Hacker News: slake

New comment by slake in "Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?"

slake — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:31:19 +0000

Funnily I've found advanced models to be bad at calculating the length of a string.

New comment by slake in "Dear people who work at the airport"

slake — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:49:27 +0000

Heathrow has especially gotten horrible. It used to be my favourite transit airport, now it's packed to the brim with barely any place to sit. The restrooms are ill-maintained.

The security opens into a narrow space with a 100 people trying to put on their belts and shoes while acres of real estate is wasted on empty Hermes, Gucci stores.

While I find British people generally pleasant to talk to, the ones at Heathrow feel like they're jail wardens.

New comment by slake in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

slake — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:54:27 +0000

The VCs footing the bill is really your pension funds and 401Ks and banks passing through the VCs. If VCs lose money the contagion spreads through the economy.

New comment by slake in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

slake — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:48:11 +0000

There goes Enterprise usage

New comment by slake in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

slake — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:13:46 +0000

Also if this is on the path of anything the Chinese do in the physical goods world, inference will be rockbottom cheap in a few years because they'll invest in the hell out of energy, GPUs, research, etc. The same thing they did with EVs.

Only artificial barriers will keep people using some of the frontier stuff in a couple of years. No costs will justify.

Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?

slake — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:32:17 +0000

Just an observation. When asked to summarize articles, or extract insights, I see the word 'prior' being used a lot more by Claude than usual English language writing (Journalistic essence). And it's clearly using it in a Bayesian sense, because it's always mentioning things like 'Updating priors', 'the prior doesn't hold', etc.

Probably something I noticed after reading the 'goblin' and 'gremlin' article.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970734

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New comment by slake in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

slake — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:30:55 +0000

I actually like 2006 twitter. Almost pleasant because of its obscurity.

- Only 140 characters - Increasing that added to the slop. Brevity was soul - No 'For you' algo. You had to find and follow the people you wanted to follow and then read all of their posts - RTing it was literally adding RT in front of the other person's tweet. - There was a 'like' icon (I think - don't remember) - There was no paid 'verified' accounts. You had to signal your official twitter account through different means. - There was no monetization for random clickbait ragebait content. - Ads are not that intrusive on twitter. That as a monetization strategy still works. - You only discovered people and not content.

New comment by slake in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

slake — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:32:16 +0000

Bro. I'm obsessed with this. I spent a good 2-2.5 hours on a trot with this. This was one of those things I always wanted to learn a lot about and this was just perfect for that. It wasn't that easy, I really struggled and gave up on some levels but came back and struggled through them. The HexRacer type levels are difficult and I wish I could skip through those.

Also when you give a solution, you probably need an explanation of why that works.

Can't wait till you add the additional coming soon levels.

Your feedback feature seems broken. I tried giving feedback about some basic bugs and it kept saying can't send message.

Please also add a waitlist to notify when you release the additional levels.

New comment by slake in "Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents"

slake — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:44:11 +0000

I'm wondering if this can use different workspace folders for different projects? I'd like to manage all my side projects through this but I can't put them all in one folder.

New comment by slake in "Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw"

slake — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:55:25 +0000

Funnily it seems you were already more organized than I am today before you had the *Claw. That's why you were able to transition to it as a 'life operating system'.

I have too much stuff in my head and nothing written down and that's beginning to be a hindrance to the transition.

New comment by slake in "Sovereignty in a System Prompt"

slake — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:49:58 +0000

Phew. What is your system prompt? Are you 4b or 8b?

New comment by slake in "Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked"

slake — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:25:27 +0000

Conspiracy theory here, but all the big AI companies have to do is find some 0-days and cause some data leaks at the top SoR companies for this confidence to waver.

New comment by slake in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

slake — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:32:20 +0000

That's amazing. Feels like a major step ahead. No lag, very snappy. Outstanding work.

Feels like those sci-fi shows where you can talk to Hari Seldon even though he lived like a 100 years ago.

My prediction, this will become really, really big.

New comment by slake in "Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database"

slake — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:09:08 +0000

Wouldn't this expose your github token to anyone in the frontend?

New comment by slake in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

slake — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:37:35 +0000

This is so cool. These are shareable I guess? I built this to give me recommendations of good non-fiction books to read...

https://www.phind.com/search/i-want-to-find-out-d79b4dca-bac...

New comment by slake in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

slake — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:45:51 +0000

May I ask what kind of tasks these are specifically? Is it mostly data entry, management and reporting? Or are you interfacing with devices?

New comment by slake in "Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL"

slake — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:21:22 +0000

Sometimes I think we need to expose what 'memories' or their semantic representation has been stored in a 'memory store' so that humans can review and verify it over time. This will help the LLM 'forget' things that the humans using it don't really think is that relevant.

New comment by slake in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

slake — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:13:42 +0000

This is how I don't get when some predict that we'll have a shorter working week when AI improves productivity. If productivity gains are 50% the companies would rather have 50% lesser employees rather than 50% shorter work weeks.

New comment by slake in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

slake — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:10:16 +0000

This is just MSFT (as did others) acknowledging the future has a lot less workers in it.

New comment by slake in "How we solved multi-modal tool-calling in MCP agents – VLM Run MCP"

slake — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:56:09 +0000

Noiceee!