lightweight “liking” functionality and you might see some “likes” on your scrapbooks from our team.

Would love thoughts from HN, especially if you’ve seen other attempts at reformatting Wikipedia or educational content.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784570

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New comment by brokensegue in "Peptides: where to begin?"

brokensegue — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:41:31 +0000

You can freeze and concentrate a substance without chemically altering it

New comment by brokensegue in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

brokensegue — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:37:23 +0000

none of that is censorship

New comment by brokensegue in "I Quit Editing Photos"

brokensegue — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:06:20 +0000

I think b/w film has a different grain than color. It isn't identical to grayscale color

New comment by brokensegue in "Huel Joins Danone"

brokensegue — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:10:42 +0000

many people do not think the science against them are credible. foods containing those things are staples of many diets.

New comment by brokensegue in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

brokensegue — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:23:58 +0000

i've tried it a few times and it's never really helped as much as i expected. though i know they've released a couple times since I last tried it.

New comment by brokensegue in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

brokensegue — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:46:33 +0000

genie is out of the bottle on this one

New comment by brokensegue in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

brokensegue — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:04:04 +0000

they used to claim that being Swiss based protected them from warrants like this

New comment by brokensegue in "Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python"

brokensegue — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:50:48 +0000

"classical ML" models typically have a more narrow range of applicability. in my mind the value of ollama is that you can easily download and swap-out different models with the same API. many of the models will be roughly interchangeable with tradeoffs you can compute.

if you're working on a fraud problem an open-source fraud model will probably be useless (if it even could exist). and if you own the entire training to inference pipeline i'm not sure what this offers? i guess you can easily swap the backends? maybe for ensembling?

New comment by brokensegue in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

brokensegue — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:19:35 +0000

Did you consider doing it as a computer use task? Probably I find those more compelling

It's what I did for my game benchmark https://d.erenrich.net/paperclip-bench/index.html

New comment by brokensegue in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

brokensegue — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:46:10 +0000

why not use a classification of food that actually aligns with what is bad? it seems like we don't actually know. Nova combines a bunch of different attributes some of which we don't actually think are causally linked to bad health.

New comment by brokensegue in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

brokensegue — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:35:36 +0000

nobody has a good definition of ultra-processed food

New comment by brokensegue in "xAI joins SpaceX"

brokensegue — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:25:58 +0000

does he need spacex/xai to prop up tesla or the other way around?

New comment by brokensegue in "Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025"

brokensegue — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:47:55 +0000

analysts are kinda irrelevant when a stock isn't connected to fundamentals anyways

New comment by brokensegue in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

brokensegue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:43:58 +0000

such tools cost 10-20/mo usually?

New comment by brokensegue in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

brokensegue — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:44:24 +0000

i'm a big fan of IA and wayback machine. i donate. but i do wish it were faster. i understand that would cost a lot more though.

i wonder if maybe donors above a certain level could get priority on archiving pages or something.

New comment by brokensegue in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

brokensegue — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:27:58 +0000

The reason is personal preference. Same reason people buy sports cars. I also wish their preferences were different

New comment by brokensegue in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

brokensegue — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:28:30 +0000

Why wouldn't they have already been looking for a way to make their food more palatable? There was already a lot of money on the line

New comment by brokensegue in "Eat Real Food"

brokensegue — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:52:20 +0000

Because this is the language of the trump administration. Everything needs to be momentus. The good must always be beating an unknown and all powerful enemy