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Re:Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:27AM (#50230837)
Jane Street bought up all of the Cerebras x OpenAI compute I believe. Couldn't find a great source, this tweet has a good few replies citing other sources as well https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/2106834536868856223
When the user is typing the string, I seperate the last 10 words into reversed joined words, e.g. tall dark handsome man becomes "man", "handsome man", "dark handsome man" and "tall dark handsome man", and I send the full string to Jev and ask it to tell me with probabilities of each option which is the best one to fully capture the descriptive noun
For my specific example: "the tall dark handsome man wanders into a dark gloomy bar. he orders the biggest beer in the world and sits down on a bar stool surrounded by irish dancers" spacy splits out "the biggest beer" and "the world", whereas I want "the biggest beer in the world" to be the singular noun.
https://x.com/dWeaths/status/2102415625301717065 - Here's my use case of jev, being able to accurately detect nouns (with adverbs, adjectives etc.) in realtime as the user is typing it, genuinely feels like it's running locally with how fast it comes back. I've sent over 1000 requests to Jev and its cost me $0.01 (probably rounded up!).
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:31AM (#49694631)
A valorant / cs2 AI-powered aim trainer.

The way it works is you play a game of valorant, or cs2, then after the match you're able to look at the times where you missed your shot, enter our AI aim trainer, and it boots up that exact same moment, with enemies following their exact same pathing, with gunplay feeling as close to 1:1 as possible with the game you're trying to improve on.

It figures this out 2 ways:

Firstly is purely based on visual clues, I have a custom trained vision model to detect the enemies, and a great algorithm to look at a minimap to infer exactly where the user's position is.

Alternatively if the user can download the replay file, we can decode it to grab real time positions / timestamp times etc to perfectly replicate exactly what happened in the match.

Posted on reddit / x about this last week, got some positive feedback, here it is if you want to see an early prototype:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentAcademy/comments/1w965a9/feedb...

https://x.com/dWeaths/status/2096683901162824175

Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:08PM (#49615218)
Didn't you hear? you must hire a real artist to do that for you or you're exploiting the industry
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:07PM (#46579436)
https://replays.lol/clipper - A spin off from my main startup's product that lets Twitch streamers review their viewers' league of legend clips. Zero friction as we handle the recording of clips ourselves using bots that load up people's previous games using the League of Legends game client. Went live with my first medium-size streamer yesterday, excited to see how this goes!

Similar to Cameo but hyper specialised for league of legend streamers, if this shows some traction we'll expand to other games, and then to other industries (think a tennis star reviews one of your tennis points, beats out a generic happy birthday message?)

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:56AM (#45873951)
I'm building a Twitch streamer focused version of cameo. The first beta version is specifically for League of Legend streamers.

https://demo.replays.lol/clipper (recording the demo video today).

The idea is that a generic video message doesn't appeal to a fan of a video game streamer, instead what really would be cool would be watching them react to your best moment in a game.

Our software removes all friction from the journey, the fan doesn't even need to record their own gameplay, we have bots set up that can load up someone else's gameplay just from their username, record their highlight for them, upload it to our platform, then the streamer just needs to come in, watch a ~60 sec clip, give a genuine reaction, press 'submit' and its all done.

There's a few markets I'm trying to find product market fit in: ~1-2 minute coaching sessions, sports commentator style commentary over your clip from influencers, hyped up reactions from your favorite streamer, a community-focused segment on a stream of watching a compilation of your fan's best moments.

We're ready to launch, just trying and struggling to find the first few people to sign up.

Re:Qwen3-Next on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:50AM (#45221563)
Their proprietary models are very good too and go under the radar, they never seem to appear on any benchmarks. Qwen3-coder-plus is significantly better than their open source qwen3, Qwen3 max also rivals the SOTA models
Re:Cerebras Code on Saturday August 02, 2025 @04:09AM (#44765667)
$50 per month is their SaaS solution that let's you make 1000 requests per day. The openrouter cost is the raw API cost if you try to use qwen3-coder via the pay as you go model when using Cline
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:21AM (#44421165)
https://inspo.dev - The idea is a chrome extension that let's you iterate ridiculously fast on frontend web components - click one button, select the element like you're using Chrome's inspect dev tools, press generate, and 60 seconds later, AI has given you ~7-10 new variations on how you could style that component, with the code ready to implement.

Struggling to get the generated iterations to be up to a standard I'm happy with at the moment, but improving every day!

A share button is a great idea, thanks!
Hey Charles, annoyed I missed out on the first batch, signed up to the newsletter looking forward to the next one!

I thought your product page could use a slightly nicer UI. - I'm building an app that let's people spin up multiple variations of their pages and easily implement new UIs. - I like to put HN websites through it whilst I'm training it up to see if I can improve them.

here's what my app came up with for your site: https://streamable.com/vbby9q

If you want the html + css, it's here free of charge, I've split each one up with a ## Variation 1/2.. etc.. just let me know what you think - https://pastebin.com/WGNieVmq

Re:Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:44AM (#44209617)
I think there's a big difference with how designers and programmers can use AI to enhance their work, and how exploited the average person's work has been. A lot of designers publish their work on social media, or it's visible on their websites etc., which AI models have used to train with. But with coding, most people's code only exists in private repos, or is compiled to a format that LLMs cant easily be trained on.
Re:Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:51AM (#33789954)
Yes, but Warren Buffer doesn't live in El Salvador, so the only thing he could do with BTC is sell it to someone for USD so the point still stands
Re:Ask HN: Solo Dev Stack of 2022? on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:09AM (#33047152)
My stack relies on Typescript Express apps on Google App Engine. One for the API, and one for the front end.

For database I use Datastore and for storage I use Cloud Storage.

Front end uses an express app that routes the marketing pages to static html pages and then routes everything starting /app to a generic html file that uses React to render everything / sort out routing.

Re:Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:48AM (#32294701)
It's quite interesting that a successful HN launch effectively created ~$10m worth of value, as tooljet was able to raise $1.5m+ within a couple of weeks whereas fund raising efforts before were rejected.
Re:Substack is laying off 14% of its staff on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:29PM (#31925948)
> 13 employee layoff at a 90 employee

Let's rephrase that to 14% to sound more impactful

What app / medium did you use to watch Breaking Bad?
Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:27AM (#31630370)
Gambling in the gaming world is even more prominent on Twitch and it's not even pretending to be gaming related anymore.

An incognito screenshot of Twitch I captured just now https://i.imgur.com/fgXDAHB.png - The biggest streamer on the platform is currently streaming real money (crypto) online Slots gambling to 100k+ viewers, and a second streamer in the top 5 category is also streaming Slots.

Supposedly these streamers make millions per month from these gaming sponsorships to pretend to lose their own money in order to convince their already primed audience to become addicts to these same sites.

Children brought up on gaming have been conditioned into becoming the perfect audience for unregulated crypto gambling companies to advertise to and ruin their lives

Re: on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:22AM (#31579403)
What browser are you using that doesn't come with a built in translate? Chromium browsers can just right click the page and press translate to english
Stop regulating crypto! (Unless I've been hacked, then we need to regulate it)
Hire based on working style.
Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:20AM (#31350750)
I don't understand how you bodge a stable coin startup.

Surely you just mint the tokens in exchange for dollars, and then put ~50% of the dollars in zero risk investments (some form of treasury bonds), and then take the 0.5-1% interest per year as your revenue. Tether currently has $81b marketcap so you could be making $400-800m per year doing basically nothing?

FYI Your link doesn't work with www subdomain before it (Redirects on root)
(Not OP)

This would work for videos that people want to acknowledge as their own, but they could just tweet out they own it for the same affect.

The issue this tackles is videos that people don't want to claim ownership of, e.g. if a video emerged of <insert politician here> kicking a child, the politician can't say "I haven't signed it therefore it's not mine", instead we need tools like the above to be able to say, "this is faked, do not trust it".

Hey, cool idea.

I didn't find it intuitive when first landing on the site. I think I need to sign up first before I get a character that can walk around?

I think it would be cool if when landing on the site I'm given a character and can walk around like a signed in user, maybe forcing me to sign up if I want to leave newbie village.

I am eagerly awaiting a YC startup that automates the coding interview from the candidate's side.
I had a click through your test widget, 2 small updates that I think could make it feel so much smoother:

1) - Slow fade in is annoying and is just a lag on inputting the feedback.

2) - From what I can tell it doesn't move to the next 'slide' until it receives a response from the server which again feels really slow, if possible move it to the next slide immediately whilst it's sending messages to / from the server in the background.

Great looking product though!

* Also have a dedicated email input field if capturing emails is a value add, having it in a text box that has a 280 character max looks strange

Re:The Evil List on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:48AM (#30233557)
Interestingly he also seems to post semi-positively about Amazon [0], but then posts this list as an anti-Google piece, which happens to rank Amazon at #1 most evil

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130842

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