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When I saw 2 vCPU and 4GB, and then below that "4 GB persistent disk" I was like ooohhh it's the disk, not the memory. But it IS actually 4GB memory + 4GB disk.
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:44PM (#49887446)
This was so fulfilling to do on x.com
jev is optimized for it, a standard LLM isn't and it also costlier and slower.
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:16PM (#49872797)
So are they going to release this tuned model? Or keep it for themselves?
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:27PM (#49852617)
I also noticed this personally. Consider when an agent says

"Should I start with the spec, or go straight to building it?

Unless you're working on a super crucial piece of engineering, you can probably get away with going straight to building it. Even if something doesn't go the way you intended, I find that it's usually faster to correct the agent later, once the initial implementation is in place. It's more of an iterative approach to building and I feel that it is less cognitively demanding.

Except for VRR, HDR, touch id, video encoding and a sleep mode that doesn't drain your battery.
Re:HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:32PM (#49734962)
Does this extend to open models like GLM 5.3? This would mean that simply changing the harness to Pi reduces cost in half?
Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:09AM (#49722334)
Lots of criticism here but I think this is extremely promising. When this tech is extended to videos and perhaps even other forms of media, I think it has the potential of stopping all slop!
email? Is a user's email up for grabs just like that?
Re:Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:28AM (#49669146)
>I do enjoy using their free AI

It's really not free. You're paying with your data.

Re:OpenAI Agents API on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:18AM (#49653499)
you mean something like step level debugging for agents?
Re:Apple Watch Ultra 4 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:35PM (#49637197)
Meanwhile, 7 years on my F-91W
Re:216M Spy TVs โ€“ The LG Smart TV Problem [video] on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:38PM (#49604758)
Why would you ever connect a TV to the internet in the first place?
Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:13AM (#49593818)
Awesome write-up, thank you! This makes me want to try this out as well.
Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:22PM (#49593116)
Hi, can you elaborate on this? Why not use Asahi Linux?
Re:Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:51PM (#49544192)
Fable-class models IMO are now capable enough to maintain your code as well.
Re:Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:15PM (#49494484)
This is all great until you change or upgrade to a newer model, and you can start over again because some of the directions/rules are now part of the model.
Re:My Business Is Dying on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:19AM (#49475872)
OP was doing 30K USD MRR, not sure why he needs to find a job at all. Did he spend it all?
Re:Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:11AM (#49475814)
> which has even seen Google co-founder Sergey Brin return to day-to-day operations

This is false, Brin already returned to active work at Google in early 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/01/31/sergey-...

I personally got used to the claudisms and think people are making too big of a deal out of it. Yes it says load-bearing and caveat a lot, but at least you know behind the scenes what meaning it's assigning to certain situations.
Re:Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe on Friday August 21, 2026 @09:40PM (#49395761)
getting a 502
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:17PM (#49368907)
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:25PM (#49367971)
Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760
I'd be curious to see how this would run on Qwen3.8 27B
Re:Amodei Re. Regulation on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:49AM (#49328948)
Yes, he has financial incentives. That doesn't automatically make what he says false or dishonest.
Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:58PM (#49306458)
I agree, and I'm actually pro Opus 5 exactly for this reason. In my opinion, agents talking to agents is the future, and humans will move to a higher abstraction layer. So it's the right move to make for Anthropic.

Many of the complaints that people are having with Opus 5 are actually acknowledged and explained on opus's 5 prompting guides (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...)

It also seems naive that Anthropic, with some of the smartest people on the planet working on AI, would not know about this.

Re:Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:15PM (#49304694)
If it can save 10% of tokens, how is that useless?
Re:The Future Is for Everyone on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:56PM (#49251019)
There is no positive future with meta in it.
They're pointing to macOS and saying it uses 5 times less RAM there, but is 230MB for a weather app really something to be proud off?

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