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Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:02PM (#49804487)
I personally use up to 3 models. Fable/Opus for planning, Opus/Sonnet for implementation depending on complexity.

I would maybe use Haiku 5.5 for highly parallel workflows like checking in on MRs or scanning my entire codebase.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:48PM (#49804260)
> Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5 will follow in the coming weeks, with many of the same improvements to performance, efficiency, and safety.

Nice. I was starting to think that Haiku got abandoned.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:47PM (#49804244)
> Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5 will follow in the coming weeks, with many of the same improvements to performance, efficiency, and safety.

Nice. I was starting to think Haiku was going to be abandoned.

Re:FUTO Notes v1.7.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:29AM (#49537787)
We recently released v1.7.1 of FUTO Notes, our open source offline markdown editor. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions about the app.

Show HN: Stenobird, podcast transcription service for your agent

https://stenobird.com

Hello HN -As much as I love podcasts, there are some episodes where I want to know about what the show is about before listening. Some shows post transcripts, but this is not the norm. That's why I built Stenobird.Stenobird is a very fast way for your agent to get a hold of any podcast transcript as long as the bare audio file is accessible somewhere on the public internet.I'm using the...

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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:43PM (#47852749)
I was a Mac guy for 12+ years and switched to Linux on desktop + Framework about 2 years ago.

It takes time. On many dimensions, the Framework running Linux is laughably worse. I never thought about battery life while the lid is closed until my Framework.

That being said, running Linux is very fun and can be productive if you choose a well-supported distribution and desktop environment. I landed on KDE Plasma and Fedora/Kununtu. It has been my daily driver and I see no reason to go back.

My gateway to Linux was buying an old Thinkpad T580 and messing around Arch Linux. If you’re on the fence, this may be a good place to start.

Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:33PM (#47680265)
Excellent example of a strategy credit.

From Stratechery[0]:

> Strategy Credit: An uncomplicated decision that makes a company look good relative to other companies who face much more significant trade-offs. For example, Android being open source

[0]: https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/

Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:29PM (#47680201)
> Very rare instances of unauthorized data transfer.

Ah, so this is how the source code got leaked.

/s

Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:11PM (#47665442)
This reminds me of Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption.

Disruption happens when firms are disincentivized to switch to the new thing or address the new customer because the current state of it is bad, the margins are low. Intel missed out on mobile because their existing business was so excellent and making phone chips seemed beneath them.

The funny thing is that these firms are being completely rational. Why leave behind high margins and your excellent full-featured product for this half-working new paradigm?

But then eventually, the new thing becomes good enough and overtakes the old one. Going back to the Intel example, they felt this acutely when Apple switched their desktops to ARM.

For now, Claude Code works. It's already good enough. But unless we've plateaued on AI progress, it'll surpass hand crafted equivalents on most metrics.

Re:“CEO said a thing” journalism on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:41PM (#47578053)
"[Thing] happened and [group] are furious!" journalism
Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:51PM (#47577492)
> Seriously, what value are tokens providing other than justifying layoffs.

Coding, writing, summarizing, translating, data analysis, customer support, test generation.

Re:So where are all the AI apps? on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:07AM (#47503774)
> So where are all the AI apps?

They're in the app stores. Apple's review times are skyrocketing at the moment due to the influx of new apps.

Re:KDE launches its own distribution on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:54PM (#45207611)
Have you tried KDE on Fedora? I'm very happy with it.
Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:27PM (#44007309)
> Wow, in the process of making the send button slightly easier to find, they reduced the amount of actual content in the screen by a couple lines

This is a worthy tradeoff! Phones are bigger than ever and scrolling is incredibly simple.

Ask HN: Fullstack or front-end for first dev job?

I'm an ex-Product Manager trying to break in to software development. I've spent the last few months learning Javascript and React. I'm by no stretch an expert, but I feel that I have a firm foundation.I intended to learn back-end development before applying for jobs, but I've heard that nobody hires junior full stack developers.Is this true in your experience? Should I learn any back-end, just...

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Thanks! And yes, I agree, that would be nice.
The second is particularly appealing to me. I wonder if there's some sort of open food API I could tap in to. Would also love to build your first idea as well once I start to learn backend development.
Thanks for playing! Makes me realize I need better syntax for cases where the ingredient is just a whole X.

I'd love to try your recipe but I seem to be allergic to avocado and would not have a fun time.

Thank you!

I'm considering going in the direction of full stack development, so your feature suggestions could be great ways to learn backend.

Thanks for clarifying, I was not aware!
Thanks for taking a look!

> In case you were interested, there's a section devoted to that in RFC 3548: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3548#section-4 with the tl;dr of `s/[+]/-/; s/[/]/_/` and then omitting the trailing "=" characters and just padding the incoming b64 since (AFAIK) one can add as many "=" as they'd like and it'll just ignore extra ones

Thanks! I'll check this out.

> Depending on your interoperability interests, you can shave a bit of text out of it by shortening the JSON key names `"i"`, `"a"`, `"n"`, and then also `.filter(Boolean)` to nuke those two trailing empty strings

This is a good idea. I might already be filtering those empty strings but I'll have to check.

Thank you! Is Choose My Smoothie still around? Would love to take a look.
Hi, I'm Justin, creator of My Smoothie Stack. I'm a new developer so I'm grateful for any feedback on my source code [0].

Here's my personal recipe [1].

If you take a look at that URL, you'll see it's quite long. I wanted to be able to share recipes, but I don't have any backend knowledge. I had to get creative and store the object representing the recipe in an object encoded in Base64. This presented some character escaping issues, but those were manageable.

I don't expect this project to change the world. I just wanted a way to practice my newfound React skills and share some smoothie recipes. If you give this a try, please share your recipe!

Thanks for your time!

[0] https://github.com/somewhatJustin/smoothie-stack/

[1] https://mysmoothiestack.com/?share=eyJpbmdyZWRpZW50cyI6WyJGc...

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