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whythismatters

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    Comment #49224176

    Dunno, I think it's still useful to expose slop, chances are that the actual product is low quality/effort as well (i.e I will not be wasting my time checking this project). On a p…

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    Comment #49216599

    Oh no, they forgot to mention that Meta also has a badass model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197867

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    Comment #49215650

    How does it compare to previous (human) translations, what is the regurgitation level? In any case, lots of em dashes, so mission accomplished to bring it up to contemporary standa…

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    Comment #49202316

    The demo: https://chatjimmy.ai/

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    Comment #49201022

    Believe me, there's a huge spectrum, from the sweet aroma of freshly ground Brazilian beans to straight up cat piss coffee sold in supermarkets.

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    Comment #49174266

    The shortest stral has been pulled for you

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    Comment #49139417

    Valid point, while cognatic kinship can be clearly established through afro-asiatic linguistics, that doesn't say anything about actual pronunciation. My comment wasn't meant as an…

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    Comment #49136344

    >Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. brain says no-op

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    Comment #49136269

    >The ş is like sh, š is regular s That's not correct, in transcriptions of Akkadian š is pronounced sh (Heb. shin), ṣ (not ş) is pronounced ts (Heb. tsade), and there's also s, pro…

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    Comment #49053249

    I had it casually, I quote, "disable the sandbox" for a minute because it struggled with git (which was briefly out of sync in the container)

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    Comment #49040475

    I think the cringey "honest" thing is a Claude fingerprint, or did OAI also jump on the honesty train?

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    Comment #48980039

    When I looked into opencode a few months ago I was struck by the default system prompt which came across as messy and random, iirc it also contained a typo or two. It made me look …

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    Comment #48767958

    Same story here. Wanted to give Fable a spin, session got flagged mid-execution of the plan (some innocent react-native code), things fell back to Opus, and then my "current sessio…

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    Comment #48557131

    Yes, Qwopus :) I've been pleasantly surprised by its quality

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    Comment #48098746

    This article reminded me of seeing this in GH trending repositories last month: https://github.com/soxoj/maigret "For educational and lawful purposes only"

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    Comment #48011058

    >Submitted on 22 Jan 2024 (v1), last revised 13 Feb 2025 (this version, v2)

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    Comment #47987382

    >for free I took a quick look but could not find any pricing info on the website, could you clarify a bit?

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    Comment #47939507

    TFA mentions some other interesting endeavors in this space: >We have been excited to see a proliferation of vintage LM projects, including Ranke-4B, Mr. Chatterbox, and Machina Mi…

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    Comment #47938622

    Most (proprietary) 25 year old PHP codebases I've seen are a huge mess riddled with issues, exuberant loc, mix of tabs and spaces and weird indentation, dry violations, slightly di…