<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: meric_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=meric_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:34:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=meric_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meric_ in "Muse Spark 1.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cline experiment: <a href="https://x.com/cline/status/2085237843379519737" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/cline/status/2085237843379519737</a><p>Muse code: <a href="https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-code/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse...</a><p>> Co-trained with the harness. Muse Code was in the training loop from day one, so tool calls succeed and plans execute cleanly. Crucially, we trained across multiple harnesses, so while the model is at its best in Muse Code, it still generalizes to other coding agents you already use.</p>
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<p>You should use their harness. They trained it on multiple harnesses but have specifically optimized it for their harness. Cline also did an independent experiment w spark 1.2 where using the native harness makes it use fewer tokens / turns to accomplish tasks</p>
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<p>I don't understand. Why is meta paying 70% while Google tiktok etc are paying 15-30%<p>Are these not the same apps</p>
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<p>Because those trivial offences are a nuisance. BART spent millions implementing fare gates which so far, is at a huge loss, but it's dramatically lowered maintenance cost and crime on the transit.<p>Similarly stores with loss prevention guards are probably losing money, but I'd much rather that than having to click a button to unlock items, etc.</p>
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<p>Im curious, how often is SSD / storage speed performance really useful? I feel like for many people it's akin to gigabyte wifi in that its nice to have, but not really particularly necessary</p>
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<p>OpenRouter is already the entrenched go-to router tbh. There's competitors (Vercel) but they're already well known. Stripe can also make them more competitive because they can waive / profit off the transaction cost. Considering stripe takes like a 3% fee, and the openrouter markup is 5%, that's a pretty big boost.<p>Now is that enough revenue to earn back 7B.... I'm not too sure. I guess they're betting realy big that these sorts of model routers will gain explosive token usage in the future</p>
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<p>IMO I disagree. I find the built in harness (database, browser use, etc.) quite good.<p>The only downside (and a big one) is that by not being natively offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. you're paying @ API billing and not plan billing, which makes it less appealing. (Of course Manus has a wrapper around this w some token system, but it ends up being expensive)</p>
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<p>It's apache 2.0. Not exactly restrictive?</p>
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<p>A janitor doesn't need prediction markets. They could just short the stock (and profit way more that way)</p>
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<p>Do you know where you are lol? HN is ran by YC. All of the ads are YC ads for that reason</p>
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<p>I'm not sure why they even included Opus in the graph. This is effectively a flash/haiku model & should only be compared against Luna</p>
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<p>Lol is that a helmet? Clearly they're taking the Anthropic path and are safety pilling their models</p>
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<p>I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? Human moderators? Sure, but Meta products have approximately half the worlds population using them. At this scale it's pretty mind bogglingly difficult to moderate down everything. The  ads/posts served per second is an astronomical number.<p>This truly is a case where AI is the solution. There's no way to automate this at scale with humans. As AI gets better hopefully detection and moderation will catch up</p>
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<p>Isn't this a non story? (At least from Flocks perspective) it seems mostly like the fault of the officers involved.<p>The title makes it sound like they actively seeked to silence a journalist, but nothing in the actual article correlates with that. In fact it's not even the title of the article nor claimed at all in the article.<p>There's no fancy AI needed to OCR out a 10. It's quite believable at least from Flocks perspective that it's the way the police want it set up. I mean the fact that officers typo'd in the wrong initial value seems to support that.<p>This is a problem with the cops. Not flock.</p>
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<p>Video is better. The models just chose older video models which are not SOTA</p>
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<p>It's the YC playbook. I guess it works, Corgi for example a "AI" insurance company with like only 5 real engineers and a bunch of growth people. Their main customer is other startups mostly YC. Same with Delve.</p>
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<p>Yes but my point is
- Resource limits are a "recommendation" and are not strictly enforced
- Significantly boosting resources up to 3 did not statistically shift performance results<p>Sure for old tasks you could argue that now its not required to boost because infra errors are alleviated with better default limits. My point more so is that its a strange thing to index on because if you wanted to cheat on the benchmark, it does not particularly seem like something that shifts results? Once the API is out maybe I'll eat my words, but I don't really believe that if you manually tried to reproduce the results with lower limits you'd see significantly different results</p>
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<p>No they didn't. Please read: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise</a></p>
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<p>Huh? What are you talking about?<p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise</a><p>Is anthropic benchmark maxxing and cheating on terminal bench too? They don't follow the strict resource "limits" either</p>
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<p>It seems to rank at around the same as nano banana (slightly higher) in blind A/B test benchmark but of course gpt image is a step above both right now</p>
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