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Re:Do the Hardest Thing on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:37PM (#48419250)
Care to share? Would love to hear your story!
is this AI?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:20PM (#46581571)
building out https://www.fluidposts.com, which is a writer for SEO folks.

Thought it would be a good way to learn about one form of marketing while building out some useful tools!

Looking for beta users and would love some early feedback!

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:18PM (#46581548)
wow, looks awesome!

Would love to pick one up if there's ever a sale!

Re:What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? on Sunday December 14, 2025 @01:44PM (#46265578)
Super actionable, will give these a go. Reading through this I now see that I get stuck on the first step and just beat myself out about it instead of making progress.

Thank you!

Re:What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:40PM (#46258363)
I actually struggle with this quite a bit, took me a while to realised, but wonder if you have any advice to get over it? (Aside from just succeed more)
Re:What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:32PM (#46258300)
LoL
I've wanted something like this for a long time! Waiting for the android /browser release!
Re:AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:01PM (#46155575)
Can someone explain what the war is about?

Like HDR abuse makes it sound bad, because the video is bright? Wouldn't that just hurt the person posting it since I'd skip over a bright video?

Sorry if I'm phrasing this all wrong, don't really use TikTok

Re:So you wanna build a local RAG? on Friday November 28, 2025 @09:18PM (#46084711)
How does this compare with orama?
Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:13PM (#46051981)
don't listen to the naysayers! Had a chuckle as well LoL
Re:73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:42AM (#46033994)
I had the exact same thoughts. Even while I don't disagree with the premise, I'm so confused as to how they are intercepting the calls.

Like I don't think 73% of companies are foolish enough to be calling their LLM provider from the front-end with their API key.

Either they are doing something that they aren't mentioning, or this is just complete bogus.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:33AM (#45885259)
are you guys built on recall or did you guys build out the meeting joining functionality yourself?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:18AM (#45885193)
wow, lots going on.

I'm actually curious how you get the data from reddit! Are you running your own scrapers or buying the data?

also small typo `State of art AI agents` -> State of the art AI agents

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:16AM (#45885177)
It was super fun! Would love a little more space to move pieces around but otherwise fantastic job!
All good questions and is the second piece aside from the agent.

1. We have proxy support right now and most traffic are already being proxied today. Might allow fine tuning of this over time 2. We have plans to allow this, but not currently available 3. We are leveraging some anti bot/captcha solving, but I do believe this will be a never ending problem in some sense

I see it 3 fundamental pillars:

* Accuracy (does it do what we want) * Reliability (does it consistently do what we want) * Speed (does it do what we want fast)

We're mostly focused on solving 1 and maybe in some capacity 2.

The belief here is that models are going to get better. With that smaller models will become more capable. This will result in speed ups automatically.

So yes, I will concur that speed is probably not the main strength of our framework right now, but believe that we will get there with time.

Yeap, that's exactly where the agents run in

Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

https://github.com/trymeka/agent

Hey HN,We are Winston, Edward, and James, and we built Meka Agent, an open-source framework that lets vision-based LLMs execute tasks directly on a computer, just like a person would.Backstory:In the last few months, we've been building computer-use agents that have been used by various teams for QA testing, but realized that the underlying browsing frameworks aren't quite good enough yet.As...

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This was quite fun! Used it for a day trip to Cologne, and it was pretty nice for us to shortlist a bunch of landmarks.
Yeap, you get a live feed into what the agent is doing
Thanks! What're the biggest pain points that you have today?
Hmm, the video loads fine for me. Good call on the seeker, that's something we can add.

In general, our agent today is unlikely to call out on stylistic choices, but rather more so if something is broken. For e.g., the video doesn't start / the link doesn't go anywhere, etc.

everything you mention are good points though, and we've made a note!

Depends on the PR / test ask. From our internal usage, most tests take around 5 - 15 mins.

Also noted on the invisible links, will get it fixed!

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