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andhuman··on Agents on Rails: Best model solves 35% of feature benchmark runs
This benchmark expects models to not only do the happy path, but also edge cases, even though the ticket they give to the model doesn’t specify if. This to align more to real world tickets. Usually with benchmarks it’s the other way around: only implement what’s asked. So I welcome this type of benchmark because this is how I use the models.
andhuman··on The End of Programming
Also, handing over the work to AI robs you of learning and understanding. Let’s say you write a ticket for a feature and that description is good enough that an AI agent can implement it from start to finish. The AI will then discover things while implementing the feature, and will use those learning to make the feature work. That learning will then be discarded once the AI is done. No one will be able to partake or share the knowledge with others. Sure, some of it can be saved in form of comments, but not everything.
andhuman··on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
I don’t see why they just don’t allow a smaller model to answer the question while letting the bigger one vet it. The vetting can be asynchronous and can be delivered after a few seconds (if it’s an easy query). If it’s a hard query, the UI can show the answer is currently being vetted or something.
andhuman··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
What surprised me is that caffeine gets converted to other compounds that _also_ binds to the same receptors thus causing you to feel less tired. And that compound has its own half life. Now I’m just guessing, but it could be that one is more affected by one of the byproducts so to speak than the caffeine itself.
andhuman··on An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day
Why conscious thought as described in the article was thought to be signs of a delirious person was because that’s where you could find it in real life, is my guess. If someone blabbing about without a listener, they’re insane. So to describe someone’s inner thought would render them insane to the reader. But with psychology came greater understanding and value of the inner thoughts and now a character no longer was deemed insane by having innate thoughts.
andhuman··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Finally an alternative to the big dogs that a company can use. People have been asking for a way to run the Chinese models from a trusted provider. Here GitHub delivered!

The performance, if we trust the benchmarks, put it at Sonnet 4.6.

Let’s see if it’s worth it with GitHubs pricing.

andhuman··on Mistral Medium 3.5
The Vibe CLI is really bad on Windows, sure they don’t officially support it, so can’t blame them, but a FYI for anyone wanting to try it. It can’t get find and replace right.
andhuman··on Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
I have good experience with Mistral Vibe.
andhuman··on Music for Programming
I just listened to the Matrix OST and that one really gets me into a coding mood!
andhuman··on Vivaldi 7.8 Is Here
Oh man, this was the release I wanted to link, as it has a new feature (tiled follow link) that I actually started using right away. A new browser feature I find useful didn’t happen that often for me, so I got excited.
andhuman··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Be kind to others, but start with being kind to yourself.
andhuman··on How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
Isn’t llama.cpp’s implementation of Qwen 3.5 better, or am I misinformed?
andhuman··on What Is OAuth?
What helped me get a better understanding of oauth and oidc, was this YouTube video [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/996OiexHze0

andhuman··on Audio is the one area small labs are winning
Same setup I’m using! Parakeet and pocket turbo. It’s feels good enough for daily usage.
andhuman··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Have you tired using the run action instead to clean the data? Win+r
andhuman··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
I have this nagging feeling I’m more and more skimming text, not just what the LLMs output, but all type of texts. I’m afraid people will get too lazy to read, when the LLM is almost always right. Maybe it’s a silly thought. I hope!
andhuman··on Backseat Software
One of the more annoying software that does this is the copilot Office 365 on the web. Every time (!) I open it, it shows a popup on how to add files to the context. That itself would be annoying, but it also steals focus! So you would be typing something and suddenly you’re not typing anymore for M$ decided it’s time for a popup. I finally learned to just wait for the pop up and then dismiss it with esc. Ugh!
andhuman··on Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
I built this recently. I used nvidia parakeet as STT, open wake word as the wake word detection, mistral ministral 14b as LLM and pocket tts for tts. Fits snugly in my 16 gb VRAM. Pocket is small and fast and has good enough voice cloning. I first used the chatterbox turbo model, which perform better and even supported some simple paralinguistic word like (chuckle) that made it more fun, but it was just a bit too big for my rig.
andhuman··on Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
It’s uncanny good. I prefer it to pocket, but then again pocket is much smaller and for realtime streaming.
andhuman··on GLM-4.7-Flash
Gave it four of my vibe questions around general knowledge and it didn’t do great. Maybe expected with a model as small as this one. Once support in llama.cpp is out I will take it for a spin.
andhuman··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
I’ve tried the voice clinking and it works great. I added a 9s clip and it captured the speaker pretty well.

But don’t do the fake mistake I did and use a hf token that doesn’t have access to read from repos! The error message said that I had to request access to the repo, but I’ve had already done that, so I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Turns out my HF token only had access to inference.

andhuman··on OLED, Not for Me
I’ve recently bought the LG with 4th generation OLED, and for me that works for long coding sessions (I use it for work). They shifted or did something with the pixel arrangement for this generation just for text legibility.
andhuman··on Can Claude teach me to make coffee?
Interesting experiment. I would hazard to guess that Google is on top when it comes to these sorts of things (spatial ability), then OpenAI and last Anthropic. I would like to see the same experiment using Google’s Live view or whatever it’s called in their Gemini App.
andhuman··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
The new LG panels are bright enough. I think they’re called 4th generation WOLED.
andhuman··on Mistral 3 family of models released
This is big. The first really big open weights model that understands images.
andhuman··on Tell HN: Azure outage
“ Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. Customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying issue and additional mitigation actions. More information will be provided within 60 minutes or sooner.

This message was last updated at 16:35 UTC on 29 October 2025”

andhuman··on Tell HN: Azure outage
I bet it’s DNS.
andhuman··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
Yup! I follow these and I also take walks, those can be helpful to relax and let the mind rest for a bit.
andhuman··on Kagi News
Nice idea, I’ve been toying around the idea of consuming news only once per day. But for me I think I want an actual newspaper with in depth articles rather than short news posts from online news.
andhuman··on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
The bit about the dog was a good memento mori. You work hard almost your entire life… and then your body gets tossed over the wall.
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