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green-eclipse commented on YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup   techcrunch.com/2024/09/30... · Posted by u/blinding-streak
cynicalpeace · a year ago
Good point, but they can always pivot, since they're obviously good at marketing. Seems YC made a good choice
green-eclipse · a year ago
"good at marketing" by being completely incompetent?
green-eclipse commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains
achow · a year ago
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount (3 gm) of explosives inside 5,000 pagers made by Gold Apollo (a Taiwanese company). "The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code." 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them.

Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that had the right to use the Taipei-based firm's brand, "The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it"

Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking,

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/3-grams-of-explosives-per-pa...

green-eclipse · a year ago
What is this news source NDTV? I've never heard of it. Are they reputable?
green-eclipse commented on Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS   9elements.com/blog/respon... · Posted by u/sippndipp
green-eclipse · a year ago
Why are all these responsive charts displayed as images? Are they not proud of their work?
green-eclipse commented on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative   pikimov.com/... · Posted by u/clementpiki
green-eclipse · a year ago
Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes.

Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, and also is part of the fun of HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645009

green-eclipse commented on One Million Checkboxes   onemillioncheckboxes.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
eieio · a year ago
it's a tiny flask server, a bitset stored in redis, updates broadcast (too frequently! but i don't want to change it now) via websockets, and react-window to only render the checkboxes that are in view.

I'll do a writeup when i finish putting out fires!

green-eclipse · a year ago
I don't understand, where is the AI + LLM part

u/green-eclipse

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