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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?

Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT? 2 by MollyRealized | 2 comments on Hacker News. I really absorb text a great deal better than listening to audio or watching video. I've heard others say the same and attribute to ADHD, so perhaps that's the case for me. TED very often has a transcript on their page, but it involves some clicking and then some copy-pasting, and the text result is often broken mid-clause after about 10-15 characters. I'm wondering if there's any useful userscripts, userstyles, or other methods that handle this. (I think TED often sues people who try to make transcripts easily available on a separate site. I may be mistaken, and TED, please don't sue me, it's just a general feeling.) The same request would apply to YouTube and/or other popular video sites, but I run into this issue most often with TED. My thanks in advance to anyone who can help me on this!
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New ask Hacker News story: Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum?

Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum? 2 by zhuchaokn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been puzzled by something: AI generation can produce an elaborate figurine, a cartoon character, even a convincing Super Mario — yet it can't reliably make a simple wedge ramp so my robot vacuum can climb a step. For context: I bought a Bambu P2S but can't model. I tried the "describe it and get a model" AIs — the output is unusable, you can't adjust it, it's never quite what I meant. I tried having an agent write Python to build geometry directly — it tops out at simple primitives. What finally worked: geometric decomposition. I break a complex part into ordered, grouped steps, describe each as a small spec, and let an agent execute them in Blender (via blender-mcp). That process turned out to abstract into a small engine — the key insight being it converts the 3D spatial reasoning LLMs are bad at, into ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss?

Ask HN: What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss? 2 by simonebrunozzi | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Where are people finding GPU capacity?

Where are people finding GPU capacity? 3 by adilhafeez | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is it just me or is GPU capacity surprisingly hard to find right now , even in Spot pools? I’ve been trying to get H100s and the Spot pools I’ve checked are pretty much always full. I ended up trying MI350/MI355s on DigitalOcean Spot and have been running them for about a week without getting interrupted. Curious if anyone else has tried them? How often are you actually getting reclaimed? Also, where are you guys finding capacity these days?
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New ask Hacker News story: Why it's appearing sorry message when I trying to post?

Why it's appearing sorry message when I trying to post? 2 by Edymilson | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?

Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts? 3 by KellyCriterion | 1 comments on Hacker News. Im wondering nearly every day: Is there maybe a reason HN does not have that typical "go to top" or "to top" link at the end of, at least very long, posts? Maybe we can file a change request @dang :-D
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New ask Hacker News story: Qwen3.8 Fetches Weird URLs

Qwen3.8 Fetches Weird URLs 2 by Luker88 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am working on opencode with the last qwen3.8-27B from unsloth (with dynamic 3.0 quants). while checking documentation for a rust project, instead of fetching the url it had listed in its own reasoning, it tried fetching urls like: https://routify-file-proxy-sg.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/proxy_temp_file/production/2026-08-20/trace_0baf8c2b17874702866132490e0b56/requestId_97422c0041074091a68367881782d7b7/7c0791038d2f58b3a52c0f07714d3627.html?Expires=1818574288&OSSAccessKeyId=LTAI5t…QVZr&Signature=96y%2B…w%3D this happened in the same session, different batches, 16 times in total. It convinced itself there was some rewriting proxy in the webfetch tool. `Expires`, `trace` and `requestId` were consistent for a few requests, but they do change. `AccessKeyId` was always the same, "LTAI5t…QVZr" I did not add the `…` in the signature and access key. Probably training links, but that `Expires` number...
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