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Re:Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:45PM (#50420378)
Oh man, can't wait for open-source to catch up...
actually thinking about... even now it's hard to capture my attention while reading. maybe I add some sort of awards/badges and custom-set progress system (per session) into this. Really trying to deal with the attention span issue hmmm
interesting, do you have it reference some book? or just straight talking to claude?
sadly non of that right now. I think down the line I'll hook it up to an optional context/memory layer, so that it has an idea of what you've read so far. (lots of local open-source options iirc)

As you read, pages would be broken down and fed into this layer.

I wanted to be able to use this online on flights easily. Figured most people would be reading books commonly when there's no internet access.

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Recently, I found myself having to read the book "C++ primer" and I just couldn't do it. Maybe my attention span is too little now with Claude and Codex, maybe I'm lazy... but I just couldn't get myself to focus.While reading, I needed something to do. I wanted to talk to the text, I wanted to leave notes, I wanted to use to use my keyboard to quickly flip through pages.The only good available...

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https://github.com/OlexG/finclaw ^ repo if anyone wants to contribute.I realized that sometimes I'm pretty good at making random guesses about the future. (I.E, I think OpenAI will beat Anthropic in the short term, etc...)However, I'm bad at converting these guesses into actual market plays I can profit from.As such, I wanted to make a tool that connects to the right APIs and launches a swarm...

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Show HN: Stop wasting time managing your hardware projects and focus on building [video]

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Hey guys! While working on my hardware start-up in the past, I got tired of using spreadsheets and scouring random Google sites for part search. To help manage all this, I vibe-coded a tool over the weekend.To try the demo website (with the demo/mock data), checkouthttps://odem-git-main-skymark.vercel.app/ Email: [email protected] Pass: test123It's super early stage, and mostly mock data, but...

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