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Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:09AM (#50334251)
None of the OpenAI papers published with a Lean formalization have been retracted.
“I don't get it. Why are they confessing?” “They're not confessing.” “They're bragging.”
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:56AM (#50129204)
Hilarious sentence: "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, delivering substantial improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks." (emphasis mine)
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:03AM (#49622357)
The converse is not true.
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:41PM (#49238654)
This test would be passed by a Waymo with ChatGPT.
I have updated OpenAI's chart[1] from yesterday to include one more datapoint: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. It's on the frontier.

https://files.parasmittal.com/openai_aa_luna_dsflash.svg

1: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-fro...

Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:42AM (#49098973)
That’s cool. I knew o1 hid it since launch, so I assumed Anthropic would also have never shown it.
Re:How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:20PM (#49076913)
The agent loop doesn’t run in the browser.
Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:23AM (#49070984)
That's a summarized and filtered view of the actual reasoning.

OpenAI and Anthropic guard the real reasoning closely. Users have never been able to see it and the API returns an encrypted blob instead of legible reasoning.

Re:Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:08AM (#49070762)
Clearly you do, given you expressly maintain that China includes Taiwan (an uncommon opinion)?
Re:Reviewing AI Code Is Not a Viable Argument on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:30AM (#48966042)
The key claim here is, paraphrased: “LLM coding assistants” cannot “help someone write code better or faster.”

This is not true.

Re:Where'd Codex Go? on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:03PM (#48852338)
This is expected behavior; the Codex app has been rebranded as the ChatGPT app.
Re:Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:42PM (#48735343)
This catches Claude resellers. Meaning companies who proxy Claude traffic for users in, say, China.

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens...

Re:Mistral OCR 4 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:19AM (#48646449)
This has been a niche where Mistral has actually been successful. Btw, Hindi and Japanese are bucketed in "Rare Languages," which is odd.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:56PM (#48533232)
PG acknowledged that growth is limited by market size. Markets to support "avogadrillionaire" level wealth may not current exist.

However, there obviously exist markets to support billionaire level wealth, as evidenced by the at least 30 billionaires produced by YC, and the many others.

Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:43PM (#48467475)
I had Claude straighten it out:

  Model           In     Out    BIn    BOut
  Haiku 4.5   $ 1.00  $ 5.00  $0.50  $ 2.50
  Sonnet 4.6  $ 3.00  $15.00  $1.50  $ 7.50
  Opus 4.7    $ 5.00  $25.00  $2.50  $12.50
  Opus 4.8    $ 5.00  $25.00  $2.50  $12.50
  Fable 5     $10.00  $50.00  $5.00  $25.00
It’s near the frontier meaning it’s the best intelligence for the price.

It’s not even close to frontier meaning it’s the best intelligence.

Re:Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What? on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:21AM (#48384526)
This will load the PR easily: https://diffshub.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
Re:Please Use AI on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:37PM (#48326523)
The first part, describes a decision to ask AI over calling a good friend and domain expert. Typically the domain expert is not an option. (looking at my last 10 Claude chats, I knew a domain expert for one of them).

The second part assumes AI writing can substitute mastery of writing, and simultaneously, not be good enough.

We have, for a several thousand years, continued to develop labor and cost saving technology. We have been OK thus far.

Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:17PM (#48312235)
Yeah. They are aware: "Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor."
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:15PM (#48312186)
In the "What's next?" section, "There’s still more to be done: we’re working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost."
Re:Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:08PM (#47783743)
I wanted to ask someone about the firepass subscription. It implies unlimited usage - sounds too good to be true. Is it? Can you leave your agent running all day?
Re:Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:33AM (#47776744)
These CLIs are for AI agents. If I have a CLI to WhatsApp, then I can direct an agent (such as OpenClaw) to manage my messages for me.
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:19PM (#47580430)
I didn't like them either. Thankfully, they can easily be disabled. See my config: https://github.com/pmxi/dotfiles/blob/e779c5921fbe308fad0c95...
Re:Ask HN: Do coding assistants "see" attached images? on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:18AM (#45499610)
You can select models on Perplexity. He used Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
Re:Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:06AM (#45321195)
This may be interesting to you

"Vibe code is legacy code (val.town)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739556

Re:No adblocker detected on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:29PM (#45186355)
Fortunately, the GitHub README opens with a list of links to install ublock Origin.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#ublock-...

Re:My tips for using LLM agents to create software on Saturday August 23, 2025 @02:11AM (#44993653)
> If you are a heavy user, you should use pay-as-you go pricing

if you’re a heavy user you should pay for a monthly subscription for Claude Code which is significantly cheaper than API costs.

Re:Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:46AM (#44958979)
Humans are far less deterministic than LLMs, yet presumably are acceptable for writing program source code?

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