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>Where are all the killer new things? I agree they are over-hyped. Maybe the problem is that all the things LLMs are great for are essentially quality of life improvements. There a…

Those websites are janky despite having all the (non AI) solutions available already. They suck for reasons independent of the quality of LLMs. I have not worked inside a megacorp …

>Where my angst comes, is worrying that no one will ever get that experience anymore. I am a fairly inexperienced python developer using LLMs to build software and find that I stil…

Hell, $20/month is a pretty good deal for something that can proofread a 100 page report, do some light research work, and write some quick and dirty scripts. It doesn't have to re…

I find it helpful to think of LLMs as reflections. If you can talk like an expert mathematician at the model it will respond like one. While Terrance's first prompt looks trivial I…

Sorry if my speculation was bad! When I wrote it I meant it as a compliment. Raw LLM output is awful and really needs a human to "translate" the useful content to something worth r…

This isn't a helpful reply, I come here for thoughtful discussion, not knee-jerk reactions.

It seems too concise to be AI. My (conscious) heuristic for AI writing is how much context is squeezed into a sentence. LLMs seem to be pretty bad at the kind of elegant compressio…

I guess ask the bun people why they translated from zig to rust. I think it was essentially because rust guarantees a set of bugs can't exist so over medium to long term timeframes…

Sure, but something that is “sonnet tier” is going to get there faster and with less pain. Well worth the 13 cents!

Significantly cheaper than comparable models if you are using openrouter [0]. Just yesterday I spent roughly 13 cents centering some divs using Deepseek in a personal project. It w…

You should try out the cheaper models first. I find Deepseek v4 models pretty comparable to sonnet 4.6 but at a fraction of the cost. You might find you just don't need to use the …

That first map seems to map quite closely to koppen climate zones across the continent. Its hard to say whether the climate is decisive here because climate is a big influencer of …

If you go to the original link [0] you will see that things are actually pretty stable and okay? 0. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/2025/

It's fun and it looks good regardless of whether its 100% correct (It would certainly take me more than 9 hours of work to do better than this). Making these bespoke tools possible…

People are not (yet) aware what has been making everyone fat, but ozempic is making it harder to ignore that ultraprocessed foods are the culprit. So hopefully this will change.

You can do it with a phone camera, ffmpeg, colmap, and opensplat on an m4 macbook air easy enough. I got a nice render of my logitech mouse from it.

In my experience, LLM usage follows an exponential distribution i.e. most people using LLMs are not using many resources, but a very small few are using a massive amount of resourc…

I think this falls flat for a technical audience because we already know how to do this stuff. But there are a lot of people who don't know how to copy paste, or use reverse image …

Or what if local models get good enough to threaten the server based product?

I read/listened/sampled a lot this year but a few have reached out into my life and changed me at least a little bit. - In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan. A brilliant "not diet" …

Can't speak for OP but I largely spend it reading (and web). I bought a kindle recently because I found the ipad/iphone were too distracting to reliably avoid web surfing instead o…

> LLMs struggle with simplicity in my experience I think a lot of this is because people (and thus LLMs) use verbosity as a signal for effort. It's a very bad signal, especially fo…

HN is too boring though. Often I come here and there is nothing clickbait enough to get me to read it and I go elsewhere. It's great.

No smartphone can match the bottom tier super-zoom camera I have for bird photography. Even with the frankly microscopic sensor on the super-zoom the power of depth-of-field on an …