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AI dolls offer companionship to the elderly

whoisstan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:48:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/88911383-2a17-42e1-aef4-36daac1bd9dd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656776

Points: 5

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New comment by whoisstan in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

whoisstan — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:21:19 +0000

Very!

New comment by whoisstan in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

whoisstan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:58:18 +0000

I feel the need to tell the LLM to rewrite the article for a software developer audience, but don't, those kinds of passage are hard to overcome:

'Salva opened up his code editor — essentially a word processor for writing code — to show me what it’s like to work alongside Gemini, Google’s L.L.M. '

And what's up with L.L.M, A.I., C.L.I. :)

The War over Defense Tech

whoisstan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/10/04/the-war-over-defense-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511204

Points: 2

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New comment by whoisstan in "The War App"

whoisstan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:34:50 +0000

https://archive.ph/C0A3X

The War App

whoisstan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:32:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/the-war-app-the-technological-republic-karp-zamiska/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221954

Points: 2

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New comment by whoisstan in "Ollama's new app"

whoisstan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:41:46 +0000

Ollama runs all local, away from prying corps.

New comment by whoisstan in "TV Garden"

whoisstan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:52:01 +0000

The name is probably inspired by TV Garden from Nam June Paik from the 70s

New comment by whoisstan in "My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster"

whoisstan — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:17:33 +0000

Didn't know, are they individuals working independently with some 'services' to provide targets/money laundering or are they part of organized crime or payroll? I am curious in the support structures they are embedded in.