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Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:52PM (#50110035)
Genuinely curious, why not use GPT Sol 6.1 high which has a better cost per task and intelligence ($0.32, 50) or Mimo 2.6 pro? ($0.13, 46) over GLM Max's $2.01, 45?
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:41PM (#48941725)
I took advantage of their "Token Cup" for the world cup and won 530,000 credits. I believe at the time they said it had to be used in the desktop app, which I have installed. Nowhere can I find any sort of balance or evidence of the 530k other than the Token Cup page itself that say that is what I was given.

Their web chat has almost no settings of customization. Everything they present just comes off as amateurish to me. I trust them less than most Chinese AI companies, which a very low bar.

I bought 2 Beelink s12 PCs just under 3 years ago and paid $254 total for both. (N95, 8gb ram, 256 ssd)

The same PC is now shipping with a 480 ssd but is otherwise the same and selling for $300 - $319 depending on the day.

Re:MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:11AM (#48500832)
Uh, what model do you think this is using?
So if you are under an NDA, does this violate it?

I guess the better question would be if you are under and NDA and using an online model, are you already violating it but does this violate it further?

The city issued a boil water advisory about about 13 or 14 days after her arrest.
Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:20PM (#48211842)
That 10 minutes is likely very normal. Possibly...

* A Google employee messes up a setting (like one of the previous incidents) triggers something that looks like a suspension is warranted and it takes 10 minutes to flow through the process to suspend.

* A Railway customer does something corrupt, or seemingly corrupt, Google's system starts limiting access and take 10 minutes to decide it should be a suspension.

These are even more likely if there is a person in the loop to approve, who obvious did not dig deep enough to see that they should not have done so.

The replies are full of people saying they suddenly cannot use Antigravity with error screenshots.
Re:My graduation cap runs Rust on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:39PM (#48117503)
Then you probably won't match the rest of the class.
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:37PM (#48117484)
>not a single mention of Apple Intelligence.

This is probably because they know it is not very good.

Re:YC's Biggest Scandals on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:34PM (#48087685)
I wish there was a way to see how many grifters YC has under their umbrella compared to the general population of startups in general.

My gut says the general population has a larger percentage.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:26PM (#48087588)
A desktop client for Repomix. Repomix is a CLI which allows you to summarize all the code in a repo in one txt or md file so you can in turn feed it to an AI model for analysis. It absolutely gets the job done it its current state, but it is a personal project so there may be a few rough edges.

https://github.com/KevanMacGee/Repomix-Desktop

It's open source and has no official connection to Repomix. But the developer, yamadashy on Github, knows about it and seemed to like it enough to add it to the Repomix website under the community projects.

I like being able to paste all the code into a browser window and have lengthy discussions with ChatGPT, Gemini and GLM. Doing so in the browser saves tokens over doing it in Cursor or Codex. I like using the Projects feature in ChatGPT in the browser and Notebooks with Gemini because that gives the model context and history on whatever I am working on. It was one part scratching my own itch, one part learning about Python and Customtinker.

It's made specifically for when you just want to get the code and paste it, no muss or fuss. It doesn't have support for flags (yet?) like the CLI because again it is built for speed. Besides, when I want flags, I like using the CLI instead to get granular. Repomix Desktop is for "just give me the code."

I'm a self taught coder so I'm very open to feedback.

Re:Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:08PM (#48085713)
I didn't get a paywall, either. Brave with Ublock Origin on Win11
I will STRONGLY consider not using any site that tries to make me do this.
Re:Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:27PM (#47711077)
Terrible music on the video that didn't even show me anything about the product they want $99 for. Instant bounce.
Re:I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:09PM (#47521803)
HN says your comment is 3 minutes old and the site is loading just fine for me. (But that was very thoughtful of you.)
This is top notch, great work!
I still love Peppermint OS and have used it on several low end boxes.

It also didn't try to be internet browser focused, it just gave you easy ability to make the OS browser focused. Out of the box, it was like a better Lubuntu. You had the opportunity to chose what web based apps/services you would add.

Re:The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back (2013) on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:25PM (#47303732)
I called the number and the first words I heard were, "...and the my d*ck gets hard and I have to stop."
Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:15AM (#47162919)
Notepad is turning into the text app I desperately want, except for the association with Copilot. And then with new changes, it had the recent security vulnerabilities issues. The only thing it doesn't have that I want is a sidebar that shows folders or files like so many text editors already do.

I never use Notepad anymore. I have been using Pulsar, which is okay, but not exactly what I want.

I want a text editor that can do markdown if I want, spell check, minimal tool bar with some formatting shortcuts, etc.

I'd love it if a "dumbed down Typora" had a love child with Notepad.

Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:20PM (#46997218)
Is it really a hit piece if most people reading it would agree with the author and not the AI?
I saw this on Twitter about an hour ago and was going build one as well. Nice work!
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale on Thursday February 05, 2026 @12:44PM (#46902294)
"The problem is that a 4x8 plywood sign will weather very fast in New England weather. "

I live in Rochester, NY. Our weather is no better or worse if you are a sheet of plywood outside 24/7. It will last years.

Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:38PM (#46876120)
Note that in the article, the author says how the scammers do everything to avoid having to show up in person. That's because they are in a different country and try to commit the scam without setting foot in the US.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:34PM (#46875141)
What about sinking 3 2x4s into the ground and nailing a 4x8 sheet of plywood with a tastefully painted sign indicating the property is not for sale?

It won't stop everyone but any realtor doing due diligence will likely see it. If is lasts long enough, it will show up on Google street view as well.

Re:Looking for Decent Conversation? on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:19PM (#46379352)
That's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive.

BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf.

Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product.

It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.

Re:Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @02:30PM (#46378452)
I have this PC for over 2 years and did not realize I didn't have Chrome installed until Google's Antigravity prompted me to do so for its agent.

So it's installed now but still un-personalized like it was installed 5 minutes ago. I don't use it except with Antigravity.

Dr David Tong is great ad his talk really created my interest in quantum physics.

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

I don't trust Distrowatch's popularity list. I have thought for years it was probably gamed.

There are constantly distros in that top ten list that aren't in other top ten lists like mentions of reddit, mention on Twitter, Google searches for "linux distro", etc.

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