News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

elbear

If explained in a specific way and order, yes, it's likely.
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:15AM (#49241241)
He's talking about learning that makes you operational. If you can speak with someone, then you've learned language. If you can get a computer to do something, then you've learned some programming.

The equivalent for biology would be to grow a plant or a few plants and animals successfully. That's operational at a certain level, you could also be operational at a lower or higher level.

Ok, I agree with the sentiment. You shouldn't solve for problems you don't have yet, especially since with AI it's easier to refactor.
It's not about prettiness. It's about being harder to extend thus making future adaptations harder.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:10PM (#49039535)
I've had the same experience but at the same time I also find Sol's answers in conversation longer.
This helps because the ELI5 was too general. To me at least.
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:21AM (#48514841)
High Fast? I don't see that option in my Codex. I only have 3 models: 5.4-mini, 5.4 and 5.5, each with 4 levels: low, medium, high, extra high.
Re:Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:39AM (#48502829)
I've only had that happen with Chinese models until now. Interesting that Fable is doing it too.
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:33AM (#48502777)
Curious, which model do you use for Codex? I'm very happy with the solutions '5.5 high' finds. It's like it understands exactly what I mean and it also anticipates all sorts of situations. Before I used '5.5 medium' for some time and it was a bit underwhelming. It may sound funny but it's like it didn't care that much to do a good job.
That's a good salary, better than Romania on average. And if you also have lower prices (at least that's what I heard), even better then.
Re:DeepSeek v4 on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:45AM (#47890224)
I'm also unemployed. So far the models that I've used the most are Kimi and GLM. I haven't done that much agentic coding though, I've mostly used them for studying math and general conversations and I'm generally happy with their performance.
Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:31PM (#47818265)
There's DeepInfra. There's also OpenRouter where you can find several providers.
I thought it was determined (slight pun) that free will is not a thing. I'm referring to Sapolsky's book "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will)" as an example.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:42PM (#47618474)
In case you don't know, Gemini 2.5 flash is hosted on DeepInfra. They also have 1.5 flash but not 2.0 flash.

I have no affiliation with DeepInfra. I use them, because they host open-source models that are good.

Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:39PM (#47618428)
I use ChatGPT and Claude on OpenRouter, because it's just easier than buying credits on each platform separately.
Re:The Only Moat Left Is Money on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:22PM (#47064308)
by keeping the how part a secret
Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:03PM (#47038097)
I wonder, how does a Julius perceive another Julius, as another competent worker? What about a non-Julius then?
Re:Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:56AM (#46836259)
* It's cheaper than proprietary models

* Maybe you don't want to have your conversations used for training. The providers listed on OpenRouter mention whether they do that or not.

I had started using it again through Open WebUI. If it's gone, I'll probably switch to GLM-4.7 completely.
I'm mostly the same, I don't watch movies twice. But there are exceptions. Some movies are just beautiful or I like how they make me feel, so I want to rewatch them. Groundhog Day is an example.
Maybe you would, if you bought it.
Re:C Is Best on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:44PM (#46516625)
How I interpret his comment about the distance: The benefit of switching from C/C++ to Rust is higher than switching from C++ to Go (in the similar use-cases) or from Java to Kotlin.

Another argument offered for Rust is that it's high-level enough that you can also use it for the web (see how many web frameworks it has). So I think that Rust's proponents see it as this universal language that could be good for everything.

Re:Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#46457093)
When I started learning Haskell, it did feel like coding with a straightjacket.
Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:19AM (#46431629)
I would never expect a Western European country to not accept Visa and Mastercard. I say this as an Eastern European. But I do remember that in Germany (and Austria) it's not that accepted to pay by card.
Re:How Lewis Carroll computed determinants on Sunday December 28, 2025 @07:27AM (#46410593)
I wasn't sure how encipher is in Romanian (it's not common), it's "a cifra". The infinitive in Romanian puts "a" in front of the verb, so it's very close to Spanish.
Re:How Lewis Carroll computed determinants on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:59AM (#46400321)
In Romanian:

- cifru -> cipher

- cifră -> digit

Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:11AM (#46354237)
Another way to put it: don't focus on distance but more on behaving in tune with yourself.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:04AM (#46334644)
Yeah, we now need to specify who wrote the tests, because it's important information.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:29AM (#46323164)
Those tests were written by people. That's why they were confident that what the LLM implemented was correct.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:40AM (#46311493)
They withdrew in WW1 after the revolution.

Older »