I didn’t think Claude Pro was worth the subscription, but it’s now my personal movie and meal curator

I have been a long-time user of ChatGPT and Claude, but never considered the paid tier worth the price. Since my daily workflow doesn’t demand anything more than basic t**le ideation and article research, a regular subscription wouldn’t have made sense. Well, that was until I realized what I could unlock by paying for Claude Pro. My partner had recently started using it to create surprisingly detailed and customized apps that were both delightful to use and more advanced than what I expected from Claude. The Pro tier was necessary to access Claude’s real potential and bypass the brutal rate limits of the free tier I was on. So, I bit the bullet and decided to create some apps of my own. After only a few hours of detailed prompting and feeding my likes and dislikes to Claude, I created two pretty impressive apps to help me with meal and movie recommendations every day. Since these apps were completely tailored to our tastes, the output was almost always accurate. I’m now convinced enough to continue my subscription for a few more months at least.

Emily Brown
Houston

Open Notebook’s AI-powered podcasts are a game-changer for productivity, provided you’re willing to configure them right

When it comes to productivity-enhancing AI tools, it’s hard to ignore NotebookLM. Capable of aggregating documents and academic material in neatly organized notebooks, Google’s research app lets you run LLM queries on your own data banks instead of forcing the AI models to rely on their trained data. And by...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

I keep frame generation off, and upscaling is the only half of DLSS I trust

As someone who owns a GPU from Nvidia's latest generation and plugs a QD-OLED 4K 240Hz monitor into it, I'm exactly the type of person that Nvidia built DLSS Multi Frame Generation for. The hardware, panel, refresh rate, and the need for a high framerate all squarely fit what it...

Olivia Miller
Seattle

Terminal agents are replacing VS Code as the center of my development workflow

Visual Studio Code's popularity has exploded over the last decade, and it's become an essential part of the workflow for many developers. I've always thought of it like a carefully customized tool where my extensions, keybindings, and configuration come together to create my ideal coding environment. That view hasn't changed...

Dierk Bösch
Germany

I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path

Whether a new home lab enthusiast or an experienced homelabber, Cloudflare is often their first choice for building their infrastructure. Not because Cloudflare is free, but because it solves real problems without any unnecessary hassle. A few days ago, I wrote about how Cloudflare had quietly become a load-bearing infrastructure...

John Doe
New York

Nvidia thinks my RTX 20-series GPU is too old for frame generation, but I use it through lossless scaling anyway

When I used Lossless Scaling for the first time in my life, I was amazed. The first thought that occurred to me was that frame generation, as a technology, had been successfully democratized. A $7 utility on Steam had done what the incumbent semiconductor giants wouldn't, which was, to bring...

Ana Balderas
Mexico

I downgraded to free Claude for a week, and it changed how I feel about paying $20 a month

Claude is the only AI subscription that's outlasted everything else in my stack this year. I've cycled through and dropped a fair few others, but Claude is the one I never managed to cancel. The reasoning's pretty straightforward - Pro gives me the model lineup I rely on day to...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

007 First Light showed me why DLAA is the native 4K upgrade high-end GPU owners are sleeping on

Unlike DLSS, DLAA never really seemed worth it in the kind of AAA games that I played. The whole appeal of DLSS is that it gives higher frame rates while still looking almost as good as native resolution. DLAA, on the other hand, expects you to give up a bit...

William Garcia
Boston

ChatGPT can now remember you better by dreaming about you while it ‘sleeps’

It's near-impossible to guess where the world of AI LLMs will go next. With the technology moving at a rapid pace, we're seeing companies try all sorts of things to make a product that outdoes its rivals. For a while, AI developers advertised their models as a reliable worker that's...

Victoria Carlson
Ireland

Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey, can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn't look like a computer at all. Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired, went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an...

Adam Brown
Canada

I ditched streaming for physical media, and now I watch more than ever

Since my son was born, my wife and I have been revisiting our physical media, mostly to verify which children's movies we're okay with him watching and which we aren't (as it turns out, I watched a lot of things I probably shouldn't have). In the process, I've rediscovered a...

Florence Davies
New Zealand

Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its Verified programs for both pieces of hardware, Valve concludes by saying that "We're excited for players to try your titles on the...

Darlene Costa
Brazil

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove...

Gül Alyanak
Turkey

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