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> but google is stock in the academic bias of Stanford and MIT and can't think outside the box Can you clarify what you mean? I am not sure I follow.

Highly recommend using agent based hooks for things like `[review & test]`. At a basic level, they work akin to git-hooks, but they fire up a whole new context whenever certain eve…

It seems that perhaps neither are inherently 'good models'? What would an ideal alternative look like?

> it’s more performant than Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.2 extra high ...and all of that done without any GPUs as far as i know! [1] [1] - https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-…

they 100% are unless you provide a RUBRIC / basically make it ordinal. "Return a score of 0.0 if ...., Return a score of 0.5 if .... , Return a score of 1.0 if ..."

Very similar usage duration / window for me (US Pacific) - no availability issues.

To put some numbers to trying to develop a single therapy (where candidates etc. will fail as you try them) - Plan to sink $180-500M+ just in R&D - Factor in failures, regulatory, …

fwiw towards your theory, I believe that the US Govt actually considers cloud providers - by way of specific services offered "dual use" systems for mil or civil use. E.g. you will…

OTP protected flow verification

Really good call out re: email and other 'side-flows' - hopefully there is integration with something like Mailosaur. https://mailosaur.com/email-testing

> nor are they...able to mutate themselves to gain new information on the fly See "Self-Adapting Language Models" from a group out of MIT recently which really gets at exactly that…

...not monetized yet: Can't find the post, but a prev. HN post had a link to an article showing that OpenAI had hired someone from Meta's ad service leadership - so I took that to …

Ahh thank you for catching - apologies I didn't see this in time to add a correction.

Related: KingJamesProgramming [1] - a mashup of Knuth books [2] and the King James Bible with a Markov chain, is still one of my favorite reads for a laugh. It was also the first p…

I'm typically pretty critical of PM oriented pieces, but I found this to be a decent overview of how to reason about building these systems from first principles + some of the non-…

Very good catch. For all my interest this space, it's embarrassing that I did not remotely see this coming...

> Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now I think I am just slow today - but could you please elaborate?

Very curious about this as well. Though I would say the fact that they were not involved with OpenAI on gpt-oss is not a good sign. (OAI partnered with Databricks, NVIDIA, Dell, bu…

Colorado Water access law is truly crazy and arcane in some cases (such as this, it would seem). Source: Had a friend in college that interned for a group of attorneys in Western, …

Can you clarify which tooling you are using? Is it cursor-stats?

If there were a toy or other public implementation of this, I would love to see it.

It's a tough question and I do things the same way. I feel like we are in awkward phase of: "We know this has severe environmental impact - but we need to know if these tools are a…

I also relate - but have not received a formal diagnosis other than ADD. - I remember feeling sorry for cars in a car dealership on a hot summer day as a child: "they must be miser…

Did you already exercise regularly?

Oh man, FXP, couriering (the original “currying”!) and 0day drops… This thread is such a solid shot of nostalgia, and why I love HN.