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Oracle is up there in top 3 with ~$45B AI debt, right after Amazon and Allphabet. And they have little to show for it.
What's your opinion on Oracle's debt?
With Opus 5.5, humans are the bottleneck. Anything human: tasks, reviews, user testing, feedback, etc. Also, even such a great model as the latest Opus seems to not fully understand the human side of the software, its benefits to humans, why this software being built in the first place. But I am sure the latter is a matter of time.
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:25PM (#50173532)
Sports and entertainment come to mind.
> I think todays latest models would satisfy most users

This reminds me the famous (although unproven) "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:31PM (#50113219)
How did you use it? In agy cli?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:07PM (#50076952)
People complain about the slop-release. Who knows, maybe it is the first self-release by an AI model in history.
They want the electorate to be scared and vote in incompetent, corrupt, compromised, anti-EU, and divisive government. And then divide et impera.
Re:Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:46PM (#50061950)
You have not been paying attention then. It's been posted on HN millions times already: Chineese models, Chinese vendors. /s
Try gitea. It's super lightweight and feels and looks very similar to gitlab. I did not benchmark but it feels like it needs 10% of ram and cpu of gitlab requirements. It's great.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:16PM (#49983464)
It would not take them so long to train it. Their pace would be closer to the Chinese models.
Re:Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:08AM (#49974051)
He is right in a sense that a lot of abstract concepts, in e.g. combinatorics, can be explained even to middle school students if given as simple examples starting with trivial cases and showing the pattern. How many textbooks do that? Close to zero. How many research notebooks are full of these? I cannot say for sure but I suspect much greater than 0.
Re:Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:56PM (#49948192)
It's not even funny any more. Chinese model, Chinese vendor, Chinese, Chinese... Did I say Chinese? Chinese!

Nobody in his right mind will use a Chinese clone when you have models like Opus 5.5 for peanuts.

Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:36PM (#49884741)
Despite its quirks, Opus 5.5 is a beast. Runs circles around OpenAI's Astra. I am talking about coding here. Everything is better: the model, the TUI, the quotas.
Re:Starship Achieved Orbit on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:25PM (#49884611)
Who said that?

I am surprised this news is not on the front page of HN.

Re:Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:22AM (#49853457)
As T-Mobile was rolling out 5G they dropped support for 3G and possibly some older standards/protocols. If you have an oldish phone that may be the problem.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:23PM (#49804868)
I get this in my claude.ai usage:

Resets Get extra wiggle room to explore Opus 5.5. Expires Oct 22.

What the hell does this mean? There are weekly "resets" anyways. And there will be 4 of them before Oct 22.

Re:I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:44PM (#49747014)
I do not keep my hopes too high. I have two questions. First, will they feed us once they take power? Second, will they neuter us?
Re:Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:25PM (#49733237)
What results? Overnight interbank loan rates, yes, immediately. The effect of those rates on the economy? It will take time to propagate. Heck, some important committees only meet like twice a year.
I just looked it up. Yes, it was Windows 7. You have a better memory than me.
I don't remember them being so bad. Windows 7, 8 were great. Visual Studio 6 was good. Excel was top quality for a long time. What used to be annoying to me was that Microsoft ignored the common Unix conventions for no good reason and tended to reinvent stuff. It was like smart nerds were tasked to come up with stuff without any awareness of prior art, or as if Bill G snd Steve B were trying to lock in customers into incompatible stuff. Obviously not great but working. What we get now is pure slop and negligence.
My favorite one was a few years ago when MS rolled out a Visual Studio with the login window broken. Literally, it was impossible to log in. I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low.
Re:Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:44PM (#49652112)
That's false. Please stop spreading Russian propaganda. Not only Ukraine was able to control and maintaining them, in fact, Ukrainian companies manufactured nuke ICBMs, and then serviced them in Russia long after the collapse of the USSR. See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB_Pivdenne
> At this point, it seems like doing a Google Workspace paid account may be the best solution for continuity of experience, but you break all the commingling and integration. Also, your [email protected] account is a separate window from your [email protected] account.

I am not a Google Workspace user but I hear that its features actually lag behind the personal accounts?

A useful idiot, what they call them in Russia. Obviusly, not implying any links to this terrorsist attack.
Re:Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:40PM (#49473403)
Without knowing who you are your comment has no value. On whoee behalf are you posting? Where are you from? China?
Are these people idiots? There are no other freaking land in KY? Also make top AI researchers work there. What could go wrong?

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