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ohcmon··on Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
I believe we can do that already:

while (true) { askModelToBeginConversationIfAppropriate(model, previousContext, thingsHappenedSince); sleep(concisenessTick); }

ohcmon··on Music Theory for Programmers
This is super cool!

Also reminds me of https://www.languagetransfer.org/music

ohcmon··on Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
Ok, at first I didn’t get it and thought it would make sense if stripe just wants to build payments for agents, but on a second thought your idea about “once buy tokens — use everywhere” is very good one!
ohcmon··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Yes — encryption is the solution for client side caching.

But even if it’s not — I can’t build a scenario in my head where recalculating it on real GPUs is cheaper/faster than retrieving it from some kind of slower cache tier

ohcmon··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Boris, wait, wait, wait,

Why not use tired cache?

Obviously storage is waaay cheaper than recalculation of embeddings all the way from the very beginning of the session.

No matter how to put this explanation — it still sounds strange. Hell — you can even store the cache on the client if you must.

Please, tell me I’m not understanding what is going on..

otherwise you really need to hire someone to look at this!)

ohcmon··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
Next time you use true real independently audited e2e communication channel, don’t forget to check who is the authority who says that the "other end" is "the end" you think it is
ohcmon··on Let's discuss: future of refactoring in the era of LLMs
> you lose the code that has been battle-tested

I agree that this is still the most important thing, and I don’t try to challenge this.

At the same time we have quite adopted bumping our dependencies when it does not incorporate breaking changes (especially if there are know security vulnerabilities) — and my point is exactly about it, why even simple renames, extraction or flattening or other simple changes have to be treated so differently than internal changes that do not touch public interface?

ohcmon··on Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger
This is super cool, but unfortunately has to be open source and with signed reproducible builds.
ohcmon··on Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative
Please, not another `strings` programming language

`‹tr : for="user of users">`

ohcmon··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Actually, I think creating google alternative has never been as doable as it is today.
ohcmon··on Intel Honesty
You would be surprised, but nvidia’s employee stock plans allow to select the purchase price within the last 2 years https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/money/espp/
ohcmon··on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
Needed Word on Mac – you can’t imagine how surprised I was to see Skype starting too.
ohcmon··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
> glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans)

sorry to disappoint, but human brain fits the same definition

ohcmon··on Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
I’m afraid the problem is not indexing, but monetization. Alternative google search will not be profitable (especially if you have to pay a share to google indexing) because no one will buy ads there - even for bing it is a challenge
ohcmon··on Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
Wow! This is insanely cool!
ohcmon··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Under ecosystem I mean people using ChatGPT daily on their phones and browsers, developers (and now virtually anyone) writing extensions. For most of the world all of the progress is condensed at chat.openai.com, and it will be only harder to beat this adoption.

Tech superiority might be relevant today, but I highly doubt it will stay the same for a long time even if openai continues to hide details (which I agree is bad). We could argue about the training data, but we have so much publicity available so that is not an issue as well.

ohcmon··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Ecosystem around chat GPT is the differentiator that Meta and Mistral can’t beat – so I’d say that Altman is more relevant today than ever. And, for example, if you’ve read Mistral’s paper – I think you would agree that it’s straightforward to replicate similar results for every other major player. Replicating ecosystem is much harder.

Performance is never a complete product – neither for Apple, nor for Open AI (its for-profit part).

ohcmon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
52k after taxes or before?
ohcmon··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
How come refactoring is not fun??