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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a way to get back to the web we lost?

Ask HN: Is there a way to get back to the web we lost? 5 by headmelted | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking for a long time about the web that I came of age with, which I’m sure will likely be different from the web that many of you came of age with, given how wide the community is here. My first introduction to the Internet was circa 1998, by way of an Acer Aspire very similar (if not identical, it’s been 25 years and the memory has faded) to this: https://ift.tt/adxcNHS When I first got to spend time on that machine (it was shared with the rest of the family, so time was limited) I was immediately drawn to the open web and how I could (in my own small way) be a part of something very new and incredibly big. I created a website, several actually, hosted on members.xoom.com (I don’t remember why not geocities, I just remember that there was a reason at the time). I met (and made friends) with people in countries around the world, and I was fascinated that in any direction...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: We take LLMs and Diffusion models for granted

Tell HN: We take LLMs and Diffusion models for granted 4 by behnamoh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just 3 years ago, the state of the art image generation models were mostly academic papers that would work in specific scenarios, but nowhere near the capabilities of DALL-E 3, Midjourney, SD, etc. Just 3 years ago, the state of the art chatbots were so crappy that no one thought soon they'd easily pass the Turing test. Nowadays we talk to ChatGPT, download a variety of open-source LLMs, talk about some LLMs being better than the others. But just remember: 3 years ago we didn't even have something like Llama 7b!

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you prefer to search for a job in a job board or trough a recruiter?

Ask HN: Do you prefer to search for a job in a job board or trough a recruiter? 2 by rrmdp | 0 comments on Hacker News. With the actual competitive market and so many layoffs, do you think is better to go to a recruitment agency or doing yourself searching and applying via a job board?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What’s the most interesting job that’s not on your résumé? Why?

Ask HN: What’s the most interesting job that’s not on your résumé? Why? 3 by blueridge | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What tool do you want me to build?

Ask HN: What tool do you want me to build? 2 by john_96 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I have a ras pi that isn't doing anything. comment your idea for a simple tool you'd like access to. I'll code up the top voted idea as an SPA web app and host it for everybody to access for free. Thanks.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: DoorDash does not refund fees or tip

Tell HN: DoorDash does not refund fees or tip 3 by hysan | 0 comments on Hacker News. If part of your order does not arrive, support will continually push you to take a refund and suggest that you can apply it on a re-order yourself. However, do not accept that. If you pay close attention, that refund total does not take into account any of their fees or the tip that you placed on the original order! If you refuse, they will keep telling you that they are unable to put in the re-order for you. If you refuse for long enough (over 15 min), then they will suddenly be able to put in the re-order at no cost. But they won’t expedite it. If you look over that new order receipt, you’ll see that it comes in below the offered refund and they don’t tip whoever is assigned your order.

New ask Hacker News story: Should have a black bar today for Netflix DVDs

Should have a black bar today for Netflix DVDs 4 by WalterBright | 2 comments on Hacker News. My DVD queue just disappeared. :-(