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victor106··on Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Day Grace Period
I agree and even though I am pro immigration, I do think the H1B program has been exploited by the employers to the hilt
victor106··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
did you build your own diffusion model?
victor106··on Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
> Scanning in documents and using OCR to create an order,

I remember this being done more than 10 years ago.

The other uses cases you describe also were being done. Of course with AI maybe it’s become easier and cheaper?

victor106··on You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML
Most Microsoft web apps are sluggish and horribly designed.

I was using Entra and Azure the other day and boy are they slow and clunky.

victor106··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
Any resources to learn how to design a circuit board?
victor106··on Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
How much data do you need to fine tune a model?
victor106··on Show HN: Shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT, over MCP
> A graph that can update, not just append.

I see AI using lot of these style of messages for Copywriting and/or headlines.

Does this style have a name?

victor106··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
> knowledge tasks

Like what?

victor106··on GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
> tokenization discord

How can I join this? Sounds interesting

victor106··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
I would think they are not but Alex Karp CEO of Palantir seems to imply that they are:

https://youtu.be/0A3sGymV6kY?si=ti7uSZtYqJ3vKpGM

I found it a little shocking TBH

victor106··on The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives
democracy affords you lot of venues to protest. Violence in any form is harmful to everyone involved.
victor106··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Keep hearing that IBM makes these incredible chips but don’t see anyone using IBM chips. What do they do with them?
victor106··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
>No customer or user wakes up and says, ‘I hope I get to talk to a chat bot or an AI agent today

This is so true. I led the implementation of an AI customer service agent and even though management thinks it’s a great success the metrics tell a totally different story. Our customers hated it. I haven’t seen anything in tech that is hated more.

Before you think we did a bad job with our solution, I can tell you we went with some of the best and did our own intensive testing and worked on latencies etc., I actually thought the final version was pretty good but our customers just hated it.

victor106··on Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
Is there any tool that will look at all the tables in my database and create an ER diagram with all the relationships?
victor106··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
>Someone disagreeing with you doesn't make it reddit.

Disagreeing is great. Its the basis of all progress and understanding.

Its how someone disagrees with you that matters. I come to HN to read more mature and nuanced disagreements.

victor106··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
GPUI is truly awesome.

Check out: https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component

victor106··on Claude Fable 5
> A new data retention policy Finally, we’re making a change to the way we handle business customer data for Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models with similar or higher capability levels. We will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models, on both first- and third-party surfaces. We won’t use this data to train new Claude models, or for any non-safety-related purpose, and we’ve instituted new privacy protections including logging all human access to the data and ensuring its deletion after 30 days in almost all cases ...

Very interesting. I am not sure this will comply with organizational policies and standards protocols (HIPPA etc.,)

victor106··on Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
I have an application that has

/Frontend /API /ETL /DatabaseScripts

Whats the best way to organize this so Claude Code can work efficiently?

victor106··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
> We don’t yet know if colonoscopies are better than other methods of screening

My Gastroentrologist told me just recently that the stool test (Cologuard) is very accurate but must be repeated every 3 years as opposed to getting a Colonoscopy which should be repeated every 7 to 10 years

victor106··on Google changes its search box
>I could see a future where Google populates a footer on results with the website logos of the sources.

ChatGPT/Claude does this today. I barely click or care for the source when they already have me the info I wanted.

My speculation is all information worth anything is going to be behind some kind of wall.

victor106··on Think Linear Algebra (2023)
What would you suggest as a complimentary resource to this?
victor106··on Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget
Why doesn’t GCP provide a way to say “shut down all my services if my cap is reached”?
victor106··on LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
> Chrome have fortunately recently released a "extension side panel" mode, and since only DOM changes can be easily identified, using the chrome extension side panel would be virtually un-detectable however this is far less intuitive to use and requires the user to perform some action to open the sidepanel every time they want to use the extension.

As an end user I could not find an option to open the side panel

victor106··on 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
> In 2026, the POTUS, his family and friends are looting the treasury with brazen acts of fraud.

Proof?

victor106··on Anthropic Subprocessor Changes
When you host a solid model on terrible infrastructure, the infrastructure wins
victor106··on Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
I was hopeful for M$FT after they seemed to be ahead in AI compared to other large software co.

Since then they have largely lost the AI race (you can argue they were never in it as they never had a SOTA model and are piggy backing off OpenAI).

Now I read that Win11 is based on React, even a junior developer can tell you that running React natively on any platform will always suck.

victor106··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
One of my clients is planning on moving from Okta to Entra primarily to save $$$.

Is this a bad move? What should I tell them?

victor106··on Java is fast, code might not be
this is great, so practical!!!

any other resources like this?

victor106··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
We tried them as well and they did worse than a foundational LLM model which is saying something.
victor106··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
> cutting out menial decisions such as customer service

This is cited so often. We tried it at a large scale with some of the best engineering talent but unfortunately the humans on the other side preferred speaking to and interacting with a human by a wide margin.

We are still trying with the latest AI models but humans are still doing better at serving other humans.

In one of our studies, we observed by a large margin that our customers would hang up immediately on knowing that they are interacting with an AI system.

I have heard this from others as well.

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