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Article URL: https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/113606898880486330

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391079

Points: 60

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/nasa-believes-it-understands-why-ingenuity-crashed-on-mars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390683

Points: 30

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/nasa-believes-it-understands-why-ingenuity-crashed-on-mars/

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411608

Points: 196

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Article URL: https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398139

Points: 17

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Howdy! I've just written a blog post about this, and I figured I would share it here: https://smoores.dev/post/announcing_smoores_epub/. As I've been working on Storyteller[1], I've been developing a library for working with EPUB files, since that's a large amount of the work that Storyteller does. After a friend asked for advice on creating EPUB books in Node.js, I decided to publish Storyteller's EPUB library as

Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-December/031188.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411868

Points: 16

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Article URL: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4000004/test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408202

Points: 232

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Article URL: https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-good-at-reading-have-different-brains-244786

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42410508

Points: 57

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https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-good-at-reading-have-different-brains-244786

This is another one of my automate-my-life projects - I'm constantly asking the same question to different AIs since there's always the hope of getting a better answer somewhere else. Maybe ChatGPT's answer is too short, so I ask Perplexity. But I realize that's hallucinated, so I try Gemini. That answer sounds right, but I cross-reference with Claude just to make sure.

This doesn't really apply to math/coding (where o1 or Gemini can probably one-shot an excellent response), but more to on

Hey HN!

A few weeks ago, meet.hn was released. We are now about 1700 hackers willing to meet each other in almost 700 locations worldwide.

Since then, some community requested features and bug fixes have been implemented.

- locations are now searchable and not restricted to a simplistic city-country pair

- locations work with diacritics and diverse languages

- new socials: personal website, email, Mastodon, Discord, GitLab, Google Scholar, YouTube, etc.

- upon user request, I can