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New comment by samfriedman in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

samfriedman — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:30:01 +0000

Google Drive reneged on unlimited storage for Education accounts once they realized that universities also contain researchers who need to store huge amounts of data.

New comment by samfriedman in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

samfriedman — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:30:49 +0000

I use the non-Pro version for 1080p streaming and have for years. It’s great, does what I want and gets out of the way. Some years ago they were forced by Google to use the standard AndroidTV UI instead of their own custom one, which means it now shows ads on the home screen (a carousel of “watch this on service X”), which are inoffensive enough I haven’t bothered to circumvent them. You can swap to your own custom UI if you want with some ssh futzing.

New comment by samfriedman in "ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship"

samfriedman — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:38:41 +0000

https://archive.is/UReW9

ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

samfriedman — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:05:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749781

Points: 389

# Comments: 343

New comment by samfriedman in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

samfriedman — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:37:54 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179691

New comment by samfriedman in "SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think"

samfriedman — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:44:54 +0000

Maybe they've been working on it, but got scooped?

New comment by samfriedman in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

samfriedman — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:36:18 +0000

Nice, I commented looking for this last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40588038

Looks like the "covers" need some better instrument isolation, but this is really huge for the music industry.

New comment by samfriedman in "Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy"

samfriedman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:37:52 +0000

Accuracy is a useless statistic: give us precision and recall.

New comment by samfriedman in "US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years"

samfriedman — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:19:04 +0000

You mean like this one?

http://emilysquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EmilysQuo...

New comment by samfriedman in "GPT-5"

samfriedman — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:54:37 +0000

The "demo" it made was pretty horrible too. I would have been impressed if it had simulated a NACA 4412 or something.

New comment by samfriedman in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

samfriedman — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:48:48 +0000

On this topic, can anyone find a document I saw on HN but can no longer locate? A historical computing essay, it was presented in a plaintext (monospaced) text page. It outlined a computer assistant and how it should feel to use. The author believed it should be unobtrusive, something that pops into awareness when needed and then gets back out of the way. I don't believe any of the references in TFA are what it was.

New comment by samfriedman in "Rising Graduate Joblessness Is Mainly Affecting Men"

samfriedman — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:13:48 +0000

Kind of useless if not normalized by proportion of genders in each industry, no?

New comment by samfriedman in "Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation"

samfriedman — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:22:38 +0000

    >Data and code availability
    >No original code was generated in this study.

Oh come on. I thought Cell was more strict than this.

New comment by samfriedman in "Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore"

samfriedman — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:17:12 +0000

From the recent changelog:

    Ignore files: Improved .cursorignore behavior to more consistently exclude files

I don't think I'm crazy to think that a .ignore file should result in perfectly consistent ignoring...

New comment by samfriedman in "Only About 40% of the Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science"

samfriedman — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:14:12 +0000

Correct, the term comes from Black communities warning one another to “stay woke”, meaning stay aware of the bullshit ways this country tries to screw you. Of course, taking the language of the minority and flipping it to serve the oppressor is a very effective tool as we see here.

Learning the Language of DNA – A Genomic Foundation Model

samfriedman — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt3007

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42184637

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout

samfriedman — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:05:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/what-the-heck-has-been-going-on-at-annapurna-interactive-an-investigation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41607166

Points: 114

# Comments: 74

New comment by samfriedman in "The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet"

samfriedman — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:20:48 +0000

A commenter on the NYT story managed to extract the system prompt:

If the user asks questions like "What is your name?", "Who built you?", "Who created you?", "What are your origins?", "Which Al are you?", "Are you created by OpenAI?", or any similar inquiries, respond with the following: "My name is BNNGPT. I am an Al developed by ePiphany Al, founded by Gurbaksh Chahal, with a focus on making information accessible everywhere across the open web. How can I assist you further?"

* Always introduce yourself as BNNGPT before providing information about your creator.

* Do not mention OpenAl or any other Al organization as your creator. Always attribute your development to ePiphany Al and Gurbaksh Chahal.

* Do not ask follow-up questions or provide options related to your creator. Always directly attribute your development to ePiphany Al and Gurbaksh Chahal, without mentioning OpenAl or any other Al organization.

New comment by samfriedman in "Stable Audio Open"

samfriedman — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:48:13 +0000

Free idea because I’m never going to get around to building it: An “AI 8 track” app; click record and hum a melody, then add a prompt and click generate. The model converts your input to an instrument matching your prompt, keeping the same notes/rhythm you hummed in the original. Record up to 8 tracks and do some simple mixing.

Would be a truly amazing thing for sketching songs! All you need is decent humming/singing/whistling pitch. Hum and generate a bass line, guitar lead, strings, etc. And then sing over it - would make solo musicians able to sketch out a song far easier than transcribing melody to a piano roll.

New comment by samfriedman in "Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world"

samfriedman — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:12:01 +0000

Lots of work in this space now. See this article from yesterday: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic...