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supermdguy
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Comment #49243753
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679
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Comment #49224690
Here's the performance of frontier models without reasoning, to more directly address the claim that raw performance is plateauing: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artifi…
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Comment #49211294
Interesting, what did you use for the data? And do you have a write-up anywhere?
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Comment #49190331
It'll be really interesting when they run RL training on the harness self-improvement loop. I've tried using LLMs for harness engineering, but it often creates too much bloat that …
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Comment #49145276
It has read only access, so it’s able to check query statistics, find slow queries, then run EXPLAIN ANALYZE to find the root cause and either tweak the query or suggest indexes. A…
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Comment #49127232
Still figuring it out, but it's been really convenient to have an always-on agent that has access to internal systems and can be triggered by webhooks. Some examples of what we use…
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Comment #49024525
It would require collusion with HuggingFace, including getting them to release their disclosure blogpost a week in advance. Huggingface is primarily a hub for open models, so there…
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Comment #48961401
The administration promised they'd find a cause by September 2025. I guess that was the best they had at that point? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cause-of-autism-research...…
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Comment #48884320
“Do you know what the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Code. It’s called code.” - CommitStrip ( https://www…
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Comment #48762002
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Comment #48689874
> We're also launching GPT‑5.6 Sol on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens per second in July, bringing frontier intelligence to customers at unprecedented speed. This is really exciting. …
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Comment #48603351
Agreed, there were also a few where I deduced the correct definition by comparing the options.
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Comment #48593831
One trick I’ve used is creating a folder and then adding a .gitignore inside it with *. Then nothing in that folder gets tracked, without needing to add anything to the public giti…
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Comment #48517318
I agree that current memory systems are pretty bad, and I think that’s because memory is a prompted behavior instead of a learned one. In theory, if memory was an emergent behavior…
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Comment #48484805
I think good taste is objective to an extent, especially given a particular production context.
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Comment #48404703
Someone posted a tool that does this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140042
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Comment #48388499
There was a show HN for something similar a couple months ago[0]. Looks like they shut it down. Probably too difficult/low-margin to run as a business, but I think the co-op model …
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Comment #48376636
It's interesting because their last model series (Phi) was based around the thesis that high-quality synthetic data is better than a large pre-training corpus.
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Comment #48269994
I think the conduit exception still applies for analog faxes. Which makes no sense, since tapping a fax line is probably way easier than compromising a data center.
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Comment #48117365
Apparently from a third party seller in New York....and tastes really bad. I was surprised steak could be safely mailed in such normal looking packaging! https://www.delish.com/foo…
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Comment #48090315
Interesting to see this after the recent post about Chrome’s on-device model using up 4gb of storage, which frustrated a lot of people [1]. I agree local models are great, and it’s…
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Comment #48039701
Better auth is great! I love how it's way more hackable than using a something like Clerk. We were able to add a plugin to allow auth via iframe postMessage (embedded in a CRM) and…