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bearjaws··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
The real question is, can Cloudflare become a equal or better OpenAI / Claude provider, while offering a vastly more robust platform than either?

I think the answer is yes, simply because both OAI and Anthropic leverage CF for their hosting today.

I used to meme back in 2008 (when Google docs first was becoming big) that "The problem has always been the sandbox". The problem Chrome and Firefox solved was the Sandbox - you can browse some random code across the web without worrying about getting hacked. The same problem has arisen today but now with AI agents.

There is likely to be huge winners in the AI space simply based on who can create the best way to contain AI agents and "expose AI value" safely.

bearjaws··on Karpathy’s Pelican
LLMs are horrible at real world, physical movement of products and people.

I've seen them make time estimates that are physically impossible, expect medications to be in two places at once, etc.

bearjaws··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
It is funny I just happened to refresh HN on a break and this was trending with no comments.
bearjaws··on Tesla sues Cybertruck supplier Angstrom amid standoff keeping production hostage
Surprised this is an issue, FTA: Angstrom can produce 250k chassis per year, however Tesla is only selling around 20,000 cybertrucks per year.

They can run the plant for 5 weeks to make all the chassis Tesla needs for a year... I am sure this is a very annoying customer and they want to recoup their costs.

bearjaws··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
This is really what a lot of people need, a return to learning about something 2-3 weeks after it happens and more details are known.

I have often thought about with my friends who are "terminally online" that they would benefit from NOT being a town crier from times gone by.

Many of my friends hate Twitter, hate Elon and hate social media, but because they have to be first to all the latest news, they remain locked in to Twitter day in and day out. They cannot quit. They are socially bound to them because being the person to start a topic on whats happened in Ukraine, who was traded to the Dolphins, etc is part of their socialization.

It's been baffling to me, as I simply don't see the value in being the "first" to discuss some news, especially if its misinformation.

Anyway, all that to say that I think is a great idea and would really benefit society to return back to less "real time" news, which really tends to drown out the big topics in favor of buzz words and Twitter quips.

bearjaws··on Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5
I do not experience any regressions, I don't really notice much difference either.
bearjaws··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
because imagine starting work every week and finding that your dumb ass CEO pivoted the company again and is ruining other peoples lives, and he then reorgs the management again so you now have your 5th leader this year.

Morale and momentum are huge things in companies, Zuck has been murdering both of those in Meta since... well naming it Meta.

bearjaws··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
Apple: adblocking, PWA being put in a odd spot, surely to be followed by a post "nobody was using it" before being removed, if they mention it at all.

Google: ad blocking

bearjaws··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
I cannot use a browser that is owned by a company who's financial model is dependent upon browsers being nerfed.

Apple and Google have far too many incentives to wall garden browsers, Apple due to the app store, Google due to advertising.

Independent browsers are the only safe path forward.

bearjaws··on Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
There is already every form of content, hundreds of times over, for almost every K12 topic.

The problem hasn't been content for nearly a decade.

bearjaws··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Yeah I recently went to a Find N6 and the battery life is quite literally 40% more than a Pixel. Not to mention the performance is significantly better.

Obviously as a folding phone it's more expensive, but it's leagues ahead of the Pixel Fold as well.

bearjaws··on Grok Build is open source
I really hate that they added mouse integration with Claude Code.

Nothing like it prompting you for an answer and you click on to the terminal accidentally, resulting in you choosing an answer.

bearjaws··on Grok Build is open source
Thank you for creating an alternative to the toxic mermaid renderer on their website.

Trying to monetize Mermaid was disgusting and honestly rings to me like trying to monetize Markdown.

bearjaws··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
When they increased prices to $900 for roughly the same quality as Samsung it was doomed.

The OnePlus 7 was such an amazing phone and honestly I remember buying a Pixel after it and realizing how crappy Tensor was and well optimized OnePlus was.

bearjaws··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I don't think an LLM would propose this terrible method ever, at least not any of the big 3.
bearjaws··on Proof of care in the age of AI
I've been debating switching my blog to a vlog that is a one shot recording, no retakes, just real thoughts and advice in real time.

I've joked with friends its the "Farm to table" for thoughts, at least as much as it can be. Obviously you can just recite a LLM output, but that's more work IMO.

bearjaws··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
All of them are going to read your secrets, OpenCode does it too.

Reality is, I have seen agents read .env, bash history, keychain (if you let them), etc.

There is quite literally no way you are going to save off just your little secret somewhere it won't be able to read it, all software needs to read it ~eventually~

So it's best to sandbox and reset credentials frequently.

bearjaws··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Starlink often struggles in thunder storms.
bearjaws··on GPT-5.6
I think this is where people start to consider you a "Luddite".

Is it bad that you used a computer and Google and lifted information from other people to accomplish a task?

My father is a machinist and has built has knowledge off the skills and documentation of thousands before him, is that empty?

You still have to do the actual work, and where do you draw the line on "shipping more". If a farmer now has an automated tractor, does that mean his work is now trivial?

bearjaws··on Grok 4.5
I am very curious what your Claude thread looks like. I have never had Claude swap languages, in fact my experience is the opposite, sometimes it holds on too much when working on a large code base.
bearjaws··on FAANG Simulator
"How come Google keeps making Chrome shittier :^(" - People who say this
bearjaws··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
Likely benchmaxxed. You see it in Qwen and other smaller models all the time.
bearjaws··on GPT‑Live
Feel like the intro video is very odd.

Basically have an older lady (not their target audience) blatantly reading a teleprompter.

Why are they going after this audience? Retired people have no use for delegated tasks or information. They also are the least likely to use it and not get frustrated.

bearjaws··on Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
Looking at how much work GitLab has to do due to abuse of being open, I don't blame anyone for wanting to make that change.
bearjaws··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
I read this and laugh a bit because just 7 months ago the bar was so much lower and now we go "well duh of course it was able to make a working ios app from a game made 20 years ago... a game that was made 3 years before the first iPhone"
bearjaws··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
> the huge majority of ORM-driven queries are "select * from table where id in ..."; for the queries that are more complicated than that, then yes use SQL! That's allowed!

The issue is, your lowest value queries are always this type, then you get the 10-20 in any code base that are 100x more complex, and they are the ones your end users care about the most.

You end up with a 80/20 principal in the wrong way, it's great at producing queries that represent 20% of the value of your app, and awful for the 80% that define the core value of it.

bearjaws··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
Is that 17M output tokens?

At 200k context that is only 85 requests for a whole week.

bearjaws··on Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800
We can ban those too.
bearjaws··on Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800
Since its behind an account wall, I can't tell if they are saying that Opus made the clone for cheaper or that Opus failed? It appears that Fable did far more "work" based on output tokens.

Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.

bearjaws··on Claude Sonnet 5
I've seen this happen before when they launch new models. When Opus 4.7 came out it was "working" for 20+ min before I just exited entirely and waited till next day.

Went away on it's own.

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