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Kagi has an official MCP server [1], where you set the API key. MCP use is always by an LLM, so this seems to be at odds with their TOS.

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp

Re:GitLab Outage on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:50AM (#49842723)
It would be nice to disclose that you're the creator of the tool which you are promoting here.
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:45AM (#49842686)
Websites can just present information.

When I visit a website, I'm usually looking for information and not for a message.

Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:56AM (#49577772)
> Open source does not apply to AI

Isn't that a bit overgeneralized?

There's more than weights for the Olmo models for example: https://allenai.org/olmo

Similar for Nvidia's Nemotron models IIRC.

Artificial Analysis has an "openness" ranking: [1]

[1] https://artificialanalysis.ai/models?model-filters=open-sour...

Token usage is generally lower in greenfield projects.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:19PM (#49453502)
According to OpenRouter, DeepSeek trains on input. At least when disabling all providers that train on your data, DeepSeek gets disabled.

Other providers don't.

You can also choose to route to ZDR only.

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...

Re:OpenAI Daybreak Blue on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:17PM (#49265243)
Existing recent discussion with 127 points, 68 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246704
Re:GitHub Actions Is Down on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:12PM (#49200256)
Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:08AM (#49121231)
Yes that's my point. The old and the new version are different in capabilities, but now when someone talks about DeepSeek V4 Flash (in benchmarks, on inference providers), you don't know which exact version it's about.

Some providers like OpenRouter now call it `deepseek-v4-flash-0731`, but even in places like here on HackerNews people say things like "Sonnet is better than DeepSeek" without specifying a version or a reasoning effort, certainly no one will mention that `-0731` suffix when talking about DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:05AM (#49121207)
That's what I mean. On DeepSeek it's now just `deepseek-v4-flash`, while OpenRouter calls it `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731`, so now when someone talks about DeepSeek V4 Flash, like in benchmarks, or other inference providers, which version do they actually mean?

The `-0731` style suffix is worse compared to a proper version bump like V4.1.

Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:37AM (#49120152)
The previous V4 version wasn't called “Preview” by most inference providers. For example, the OpenRouter model slug was `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`. So now there will be confusion when someone talks about V4 Flash or when someone offers V4 Flash inference.

Why not call it V4.1?

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:33PM (#49113834)
Depends on the reasoning effort, see https://deepswe.datacurve.ai (add Luna via model selection drop down, if it's not shown by default)
The project looks very interesting, thanks for sharing!

You seem to have created a new GitHub account just for this project a week ago. Do you have any other GitHub accounts that enable us to see a track record of your work (maintenance, security)?

Re:Transcribe.cpp on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:36AM (#48965522)
Handy already supports streaming transcription models, and you can see the words in the small Handy pop-up while you are talking.

So in general this definitely works. Handy is just missing the feature to insert these streamed words into the app where the cursor is.

Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:56PM (#48853510)
That was the case for early models (Llama etc), but they got much better since then. Not perfect, but good enough.

This is from Ministral 3 14B, a 2025 model without reasoning, that you can run on your PC:

> Write a Haiku involving HackerNews, and the capability of large language models like you to reply in an exact number of words or syllables.

    Silicon whispers,
    exact words in code’s embrace—
    Haiku blooms anew.
Across multiple tries it got it wrong a couple times (by ~2 syllables). But syllables are extra tricky (because of how LLMs use tokens) and the point is that for things like "summarize in 5 bullet points" you will mostly get 5 bullet points, maybe 6, but not 10 or 20, and no need for a tool that count bullet points.
Re:Monetization Gateway on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:16PM (#48751806)
Currently this is for payments with stablecoins.

For Bitcoin / Lightning these kind of pay-per-request API paywalls have existed for many years already (e.g. my own from 8 years ago [1], but others as well).

Flattr [2] existed for non-crypto micropayments.

None became mainstream. I think the friction is always the extra setup on the client side. In all 3 cases the user (API consumer) has to set up a special wallet (browser extension or something for the agent) and deposit some money/crypto on the client side first. This part needs to become simpler.

[1] https://github.com/philippgille/ln-paywall

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:18AM (#48670501)
> Kimi and GLM models have coined a new term: Thinkslop. > [...] > So for now I'm happy with just two models: GPT and DeepSeek.

1. DeepSeek V3.2, V4 Flash, V4 Pro, at high or max thinking, ... when recommending a model it should always be a precise model, not just an AI lab

2. DeepSeek V4 Flash at max thinking is the most verbose model (among top models) in the AA benchmarks. See the "Intelligence Index Token Use" chart: [1]

[1]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models?models=gpt-5-5-high%2Cg...

The interesting bits on how they achieved it:

> On the model side, we applied FP4 quantization

> introduced DFlash, an efficient speculative decoding method based on block-level masked parallel prediction

> On the system side, TileRT perfectly adapts to the dynamic characteristics of these algorithms

> 1000+ tokens/s output [...] using just a single standard 8-GPU commodity node

Re:Step 3.7 Flash on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#48329983)
Do you mean MiMo V2 Flash? V2.5 doesn't have a Flash version.
Re:Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:31PM (#48114889)
It's in the article:

> HTTP also allows the DuckDB-Wasm distribution to speak Quack natively! So DuckDB running in a browser can e.g., directly connect to a DuckDB instance running in an EC2 server using Quack.

Both the original Markdown spec [1] as well as CommonMark [2] clearly specify support for inline HTML. With that you can kind of get the best of both words depending on your use case.

For the most parts you just write the regular Markdown headers and paragraphs, embed images, insert tables etc without the need for any HTML tags, making it readable in source form. And if you want to embed an SVG file for example, which the author of the article mentions as one use case, you just embed the SVG directly, and people can render the Markdown in their favorite viewer.

Let's say you're viewing a raw Markdown file in VS Code. You come onto an HTML tag, so you hit Cmd+Shift+V to open the preview and that's it.

Of course for full-fledged web pages with interactive buttons and fully customized styling and all of that, which the author shows in some examples, this is not feasible. But you can get very far when you have mostly text/images/tables and just want to add some extras here and there.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

[2] https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#html-blocks

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