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Comment #49205150
many evals, but yes
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Comment #49174491
We've using auto-research for harnesses and it's surprisingly powerful. It's amazing how many problems are easy to spot and fix from traces. Few key things were required to get it …
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Comment #49123830
thanks, corrected! I looked at Q3
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Comment #49123216
So GLM 5.2/Gemini 3.6 level intelligence for $0.28/m output. And their updated Pro model coming soon.... Plus a size you can genuinely run at home: Unsloth lossless Q8 at 162GB.
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Comment #49103709
I've wired ESP32s into all my old heat pump units using ESPHome. They are more reliable and more responsive than the $400 dongle they sold with newer units.
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Comment #49012040
join me in building the ideal training set for pelicans riding bicycles: https://github.com/scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles
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Comment #48996156
> IMO "end-to-end encryption" simply isn't possible In a technical sense it's absolutely possible. Owning the servers != transferring keys to the servers. Most E2E apps run both cl…
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Comment #48923133
Go mobile definitely supports building libraries. It will package up an xcframework for iOS and something else for Android (I forget details). It doesn't need to be the whole app. …
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Comment #48902275
small issue: xcodebuild will just randomly fail sometimes. And the solution is to... open and close Xcode. I wish this wasn't true, but it is.
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Show HN: Biscotti – on-device meeting transcription for macOS
https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti I got tired of Electron meeting-transcription apps that upload my private audio to a server to do transcription/summary my MacBook could do loca…
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Comment #48834847
ChatGPT has had this for over a year too. This is a better model.
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Comment #48831273
What's the best "run your coding agent in apple containers" setup folks have?
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Comment #48779240
heh, who knows. I often give agents the motivation, which I generally helpful. Have not bothered to measure this case.
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Comment #48778524
The top of my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: > Don't turn a one-off or area-specific comment into a durable memory without my explicit confirmation. You have a history of over-indexing on on…
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Comment #48738545
Kimi K2.5 >> Haiku. Gemma 4 32b might fit the bill.
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Comment #48736906
Look at Qwen for that level of intelligence.
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Comment #48713776
short answer: they mostly aren't A few people are running highly quantized models with limited context windows. It's still impressive, but not the benchmark level intelligence. Ver…
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Comment #48710946
I dunno. I know a lot of software engineering experts. AI isn't always right, but neither are the people, and it's getting better and better. Software is one domain where it excels…
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Comment #48698841
This was copying many screens, composing layouts and many strings. not a "general look and feel" or one off utility string. Others found parts of the code copied (exact variable na…
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Comment #48690465
They copied strings, and visual design. Both of which are work, both of which are covered by copyright.
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Comment #48685176
Short segments of popular works sure. Many UI pages with identical layouts and copy, essentially zero chance. The agent had access to the original code at inference time.
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Comment #48653853
"ghostlygourd.com" is a S+ tier domain. Would click
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Comment #48639107
It's not economic to run them locally. It's amazing for privacy, and fun hobby. But you're either looking at super slow CPU builds with $10k in RAM, $90k worth of GPUs, or a really…
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Comment #48609949
anyone manage to get a point?