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m_w_

67 karmajoined 10 miesięcy temu
https://www.mwaterman.dev/

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m_w_
·przedwczoraj·discuss
Interesting - I'll be sure to benchmark it at some point. We've found the best results come from blending providers depending on the task anyways.

Thanks for the quick response - and always happy to see more competition in the space. Best of luck with future features!
m_w_
·przedwczoraj·discuss
Unclear what difference exists against Firecrawl - their team has been shipping great features extremely quickly lately, and their core offerings have become really good.

I am interested in KnifeGeek though - looking for a good OTF (ultratech?)
m_w_
·11 dni temu·discuss
Nor more than a mention of Query Hints, which had some interesting discussion under a similarly-titled submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413655
m_w_
·15 dni temu·discuss
This seems to be a worse version of another submission [0] I saw a while back - binary octets are easy for anyone who can copy paste; image attributes like edge pressure and stable contour mean basically nothing to me.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357169
m_w_
·23 dni temu·discuss
No one takes g2 and product hunt seriously right?
m_w_
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I think Mythos is rumored to be ~10T parameters, so in this case I think the answer is yes, although I'm sure MoE, looped models, etc play a role in the improvements as well.
m_w_
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> AlphaEvolve’s procedure found an algorithm to multiply 4x4 complex-valued matrices using 48 scalar multiplications, improving upon Strassen’s 1969 algorithm that was previously known as the best in this setting. This finding demonstrates a significant advance over our previous work, AlphaTensor, which specialized in matrix multiplication algorithms, and for 4x4 matrices, only found improvements for binary arithmetic.

> And in 20% of cases, AlphaEvolve improved the previously best known solutions, making progress on the corresponding open problems.

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...
m_w_
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
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m_w_
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Very cool concept, although I think the leaderboard is more about network latency than anything else...
m_w_
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Although I'm anti AI-image-gen (wouldn't there be CC0 images of these species?) this is really quite a charming little project.

I feel like I don't hear many bird calls in the city where I live, but maybe I'll have to set one up for myself to find out!
m_w_
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Not all the inputs, but Ben Felix’s company (makes videos on this topic) has a rent vs buy calculator, mainly focused on investing the cost difference for mortgage vs renting: https://research-tools.pwlcapital.com/research/rent-vs-buy
m_w_
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
This is really getting ridiculous - although people sometimes dismiss the "missing" status page because it includes copilot, it's worth noting that pull requests (95.5%) are even lower availability than copilot (96.4%).

How am I expected to comment "LGTM" if I can't even get to the PR?
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Although this affects a small number of people / kids per year - this is a great development. There's a related article^ which had a very moving account from a mom whose son has received this treatment.

^: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5795526/deafness-gene-t...
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Almost refreshing to see some good old-fashioned schizoposting, which usually doesn’t end up on HN.
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Really interesting response to Google's Stitch - and seemingly a better alternative given some of the features shown in the video. If everything actually works at least close to how it's advertised, this'll be useful. I'm sure it's no Dieter Rams, but it wouldn't be a surprise if it's already better than many devs at design work.
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Obviously the discussion here is mostly about writing code. In that domain, I’m always of two minds on this sort of thing. Although I think everyone would agree that material cognitive decline is bad, I also think we have to be precise with what that means.

During university, for an exam in a graduate databases course, I had to manually calculate the number of operations for a query, down to the ones place. We were given an E-R diagram, the schema, and the query. So we had to act as the query planner - build out the B+ tree, check what was most efficient, and do it.

This is by all means a pointless endeavor - no one has had to do this by hand in literally decades. It was also among the hardest cognitive tasks I've ever had to do. After being one of two people to complete the exam in the three allotted hours, I sat outside the lecture hall on a bench for a little while because I though I might faint if I went any further.

I’m beginning to feel the same about writing code by hand. If I can design systems that are useful, performant, and largely maintainable, but the code is written by an LLM, is this harmful? It feels that I spend more time thinking about what problems need to be solved and how best to solve them, instead of writing idiomatic typescript. It’d be hard to convince me that’s a bad thing.
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Some nice tips in here ([field: SerializeField] for example) - but as others note, it's not about modern code, as many of these features have been available for an embarrassingly long time. It's always felt to me that there's some fundamental friction between idiomatic C# and Unity.

I remember, after reading about new features C# 8.0, someone wrote that C# 9 would write all your code for you, and that C# 10 would just mail you a check every month. How the times have changed...
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Die tests must be 100% accurate and follow the best known clinical procedures. Humor is not optimal.
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I don’t think there’s a reliable system or API for doing so, unclear that arms race will ever favor the side of the detectors.

As far as how I / other people do it, there are some obvious styles that reek of LLMs, I think it’s chatgpt.

There’s a very common structure of “nice post, the X to Y is real. miscellaneous praise — blah blah blah. Also curious about how you asjkldfljaksd?"

From today:

This comment is almost certainly AI-generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658796

And I'm suspicious of this one too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660070 - reads just a bit too glazebot-9000 to believe it's written by a person.
m_w_
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Unfortunate, but as others point out, quality was on the decline for a while now. That said, I use their iteration of Holy Pandas on every keyboard I can. Wish I had hoarded some when they were still available.