Hacker News: alvis

New comment by alvis in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

alvis — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:30:50 +0000

Who are the users? I haven't seen many pro users using cursor

New comment by alvis in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

alvis — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:29:49 +0000

can't X recreate one with 1B? As an IDE, honestly I can't even understand it needs more than 1M to create

New comment by alvis in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

alvis — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:21:08 +0000

This also apply to talking to your wife too.

New comment by alvis in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

alvis — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:16:31 +0000

yeah. I have the same pain. But for your case, don’t start as a marketplace. Start as a concierge service on one route, one parcel category, and one trust model. If you can’t force the first 20 successful matches manually, the market is still too under-specified. my 2cents

New comment by alvis in "Claude Opus 4.7"

alvis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:43:39 +0000

I don't have much quality drop from 4.6. But I also notice that I use codex more often these days than claude code

New comment by alvis in "Claude Opus 4.7"

alvis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:42:10 +0000

TL;DR; iPhone is getting better every year

The surprise: agentic search is significantly weaker somehow hmm...

New comment by alvis in "Claude Opus 4.7"

alvis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:40:10 +0000

TL;DR; iPhone is getting better every year

The surprise: agentic search is significantly weaker somehow hmm...

New comment by alvis in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

alvis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:17:41 +0000

With $122B what are you going to build next? Spaceships?

ChatGPT Atlas Default Browser Promotion

alvis — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:08:41 +0000

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12608430-chatgpt-atlas-default-browser-promotion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580092

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alvis in "ManusAI Joins Meta"

alvis — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:07:17 +0000

A random thought. Metaverse is more interesting if manus get integrated into it

New comment by alvis in "Claude Opus 4.5"

alvis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:28:11 +0000

“For Max and Team Premium users, we’ve increased overall usage limits, meaning you’ll have roughly the same number of Opus tokens as you previously had with Sonnet.” — seems like anthropic has finally listened!

System Card: Claude Opus 4.5 [pdf]

alvis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/64823ba7485345a7/Claude-Opus-4-5-System-Card.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037952

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by alvis in "Claude Opus 4.5"

alvis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:10:18 +0000

What surprise me is that Opus 4.5 lost all reasoning scores to Gemini and GPT. I thought it’s the area the model will shine the most

Most Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in school (2019)

alvis — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:10:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/arabic-numerals-survey-prejudice-bias-survey-research-civic-science-a8918256.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841666

Points: 26

# Comments: 28

New comment by alvis in "ChatGPT Atlas"

alvis — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:24:57 +0000

I’m not sure even if these browser automation brings much value other than financial analysts, at least for the moment

New comment by alvis in "ChatGPT Atlas"

alvis — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:23:32 +0000

Not another comet or Claude browser extension plz. I stopped using them only a few days after launching

New comment by alvis in "OpenAI is about to launch its new AI web browser, ChatGPT Atlas"

alvis — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:11:52 +0000

Not another comet or Claude browser extension plz. I stopped using them only a few days after launching

OpenAI is about to launch its new AI web browser, ChatGPT Atlas

alvis — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:08:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/803481/openai-web-browser-ai-announcement-teaser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658332

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by alvis in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

alvis — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:21:40 +0000

Why would us-east-1 cause many UK banks and even UK gov web sites down too!? Shouldn't they operate in the UK region due to GDPR?

New comment by alvis in "Claude Skills"

alvis — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:35:07 +0000

Is anthropic killing its own plugin just days it was born????