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slake··on Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
Funnily I've found advanced models to be bad at calculating the length of a string.
slake··on Dear people who work at the airport
Heathrow has especially gotten horrible. It used to be my favourite transit airport, now it's packed to the brim with barely any place to sit. The restrooms are ill-maintained.

The security opens into a narrow space with a 100 people trying to put on their belts and shoes while acres of real estate is wasted on empty Hermes, Gucci stores.

While I find British people generally pleasant to talk to, the ones at Heathrow feel like they're jail wardens.

slake··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
The VCs footing the bill is really your pension funds and 401Ks and banks passing through the VCs. If VCs lose money the contagion spreads through the economy.
slake··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
There goes Enterprise usage
slake··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
Also if this is on the path of anything the Chinese do in the physical goods world, inference will be rockbottom cheap in a few years because they'll invest in the hell out of energy, GPUs, research, etc. The same thing they did with EVs.

Only artificial barriers will keep people using some of the frontier stuff in a couple of years. No costs will justify.

slake··on Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
I actually like 2006 twitter. Almost pleasant because of its obscurity.

- Only 140 characters - Increasing that added to the slop. Brevity was soul - No 'For you' algo. You had to find and follow the people you wanted to follow and then read all of their posts - RTing it was literally adding RT in front of the other person's tweet. - There was a 'like' icon (I think - don't remember) - There was no paid 'verified' accounts. You had to signal your official twitter account through different means. - There was no monetization for random clickbait ragebait content. - Ads are not that intrusive on twitter. That as a monetization strategy still works. - You only discovered people and not content.

slake··on Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
Bro. I'm obsessed with this. I spent a good 2-2.5 hours on a trot with this. This was one of those things I always wanted to learn a lot about and this was just perfect for that. It wasn't that easy, I really struggled and gave up on some levels but came back and struggled through them. The HexRacer type levels are difficult and I wish I could skip through those.

Also when you give a solution, you probably need an explanation of why that works.

Can't wait till you add the additional coming soon levels.

Your feedback feature seems broken. I tried giving feedback about some basic bugs and it kept saying can't send message.

Please also add a waitlist to notify when you release the additional levels.

slake··on Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents
I'm wondering if this can use different workspace folders for different projects? I'd like to manage all my side projects through this but I can't put them all in one folder.
slake··on Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
Funnily it seems you were already more organized than I am today before you had the *Claw. That's why you were able to transition to it as a 'life operating system'.

I have too much stuff in my head and nothing written down and that's beginning to be a hindrance to the transition.

slake··on Sovereignty in a System Prompt
Phew. What is your system prompt? Are you 4b or 8b?
slake··on Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
Conspiracy theory here, but all the big AI companies have to do is find some 0-days and cause some data leaks at the top SoR companies for this confidence to waver.
slake··on Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
That's amazing. Feels like a major step ahead. No lag, very snappy. Outstanding work.

Feels like those sci-fi shows where you can talk to Hari Seldon even though he lived like a 100 years ago.

My prediction, this will become really, really big.

slake··on Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database
Wouldn't this expose your github token to anyone in the frontend?
slake··on Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
This is so cool. These are shareable I guess? I built this to give me recommendations of good non-fiction books to read...

https://www.phind.com/search/i-want-to-find-out-d79b4dca-bac...

slake··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
May I ask what kind of tasks these are specifically? Is it mostly data entry, management and reporting? Or are you interfacing with devices?
slake··on Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
Sometimes I think we need to expose what 'memories' or their semantic representation has been stored in a 'memory store' so that humans can review and verify it over time. This will help the LLM 'forget' things that the humans using it don't really think is that relevant.
slake··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
This is how I don't get when some predict that we'll have a shorter working week when AI improves productivity. If productivity gains are 50% the companies would rather have 50% lesser employees rather than 50% shorter work weeks.
slake··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
This is just MSFT (as did others) acknowledging the future has a lot less workers in it.
slake··on How we solved multi-modal tool-calling in MCP agents – VLM Run MCP
Noiceee!
slake··on Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?
How do you do the REPL integration into the manual workflow? Could you explain that a bit?
slake··on India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative
The article doesn't answer its own question. The inherent contradictions in the ratings. Romania who just 'cancelled an election' and banned the winning candidate from contesting is 40 positions above India.
slake··on We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%
What's the database that dbt is connected to in this scenario?
slake··on Agno: Agent framework 10,000x faster than LangChain
Does it work with o1 type reasoning models. I had trouble running phidata (the old named framework) with it.
slake··on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
Even Indian software firms have begun to hire in Vietnam since they work 1.3x as hard for half the pay that an Indian does.
slake··on The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management
GCP is the worst at this in my opinion. Their UI is so 2000 and hard to use with multiple menu levels and not even good search.
slake··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
I'm wondering, If I bought an emergency jumpstart battery for my car. Can I run on a failing battery for a lot longer if I just jumpstart it every time I start the car? Usually the highest current draw is for the starting right. Post that it runs just on engine generated power?
slake··on Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
Me too. Please accept me into your cult.
slake··on Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?
This is smart. If you're contributing to opensource Github, there's a high likeli hood it gets into one of these datasets and maybe training data for an LLM.
slake··on Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
One social media agency mentioned that the best way to build Linkedin followers is to have multiple job posts open even if your'e not hiring. The applicants follow you and you have healthy follower growth. Super-dodgy in my opinion.
slake··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Isn't this just salary benchmarking. It's been happening for ages. As far as I know they submit the data anonymously with only your job title. so that companies can benchmark their pay ranges against others for the same role. It forces upward pressure on wages for some companies too.
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