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staindk commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

iainctduncan · 2 months ago

I'm curious how many people have actually taken the time to compare AI summaries with sources they summarize. I did for a few and ... it was really bad. In my experience, they don't summarize at all, they do a random condensation.. not the same thing at all. In one instance I looked at the result was a key takeaway being the opposite of what it should have been. I don't trust them at all now.

staindk · 2 months ago

Kind of related to this - we meet with Google Meets and have its Gemini Notes feature enabled globally. I realised last week that the summary notes it generates puts such a positive spin on everything that it's pretty useless to refer back to after a somewhat critical/negative meeting. It will solely focus on the positives that were discussed - at least that's what it seems like to me.

staindk commented on M5 MacBook Pro apple.com/macbook-pro/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

superjose · 2 months ago

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

staindk · 2 months ago

I don't think I could survive on MacOS without AltTab.

staindk commented on FLX1s phone is launched furilabs.com/flx1s-is-lau... · Posted by u/slau

dangus · 3 months ago

Now your phone is a lot heavier, thicker where it's being held by hands, and the battery lasts longer than anyone needs since we all sleep next to a power outlet at night.

It's funny to me how this thread is a demonstrator of this phenomenon where a tiny minority of enthusiasts think that companies selling tens of millions of units don't know what they're doing. You think Apple and Samsung haven't tried giving focus groups thick and even phones?

The camera bump is at worst a marketing feature for the feature that customers value most.

I would also like to point out that back in the Nokia PureView 808/Lumia 1020 days, enthusiasts thought that big camera bumps were a cool thing. The fact that your Nokia had a real camera with a real xenon flash bulb made it better than the competition.

staindk · 3 months ago

Fair point. After leaving my comment I realised what would likely be better is an easily replaceable battery. It may take up a bit more space but would IMO be worthwhile implementing.

I set my phone to only charge to 80% because I'd like to see how long I can use it for before itching to replace it - and if I make it to 3+ years having charged its battery to 100% overnight every day it won't have great staying power any longer.

staindk commented on FLX1s phone is launched furilabs.com/flx1s-is-lau... · Posted by u/slau

andrewmcwatters · 3 months ago

People keep asking for this year over year over year ad nauseam. Folks, give it up. It's completely irrelevant.

It made sense when the sensor sizes were a pittance of what they are now 25 years ago. It doesn't make sense in 2025.

Should we still have 480p cameras?

staindk · 3 months ago

Give me an 8000mah battery. That should take up some more space.

staindk commented on A new experimental Google app for Windows blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

hu3 · 3 months ago

it's hard to compete with other launchers like:

- Microsoft PowerToys Run https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

- Keypirinha https://github.com/Keypirinha/Keypirinha

- Flow Launcher https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

If they can index google photos and gmail too then I might try.

staindk · 3 months ago

Raycast is also coming to Windows at some point - https://www.raycast.com/windows

staindk commented on Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files dum.pt/... · Posted by u/MarsB

AfterHIA · 3 months ago

This is the kind of neat, small, useful tool I carouse HN for. I'm going to add this to my giant list of, "neat ass little tools that I found on Hacker News."

Now if only somebody could make a tool that can audit my giant ass list of neat little tools so that when a use case comes around I remember, "ah yes this!"

staindk · 3 months ago

Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.

staindk commented on Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM arxiv.org/abs/2508.02992... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

staindk · 4 months ago

Sounds a bit like Intel's Optane which was seemed great in principle but I never had a use for it.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/mem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint

staindk commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy

obscurette · 5 months ago

As a teacher I have become more skeptical about whole maker movement. Don't get me wrong - I really appreciate what has become possible. I couldn't even dream about most of it when I grew up in seventies in Soviet Union. I use a lot of open source hardware and the results maker movement myself as a hobbyist and as a teacher.

But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers. Kids don't want to become engineers as result, they want to become content creators, tinkerers etc. Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.

PS. I don't say the engineering hobby isn't cool and fun. I don't say that maker movement doesn't produce incredibly cool and deep stuff. I'm not even saying that it's the only reason why there is a shortage of engineers. But it's certainly contributing because I see it.

I'm a member of local engineering community and I see a lot of stuff like the quality of civil engineering sinking and we're all paying for mistakes in it. I see a lot of local production closing only because all R&D engineers are 60+ and planning to retire.

staindk · 5 months ago

If everything on show at open sauce were those stupid 3D printed dragons I'd agree with you. But the maker movement is massive and interesting and goes very very deep.

You can self-learn as much about engineering as you'd learn at university. Most kids eventually pivot from wanting to be astronauts/influencers to something more realistic.

IMO tinkering is an amazing hobby which will benefit you in whatever direction your career ends up going in.

staindk commented on Framework Laptop 12 review arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/moelf

presbyterian · 6 months ago

I also feel like Android phones stop getting OS updates (including security fixes) much faster than iPhones. You can root them and install a newer version of Android, I guess, but the vast majority of people won't do that.

Also, I haven't been on Android in a few years, so maybe I'm wrong and this isn't a problem anymore, but it certainly was in the past.

staindk · 6 months ago

A Lot of improvement has happened on Android regarding this. I think Samsungs have 6 or 7 years of guaranteed software updates, as do Pixel phones.

staindk commented on Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places testflight.apple.com/join... · Posted by u/ebagsnave

copperx · 7 months ago

Where do you set these rules?

staindk · 7 months ago

Pixel phone settings -> system -> rules

It may be Pixel-exclusive, though I used to use the Google Assistant rules on my old phone and they mostly worked IIRC.