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Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion

jcfrei — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:44:18 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525392

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

New comment by jcfrei in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jcfrei — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:19:07 +0000

Whether public or individual transportation makes more sense really depends on a country’s geography and people’s housing preferences. Public transportation is not always the best option.

New comment by jcfrei in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jcfrei — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:04:55 +0000

Maybe Im nitpicking here but LLMs are quite literal. So when you tell it to "implement a function for me" it will necessarily write the whole thing. Changing the prompt to "find an existing implementation for this" would be more apt.

Geminis Ad Auction Revealed: "Mechanism Design for Large Language Models"

jcfrei — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10826

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225630

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jcfrei in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jcfrei — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:52:47 +0000

yes, they will.

New comment by jcfrei in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

jcfrei — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:54:27 +0000

I'm surprised prediction markets don't get more support here on HN. There's a lot of benefit in having a probability estimate for various kinds of events. One example of many: https://polymarket.com/event/may-2026-temperature-increase-c

These markets are a straightforward way to cut through all the noise of the current media conglomerates. Rather than getting bombarded by inflated headlines a glance at polymarket or kalshi is often enough to know whether something is actually happening or it's just the media corporations trying to get your attention.

Of course there should be limits with regards to what kind of markets are allowed on these platforms. But in a lot of areas there's genuine price discovery happening that's not available anywhere else.

New comment by jcfrei in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

jcfrei — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:38:02 +0000

I think LLMs will make dealing with complicated ERPs much simpler. So I built a chat-native one that can do all the functionality just via prompting: https://github.com/lambdadevelopment/lambda-erp

New comment by jcfrei in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

jcfrei — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:35:19 +0000

They only want dumb humans doing the shopping not some hyper-focused bot that wont add any extra items into the shopping cart.

New comment by jcfrei in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

jcfrei — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:49:15 +0000

Thanks. The demo itself is prerecorded - so no LLM calls. It's just replaying from the sql db. In an actual request it isn't much slower though in finding what tools to use, etc. You can test it btw. I've allocated an hourly budget - anything that you query after the demo goes to an actual LLM.

New comment by jcfrei in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

jcfrei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:31:03 +0000

good question - some thoughts I had: hosting the model and maybe some review process. for example: you have the customer's employees telling llms about new features and then a dedicated review cycle on the hosting side makes sure it doesnt break anything and is secure, etc.

New comment by jcfrei in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

jcfrei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:12:18 +0000

I believe this is the direction enterprise software is generally going. An open-source base with a very permissive license that then each company can adapt (with claude, codex, etc.) for it's own needs. It's either running it on it's own infrastructure or in hosted environment by the author. I've built a similarly extensible codebase for an ERP: https://github.com/lambdadevelopment/lambda-erp

Show HN: Lambda ERP – Open-source ERP you can run through chat

jcfrei — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:33:46 +0000

Hi HN, I built Lambda ERP, an open-source ERP prototype where chat is the primary interface.

It handles sales/purchase flows, invoices, payments, inventory, double-entry accounting, reports, and chat-generated analytics. There’s a live demo in the README with 3 years of simulated data, plus a Docker Compose setup if you want to run it locally.

It is not production-ready yet; I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, the chat-first workflow, and whether this direction makes sense for small teams that can’t afford traditional ERP implementation projects.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911129

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by jcfrei in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

jcfrei — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:29:47 +0000

A few hours ago I noticed a considerable decline in code quality. It seemed the model got downgraded so I switched to codex. Anybody else noticed this? It starts to switch from deep reasoning and trying to fully grasp architectural changes to trying to solve things on a very adhoc basis. Maybe that's just my imagination or maybe that's Anthropic trying to balance the load before being fully overloaded.

New comment by jcfrei in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

jcfrei — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:39:19 +0000

Another commenter explained it: It's about working on multiple branches in parallel. You can only check out one branch at a time currently in git - but with "but" you have all the changes just in memory so different agents can work on different branches at the same time.

New comment by jcfrei in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

jcfrei — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:30:43 +0000

I'm still looking for a viable alternative to AWS or Azure. A European provider that can be managed through Terraform and can spin up all the services a standard web application needs: K8s, DNS, Mail Service, Blob Storage, etc.

New comment by jcfrei in "Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft"

jcfrei — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:44:24 +0000

The war in Iran proves the opposite: It is actually the future. The US could easily establish air dominance over Iran, yet it can't stop their military from launching smaller drones both in the air and at sea. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed and air power alone seems unlikely to fix the situation. If you want to effectively eliminate an opponent nowadays you need an army of drones - the economics don't work out if you are only fielding expensive ships, planes and missiles. And regarding your point that an Apache can easily shoot down a drone: Roughly 9/10 drones in the Russia Ukraine frontline get shot down and the remaining 10% make up for about 80% of the casualties (rest being mostly artillery and mines).

New comment by jcfrei in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

jcfrei — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:29:51 +0000

Quick fixes have tendencies to break other stuff and just make matters worse. Better to leave it offline for a little longer, fix the definitive root issue and make sure it comes online nicely. If the issue was just a quirk in a recent deployment then these probably can be reverted easily on the endpoints where they were just deployed (I'm sure they are using staggered roll-outs). These long term downtime things are probably not issues related to a recent release.

New comment by jcfrei in "When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture"

jcfrei — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:33:03 +0000

Lots of similarities to the Bitcoin investment thesis. Where the chain itself becomes the product and not any utility derived from it. You have to believe in a future where all fiat money crashes and becomes worthless, evil states confiscate other forms of wealth, like stocks and bonds but for some reason will be powerless to prevent bitcoin transfers. At the same time the hard limit of 21 million BTC will never be revoked despite continuously declining miners revenue. And only within that strict narrative does a long-term investment really make sense.

New comment by jcfrei in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

jcfrei — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:15:24 +0000

Again - poor people, which:

- still drive old cars with lots of CO2 emissions

- live far away from their workplace

- probably have a poorly isolated home with oil or gas heating

will be the ones with higher than average emissions. And the rich people who do will just shrug at this minor extra expense. I feel like this is not mentioned enough in discussions (probably because wealth disparity is such a touchy subject) but your ability to reduce your carbon footprint is also directly tied to your wealth.

New comment by jcfrei in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

jcfrei — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:45:33 +0000

Not sharing your take of the electorate's powerlessness at all. It's not an overwhelming majority (only 57% of voters in the US: https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54124-nearly-half-american...) which thinks they need to do more about climate change. I think most politicians are in tune with their voters - you need to change the people's minds if you want stricter policies. Refine the question a bit more and ask people if they still want to do more against climate change if some basic necessities in their life will get more expensive and you will likely even drop below 50%.