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New comment by column in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

column — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:33:48 +0000

Pi will blow your mind :)

New comment by column in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

column — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:25:53 +0000

Typo : Webiste URL The site is unusable on mobile even with desktop mode In desktop mode the instructions to use the arrows appeared only after I zoomed out, they would gain from being part of the top banner Would be nice to have the final listing : 1st place, second place, joined third

New comment by column in "Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering"

column — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:10:45 +0000

ok but then why is ChatGPT's personality so infuriating? "It's not just X, it's Y." "Here it is, no extra text, no fluff."

New comment by column in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

column — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:00:10 +0000

"How?" <- It shows a lack of curiosity?

"probably know enough" <- that's exactly the point of the question, is the candidate clueless about AI/LLM.

New comment by column in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

column — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:02:00 +0000

You are not alone. The silver lining is they show their true colors early.

New comment by column in "I’m joining OpenAI"

column — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:47:15 +0000

It does not matter that he vibe-coded it. It does not matter if any stars/twitter post were bought. He generated hype and that's what big AI company need at the moment. They hire him, they give a cut on that hype. If he's no good (at generating any hype) in the coming months, he'll be gone. It's hype all the way down.

New comment by column in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

column — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:43:09 +0000

but you can walk over to them and tell them to go wash the car that is 50 meters away. no driving involved.

New comment by column in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

column — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:40:55 +0000

50 meters is a very short distance, anything but a slow drive is a reckless drive

New comment by column in "Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google"

column — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:37:53 +0000

In 2022 midjourney's CEO said anything they release now would be obsolete in 6 months time. That seemed wild, but he was right.

New comment by column in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

column — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:09:01 +0000

Hi! Windows support when?

New comment by column in "Gemini 3"

column — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:51:50 +0000

Very telling of what?

New comment by column in "Gemini 3"

column — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:39:48 +0000

"[a photoshopped picture of a dog with 5 legs]...please count the legs"

Meanwhile you could benchmark for something actually useful. If you're about to say "But that means it won't work for my use case of identifying a person on a live feed" or whatever, then why don't you test that? I really don't understand the kick people get of successfully tricking LLMs on non productive task with no real world application. Just like the "how many r in strawberry?", "uh uh uh it says two urh urh".. ok but so what? What good is a benchmark that is so far from a real use case?

New comment by column in "We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube"

column — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:09:27 +0000

> right now, you need to show the robot pictures of what you want it to do. want it to "clean the kitchen"? better have a photo of a clean kitchen handy.

What about using Flux Kontext (or Controlnets) to turn the messy kitchen into a clean kitchen?

New comment by column in "Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello"

column — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:38:33 +0000

Feedback : when creating a workspace, a board, or a list, pressing "Enter" is not the same as clicking the "Create" button which is the only button visible. Pressing "Enter" does not create the list.

For a new user like me, the difference between a workspace, a board, and a list is not obvious. A one image explanation would be welcomed.

New comment by column in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

column — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:55:44 +0000

(Xiao)mi mo(del) ?

New comment by column in "Pope Francis has died"

column — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:46:11 +0000

[flagged]

New comment by column in "Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers"

column — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:47:16 +0000

o1's take on your bonus question seems reasonable :

Yes. Art can have intrinsic and personal value for its creator, independent of any external audience. Unseen art lacks immediate external value [to others] but retains latent worth, potentially realized when discovered or appreciated in the future.

New comment by column in "Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers"

column — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:22:45 +0000

This looks pretty cool to integrate in hobby projects, however after creating an account via Google, clicking "Payment portal" shows this error :

Error creating billing portal Failed to create billing portal session: No configuration provided and your live mode default configuration has not been created. Provide a configuration or create your default by saving your customer portal settings in live mode at https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/portal.

Also when trying to update my profile picture :

Failed to update image! column users.current_period_end does not exist

New comment by column in "Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap"

column — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:03:02 +0000

Press Tab, use WSAD to move and mouse to aim = Discount Flight Simulator! Love it.

New comment by column in "The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)"

column — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:20:37 +0000

But nowadays you can simply ask a vision model