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New comment by oofbaroomf in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:04:29 +0000

ChatGPT recommended me some good hard drives for price per TB, and one particularly cheap one had direct checkout with Walmart, so I tried it, because why not? It let me get all the way to the payment step before it told me it was out of stock. Walmart's website told me it was out of stock when I decided to click on the link. This is probably part of why it doesn't convert.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

oofbaroomf — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:01:16 +0000

I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default).

Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:39:57 +0000

Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:30:10 +0000

Ugh, I just wish there was a deterministic and formal way to tell a computer what I want...

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Two insider cases we've recently closed"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:42:49 +0000

"Prediction" markets were supposed to be great because of insiders: they make the probabilities much more accurate and actually useful for forecasting.

But they ended up just being for gamblers and there is no more signal.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents"

oofbaroomf — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:46:48 +0000

Is this essentially a cloud-managed specialized subagent with an LLM-friendly API?

Seems like an interesting new category.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:01:41 +0000

20% loss isn't too bad if you start out at double the capacity though.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Some software bloat is OK"

oofbaroomf — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:41:43 +0000

Ok, but something like Zed is almost as snappy as native GUI frameworks AND has a consistent user experience. It doesn't seem like they are making any tradeoffs there.

Ask HN: KDE and Fedora or Omarchy?

oofbaroomf — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:37:05 +0000

Are there any who have tried both? What are the advantages and disadvantages for devs?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294009

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

oofbaroomf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:11:29 +0000

a "clear" opinion... :)

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:36:20 +0000

I think AI Studio uses the API, so rate limits are extremely high and almost impossible for a normal human to reach if using the paid preview model.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:09:45 +0000

Mathematicians don't do high school math competitions - the benchmark in question is AIME.

Mathematicians generally do novel research, which is hard to optimize for easily. Things like LiveCodeBench (leetcode-style problems), AIME, and MATH (similar to AIME) are often chosen by companies so they can flex their model's capabilities, even if it doesn't perform nearly as well in things real mathematicians and real software engineers do.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:07:56 +0000

The improvement from Claude 3.7 wasn't particularly huge. The improvement from Claude 3, however, was.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:54:20 +0000

Nice to see that Sonnet performs worse than o3 on AIME but better on SWE-Bench. Often, it's easy to optimize math capabilities with RL but much harder to crack software engineering. Good to see what Anthropic is focusing on.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:51:37 +0000

Interesting how Sonnet has a higher SWE-bench Verified score than Opus. Maybe says something about scaling laws.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Claude 4"

oofbaroomf — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:50:25 +0000

Wonder why they renamed it from Claude (e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to Claude (Claude Opus 4).

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Devstral"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:56:19 +0000

No. I am referring to Claude 3.5 Sonnet New, released October 22, 2024, with model ID claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, colloquially referred to as Claude 3.6 Sonnet because of Anthropic's confusing naming.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Devstral"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:19:31 +0000

The SWE-Bench scores are very, very high for an open source model of this size. 46.8% is better than o3-mini (with Agentless-lite) and Claude 3.6 (with AutoCodeRover), but it is a little lower than Claude 3.6 with Anthropic's proprietary scaffold. And considering you can run this for almost free, this is a very extraordinary model.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

oofbaroomf — Wed, 14 May 2025 02:03:29 +0000

> I wondered if Microsoft would...do this properly

No.

New comment by oofbaroomf in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

oofbaroomf — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:07:05 +0000

A little bit unrelated, but the rise of Transformers in 2022 was because of the compute available - in 2018, it would have been almost impossible to make something like GPT-4.