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A con would've found a kid that could do that call for $5
Wow, I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve needed to talk Claude down from Redis clusters for hobby projects to avoid concurrency edge cases.

Although to your point, it struggles to do anything with SQLite beyond a single user even when its architecturally not a problem

Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:20PM (#49589289)
The most amazing thing about HN comments is watching engineers demand that their expertise be taken seriously completely disregard the expertise of people in other domains because <make up a reason>.
Re:Grok Build is open source on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:02PM (#48929895)
That doesn’t mean they won’t be, or that the forks won’t be good.
Re:Claude Code's OAuth Flow Broken When Pasting on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:13AM (#47764599)
If you woke up and found you couldn't log into to anything that required a code, you're not alone.
Re:Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6 on Friday March 27, 2026 @08:24AM (#47541862)
API almost there too
Re:Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#46938775)
Amazing utility that just works. Windows version of ‘locate’

IIRC it loads the FS index into memory and queries directly off of it. If a simple metadata search is enough for you I don’t think you can do better

Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:02PM (#46594892)
9 years into transformers and only a couple years into highly useful LLMs I think the jury is still out. It certainly seems possible that some day we'll have the equivalent of an EDR or firewall, as we do for viruses and network security.

Not perfect, but good enough that we continue to use the software and networks that are open enough that they require them.

Awesome, in that case, I'll check it out!
Re:Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:17PM (#46406497)
>What is keeping Google/Amazon/Microsoft from licensing Groq’s tech?

Nothing, but they likely can't implement it as well as they could had they bought Groq first.

> licensing with BSL when basically every month the AI world is changing is not a smart decision

This turned me off as well. Especially with no published pricing and a link to a site that is not about this product.

At minimum, publish pricing.

Re:Unifi Travel Router on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @01:57PM (#46378175)
Where spies == logging and they tell you, and provide clear opt out instructions
Re:GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:29PM (#46360968)
> I think the DGX Spark will likely underperform the M4 from what I've read.

For the DGX benchmarks I found, the Spark was mostly beating the M4. It wasn't cut and dry.

Re:GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:28PM (#46360512)
> Please do give that a try and report back the prefill and decode speed.

M4 Max here w/ 128GB RAM. Can confirm this is the bottleneck.

https://pastebin.com/2wJvWDEH

I weighed about a DGX Spark but thought the M4 would be competitive with equal RAM. Not so much.

Re:GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:17PM (#46360408)
gpt-5.2 codex isn't available in the API yet.

If you want to be picky they could've compared it against gpt-5 pro gpt-5.2 gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-codex-max gpt-5.2 pro

all depending on when they ran benchmarks (unless, of course, they are simply copying OAI's marketing).

At some point it's enough to give OAI a fair shot and let OAI come out with their own PR, which they doubtlessly will.

Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models on Sunday December 21, 2025 @06:56PM (#46349892)
What are you working on that you’ve had such great success with gpt-oss?

I didn’t try it long because I got frustrated waiting for it to spit out wrong answers.

But I’m open to trying again.

Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models on Sunday December 21, 2025 @06:55PM (#46349882)
It will be like the rest of computing, some things will move to the edge and others stay on the cloud.

Best choice will depend on use cases.

Re:Jmail: Gmail except it's Epstein Files on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:01PM (#46340913)
Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn’t have a mass download option that I could find.
Re:VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:56PM (#46259050)
> I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why.

Really this is the answer to half of the comments on this thread.

Re:VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:28PM (#46258799)
> Is there any real-life situation in which this matters, though?

You’d be shocked at the number of people in regulated industries that thinks a VPN inherently makes them more secure. If you think your traffic exits in the US and it exits in Canada — or really anywhere that isn’t the US — that can cause problems with compliance, and possibly data domicile promises made to clients and regulators.

At minimum, not being able to rely on the provider that you are routing your client’s data through is a big deal.

Re:VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:22PM (#46258752)
Do you use Tor for everything? How do you deal with the latency?
Nadella has to have his own custom agents. It isn't even possible for an enterprise like MSFT to not have custom agents that are still remotely useful.

So, his experience with Copilot agents != Average Customer's experience

Re:73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:42PM (#46025524)
@apwell23 while the author didn’t say how s/he measured QA, creating the QA process was literally the first bullet.
Re:73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:39PM (#46025493)
It’s easy to underestimate the amount of testing “just” prompt/context engineering takes to get above average results.

And then you need to see what variations work best with different models.

My POCs for personal AI projects take time to get this right. It’s not like the API calls are the hard portion of the software.

Seems like you answered your own question
Re:An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:58PM (#45105785)
Aren't all encyclopedias 'lossy'? They are all partial collections of information; none have all of the facts.
Re:OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:05AM (#44837118)
Azure AI Foundry says:

How was the model trained? The gpt-oss models were pretrained primarily using synthetic data along with some heavily filtered real code. The models were then post-trained using distillation (RLKD against o3/hailmary) and berry. For more details about the model training process, please refer to the documentation.

Meaning the author was spot on.

How does it compare to mitmmitmproxy2swagger?

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

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