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splatzoneon Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Can someone please explain what changed, when it happened, and whether it was surreptitious?

Nah, occassional non tech stuff is very welcome. It’s interesting to see HN’s perspective on other things

splatzoneon DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

What advantage do you think they have?

splatzoneon NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

What about heartbeats, cron etc? Seems like a major part of the 'claw' appeal is that it can work autonomously, monitor your email inbox for stuff and take action automatically...

splatzoneon OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

It feels like a proactive PR move to me. When the shit hits the fan in a few years and jobs are vanishing, they can point to this as one of the many examples of how they're fighting the good fight for humanity

splatzoneon Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

I’ve felt for some time that there’s a gap in the market for a genuine spiritual successor to The Sims, using LLMs to power the interactions between agents to create a more realistic and immersive simulation of life. This seems like a step in the right direction.

splatzoneon GPT-5: It just does stuff

That would make sense for the API where usage is metered. But outside of that, most ChatGPT users will be free or paying a flat monthly fee, so there's a real incentive for OpenAI to optimise for cost.

splatzoneon Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for debating)

Is there a way to see some past debates? Would give me a flavour of how the site works without having to sign up and wait for someone to come online. Well done on releasing.

splatzoneon I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

And yet I learned something!

splatzoneon Response to DHH

Ah man, that’s brutal. For what it’s worth, it’s a gorgeous theme and it made me excited to learn Drupal when I was 14!

splatzoneon How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

This is absolutely the responsibility of the healthcare system tbh. It feels intrusive right now, but discouraging smoking would have felt intrusive once too.

splatzoneon Sublime Text 4 Build 4180

ST is a brilliant editor and I really enjoyed using it until I eventually switched to VS Code as it had more useful extensions. The speed of ST is still unmatched.

splatzoneon Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

Nice implementation!

splatzoneon Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

It insulted my attempt at minimalist design quite comprehensively. Well done!

splatzoneon Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me

Why do you think OP made this up?

splatzoneon Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

It would be awesome to have some kind on playable demo in-browser, or sample output. Nice work

splatzoneon Schools in UK send police to homes of absent pupils

You can indeed homeschool: https://www.gov.uk/home-education

splatzoneon The OpenAI board was right

They passed off Sky as Johansson’s voice though. It’s highly misleading and passing off is a kind of theft of her persona.

splatzoneon Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

There’s a nice YouTube doc telling the story of this, and Tom Waits’ hatred of advertising - https://youtu.be/W7J01e-OIMA?si=57IJooNwg5oTfh62

splatzoneon Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Is there a way to run these things deterministically with a seed? Totally AI-generated videos could just be compressed to text without any reference screenshots

splatzoneon GPT-4o

Honestly, the eager flirtatiousness of the AI in the demos, in conversation with these awkward engineers, really turns me off. It feels like a male power fantasy.

Nonetheless, very impressive.

splatzoneon Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

Ads can absolutely be art though - consider the poster for Le Chat Noir. Millions of art prints sold

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/prints/person/42321/le-chat-...

splatzoneon Add Depth of Field to Screenshots

Very cool! Did you create this? What was the motivation? I'm just wondering if this is a common enough task that it's easier than doing it in Photoshop

splatzoneon How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

Fraudulent limited companies are a major problem in the UK. But I think the tradeoff is probably worth it

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/crisis-uk-c...

splatzoneon Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

This is really cool. I tried it and ran into a few syntax errors - it kept missing closing braces in PHP for some reason.

It seems it might be useful if it could actually try to execute the code, or somehow check for syntax errors/unimplemented functions before accepting the response from the LLM.

splatzoneon Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"

I can't get past the menu, is it just me?

splatzoneon AI commented the entire Spring Boot codebase

Can someone familiar with the Spring Boot codebase confirm if these comments are useful or not?

At a glance - and I'm not a java developer - a handful of the comments seem to add some specific context that's not obvious from the code alone: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/co...

splatzoneon A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts

Incredibly cool, how is this even possible?

splatzoneon Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

I love the scripted filler words, that’s smart