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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:14PM (#45871065)
This is a very one sided article. Shouldn't there be a comparison with TP-Link and all other brands available in-terms of security? Otherwise they're just targeting a company for political reasons.
Re:How I Use Every Claude Code Feature on Sunday November 02, 2025 @07:05PM (#45794564)
Direct use of Codex + GPT5 or Claude Code CLI gives a better result, compared to using the same models in Cursor. I've compared both. Cursor applies some of their augmentation, which reduces the output size, probably to save on tokens.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:09PM (#45420427)
What they don't mention is all the tooling, MCPs and other stuff they've added to make this work. It's not 30 hours out of the box. It's probably heavily guard-railed, with a lot of validated plans, checklists and verification points they can check. It's similar to 'lab conditions', you won't get that output in real-world situations.
So it's an A/B testing platform?
Re:Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:02PM (#43788479)
Create a CEO Logic Agent that helps the CEO to make better decisions on AI? /s

What CEO is likely looking for are 'PR' points, not often not a real strategy. If they can announce and pretend they're going all-in on AI, that's what's needed.

From your side, having AI mentioned in everything you do will help the conversation. If your code's docs are improved with an AI IDE, you're going hard on AI. Ignore the time you spend on fixing AI's errors.

Doing things for 'funding' and doing things that gets the work done are not always the same. One is a marketing/PR act, the other one is a product development act.

If funding is a real concern, the CEO's approach might be valid, because without funding, you won't have a job, and there won't be a product. So split your time in helping the CEO to achieve what s/he wants in getting the right message out.

As you're saying, if the CEO has built a great team, and great technology, we can't think the CEO is completely ignorant on what's going on.

Your CTO/CIO (if any) will know more about what realistically possible and what's not. If you have an 'AI Team', then there should be a CTO/CIO, and you're not directly talking to CEO about strategy?

Re:OpenAI o3 and o4-mini on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:35PM (#43711479)
Here are some notes I made to understand each of these models and when to use them.

# OpenAI Models

## Reasoning Models (o-series) - All `oX` (o-series aka `omni`) models are reasoning models. - Use these for complex, multi-step, reasoning tasks.

## Flagship/Core Models - All `x.x` and `Xo` models are the core models. - Use these for one-shot results - Examples: 4o, 4.1

## Cost Optimized - All `-mini`, `-nano` are cheaper, faster models. - Use these for high-volume, low effort tasks.

## Flagship vs Reasoning (o-series) Models - Latest flagship model = 4.1 - Latest reasoning model = o3 - The flagship models are general purpose, typically with larger context windows. These rely mostly on pattern matching. - The reasoning models are trained with extended chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning models. They work best with tools, code and other multi-step workflows. Because tools are used, the accuracy will be higher.

# List of Models

## 4o (omni) - 128K context window - complex multimodal, applications requiring the top level of reliability and nuance

## 4o-mini - 128K context window - Use: multimodal reasoning for math, coding, and structured outputs - Use: Cheaper than `4o`. Use when you can trade off accuracy vs speed/cost. - Dont Use: When high accuracy is needed

## 4.1 - 1M context window - Use: For large context ingest, such as full codebases - Use: For reliable instruction following, comprehension - Dont Use: For high volume/faster tasks

## 4.1-mini - 1M context window - Use: For large context ingest - Use: When a tradeoff can be made with accuracy vs speed

## 4.1-nano - 1M context window - Use: For high-volume, near-instant responses - Dont Use: When accuracy is required - Examples: classification, autocompletion, short-answers

## o3 - 200K context window - Use: for the most challenging reasoning tasks in coding, STEM, and vision that demand deep chain‑of‑thought and tool use - Use: Agentic workflows leveraging web search, Python execution, and image analysis in one coherent loop - Dont Use: For simple tasks, where lighter model will be faster and cheaper.

## o4-mini - 200K context window - Use: High-volume needs where reasoning and cost should be balanced - Use: For high throughput applications - Dont Use: When accuracy is critical

## o4-mini-high - 200K context window - Use: When o4-mini results are not satisfactory, but before moving to o3. - Use: Compex tool-driven reasoning, where o4-mini results are not satisfactory - Dont Use: When accuracy is critical

## o1-pro-mode - 200K context window - Use: Highly specialized science, coding, or reasoning jobs that benefit from extra compute for consistency - Dont Use: For simple tasks

## Models Sorted for Complex Coding Tasks (my opinion)

1. o3 2. Gemini 2.5 Pro 3. Claude 3.7 2. o1-pro-mode 3. o4-mini-high 4. 4.1 5. o4-mini

Doesn't MS own 49% of OpenAI?
No need to be exhausted by the post. If AI doesn't help you, move on.

Probably you're really smarter and faster than the average developer.

The post is about finding out what things can help to to make it work for others. :)

Just curious, if 4DWW is your goal, can't you ask your employer to give a 4DWW with a 20% pay cut? Then both of you can be happy.

Or do you want a 4DWW with the same pay?

Re:Learn REST API Development on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @09:46PM (#32338451)
Free temporary API to learn REST API Development.
The answer (in depth) is in the book written by Disney CEO. Too complicated to answer here.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:34PM (#26310003)
Mid-Level or Senior Full-Stack Developer

Elegant Media | Full-time | Onsite (Melbourne, Australia) Remote possible based on talent/skill level

We're looking for Mid-Level to Senior PHP/Laravel full-stack developers join and grow with our team. The role will mainly be Software Engineering focused on building our internal tools, software libraries and maintaining them. Since we're a fast growing agency, you may be invited to a few client-facing meetings at times, but that won't be the primary focus - unless you prefer it, where you can be a star!

Tech Stack

  - Laravel
  - Laravel Livewire
  - Vue.js
  - SASS/Webpack
  - Ubuntu
  - AWS/DO/cPanel
  - Flutter (nice to have)

You should have in-depth experience in PHP, especially Laravel. Additional skills in related technologies (such as Vue.js) would be highly preferred.

We're physically based in Melbourne, Australia. Perfer on-site, but remote is also an option based on your skills and past experience. If remote, we need at least a 2-hour overlap with AEST timezone during 9AM-5PM.

Our Website: https://www.elegantmedia.com.au/

More details about the role: https://www.seek.com.au/job/51606260

How to Apply: Apply from the link above in Seek or email to '[email protected]', with the subject line 'HN - Full Stack Developer - Your_name'. Please mention you've seen this post on HN.

Other Open Positions:

Business Development / Inbound Sales (Onsite Melbourne/Australia OR Remote in USA) - https://www.seek.com.au/job/51604117

Digital Marketing Specialist (Onsite Melbourne, Australia only) - https://www.seek.com.au/job/51544536

Re:Facebook says it will pay news industry $1B over 3 years on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:42PM (#26259445)
This is a very (bad) political strategy, well played by Murdoch. To get some insight, read Bob Iger's (Disney ex-CEO) book. He explains how Murdoch was worried about the rising tech-giants, how news is losing edge and his decision to sell to Disney.

The sale to Disney happened as a direct result of Murdoch seeing the threat (i.e people moving away from news).

Unfortunately for Australia, they cover over 50% of media, and can get the Government to do what they want.

To know more about the logical side, see the ex-Prime Minister's Senate hearing. This had the most amount of signatures in the history of Australia, yet, unfortunately, it'll not reach anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_LuSQ5NSc

Re:Facebook says it will pay news industry $1B over 3 years on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:34PM (#26259403)
That assumption is incorrect. They already pay taxes, both directly and indirectly (collected from people as GST).
Re:Facebook says it will pay news industry $1B over 3 years on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:28PM (#26259364)
Murdoch has now practically purchased the Australian Government, Google and Facebook.

I wouldn't be surprised if the talks behind the scenes were 'if you want to hear anything good from news about Facebook, just pay us'.

So much for the 'trust' in any one of them.

Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:22PM (#26175753)
FB took the right decision. I wish Google and others will do the same. Like many others have said, I don't like some things that Google and Facebook does, but for this, I believe FB took the right decision. The bill is so vague, and it can be interpreted to say anything that the Government wants it to say. This isn't to protect journalism, it's a backdoor to funnel money to Newscorp.
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:20AM (#24659519)
Because everything goes through Github, can't they add a simple spam detector?

Let's say if the the user doesn't have many PRs in profile, and sending a lot of them within 24 hours.

Sounds like it will be a lot easier for github bot to flag these.

Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:17PM (#24573872)
If this is related to a DMCA notification, shouldn't YouTube removing the (alleged) video that violates the law, and not delete the whole channel?

I guess that's how Google's index works, they remove indexed results, but not the whole index.

6 years in university + 10 years of work experience.

Today I know what Home/End keys do, because of a random comment on the internet.