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New comment by cnqso in "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"

cnqso — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:17:32 +0000

What does WER/CER stand for? I see it as some kind of key metric under each model but not clear what it's measuring

New comment by cnqso in "Show HN: BloonsBench – Evaluate agent performance on Bloons Tower Defense 5"

cnqso — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:38:54 +0000

A few takeaways from my limited test runs:

1. Gemini really loves wizards

2. Running agents is expensive

3. Supervising auto-bloons is about as fun as playing it yourself

Show HN: BloonsBench – Evaluate agent performance on Bloons Tower Defense 5

cnqso — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:35:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cnqso/bloonsbench

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232973

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by cnqso in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

cnqso — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:00:11 +0000

There's a major risk to being the market leader in a new, controversial technology. Look what happened to Juul

New comment by cnqso in "AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service"

cnqso — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:51:10 +0000

Careful not to overestimate the customer

New comment by cnqso in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

cnqso — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:09:36 +0000

What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app

New comment by cnqso in "The Future Is Niri"

cnqso — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:54:24 +0000

I'm a hyprland zoomer but I used Niri for a bit and it worked pretty well. It slots in perfectly for someone coming from an average single-monitor Windows workflow (for most office-style tasks). I still think that more complex tiling setups have a higher productivity ceiling though. I guess if you're like this guy and keep >10 workspaces open at once you'd have to go with Niri. I wonder if the increased battery life would still hold for someone that only keeps a few windows open at once. 2 hours is insane from just a change of wm

New comment by cnqso in "Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide"

cnqso — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:10:12 +0000

Any modern web scraping set up is going to require browser agents. You will probably have to build your own tools to get anything from a major social media platform, or even NYT articles.

New comment by cnqso in "Labeling of Plant-Based Milk Alternatives"

cnqso — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:49:00 +0000

Most regular milk contains abnormally high quantities of endocrine disruptors/bioactive hormones. It probably is not very good to give to children.

New comment by cnqso in "Tech Progress Is Slowing Down"

cnqso — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:33:01 +0000

The presence of currently unfolding areas of innovation doesn't discredit the fact that the exponential progress we've enjoyed since the Industrial Revolution has slowed suddenly over the past few decades.

New comment by cnqso in "Oracle per-employee Java pricing causes concern"

cnqso — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:43:16 +0000

At a certain point, Oracle can safely assume that everything that still hasn't migrated to a modern language will never migrate to a modern language