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exactly, it's like Bobby Fischer playing 10 games of chess simultaneously
one of the interesting properties of public forums like SO is that the maintainers of software packages get visibility into the problems and frustrations that their users experience

we're losing that signal when the Q&A behavior shifts into language models

Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:43PM (#48273645)
learn by considering critique
Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:03PM (#47819077)
You can configure the status line to get a feel for token usage:

[Opus 4.6] 3% context | last: 5.2k in / 1.1k out

add this to .claude/settings.json

"statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "jq -r '\"[\\(.model.display_name)] \\(.context_window.used_percentage // 0)% context | last: \\(((.context_window.current_usage.input_tokens // 0) / 1000 * 10 | floor / 10))k in / \\(((.context_window.current_usage.output_tokens // 0) / 1000 * 10 | floor / 10))k out\"'" }

Re:The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:52PM (#46238449)
Disney said "Our IP is $1B for a 3yr license, or we sue"

Altman said "We can pay with equity, but let's frame it as an investment"

No cash exchanged

it could be the "grounding with google search" feature when using Gemini models
Re:Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:42PM (#44321871)
no, but a subset of English could be
LoRA adapters modify the model's internal weights
Here's how I would market this:

Create "packages" of context for popular API & Libraries - make them freely available via public url

Keep the packages up to date. They'll be newer than the cutoff date for many models, and they'll be cleaner then the data a model slurps in using web search.

Voila, you're now the trusted repository of context for the developer community.

You'll get a lot of inbound traffic/leads, and ideas for tangential use cases with commercial potential.

Re:Ask HN: Sharing Evals with OpenAI on Thursday May 22, 2025 @06:04PM (#44067639)
Are 7 free weekly eval runs fair compensation for sharing your evaluation and fine-tuning data with OpenAI?
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:26PM (#44054554)
"The takeover of io will provide OpenAI with about 55 hardware engineers, software developers and manufacturing experts"

6.5B / 55 = $118 million per engineer

not a cheap aquihire

Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:24PM (#44054534)
if you own the device, you control the flow of data and dollars

Ask HN: Most accurate image to HTML model or service?

I'm looking to convert 30-40 fairly simple images into html and css. I've tried the frontier models, and they do an ok job but struggle with accurate positioning and sizing of elements.Are there any open source models or paid services that can accurately convert images into html?

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something like this that runs as a browser agent, allowing me to extract structured data from websites (whitelisted) using natural language queries
Re:RLHF Book on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:46PM (#42910729)
A quote I found helpful:

"reinforcement learning from human feedback .. is designed to optimize machine learning models in domains where specifically designing a reward function is hard"

https://rlhfbook.com/c/05-preferences.html

Re:Show HN: LLMpeg on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:29PM (#42753612)
does the tool snap to I-frames when slicing?
Re:Perplexity Got Ads on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:29PM (#42590153)
how long before the advertisers pressure model providers to "fine-tune" mentions of their competitors?
doesn't Stripe have an interest in maximizing this revenue recovery? they earn a percentage of successful charges
running inference
Re:Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro? on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:30PM (#41000722)
thanks - is there a way to determine/monitor if excessive swapping is taking place?
Re:Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro? on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:16PM (#41000646)
you're right, Firefox is gobbling up about half of the RAM

thanks for pointing me in this direction

Re:Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro? on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:06PM (#41000583)
thank you, disabling the floating thumbnail has sped up the file/image delivery

the launchctl analysis is a great suggestion too

Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro?

I've got a 3 year old machine, that feels like it's about 70.The Finder is sluggish, screenshots take 3-4 seconds to arrive in their folder, and switching User accounts takes ages.Are there any quick wins in terms of cleanup or maintenance I could run to restore to it's former glory?If there's no other option, I'll wipe the drive and reinstall the OS.

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OpenAI gets the data it needs, and publishers get prominent placement in the product:

"PPP members will see their content receive its “richer brand expression” through a series of content display products: the branded hover link, the anchored link and the in-line treatment."

There's some similarity to the search business model

Re:Building a starter pack for an API-as-a-Service on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:17PM (#38356376)
are there any open source solutions in this space? something that sits in front of your API as a proxy, and has an interface for managing access, rate limits, billing etc - with simple deployment to a cloud provider?
Re:Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut? on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:34PM (#37905123)
your values change as you age, so if you're repeating the same old activities and feeling drained - it's time for change

recall the excitement you had as a child, as a teenager, a young adult - this will yield clues as to what might spark your energy again

as others have mentioned, movement and exercise are simple hacks to improve mood quickly

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