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Re:The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:03AM (#49419939)
Thank you. Could you please point me to the source?

Ask HN: What is some software that you wish existed?

Posted by yangikan on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What is a type of software, app, or tool that you wish someone would create because it doesn’t currently exist—or because the existing options aren’t good enough? It could also be some kind of hardware which is doable with current technology, but doesn't exist.

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Re:I quit drinking for a year on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:38PM (#47929928)
Which one do you like?
Re:Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:46PM (#47882530)
Is there any downside to using the firefox builtin password manager?
Re:OpenSUSE Kalpa on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:00PM (#47416057)
Is there a linux distribution that comes with mac keybindings and make it easy for someone with muscle memory to use both?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:56AM (#47323315)
Thank you - I figured Google Voice provides basic multiple rings facility. What are the extra things that you provide on top of that?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:35PM (#47313330)
Do you use Twilio for statphone? Or SIP? I want to build a telephony app, but the economics don't work out with Twilio.
Re:How to run Qwen 3.5 locally on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:22AM (#47295046)
Do you point claude code to this? The orchestration seems to be very important.
Re:I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025 on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:48AM (#46500189)
Would love to know more -- what software do you use?
Re: on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:55PM (#46169427)
Not just for hack club - but transactions for another organization that is using their software is public. https://hcb.hackclub.com/reboot/transactions?page=13

Not sure if all the organizations using their software know this.

Re:Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sal... on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:53PM (#45827854)
Does anyone know if Musk's robotics/AI business is under Tesla? What prevents him from launching the robots under a new company? Is there any protection for Tesla investors against these kind of things?
Re:Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling t... on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:49AM (#45413805)
The high salaries commanded by FAANG engineers right out of college motivated a lot of students to take up computer science as a major and this led to a massive oversupply. It might take a few years to cool.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-major...

"Between 2018 and 2023, the number of students majoring in computer and information science jumped from about 444,000 to 628,000."

Around 40% of MIT graduates are now in CS https://alum.mit.edu/slice/conversation-new-computing-dean-a...

Further, COVID has reduced a lot of friction for remote work, so now there is also global competition for these jobs.

Re:Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling t... on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:37AM (#45413626)
There might be advantages to increasing the amount of hardware and low level courses in the curriculum. But, I am pretty sure that is not the primary reason for young graduates not being to find jobs.
Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @01:37AM (#45343139)
Use contexts app.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:15AM (#45065239)
Is there a way to do this kind of design->critique->implement without switching tools? Like an end-to-end solution that consults multiple LLMs?
Re:Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plu... on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @10:30AM (#44116408)
I should have RTFM https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/usage.html#starting-an-in...

Are you aware of any user interfaces that expose some limited ChatGPT functionality using a UI, that internally uses llm. This is for my non-techie wife.

Re:Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plu... on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @09:58AM (#44116107)
Thanks for this. I am planning to cancel my ChatGPT plus subscription and use something like the llm tool with the API key. For regular interactions, how do you handle context? For example, the UI allows me to ask a question, and then a followup and the context is kind of automatically handled.
Re:How Kerala got rich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @01:02AM (#43512890)
Kerala is the seventh highest in terms of population density. https://datacommons.iitm.ac.in/ranking/Count_Person_PerArea/...
Re:Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Decomposition on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:05PM (#43291896)
Is there code for this paper or something that does something similar to this?
Re:Ask HN: What are some economical ways to access LLMs? on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:35PM (#43015590)
Please post articles comparing the pricing of API providers. I have heard nice things about together.ai

Ask HN: What are some economical ways to access LLMs?

Posted by yangikan on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Want to hear about your experiences in terms of cost from various providers of LLM APIs. For example, for my usecase, I don't need to have a real time response. Are there any services that exploit spot instances and such, where I can submit a set of queries and get responses after a few hours, but costs much less?

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and s... on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:16PM (#42776563)
If the current administration reduces the issuance of family based greencards (which happens mostly through the consulates), those unused greencards will flow through the EB category, allowing EB1 dates to move forward. Something like this happened during Covid.

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