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Re:Show HN: Individual podcast episodes as recommended by HN on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:09AM (#50335344)
Is that the entire comment history from HN?
DeepSeek Flash really came at a bad time before the Anthropic IPO. I use this thing daily and it’s neck and neck with SOTA models. The search is one of the things setting it apart.
Perhaps another version is bullshit jobs, where the doorman really doesn’t want to be there, and the other tasks such as greeting people or providing some sense of security really wasn’t his raison d'être
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:20PM (#50078932)
I added Gemini 4 Argon to our video creation benchmarks.

The results are a bit disappointing given Googles scale and training data.

The results are on par with cheaper Chinese open source models to be frank. https://cliphou.se/benchmark/

Re:Show HN: Remix Opus 5.5 motion videos online on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:49AM (#50017396)
Just click on the text of any video, or customise colors with the theme selector under the each video

Show HN: Remix Opus 5.5 motion videos online

https://cliphou.se/

I made a nifty service to discover and edit motion videos live in your browser.This cuts time and cost for developers looking to add videos for your product launches.You can also direct your agent to any video and get the full Remotion code if you'd like to incorporate them to your own workflows.

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Show HN: LLM Motion Graphics Benchmark

https://cliphou.se/benchmark/

Given that agents are getting good at generating motion graphics I wanted to understand what the differences are in cost and time using say Opus 5.5 and the cheaper models.Let me know if you want other LLMs added and feel free to click around the rest of the website.All videos are editable in place and aim to give engineers a simple way of discovering and remixing motion graphics without...

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Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:32AM (#48278892)
Yeah I'm getting an error where it says account has been suspended. They really are becoming an embarassment
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:47PM (#47879863)
Yeah but it also then strikes the perfect balance between being meticulous and pragmatic. Also it pushes back much more often than other models in that mode.
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:45PM (#47879823)
Same here. I feel like all of these shenanigans could be because Anthropic are compute constrained, forcing then to take reckless risks around reducing it.
Because you can't do it in public since it's illegal, but club toilets is where people take it.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:31AM (#45964756)
This is still the case for me
Re:Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:47AM (#45721600)
Yes if we squint really hard then this could be the reason. It could also be because it's a PR disaster.
Re:Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:59AM (#45536059)
This is unfair and why people see HN as largely a pessimistic crowd. Just because someone might be wrong doesn't mean they are actively trying to deceit you, which I assume you mean with "bullshitting".

It's a new and shiny object and people tend to get over-excited. That's it.

Re:Open models by OpenAI on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:18PM (#44801032)
Does anyone get the demos at https://www.gpt-oss.com to work, or are the servers down immediately after launch? I'm only getting the spinner after prompting.
Fantastic product! I almost feel bad for Screen Studio as he's a solo creator and charges for the product, this will most certainly be bad news for him

Show HN: An inline UX and conversion helper for developers

We've been building a tool called checkra.io to help solo developers with conversion recommendations, copywriting and UX. It's a JS snippet (script tag or npm) that adds a floating button to your site.Click it, select any part of the page, and ask for feedback ("How can I improve conversion?", "Is this section clear?", "Accessibility issues?"). An AI (GPT-4 for now) analyzes the element +...

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I've seen this comment a couple of times. What would be a better way of doing it? Also consider that if they would've had a more complex formula, what would be the cost of needing to explain it publicly? Would they then need to start defending the fairness of each tariff vs doing it the simple way and having a single formula across the board?
I wish I could do this for Spotify. Paid plans still include ads.

They cram ads into podcast episodes which themselves also have ads, so you'll get the read ads + Spotify's local ads + Spotify laughs all the way to the bank.

I believe over time not having ads will be a thing of the past, and you'll instead pay for fewer ads. Like where else are people going to go for exclusive content?

This was an incredible episode interweaving engineering, politics and an idea of where the world might be headed the next 20-30 years.
Re:DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:14AM (#43125253)
See I kind of buy the database argument but also kind of don't. A database needs an operator whereas a LLM doesn't. You're basically melting the product into a piece of goo and the UI can be approached using natural language.

For products that still need a UI you could claim that LLM operators take over, so that's still a tax you pay to the incumbents as you interact with a product. It's sort of like we take the money which was paid to SQL operators and engineers and instead pay it to the hyperscalers.

Re:Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:25AM (#42828685)
How is it not emerging, if the phenomena hasn’t been hard-wired in and is unexpected?
Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:03AM (#42442448)
Things are the way they are. Sometimes you can’t be rational about things.
How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?
Re:Tornado Cash Sanctions Found Illegal, in Legal Win for Crypto on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:10AM (#42262861)
This already happened with SBF who operated under a democrat administration.

The more interesting conversation is how could the UX and potentially AI based investment assistants prevent people from making financially unsound decisions.

Re:Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D on Saturday November 23, 2024 @02:00PM (#42222961)
It’s also a result of German unions. It’s practically impossible to fire people in the auto industry, so effectively what we do at VW is we have deadweight organisations where people end up if they are low performers and refuse to leave. The European auto industry is partly a charade to keep people employed.
Are there any areas where an AI startup can actually make an impact? All I've seen is either billion+ funded foundational models, or thin GPT wrappers - all with the same probability of being default alive.
Another riff on this is that you won’t get better products, but more products. AI reduces the barrier of entry and you’ll have many products doing niche things (often for free!) instead of platforms capturing a lot of the incremental value.

It’s like mobile cameras, they reduced barrier of entry to photography, but you didn’t end up getting better photos necessarily. Instead you had more of them.

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