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New comment by stonedge in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"

stonedge — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:36:51 +0000

Is higher or lower "better"?

Ask HN: White Label Chat Apps?

stonedge — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:32:16 +0000

Are there any white label apps for mobile that merely act as a UI for whatever backend chat service you'd like? I want a polished plain UI that I can hookup to my own LLM Chat backend. I want a native app, not a PWA.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084155

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by stonedge in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

stonedge — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:13:28 +0000

> Today’s youth are more proactive with their identities these days than we were.

I wanted to echo this and say that I believe younger people create a "symphony" with their identity; picking and choosing from various sub-cultures to create a unique combination. Flexible, morphing.

New comment by stonedge in "Ideogram 2.1 Coming"

stonedge — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:41:43 +0000

Ideogram generated this image on their own site. Fun way to "leak" an update.

Ideogram 2.1 Coming

stonedge — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ideogram.ai/g/cmiLQVXvQQCoF2RnvNhdnw/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42464463

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by stonedge in "1-800-ChatGPT"

stonedge — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:39:50 +0000

I have upgraded to the $200 Pro tier, and, with o1-pro, all of my tasks delegated to the "junior" have been so much better. It takes longer to complete, of course, but the overall duration is less because I'm not having to go back and correct it as much as I was with 4o. It's been able to figure out problems that 4o continually failed on.

New comment by stonedge in "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

stonedge — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:45:51 +0000

Sincere question - my mom always told me to never put wooden utensils in the dishwasher, but I never got a great answer as to why. I put my wooden spatulas in there. My question is, is it just because it's destructive to the wood? Or is there something else that I should be concerned about?

New comment by stonedge in "Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language"

stonedge — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:57:36 +0000

Thirded

New comment by stonedge in "5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients"

stonedge — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:18:55 +0000

There was an episode of the German Krimi series Tatort yesterday that had a plot that centered around Havana Syndrome.

New comment by stonedge in "Impostor Syndrome vs. the Dunning-Kruger Effect"

stonedge — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:53:31 +0000

I don’t want to suggest this person themselves is wrong, but it seems that this is just part of the back and forth among scientists and not in and of itself the correct answer.

Meta: what if this researcher themselves is exhibiting Dunning-Kruger and is overconfident.

New comment by stonedge in "I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad"

stonedge — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:41:10 +0000

Anytime I see a photo taken on actual film, even though it's been digitized for posting online, there's a visceral reaction of beauty. To you point of DALL-E being the disposable camera, I feel those images are in fact "disposable". I feel nothing.

New comment by stonedge in "MIT Press makes 82 additional books open access"

stonedge — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:25:28 +0000

I wrote a paper for a class a few months ago. In a previous life, I was a tech-audience editor that required writing article titles with a hook to lure people into reading. On my first draft of the paper, I used one of these styled titles and the comments that came back said that it was too "flowery"; since it was an academic paper, it should be more like the pattern you indicated. And sure enough, I changed it and all my subsequent papers to that pattern and never got dinged again.

New comment by stonedge in "Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones"

stonedge — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:24:18 +0000

This is true, but that law (BIPA) applies to private entities. i.e., government orgs and contractors are exempt. Regardless, this new legislation is good. I would like to see the complete inclusion of government organizations into needing to acquire consent.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...

New comment by stonedge in "America has paid a steep price for parking"

stonedge — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:21:21 +0000

This is what the data is based on. I've read the book and it's totaling all square footage in the country devoted to parking lots vs. housing. Essentially after the math, each car has more than just one space allocated to it.

New comment by stonedge in "How Duolingo reignited user growth"

stonedge — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:59:23 +0000

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

There should be a link there to the official app.

New comment by stonedge in "Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work"

stonedge — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:22:24 +0000

This is my #1 need. I was a paying customer, but eventually got uncomfortable with the remote data and cancelled my subscription.

New comment by stonedge in "Are we losing our ability to remember?"

stonedge — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:30:15 +0000

Not headaches, but I say that "my brain is tired".

New comment by stonedge in "Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis"

stonedge — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:08:57 +0000

I saved my paper route money and was trying to decide between an NES and an SMS. I think I chose the SMS because it was different. Everyone had an NES. But as time went on, I wished I had an NES. Way more games and cultural relevance.

.NET Interactive. .NET in Jupiter Notebooks

stonedge — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:10:27 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-interactive-is-here-net-notebooks-preview-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22304402

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by stonedge in "Off-Facebook activity"

stonedge — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:47:19 +0000

I took the leap and tried to log in. It said there was no account, so I guess the delete worked?