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Re:Better and Cheaper Than IPTV on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:03AM (#48965144)
This is incredible! It loaded so fast on my mobile and I’m able to watch channels from all over. Amazing stuff man. It requires a thread of its own
Re:SQLite is all you need for durable workflows on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:23PM (#48341559)
Agree on this and it’s the architecture that backs our orchestration platform called https://unmeshed.io
I really dread the chatbot or AI customer service. They make incredibly difficult to reach a human and have templated solutions to problems which are typically not helpful. Most customer service issues that can be solved with a bot can also be solved with a tool. Like canceling subscription or processing a return.

The other day I had a unique problem at Amazon and took me a while to get to a chat with human. They solved it in an instant. But the bot or AI previously was just asking questions that was irrelevant and making it difficult to get to the solution.

$20 codex has been working great for me and I don’t think I ever hit a limit. It works great because I typically break down the tasks small enough that I can fully review and accept.

I’ve always wondered what’s the business case for spending more as I personally feel I am getting so much done.

Using the game theory, shouldn’t the nice, forgiving and not being a pushover the winning strategy?

I’ve always felt the US won trust and respect with these characteristics. It looks like we are now shifting strategy and I wonder where this will lead to.

Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:10AM (#46665241)
The first time I truly enjoyed web development was when I got the hang of jQuery. Made everything so much simple and usable!
Re:Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:28AM (#46157682)
I doubt this will clear the government/regulatory approvals as it seems clearly monopolistic. But these days anything can happen and I might end up being surprised. Netflix stock seems stable in-spite of this news.
Re:Workday to acquire Pipedream on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:25AM (#45989577)
Probably referring to the founder of pipedream
Re:Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler on Saturday August 02, 2025 @04:39AM (#44765797)
Unmeshed.io is a newer startup in the space - and works like a charm. Temporal seems like more targeting durable executions, but scheduling a different game. It starts with crons but soon you got to deal with holidays, adhoc skips and holds and more especially during maintenance and upgrades.

Unmeshed has all of these, managing holiday calendars etc and makes it super easy. It even has agents for AS400 server commands if that is still a thing you need.

This reminds me of Dwight from the office in the episode where he doesn’t tip the delivery driver and says: I never tip for anything I can do myself. I can deliver this if I want to.
I’m not sure there is much risk in vendor lock in. Look at Temporal. If you use the SDK you are probably locked in for life.

Ask HN: AI tools/products that can accurately answer questions from documents?

We have been searching for AI tools or strategies that can be used to answer questions with close to 100% accuracy effectively from multiple PDF documents. Cost and latency is also a major factor. Most of our tests have significant error rates that can’t be put into production as it has financial implications. Are there any products out there that can help here?

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Unmeshed - it’s not open source. It’s a new version of Netflix Conductor. Scales really well and has a GitHub actions style agent that can be used to run commands orchestrated by the platform. It’s probably the cheapest commercial tool you can get.
I thought what you are seeing is personalized for you.
It’s sarcasm.
Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @09:42PM (#42457860)
Could this be a strategy to get access to more code than what is available in just Github? More training data means better models I assume.
Re:Sora is here on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:40PM (#42379097)
My hunch is that it should be easy to decipher if it’s a AI video based on how the frames transitions.
Re:I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:28AM (#42254452)
I have to admit that I’m inspired to get rid of k8s for a couple of situations based on all the recent posts. There are some clusters that are not required and costs way too much to run compared to a single VM.
Re:O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:11PM (#42139227)
I wonder when will the scammer also create an AI scammer.

Joke aside, is this going to be cost effective? What would it cost to keep a scammer on the phone for an hour? Who will pay this bill?

Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:54PM (#40909583)
You can see the page from the source code:

<article id="content" class="inside"> <h1> Congratulations </h1>

  <h2>
    Only you can see this website.
  </h2>
  
  <p id="suckers"></p><br/>

  <img class="trophy glow" src="https://cdn.glitch.global/1543e9b8-e528-46e7-9375-25300add0f54/trophy.gif?v=1646925832589" alt="clip art animated gleaming first place trophy"/>
<br/>

  <p>
    Don't leave or you'll lose your spot.
  </p><br/>

  <a id="tweet" href="#" target="_blank">
    <img class="icon twitter" src="img/twitter.svg" alt="Twitter icon" />
  </a>
</article>

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