It’s just so heartwarming to see we are completely indentured to both LinkedIn and GitHub, and forced to curate fake personas and upload our life's work just to secure a paycheck.
Yes, throwaway VPS for interview coding tasks should be the new norm.
KMPG and Palantir already use the FDE playbook to great success. And we've all found value in a free 12-month vendor trial, with no obligation to commit.
No idea what the fuss is about.
All non-profits need to do is demand model-agnostic deliverables, insist on handoff documentation, and budget for switching costs before the year ends.
I tried OpenRouter Fusion with the budget model option but swapped out DeepSeek v3.2 for DeepSeek V4 Pro. The results weren't that bad. An interesting take on quorums for sure.
However I did notice a tool call to Claude Opus 4.8 for 1168 - 237 tokens, and $0.0118 cost, which I cannot account for because Opus was not in my selection and only revealed in logs. Strange.
Long-term access recovery typically requires rituals like annual check-ins, media rotation, and human drills. We already do this with annual fire-drills.
As our identities get more fragmented across devices, clouds, and cranial volatility, I expect digital wills that withstand real-world decay to become the norm.
Broad, ambiguous language like 'substantially composed by AI' will trigger overcompliance rendering disclosures meaningless, but maybe that was the plan.
Are people using Claude max 20x plan for personal pet projects? Are these expensed? Have you liquidated all other hobbies to fund this? Asking for a friend.
GitHub Actions isn’t killing engineering teams; complacency in CI design is. CI should be reliable, inspectable, and reproducible, not just convenient.
I was wondering how KiloCode Kilo Pass pricing compared to OpenRouter's top-up pricing, and did some digging and discovered the main difference is that OpenRouter provides a standard API key (sk-or-...) that works in any application (LangChain, curl, your own Python apps), while Kilo Pass credits are tied to the Kilo Gateway, which is designed to power the KiloCode Extension (VS Code/JetBrains) and CLI.
KiloCode does not appear to allow you generate a "Kilo API Key" to use in your external Python scripts or third-party apps. But the monthly bonus credits are sweet.
I'm not a researcher but i did 'write' a 'paper' for personal consumption to dissect a thought experiment I had on thriving in the Age of AI, Neural Networks, and Quantum Logic.
It examined the psychological and strategic archetypes that determine success or failure during periods of radical technological disruption, using the internet revolution (1995-2015) as a historical baseline.
I don't know if it was any good, but it was a fun few hours of exploration.
It is a bit weird watching the industry pivot from ‘no-code’ to AI agents.
But to be honest, i think if a prompt can knock out a bespoke app in five minutes, the traditional SaaS model is going to be as relevant as a fax machine, leaving the real value in whomever owns the pipes and the trust to actually run the stuff, and maintain it, once we've pivoted to the next shiny paradigm shift.
Thanks for trying it out.
I set a high water mark of >50 comments to ensure signal quality. There is also a 5 min cache.
Try any story with 50+ comments.
Here's one: https://hnsignals.com/signal/6135833
Truly savage. Well done. Lots of laughs.
Way funnier than my contribution, which is probably why mine hasn't picked up any traction yet.
Would be interesting to read a brief once your Story hits 50+ comments.