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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:31AM (#50244404)
What a historic moment! It'll be interesting to see how much Anthropic can continue growing.

There will come a point where open-source models are good enough for most people. However, I do expect there to be demand for frontier models for things like cybersecurity (especially on the enterprise side) and scientific research.

Yeah, I was confused about why it was talking about subscriptions for enterprise. The company I work at is billed on API usage.
Re:People Do Not Yearn for Automation on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:55AM (#47891977)
Nilay has been discussing these ideas on podcasts hosted by The Verge over the last few weeks. I can tell it's something that's been top of mind for him especially on his podcast series Decoder where he interviews CEOs about their approach to integrating AI in their products and how consumers feel about this.
Re:Why AI Sucks at Front End on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:39AM (#47740266)
I thought it was just me. I'm running a M2 MacBook Pro and scrolling down the article on Safari is quite stuttery.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:40AM (#47439264)
Reading this news only leaves me worried about long-term future of these open source tools.
Re:My Homelab Setup on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:08PM (#47303596)
Fair point! When I first started on this I went down a deep rabbit hole exploring all the ways I could set this up. Ultimately, I decided to start simple with hardware that I had laying around.

I definitely will want to have a dedicated NAS machine and a separate server for compute in the future. Think I'll look more into this once RAM prices come back to normal.

Re:My Homelab Setup on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:22PM (#47301625)
Ah nice! Didn’t know that. I’ll try that out next time.
Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code on Monday February 24, 2025 @02:01PM (#43163435)
Nice to see a new release from Anthropic. Yet, this only makes me even more curious of when we'll see a new Claude Opus model.
Re:Goodbye, Slopify on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:22PM (#42860754)
Ah, I remember Grooveshark. I discovered so much good music there.
Re:How I Program with LLMs on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:29PM (#42618512)
"Trust but verify" is still useful especially when you ask LLMs to do stuff you don't know. I've used LLMs to help me get started on tasks where I wasn't even sure of what a solution was. I would then inspect the code and review any relevant documentation to see if the proposed solution would work. This has been time consuming but I've learned a lot regardless.
Re:Keeping a Changelog at Work on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:02AM (#42484665)
Almost like keeping a personal write-ahead log. :)
Re:Julia for Economists Bootcamp on Monday July 29, 2024 @06:05PM (#41104225)
Has Julia's popularity in scientific computing and data science continued to grow? I haven't heard much about it recently.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @11:09AM (#41017011)
Astro is really good for this use case. Also easy to host on platforms like Netlify.
I agree that LLMs are less useful for smaller scale use cases. I’ve found success using them for creating mock data, reformatting unstructured text into structured data, and a few other menial tasks that would take me a while to do on my own.

I think so much of the hype is about potential larger scale applications but the models just don’t seem reliable enough yet for that.

Re:Figma AI on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:17PM (#40803488)
CSS has had a similar issue with naming classes, which is one reason for how TailwindCSS’s design. I wonder if we’ll see more AI tools for these kinds of use cases.
Strangely, I've noticed mixed opinions from developers about whether learning vim is a productivity boost. Some people believe it is while others disagree.

I'll admit my FOMO was what originally got me to start learning vim. I still barely know the basic motions but I'm starting to think it could lead to a productivity boost once I get over the learning curve.

Re:What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:08AM (#40536172)
>The LLM is like another user. And it can surprise you just like a user can. All the things you've done over the years to sanitize user input apply to LLM responses.

I really like this analogy! That sums up my experiences with LLMs as well.

Re:The Value of a PhD on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:04AM (#39482316)
I learned this first-hand when I entered the profession with a master's degree. Much of the work required me to know how to munge tabular data and do some stats with R.

My impression is that many hiring managers desire candidates with a PhD because they are perceived to be more capable of working independently. Then again, the field isn't very standardized so every company has varying expectations of what they expect out of this role.

Re:Brilliant Labs' frame AI glasses on Friday February 09, 2024 @06:23PM (#39321741)
The website says these glasses have all-day battery life. Is that with the use of a portable charge? If so, I'm wondering what the battery life is without the charger.
Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:32PM (#39233924)
This looks really cool! It's interesting that this compiler provides performance optimizations by looking for data diffs rather than diffs in the Virtual DOM. Is this intended to be an alternative to React Forget (still in development)?
Re:AI-related companies lost $190B in stock market value on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:33AM (#39216346)
It certainly feels like AI is a new tech bubble. Lots of AI services just seem to be thin wrappers over OpenAI’s offerings.
Re:Show HN: GPTGrooves - AI Generated House Music on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:59PM (#39172237)
Tried running this on my iPhone and couldn’t hear anything despite pressing the play button. Is there a bug somewhere?

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