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Re:GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:54PM (#47418153)
Wow, would love to see a source for this.
Re:GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:43PM (#47417294)
Have they ever talked about their size or weights?
Re:GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:40PM (#47417251)
5.4 Mini's OSWorld score is a pleasant surprise. When SOTA scores were still ~30-40 models were too slow and inaccurate for realtime computer use agents (rip Operator/Agent). Curious if anyone's been using these in production.
Re:Shall I implement it? No on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:16PM (#47359568)
You can provide the screencapture cli as a tool to Claude and it will take screenshots (of specific windows) to verify things visually.
Re:Ask HN: Embedding Claude Code as infrastructure? on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:43PM (#47359327)
In my experience, especially with Opus 4.6, using subagents greatly mitigates the startup context hit. 4.6 has very obviously been RL'ed on subagent usage and it almost always spins up an Explore agent to get a feel of the codebase and get a token-efficient summary. The 1M context version of 4.6 further alleviates this.

My original question was more along the lines of implementing things like PR review yourself. I was tinkering with an internal service that spins up ephemeral CC instances to analyze PRs, but realized this can easily generalize across arbitrary tasks. Was curious what sort of things folks could use that for.

Ask HN: Embedding Claude Code as infrastructure?

With Anthropic's release of Claude Code code reviews at $25/PR, I was wondering why I wouldn't just hook up Claude Code to my own repo.More generally speaking, I'd guess there to be many opportunities where spinning up and down a CC instance to handle arbitrary tasks seems useful. Wondering if anyone's experimented with similar workflows?

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Re:Mojo-V: Secret Computation for RISC-V on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:37PM (#45984788)
To be clear, it's not a TEE replacement but does address one of the most common use cases of TEEs
Re:OpenAI acquires Sky.app on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:47PM (#45687676)
Seems pretty obvious Sky.app's functionality will land in the macOS ChatGPT app at some point. I wonder how Atlas fits into that story.
Re:OpenAI acquires Sky.app on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:43PM (#45687627)
Sky is macOS only. It essentially gives an LLM access to various system APIs coupled with a floating user interface that you can access on command.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @07:48PM (#45444972)
By parallel, do you mean editing the codebase in parallel? Does it use some kind of mechanism to prevent collisions (e.g. work trees)?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:34PM (#45421008)
What kind of agents do you have setup?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:17PM (#45417643)
Curious about this too – does it use the standard context management tools that ship with Claude Code? At 200K context size (or 1M for the beta version), I'm really interested in the techniques used to run it for 30 hours.
Re:Sandboxing AI Agents at the Kernel Level on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:55PM (#45417397)
A bit confused, all this to say you folks use standard containerization?
I sense the undertone here is that there's a cost to genetic testing – did I get that right? Could you expand on that philosophy?
Re:Greenland Is a Beautiful Nightmare on Sunday September 28, 2025 @11:03PM (#45410003)
My god, how can I take photos like that? Do you describe your setup and process somewhere?
I mostly agree with your first point, but is there not a chance for more serious disease to be detected? In which case specialized preventative care is the best path forward? There is definitely something to be said about staying ignorant of these, however.

> The only people who should not have kids are bad parents and people who don't want kids.

I don't think people who are highly susceptible to birthing malformed children should have children either. Genetic testing helps figure out if you might be in that group.

Thanks for spurring the thought. The main reason I'd like to find out is to avoid bringing a child into the world that might suffer from incurable disease.

Largely agree with your point on preventative actions being the same with or without testing, but there is a tail end that might warrant specialized action.

I only care about testing for genetic health issues. I don't want my DNA to be inserted in a database that can be cross-referenced to check for relatives, ancestry, etc.

Ask HN: Any interest in a dev-friendly financial tracker?

Earlier this year I built a personal financial tracker (expenses, budgets, goals, investments) unsatisfied with options on the market (copilot, mint, etc.).It's got a bunch of features that I've found really useful: - A comprehensive tagging system - Notes for transactions - 'Virtual transactions' to set aside money for budgets - Lots of analytics and dashboards that rely on custom filters and...

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How do you folks think about the Manus finding on dynamic tool selection? https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Less...

> A natural reaction is to design a dynamic action space—perhaps loading tools on demand using something RAG-like. We tried that in Manus too. But our experiments suggest a clear rule: unless absolutely necessary, avoid dynamically adding or removing tools mid-iteration. There are two main reasons for this:

> 1. In most LLMs, tool definitions live near the front of the context after serialization, typically before or after the system prompt. So any change will invalidate the KV-cache for all subsequent actions and observations.

> 2. When previous actions and observations still refer to tools that are no longer defined in the current context, the model gets confused. Without constrained decoding, this often leads to schema violations or hallucinated actions.

> To solve this while still improving action selection, Manus uses a context-aware state machine to manage tool availability. Rather than removing tools, it masks the token logits during decoding to prevent (or enforce) the selection of certain actions based on the current context.

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:39PM (#45310114)
A 100k fee is well within the territory of killing job prospects for skilled foreign students graduating from US universities.

What percentage of the AI labs are staffed by either foreign workers or second/third generation immigrants? Look at the composition of high achieving high school students- almost certainly of Asian or Indian descent, certainly many belonging to families of recent immigrants. The pipeline this EO disrupts is immense.

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:26PM (#45309651)
Great, let's punish early stage startups instead of rewarding the successful ones.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:45PM (#45309243)
How are startups supposed to afford this? How are talented H-1B workers supposed to start companies? And no, the answer is not always an O-1. I know plenty of foreign founders contributing meaningfully to the US economy, now slapped with a 100k fee.
Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:08PM (#44728820)
Why can't the phone itself act as the input device? Sure it's not a full-fledged keyboard, but it could work wonderfully in a pinch.
Re:Microsoft BitNet 1.58bit LLM 2B4T released on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:02PM (#43709116)
Along with the ParetoQ paper from Meta (https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02631), the concept of low-bit LLMs seems to be gaining traction. Has anyone experimented with this in production? I'm aware of a few pre-transformer era companies focused on applying this to CNNs
Re:Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:35AM (#43112804)
Vastly overstating its capabilities? SF is ~crawling~ with them 24/7 and I've yet to meet someone who's had a bad experience in one of them. They operate more than well enough to replace rideshare drivers, and they have been.
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:01AM (#37686670)
There goes building somewhat featureful toy kernels for your RPi