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The web, at least on the interface side, is really easy to customize these days. Agents are pretty good at spinning out Chrome extensions. e.g. you can easily reduce the intensity …

How else will I read HN?

> Rapidly adopting newer, more efficient models delivers the largest cost wins of any technique. I think the more interesting lever is the fourth they mention: token efficiency. > …

My partner publishes crosswords and it's always fun to see how much artistry goes into authoring a puzzle. You can play with the structure/grid, the theme of course, every minute d…

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From Gemini, > FreeFormatter.com [was] a popular online utility website that provides free formatting, validation, conversion, and minification tools for developers, data professio…

Tangentially related, apparently xylitol gum can reduce cavity risk by killing off bacteria (which cannot digest but cannot differentiate xylitol from regular sugar) in the mouth.

I freakin' love this demo. It feels magical.

> One key feature of Flock is its national lookup tool. > Axon, simply, does not have a national network. Meaning that it would not be possible for cops in one jurisdiction to sear…

Last I heard, everyone at Meta was using Claude Code. Any insiders know how Muse Code is doing internally?

This is effectively a Codex/Claude app competitor. Good move from Cloudflare since it helps them sell their core infra offerings. I like the direction they’re going with access con…

Cloudflare's in a good position to be an agent infra provider. Durable objects and serverless/workers are great agent primitives. It makes sense that they're leaning into an all-in…

> The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has secured a combined $3,200,000 settlement [...] > The settlement addresses allegations that both compani…

https://opensource.muenchen.de/sabbatical.html > The Open Source Sabbatical is intended to provide professionally qualified software developers with the opportunity to work on an o…

From https://gwern.net/guardian-angel > I propose a goal of creating Guardian Angels (GA): digital twin LLMs which are personalized with the goal of providing not the stereotypical…

> I would 100 percent taste the forbidden fish sauce. I would do it for science. My wife would kill me if I'm not already dead. Count me in.

> This also marks the first time we will open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model — the open weights will be released next week. Nice!

I'm reminded of the wonderful https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc project, also previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802 This could be a g…

I quite like the 4th and 5th place posters. 4th: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i... 5th: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i..…

> And then, people think that it can change the world economy in one or two or ten years. It really does take decades, essentially a human lifetime (and there is a causal correlati…

If we pinned quality here and focused on cost and speed, video models could become fantastic general creative tools. I think the emphasis on using them for ads & monetizable slop i…

> This is the strange condition of the human being. It’s allergic to its natural habitat, which is the present moment. In order to cope with this allergy, it perpetually seeks thin…

In my experience, most large companies do treat not being able to ship code (i.e. deploy to prod) as outages. Being on-call in a CI/CD infra team is fairly common. Agreed that many…