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New comment by slybot in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

slybot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:30:08 +0000

Am I the only one who cannot read the date on the blister pack even fully zoom in my phone?

If that is the full quality image given to the model, I think it's not surprising that the model confused with 03/2022.

New comment by slybot in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

slybot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:18:20 +0000

3 years ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638229

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

slybot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:27:42 +0000

The language is not the problem here, I also cannot understand ancient greek. Let aside the casting, it impose a modern morality instead of the original moral arguments. The movie portrays Odysseus in a completely different manner. Homer's Odysseus is intelligent, deceitful, resilient, cruel... While in the movie Nolan's "modern" themes served rather than Homer's original.

I don't know if I am the only one, but it feels like trying to rewrite a historical epic with someone's own themes. I don't say one is better or worse, but it just doesn't feel right.

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

slybot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:34 +0000

In this context, the book itself is the history rather than the story as a foundational western narrative. The movie diverge in many grounds from the book, and it is sad that most people will only watch the movie rather than read the original work.

New comment by slybot in "WhatsApp to let people chat with usernames"

slybot — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:32:35 +0000

Advertised as "Private way to connect" by new head, then WhatsApp is new Telegram?

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

slybot — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:07:56 +0000

Nive work! I solved all five puzzles and only annoyance was the quite a few singular+plural forms in the same puzzle. I expected all unique words.

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:00:38 +0000

Yes, did you? Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out?

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:59:47 +0000

They do call themselves, "Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê" (PKK) which literally means Kurdish Workers Party. It doesn't mean whether they call themselves terrorist or not; USA, UK, EU, NATO and many others call that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:18 +0000

This is a work written by the terrorist organization leader after incarcerated on 1999. While this carefully selected piece doesn't, the larger work of five volumes named "Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization" goes into the manifestation of his terrorist movement.

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:14:30 +0000

Funnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..

New comment by slybot in "Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems"

slybot — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:55:53 +0000

This comment has a tone of external reviewer, while appearantly your profile shows you are affiliated.

New comment by slybot in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

slybot — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:31:18 +0000

Earlier discussion on this;

2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047110 (41 comments)

2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222687 (59 comments)

New comment by slybot in "guys why does armenian completely break Claude"

slybot — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:02:39 +0000

Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.

New comment by slybot in "guys why does armenian completely break Claude"

slybot — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:54:54 +0000

https://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm

New comment by slybot in "A website to destroy all websites"

slybot — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:14:06 +0000

Cannot agree more... Tired of flags being waved at the wrong places and times.

New comment by slybot in "FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter"

slybot — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:24:18 +0000

I did AoC 2021 until D10 using awk, it was fun but not easy and couldn't proceed further: https://github.com/nusretipek/Advent-of-Code-2021

New comment by slybot in "The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)"

slybot — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:35:17 +0000

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/

I watched this movie on cinema a decade ago. Highly recommended.

New comment by slybot in "A brief history of random numbers (2018)"

slybot — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:56:29 +0000

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html

New comment by slybot in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

slybot — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:38:11 +0000

Couple of years back, I made a mistake on trusting Deutsche Bahn. I took a regional train from Düsseldorf, hoping to get at some connection hub (never reached and don't remember, possibly Cologne), I have to ICE to reach Brussels. It was evening and at some point the train stopped in the middle of nowhere and an announcement followed 20 minutes later, saying the train went through the wrong tracks and it cannot return! And, we need to wait couple of hours before the rails are cleared and then we will need to get of the next station, a tiny town where only few trains run per day and none after 10pm!. Genius idea to leave people there, conductor also puts his unsatisfaction because apparently he also needs to get off there and request a ride. Let alone, I missed my connections. I had to either wait there until morning or get a ride. Never used Deutsche Bahn again, I feel less stressed by driving, even I really enjoy train rides in general.

Did I get compensation? Yes I did after four months for the ticket price only (around 40 euros), but after ridiculous process of that I need to send them forms and tickets via regular post, with a stamp that can only post within Germany. Nice try by their side..

New comment by slybot in "Left to Right Programming"

slybot — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:53:42 +0000

Funny how the article has no reference to C++ but still linking "Falling Into The Pit of Success". Did we all get our daily dose of subliminal messages from rust?