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New comment by dsco in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

dsco — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:47:24 +0000

Yeah but it also then strikes the perfect balance between being meticulous and pragmatic. Also it pushes back much more often than other models in that mode.

New comment by dsco in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

dsco — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:45:18 +0000

Same here. I feel like all of these shenanigans could be because Anthropic are compute constrained, forcing then to take reckless risks around reducing it.

New comment by dsco in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

dsco — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:40:15 +0000

Because you can't do it in public since it's illegal, but club toilets is where people take it.

New comment by dsco in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

dsco — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:31:25 +0000

This is still the case for me

New comment by dsco in "Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret"

dsco — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:47:12 +0000

Yes if we squint really hard then this could be the reason. It could also be because it's a PR disaster.

New comment by dsco in "Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers"

dsco — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:59:02 +0000

This is unfair and why people see HN as largely a pessimistic crowd. Just because someone might be wrong doesn't mean they are actively trying to deceit you, which I assume you mean with "bullshitting".

It's a new and shiny object and people tend to get over-excited. That's it.

New comment by dsco in "Open models by OpenAI"

dsco — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:18:56 +0000

Does anyone get the demos at https://www.gpt-oss.com to work, or are the servers down immediately after launch? I'm only getting the spinner after prompting.

New comment by dsco in "Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio"

dsco — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:47:44 +0000

Fantastic product! I almost feel bad for Screen Studio as he's a solo creator and charges for the product, this will most certainly be bad news for him

Show HN: An inline UX and conversion helper for developers

dsco — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:15:52 +0000

We've been building a tool called checkra.io to help solo developers with conversion recommendations, copywriting and UX. It's a JS snippet (script tag or npm) that adds a floating button to your site.

Click it, select any part of the page, and ask for feedback ("How can I improve conversion?", "Is this section clear?", "Accessibility issues?"). An AI (GPT-4 for now) analyzes the element + surrounding context and gives you suggestions directly overlayed on the page — even generating HTML/CSS previews for fixes.

It’s for solo devs & small teams — anyone who wants fast feedback without copy pasting HTML back and forth from the browser to the IDE and preview. It’s already caught a bunch of blind spots in own projects and we thought you'd find it interesting.

You can test it live on the checkra.io website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793807

Points: 3

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New comment by dsco in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

dsco — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:50:08 +0000

I've seen this comment a couple of times. What would be a better way of doing it? Also consider that if they would've had a more complex formula, what would be the cost of needing to explain it publicly? Would they then need to start defending the fairness of each tariff vs doing it the simple way and having a single formula across the board?

New comment by dsco in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

dsco — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:34:25 +0000

I wish I could do this for Spotify. Paid plans still include ads.

They cram ads into podcast episodes which themselves also have ads, so you'll get the read ads + Spotify's local ads + Spotify laughs all the way to the bank.

I believe over time not having ads will be a thing of the past, and you'll instead pay for fewer ads. Like where else are people going to go for exclusive content?

New comment by dsco in "How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade"

dsco — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:38:21 +0000

This was an incredible episode interweaving engineering, politics and an idea of where the world might be headed the next 20-30 years.

New comment by dsco in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

dsco — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:14:05 +0000

See I kind of buy the database argument but also kind of don't. A database needs an operator whereas a LLM doesn't. You're basically melting the product into a piece of goo and the UI can be approached using natural language.

For products that still need a UI you could claim that LLM operators take over, so that's still a tax you pay to the incumbents as you interact with a product. It's sort of like we take the money which was paid to SQL operators and engineers and instead pay it to the hyperscalers.

Evo2 Gene Modelling

dsco — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ArcInstitute/evo2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104671

Points: 2

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New comment by dsco in "Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning"

dsco — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:25:37 +0000

How is it not emerging, if the phenomena hasn’t been hard-wired in and is unexpected?

New comment by dsco in "Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team"

dsco — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:03:15 +0000

Things are the way they are. Sometimes you can’t be rational about things.

New comment by dsco in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

dsco — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:11:49 +0000

How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?

New comment by dsco in "Tornado Cash Sanctions Found Illegal, in Legal Win for Crypto"

dsco — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:10:00 +0000

This already happened with SBF who operated under a democrat administration.

The more interesting conversation is how could the UX and potentially AI based investment assistants prevent people from making financially unsound decisions.

New comment by dsco in "Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D"

dsco — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:00:47 +0000

It’s also a result of German unions. It’s practically impossible to fire people in the auto industry, so effectively what we do at VW is we have deadweight organisations where people end up if they are low performers and refuse to leave. The European auto industry is partly a charade to keep people employed.

New comment by dsco in "YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup"

dsco — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:03:15 +0000

Are there any areas where an AI startup can actually make an impact? All I've seen is either billion+ funded foundational models, or thin GPT wrappers - all with the same probability of being default alive.