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Re:Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:49PM (#48713457)
Searched “New super girl movie “ and got results for super Mario bros
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:05PM (#47795434)
looking at the system card for opus 4.7 the MCRC benchmark used for long context tasks dropped significantly from 78% to 32%

I wonder what caused such a large regression in this benchmark

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:22AM (#47794581)
Huge regression for long contest tasks interestingly.

Mrcr benchmark went from 78% to 32%

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:14AM (#47794415)
Probably deprioritizing other areas to focus on swe capabilities since I reckon most of their revenue is from enterprise coding usage.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:03AM (#47794204)
Quite a big improvement in coding benchmarks, doesn’t seem like progress is plateauing as some people predicted.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:03AM (#47794198)
Quite a big improvement in coding benchmarks, doesn’t seem like progress is plateauing as some people predicted.
I mean you can still scale that? Ask a lighter model to go through every function to find vulnerabilities, take output to bigger model like Opus and classify the critical ones.
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:42PM (#46655300)
Car companies funded highway lobbies and conspired to dismantle public transportation options like street cars see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:37AM (#46390064)
I’m at Big tech and our org has our sights on automating product manager work. Idea generation grounded with business metrics and context that you can feed to an LLM is a simpler problem to solve than trying to automate end to end engineering workflows.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:28AM (#46390024)
What? Over 183K books were pirated by these big tech companies to train their models. They knew what they were doing was wrong.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:46PM (#45421072)
I’ve been using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) for React/React Native side projects. I have experience with these frameworks so I could guide the AI with individual tasks and catch mistakes, and overall it worked pretty well.

Recently I tried building a native iOS app with zero Swift experience, giving the AI just a markdown spec. This was basically vibe coding, I didn’t understand much beyond general software principles. It quickly broke down: hallucinated method signatures, got stuck on implementing extensions, and couldn’t recover. I would run the app on my device and give it feedback and logs. After hours wasted, I spent some time reading the docs and fixed the issues myself in 30 minutes.

My takeaway: AI will accelerate developers but won’t replace them. Still, acceleration means fewer engineers will be needed to ship the same amount of work.

Re:Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:46AM (#45393430)
I think music used for commercials, movie trailers etc will move to be AI generated (taking a revenue stream from artists into soul less corporations).

But for cases where music is the primary product, I don’t for see AI generated music overtaking anything

I think the answer to this is microbility bike/scooter sharing (ex: lime)

Trains to cover the longer distance and micro mobility options to get to exactly where you need to go

Ask HN: Competitor launched – reach out or keep going?

I've been building an MVP for a startup idea after doing some market validation. It’s a solo side project (currently work full-time). I’ve put together a business plan and started development.Just a few days ago, I discovered that another solo developer launched a beta tackling the exact same problem, with a similar approach. From what I can tell, they’re a recent grad and appear to be working...

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