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New comment by voiper1 in "This time is different"

voiper1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:06:28 +0000

>Blockchain... NFTs >The problem is, the same dudes who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial Intelligence.

I was firmly in the camp that blockchain was not a viable solution to any problem, and that NFTs sound stupid. I think AI is much different than that list. So, there goes your argument?

New comment by voiper1 in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"

voiper1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:13:27 +0000

I hear your pushback, but that I think that's his point:

Even seasoned coders using plan mode are funneled towards "get the code out" when experience shows that the final code is a tiny part of the overall picture.

The entire experience should be reorganized that the code is almost the afterthought, and the requirements, specs, edge cases, tests, etc are the primary part.

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

voiper1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:32:04 +0000

My theory is that even if the models are frozen here, we'll still spend a decade building out all the tooling, connections, skills, etc and getting it into each industry. There's so much _around_ the models that we're still working on too.

New comment by voiper1 in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

voiper1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:11:14 +0000

I definitely didn't expect one-shot to mean "let it run itself in an indefinite loop"

New comment by voiper1 in "It’s been a very hard year"

voiper1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:58:11 +0000

Surely there's AI usage that's not morally reprehensible.

Models that are trained only on public domain material. For value add usage, not simply marketing or gamification gimmicks...

New comment by voiper1 in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

voiper1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:54:11 +0000

Of course my first thought was: Let's use this as a tool for AI searches (when I don't need recent news).

New comment by voiper1 in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

voiper1 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:20:29 +0000

Never seen that one, thanks! Alt text: "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit."

(And obligatory https://xkcd.com/1053/)

Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto

voiper1 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:39:26 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/provider-variance-introducing-exacto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674861

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by voiper1 in "Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings"

voiper1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:16:07 +0000

Wow, looks like a tremendous commitment and depth of knowledge went into this one-man project. I couldn't even read the whole write up, I had to skim part of it. I'm super impressed.

New comment by voiper1 in "Lasagna Battery Cell"

voiper1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:16:57 +0000

I know tomato (acidic) will make holes in aluminum foil but I didn't know more than that.

I guess today's my day: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by voiper1 in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

voiper1 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:41:05 +0000

>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

voiper1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:38:23 +0000

But "utter crap" isn't just an aesthetic issue - that can mean all kinds of bugs and malfunctions!

New comment by voiper1 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

voiper1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:36:48 +0000

He did say he doesn't know if the center has cash inside... but a hollow core definitely defeats the display purpose!

New comment by voiper1 in "Show HN: Cpdown – Copy any webpage/YouTube subtitle as clean Markdown(LLM-ready)"

voiper1 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:56:29 +0000

Chrome web store link got truncated, this is the link from github: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cpdown/knnaflplggjd...

Will give it a try, thanks!

New comment by voiper1 in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"

voiper1 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:51:59 +0000

I don't like the thinking time, but for coding, journaling, and other stuff I've often been impressed with Gemini Pro 2.5 out of the box.

Possibly I could do much more prompt fine-tuning to nudge openai/anthropic in the direction I want, but with the same prompts Gemini often gives me answers/structure/tone I like much better.

Example: I had claude 3.7 generating embedding images and captions along with responses. Same prompt into Gemini it gave much more varied and flavorful pictures.

New comment by voiper1 in "The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)"

voiper1 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:21:32 +0000

The eiruv only works as a loophole for the added stringencies by the Rabbis. Anything that's considered totally public in actual Torah Law (which is a big debate what exactly that is) is not subject to the permissibility of creating an eiruv.

New comment by voiper1 in "The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles"

voiper1 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:42:22 +0000

Isn't "left or right" _followed_ by rationale asking it to rationalize it's 1 word answer - I thought we need to get AI to do the chain of though _before_ giving it's answer for it to be more accurate?

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude 4"

voiper1 — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:08:59 +0000

The benchmarks in many ways seem to be very similar to claude 3.7 for most cases.

That's nowhere near enough reason to think we've hit a plateau - the pace has been super fast, give it a few more months to call that...!

I think the opposite about the features - they aren't gimmicks at all, but indeed they aren't part of the core AI. Rather it's important "tooling" that adjacent to the AI that we need to actually leverage it. The LLM field in popular usage is still in it's infancy. If the models don't improve (but I expect they will), we have a TON of room with these features and how we interact, feed them information, tool calls, etc to greatly improve usability and capability.

New comment by voiper1 in "DeepSeek-Prover-V2"

voiper1 — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:40:16 +0000

I've been using that as a test of new LLMs - and do it in a specific style.

New comment by voiper1 in "Deaf "hearing" companion- Alerts for people who can't hear sounds they should"

voiper1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:09:51 +0000

I assume they mean when the phone is "turned off" meaning the screen is off, not powered down.