#showdown — Public Fediverse posts

🎨🤖 Behold the ultimate #showdown of four AI models as they attempt to "draw" the Mona Lisa with all the finesse of a first grader armed with crayons. 🌈🤪 Marvel at the dazzling spectacle of digital flailing as they painstakingly track every penny spent trying to capture Da Vinci's genius—spoiler alert: they fail spectacularly. 💸👨‍🎨
https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok #AIart #DigitalCreativity #MonaLisa #Fails #EpicFail #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🎭 Oh joy, yet another thrilling 'my #AI is bigger than your AI' #showdown, where #Grok, #GPT, and #Claude battle it out to build apps like caffeinated toddlers playing with Legos. 🤖💥 Spoiler alert: nobody wins, except maybe the marketing department. 🏆😂
https://www.tryai.dev/blog/grok-4.5-vs-gpt-5.5-vs-claude-build-off #AI #Competition #AppDevelopment #MarketingWins #HackerNews #ngated

#Melder: #Showdown um HCL-Aufstieg perfekt: #Pflichtsieg in Lintfort

https://www.l-iz.de/melder/sportmelder/2026/05/showdown-um-hcl-aufstieg-perfekt-pflichtsieg-in-lintfort-658362
#Leipzig #Handball #HCL

Ah, the classic Silicon Valley showdown: pick your poison between the tech bros 🥴. Watching Altman and Musk battle in court was like choosing between flat soda or stale popcorn 🍿—ultimately, a lose-lose for #humanity. 💸🤖
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/sam-altman-won-in-court-against-elon-musk-but-really-we-all-lost #SiliconValley #Showdown #TechBros #AltmanVsMusk #CourtBattle #LoseLose #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Ah, the thrilling world of statistical profiling in Python! Because who needs adrenaline when you can have wallclock and CPU modes battling it out in a #documentation showdown? 💤 Dive deep into the riveting minutiae of opcode-aware profiling—just don't fall asleep before the "exciting" GIL mode twist! 💤🎉
https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html#module-profiling.sampling #statisticalprofiling #Python #GILmode #opcodeaware #showdown #codingthrills #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 BREAKING: A new #AI named #Kimi #K2.6 has dared to challenge the sacred cows of #coding, GPT-5.5 and friends, in a contest that clearly matters to... absolutely no one. 🤖🎉 Meanwhile, the world continues to spin as another "epic" AI #showdown unfolds, thrilling an audience of three. 🌍💤
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/ #GPT5.5 #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Ich war heute schon wieder im BSVH und habe mir Spiele der B-Division der Damen im #Showdown angeschaut. Das ist sozusagen die 2. Bundesliga im Showdown. A ist die höchste Division, und es gibt auch die C-Division. Ich lauschte und lernte.

This Saturday, I'll do my annual Stream explaining #shader for #revision #showdown. But also we might have DOK that will come to explain his ! And we might talk also about the final shader that was failing from flopine as I think it's interesting to explain what happend (as much as I can explain it :D )

#Revision #shader #showdown is available on LCDZ ! https://livecode.demozoo.org/event/2026_04_03_shader_showdown_revision_2026.html#mc

I won't be at the #revision2026 #showdown and I'm sad because I prepared an awesome stuff. I'll maybe do a shadow run in parallel of the 1st round. But definitively will do a stream about it next weekend

In the most riveting #showdown since the invention of sliced bread, our fearless trio—Vim, #Emacs, and Claude—battle it out in the arena of "Enable JavaScript" notifications. 🤦‍♂️ Spoiler alert: the real winner is the cookie consent banner, which steals the show with a cameo no one wanted. 🍪✨
https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-vim-vs-emacs-vs-claude #Vim #JavaScript #CookieConsent #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "my #grep can beat up your grep" showdown! 🎩✨ Behold, a blog post about ripgrep's speed—because clearly, the world was desperate for yet another mind-numbing benchmark of #terminal #wizards whispering sweet nothings to their consoles. 🐢💨 #Rust #fanboyism never looked so thrilling! 🔥🕵️‍♂️
https://burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ #showdown #ripgrep #speed #HackerNews #ngated

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 Downtime: Exact Time Servers Go Down and When Showdown Finally Starts - #Baskingamer

After a longer-than-usual stretch for Chapter 7 Seas...
readmore https://shorturl.at/wtXTQ

#Fortnite #FortniteChapter7 #Game #gaming #gaming_news #GamingCommunity #Showdown

Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?

https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper

#HackerNews #Apple #M5 #Max #96-Core #Threadripper #performance #comparison #tech #news #CPU #showdown

Hey #showdown fans,

By any chance if you are coming to Showdown Slovak Open this year, please let me know so I can say hello to you.

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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1325800/ 100th Brawler Reveal – Brawl Talk ##GAMING #100% #100th #BattleRoyale #BrawlStars #BrawlTalk #buffies #Dani #Drew #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #GamingTrending #loaded #marzio #MobileBattleRoyale #MobileGame #MobileRPG #MobileStrategyGame #najia #prestige #rework #Showdown #sirius #SupercellGame #TrendingGames #trophies #trophy #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ドラゴンクエストV天空の花嫁

Which Mid-Range Camera Has the Best Image Sensor? https://petapixel.com/2026/02/07/which-mid-range-camera-has-the-best-image-sensor/ #panasoniclumixs1ii #enthusiastcamera #midrangecamera #canoneosr6iii #Comparisons #imagesensor #comparison #headtohead #nikonz6iii #technology #Equipment #Features #showdown #sonya7v #sensor #video

Who knew that the #epic #showdown between #Codex and #Claude #Code would be as #thrilling as watching #paint dry? 🎨🤯 Our lives hang in the balance as we ponder these deep, #philosophical #decisions that clearly have the gravitas of a #wet #sock. 🧦✨
https://build.ms/2025/12/22/codex-vs-claude-code-today/ #vs #dry #HackerNews #ngated

Canon R6 III vs Sony a7 V Dynamic Range: Which Mid-Range Camera Reigns Supreme? https://petapixel.com/2025/12/15/canon-r6-iii-vs-sony-a7-v-dynamic-range-which-mid-range-camera-reigns-supreme/ #canonr6iiidynamicrange #sonya7vdynamicrange #canoneosr6markiii #electronicshutter #canoneosr6iii #dynamicrange #Technology #canonr6iii #comparison #Equipment #fullframe #showdown #sonya7v #News #dgo

Roberts and Kagan prepare for another showdown on executive power – CNN Politics

Politics 9 min read

Roberts and Kagan prepare for another showdown on executive power

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst, Dec 5, 2025 See all topics

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan are well matched, rhetorically forceful opposites. And they have been clashing for more than a decade over an increasingly relevant question of presidential power: How easy should it be for the president to fire the heads of independent agencies?

That issue, to be aired at the Supreme Court on Monday, has grown more salient as President Donald Trump has attempted to remove multiple officials, including at the Federal Trade Commission, National Labor Relations Board and Federal Reserve.

Their first faceoff occurred in 2009 before Kagan had even joined the court, as she was serving as US solicitor general, standing in the well of the courtroom, with Roberts looking down from the center chair. They tangled over a 1935 precedent that protects agency independence and that now hangs in the balance, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.

Since his days as a young lawyer in the Ronald Reagan administration, Roberts has argued for vast executive power, including the authority to fire individuals who lead administrative agencies. “Without such power,” Roberts wrote in the 2009 dispute over a corporate auditing board, “the President could not be held fully accountable for discharging his own responsibilities; the buck would stop somewhere else.”

Kagan, in contrast, believes the constitutional separation of powers allows Congress to establish and safeguard certain areas of administrative independence. And she has relied on Supreme Court rulings, including the 1935 milestone, that have allowed Congress to prevent the president from removing independent administrators without sufficient grounds.

Monday’s case was brought by former Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who received a March 18 email from Trump saying her “continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my Administration’s priorities.” (Under the law governing the FTC, commissioners can be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”)

The court’s ruling will extend far beyond Slaughter and the FTC and have vast consequences for specialized regulation in an array of financial, environmental and public safety spheres.

In an early phase of Slaughter’s lawsuit, in September, the Roberts majority reversed a lower court order that would have allowed Slaughter to stay in her post. The move was consistent with Roberts’ opinions that have steadily eroded the reach of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and signaled he considers it a dead letter.

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“The majority may be raring to take that action,” Kagan observed as she dissented from that September action. “But until the deed is done, Humphrey’s controls, and prevents the majority from giving the President the unlimited removal power Congress denied him.”

More broadly, the eventual ruling could build on other decisions providing Trump more power as he carries out his second term agenda. Last year, Roberts and his fellow conservatives granted Trump substantial immunity from prosecution as it expanded the concept of a president’s “conclusive and preclusive” authority. Then, earlier this year, the court freed the administration from lower-court nationwide orders against his various policy initiatives.

These decisions have dissolved constraints on the president, and if the court were to reverse the 1935 case, the president would be further unburdened by congressional legislation barring him from removing agency officials without sufficient grounds.

Vanderbilt University political science professor John Dearborn, who has studied the Reagan era development of a “unitary executive theory” and Roberts’ writings, told CNN, “He’s had these kinds of ideas for a long time, that the only way that agencies are accountable is if the president has the power to fire people.”

‘I didn’t say anything bad about Humphrey’s Executor’

Before joining the bench, Roberts and Kagan were first-rate oral advocates with their own, respective, steady and tenacious styles. Roberts served as a deputy US solicitor general during the George H.W. Bush administrations and then appeared frequently at the court in private practice. He argued a total 39 cases before the high court.

Kagan, who hadn’t previously argued a case at the high court, was named US solicitor general in 2009 by President Barack Obama. She went on to argue six cases, including the presidential-removal controversy, before Obama nominated her to the bench in 2010 to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

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#ChiefJusticeRoberts #CNN #CNNPolitics #Conservative #ExecutiveBranch #ExecutivePower #IndependentAdministrators #JusticeKagan #Liberal #President #RemoveOfficials #Showdown #SufficientGrounds #USCongress #USPresident

Mid-Range Showdown: Sony a7 V vs Canon EOS R6 III vs Nikon Z6 III https://petapixel.com/2025/12/03/mid-range-showdown-sony-a7-v-vs-canon-eos-r6-iii-vs-nikon-z6-iii/ #fullframecamera #canoneosr6iii #Comparisons #canonr6iii #comparison #enthusiast #nikonz6iii #Equipment #Features #midrange #showdown #sonya7v #hybrid

🤔 Ah yes, the noble quest to have #AI generate an authentic half-munched #burrito, truly the pinnacle of technological advancement 🌯🤖. Clearly, if our algorithms can't master the intricate mystery of congealed ingredients, humanity is doomed! The world waits with bated breath for the inevitable #Pelican vs. Burrito showdown—place your bets, folks! 🥊🐦
https://www.generativist.com/notes/2025/Nov/25/generative-burrito-test.html #Showdown #TechHumor #FoodInnovation #CulinaryQuest #HackerNews #ngated