Readit News logoReadit News
veb commented on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model   blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
soared · 18 days ago
Same! I redid my backyard entirely and needed ideas. Gemini took a pile of dirt and gave me countless ideas, improved my plans, recommended materials, etc. a designer gave me two out of the box ideas that Gemini didn’t come up with, but it did everything else perfectly. (Designer said, put a patio out in the yard and put your table there, and take your ugly shed and make it the center of attention, since you’ll never succeeed trying to hide it)
veb · 18 days ago
Same thing here. I took a picture of some gravel/grass and asked it to show me what it'd look like with tiles. I showed it another part of the property, and asked it to show me what it would look like with a raised lawn. Super impressive to be able to see a cloudy idea in the physical realm like that.
veb commented on GPT-5.3-Codex   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
bgirard · a month ago
> Using the develop web game skill and preselected, generic follow-up prompts like "fix the bug" or "improve the game", GPT‑5.3-Codex iterated on the games autonomously over millions of tokens.

I wish they would share the full conversation, token counts and more. I'd like to have a better sense of how they normalize these comparisons across version. Is this a 3-prompt 10m token game? a 30-prompt 100m token game? Are both models using similar prompts/token counts?

I vibe coded a small factorio web clone [1] that got pretty far using the models from last summer. I'd love to compare against this.

[1] https://factory-gpt.vercel.app/

veb · a month ago
I just wanted to say that's a pretty cool demo! I hadn't realised people were using it for things like this.
veb commented on Claude's new constitution   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
wewewedxfgdf · 2 months ago
LLMs really get in the way of computer security work of any form.

Constantly "I can't do that, Dave" when you're trying to deal with anything sophisticated to do with security.

Because "security bad topic, no no cannot talk about that you must be doing bad things."

Yes I know there's ways around it but that's not the point.

The irony is that LLMs being so paranoid about talking security is that it ultimately helps the bad guys by preventing the good guys from getting good security work done.

veb · 2 months ago
I've run into this before too, when playing single player games if I've had enough of grinding sometimes I like to pull up a memory tool, and see if I can increase the amount of wood and so on.

I never really went further but recently I thought it'd be a good time to learn how to make a basic game trainer that would work every time I opened the game but when I was trying to debug my steps, I would often be told off - leading to me having to explain how it's my friends game or similar excuses!

veb commented on Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density   donutlab.com/ces-battery-... · Posted by u/aeonfox
p1mrx · 2 months ago
If this is true, it's possible that the technology is from Nordic Nano. That would at least explain how a motor/software company could pull a battery out of thin air:

https://www.donutlab.com/nordic-nano-investment/

Their chief scientist is working on solar-powered hydrogen production, which seems fairly unrelated to solid state batteries:

https://www.nordicnano.co/chief-scientist-bela-bhuskute-will...

Though TiO2 nanoparticles appear to be relevant to battery research in general:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.3c02304

veb · 2 months ago
Some more info I noticed over on X which might shed some more light: https://x.com/shortl2021/status/2008554842332225705
veb commented on How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface   tidbits.com/2025/10/09/ho... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
andrepd · 5 months ago
Android design is similarly terrible. I'm not sure what's the explanation for UI design being so fucked up across the board for about 10 years now.
veb · 5 months ago
I'm assuming it's because nobody can just leave something alone. It's always gotta change, it's always gotta be made "better". And it probably generates a lot of marketing, good or bad.
veb commented on How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
jcims · 9 months ago
Try plugging your ears. For some reason it works like magic for me to get rid of that stage fright.
veb · 9 months ago
That makes it worse! Then people can sneak up on you :(
veb commented on US detects H5N1 bird flu in swine for the first time   reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/amichail
wumeow · a year ago
The article mentions 36 people have already gotten it and their symptoms were mild.
veb · a year ago
There's been a bigger outbreak in Washington it seems - https://nitter.poast.org/richardhirschs1/status/185164171224...
veb commented on Enumerate all the subdomains for a domain name   merklemap.com/... · Posted by u/Eikon
veb · 2 years ago
How strange. I just tried this out and I see two unauthorised subdomains, with one being an actual "spam" website. However, I don't even know how to delete a subdomain that doesn't show up in my domain registrar or cloudflare!

Thanks for the tool.

veb commented on Kagi Assistant   blog.kagi.com/announcing-... · Posted by u/darthShadow
__jonas · 2 years ago
I really wanted to like Kagi, I'm onboard with paying for search, but I've had had a big issue with its speed when doing the trial to be honest, am I the only one bothered by this?

Perhaps this is because I'm in Europe and it's faster in the US? A search request to Kagi seems to take around two seconds for me (shows as ~1s in the Kagi UI), it just feels really unpleasant compared to Google, I'm used to firing of a couple searches with different wording / terms and go through results quickly, feels like I'm being held back.

Maybe I'm spoiled, but if I'm paying for search I would really like it to be at least on par with Google, the search result quality seems ok from what I can tell, lenses don't really make sense to me, they seem to filter out too many results I would have liked to actually see, but the customization like adjusting the rating of individual websites is fantastic.

If they can manage to bring the speed to match that of Google, I'd be happy to pay for it I think.

veb · 2 years ago
How bizarre. I'm not in the US either - I'm in New Zealand, and have been using Kagi since their beta I think and currently pay for Ultimate, and to me it's a lot faster than Google.

The other day I was using someone else's computer and used Google, and my goodness, the results were just awful and ... bloated?

u/veb

KarmaCake day2630December 4, 2010
About
I'm a software developer from New Zealand.
View Original