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akman
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About akman
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Comment #49214561
90%+ cache hit rate is common, and so you'll see on places like openrouter that Deepseek cache cost is indeed a magnitude cheaper than the rest.
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Comment #48938351
Agreed on hoping books will be rewritten. It seems to be happening, but slowly. E.g., Harvard Machine Learning Systems: https://mlsysbook.ai/vol1/
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Comment #48928577
Thanks, missed this and will try to remove
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Comment #48914939
Thank you! Not sure why it's so hard to find (still don't see where you got this from), esp if it's using exe.dev's platform.
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Comment #48911754
"The apps are open source, and Hickisch doesn't expect to make money from them anytime soon. " I'd like to try out the settlers-style game, but can't find them? Nothing here, eithe…
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Comment #48724481
I'm also curious, as this could pay for a trip out there, especially if buying for friends.
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Comment #48593267
Anybody have experience with https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom ? They seem to have similar goals in token reduction, but headroom appears to be broader in scope.
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Comment #48509635
That's fair. There are even many dimensions to define 'quality' which include use case (coding? writing? multimedia?) and prompt. I suppose if you ask testers to provide benchmarks…
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Comment #48498037
always have a backup plan (:
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Comment #48481858
Up ~50% about 2 months ago (4/2026)
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Comment #48014082
Wonderful idea to document, share and even have positive outcomes. The author would probably love this YT channel which is all about helping others come to the same realization as …
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Comment #47723044
TinyProgrammer is a Raspberry Pi on my desk that autonomously writes little Python programs forever. It types code at human speed, makes mistakes, fixes them, and has moods.
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Show HN: Book Juicing – Interactive D. Amodei's "The Adolescence of Technology"
It's effortless (nearly 1-shot prompt) to take essays and long-form text (e.g., PDF textbooks) and turn them into interactive, visual apps. Add in spaced repetition, exercises, qui…
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Comment #24294799
Unless you prevent them from being successful in the first place. As a side note, I wonder if there's also a bias that human minds are more easily controlled than forces of nature.…
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Comment #24294714
Both good and bad responses to successful terrorist attacks threaten government credibility, simply because they were successful. The key is for a government to prevent them from b…
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Comment #24285886
>There's a reason people end up in these ruts to begin with. Perhaps there is the lack of self-awareness that dopamine comes into play. This is where the (effective) simplicity of …
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Comment #23920807
That's an interesting idea with WeWork. I'd think that despite variations in environments in a home, there are either 1) enough accommodating tools to normalize (e.g., lights that …
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Comment #23911648
This begs to normalized and sold as a package for both providers and consumers.
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Comment #23463324
>but that is part of life Makes one wonder whether technology can help here. Seems that, so far, there is no substitute for direct experience.