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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

frb — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/amazon-releases-its-own-jev-clone-as-decision-models-flood-the-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925103

Points: 2

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music

frb — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:48:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/jimmy-iovine-dr-dre-beats-usc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49417416

Points: 7

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New comment by frb in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

frb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:20:05 +0000

Old bank notes are not in circulation forever. They are accounted for by serial numbers. Banks and ATMs can process the serials and designs and report them. Eventually bank notes get pulled out of circulation. So an old bank note is by default suspicious and gets checked more thoroughly. Counterfeiters mostly benefit by blending in with the masses, so having some old note can raise suspicion.

Maybe it is also just fun...

New comment by frb in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

frb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:37:53 +0000

> I wonder why do we need new notes...

Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the current banknotes are too well known and I guess the counterfeits are getting too close.

New comment by frb in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

frb — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:07:54 +0000

By now I’m more and more starting to wonder how this graph looks for Google itself

New comment by frb in "German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks"

frb — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:07:42 +0000

I wanted to try it today.

Had to request access on huggingface, which was still not answered after a day.

Given all the Inkling and Kimi announcements, this atm just feels like too little too late to be taken seriously.

That said, it’s their first release and I hope they do catch up fast.

New comment by frb in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

frb — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:19:12 +0000

I don’t understand Merz’s obsession with this sick leave topic, like this is going solve the economic crisis in Germany and calling people lazy will score points with voters?

Fun fact: research shows it’s probably not better or worse than before, just more rigorously reported through a new digital system since couple years (before that people needed to send paper slip notes to their employers and insurance, which some just wouldn’t do so the data was incomplete).

On the other hand, they explained that they want to go back to the rules like they were before Covid. Effectively, this means that sick leave notes can be fixed contractually between employers and employees and a lot of companies and contracts have more flexible rules as also most HR departments don’t feel like dealing with the bureaucracy.

New comment by frb in "The Safari MCP server for web developers"

frb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:04:03 +0000

But why would you still test for IE in 2026?

Honest question. I’s < .5% market share and retired since 2023.

New comment by frb in "The Safari MCP server for web developers"

frb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:53:03 +0000

All this felt heavy to me. Full browser, debug protocol, DOM dump on every read. MCP vs CLI is the smaller question, what sits underneath matters more. So I built a small Rust binary that drives the system webview directly and returns state tokens and deltas instead of the DOM. Loading the HN front page costs the agent about 50 tokens. It speaks both MCP and CLI, pick whichever your agent prefers.

https://github.com/frane/vibesurfer

New comment by frb in "Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video"

frb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:45:28 +0000

Had the same experience with Claude, just somehow the entire thing felt (token) expensive.

Palantir: Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty

frb — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:18:40 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/PalantirTech/status/2072114267776491695

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759645

Points: 1

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New comment by frb in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

frb — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:53:48 +0000

Put a maid's uniform on it and looks almost like Rosey for the Jetsons (1962): https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey

Now honest question: How is all of that Daily Reset and Laundry stuff going to work if you have stairs and multiple floors?

New comment by frb in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

frb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:23:21 +0000

  ...the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests....

To me this seems a core issue: PR reviews for most people feel tedious and this has been the case way before AI already.

Don't get me wrong, slop is slop, no matter if AI or entirely human-fabricated. But just like AI-assisted coding can actually be helpful, why can't AI-assisted PR reviews make it less tedious?