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Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:17AM (#50150562)
Telegram platform is above and beyond of what Whatsapp is offering. APIs for bot accounts and direct access to your own personal account.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:40AM (#50104368)
If understanding is so important and AI systems can only produce knowledge. Why can't mathematicians continue their work on better understanding?
I wish your service could replace my email in all services that has it already
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:16PM (#50076152)
They just don't know yet, wait for a few months
Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:51AM (#49932452)
Lots of benefits for me, examples

- cost saving when using lower-tier models to index information

- routing between models from different providers

They could raise prices, if capacity is problem
I found it appalling when working with remote setup — tabs disappearing and appearing after some time, screen hangs up, projects disappear. Tried to fix some issues with PR, but team is not accepting for 2w+.
Re:Google WeatherNext 3 on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:50PM (#49603862)
Last time they have only shipped the model on web in mobile...
Re:Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:38AM (#49445724)
This got me mixed feelings. I don't support such campaigns. Still I would prefer my AI tool to behave more like a notepad app and less like a government or a corporate censor.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:38AM (#49387201)
QA of course. You hook up your agent with CDP access to live product + let it screenshot and look into result. Also you could hook agent with CDP access to Figma to read/write, there a vision model is very useful as well.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:37AM (#49387184)
My product is connecting employers and workers with conversational agents. They love to communicate with images — CVs, documents, photos of worksites. Even CV-as-photo or offer-as-photo format is very popular. My daily driver Deepseek Flash can't see those photos. So I use image models to let agents understand the context.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:35AM (#49387167)
but for OCR there are much better suited models, I use mlx-community/PaddleOCR-VL-8bit
I would love to see a jamming partner. So I could play along him on the same piece.
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:37PM (#49368620)
> It does not seem very "viral"

love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing

> would be entirely useless to humans

why useless? humans can navigate these unsuccessful chains of thoughts to build on top of them or reject completely

Re:London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:26AM (#49258958)
Maybe they should. But I think there is a correlation between "private citizens can't record other citizens" and "almost no cameras around". Coming from a country with a lots of cameras (where people record each other as well), this is a very comforting feeling.
Re:London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:06AM (#49258632)
Recording everything has a lot of upsides. Unfortunately, downsides for privacy and democracy are very real.

Talking about speeding, not sure. I am driving around Lisbon and speed limit is 50 in city, and lots of speed cameras. Though I am driving at 55 as limit and rarely see anyone going faster than that.

Re:London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:30AM (#49255958)
This is exactly what happened in Moscow after same tech was launched. It is much 'safer' on streets, since every entrance door and traffic intersection is equipped with cameras now.

But I pick Portugal's approach every time — no public cameras, no dashcams, it is forbidden to record private persons in public without permission.

Re:Position: LLMs Can't Jump on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:15AM (#49194755)
1/ LLMs are doing increasingly bigger share of work of SWE with an increasing success rate

2/ SWE are doing way more than "writing code", and since those areas are less "computational verifiable" (what is a good architecture that will stand in 5y?) and more "connected to real world" (what are the requirements?), LLMs struggle with them

Whenever I have this choice "destroy or sustain any and all life", I always pick "sustain". Problem is, I don't often meet such an option to choose. Maybe your life is different.
There is not much we can do/build with nature. Even if everyone would take idea of "protection/inspiration", there are not many sustainable business models towards that direction. Nature is more aligned with inward observation / meditation, which is more aligned with Eastern tradition.
Re:DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:31AM (#49122279)
Text classification, structured data extraction, rewrite
check transcribe.cpp from Handy, I see Qwen3-ASR in the list
Re:Kimi K3-256k on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:46AM (#49107812)
I am not only talking about "long context" performance (context rot), but also about noise that is confusing model about its goal (from correctly extracting operator's intent). I think every model will get confused to a degree, so clearing up irrelevant information from context helps a lot.
Great summarization of current capabilities of models, thank you
Re:Kimi K3-256k on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:57PM (#49103610)
Models work best when they have short instructions and no noise. "Conversation [may] contain" also means "conversation has a lot of noise". It degrades performance and increases cost.

I use handoff skill to ask model to write a prompt for itself.

How does it compare to models from handy.computer and whisprflow?
Re:Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @05:44AM (#49081546)
Can we use those metrics in a review pass for every PR? So review agent will have to pinpoint new complexity and propose refactoring or justify increase?
Re:NYC Apartment Aquaponics on Saturday July 25, 2026 @03:32PM (#49050748)
100% with you on the taste and nutrition. I think you forget sustainability at scale. I love the idea of eating local food, but with current levels of personal productivity and home-farmed food costs, there is no way it could work for all of us.
Re:NYC Apartment Aquaponics on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:48AM (#49047565)
Why are people obsessed with idea of "produce their own X"? When we learned to specialize, we have achieved low cost, scale and sophistication.

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