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by nikcub 7d ago
from my own observations: a) you don't want the WPEngine case going to trial and that is coming to a decision point soon. chances are the new CEO and board settle. b) wordpress is being absolutely obliterated by ai. work for commercial
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by nikcub 8d ago
> "just ChatGPT, what is Sol?." i'd really like to see some analytics on what proportion of users have ever switched the model in chatgpt because I anecdotally believe it is < 5%
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by nikcub 28d ago
getting zero traction here is clearly the path to success :)
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by nikcub 28d ago
same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 are there more examples of this? a bit of an HN anti-portfolio. good reminder to others.
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by nikcub 28d ago
I love OpenRouter, long time user. Stripe will hopefully be a good custodian. I just want to point out some features of OpenRouter that make it more than just a model selection and routing endpoint and that I find incredibly useful: 0/
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by nikcub 1mo ago
yes but it was a stock deal - so they bought it using spacex bucks
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by nikcub 1mo ago
It was said at the time that xAI acquiring Cursor was very smart because it would give them access to years of agent coding traces from millions of users. $60B in SpaceX stock for Cursor was a bargain Data + compute + being competent and sm
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by nikcub 1mo ago
that DeepSWE result is likely most indicative of how you'll find real world usage
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by nikcub 1mo ago
There has been an over-obsession with frontier models and benchmarks. Most of the work will be done by task specific models. You don't put Phds on the factory floor.
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by nikcub 1mo ago
public ones are content moderation as above and previously llama guard, et al OCR is also another field - Mistral have a model, so do deepseek The ones I have experience with where you fine-tune smaller / faster models for business tas
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by nikcub 1mo ago
> which seems to be mistrals whole thing They got a lot of hate for not keeping up with frontier model releases, but have managed to carve out a nice business that isn't even really niche. Before the datacenter deals their revenue w
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by nikcub 2mo ago
sign up for the resellers, insert a random id canary into your requests, trace them back on your server to tie it to an account find fingerprints / signatures of the accounts being used. ban all of them. eventually build an ml based sy
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> The most damning thing is, they could've just included in the prompt You can't prompt your way to a compliant model. This is just a reformatting of the 'make no mistakes' meme.
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> AI managed to escape using standard and well documented script kiddie methods > AI broke in using standard script kiddie methods. I've spent time gathering the detail of what happen here and while there are some solid theories
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> I've seen it correctly detect AI writing even when people use those "humanizer" rewriting skills Those skills are meant for humans, not for models. Pangram said in their recent model update that they now also detect the
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Two critical SQLi vulnerabilities in WordPress(wordpress.org)
1 points by nikcub 2mo ago|0 comments
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by nikcub 2mo ago
Those thin capitalized eyebrows are becoming like the emdashes of visual design
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> I pretty sure OpenAI and Anthropic are doing the same or worse. No they're not. It would end both companies if they were ever found to be doing that. Their terms are clear - if you use the coding plans they can[0] train in return.
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by nikcub 2mo ago
Real test here would be using tinker to fine tune a tinker model to generate pelicans
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by nikcub 2mo ago
This is a winner IMO. Lots of cost pressure on token spend atm within enterprises and tasks that don't require Opus / Codex class models. These companies have hopefully captured all of their traces and now have enough to fine-tune
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by nikcub 2mo ago
It kinda is since wholesale energy prices are often negative in these markets during the day
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> WA could be part of the NEM with some HVDC across the Nullabor, not sure if it would be economically worthwhile though. Part of the motive of moving the WEM to 5 minute intervals was to eventually leave this option open. The largest re
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by nikcub 2mo ago
> The embedded networks collude with the builders and offer them the installation I got into a dispute with my embedded provider because of a bad meter and came to discover through friends and family in the construction industry as well
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by nikcub 3mo ago
I'm glad there are more attempts at solving model routing, as costs (at API rates) has really become an issue. Some feedback: 1. Reiterate the cache issue from other comments already here. there is a lot of optimisation in harnesses ar
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by nikcub 3mo ago
This is devastating. Om was the godfather of early tech blogging and lifted up so many people around him. He was kind, caring and compassionate. When I first started blogging around 25 years ago, he would have been amongst the first 10 read
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by nikcub 3mo ago
Google are the only one of the big three who can tick the boxes on being multimodal, price / performance and having Apple-level of compute available
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by nikcub 3mo ago
> "a well written agents.md is very good for the agent" while even a mildly bad agents.md can be _very_ bad for the agent. they rot very quickly which is why human curation is essential. same with memory - a lot of the self-lea
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by nikcub 3mo ago
Bright Data is available as a product on AWS Marketplace https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=bf9b432...
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by nikcub 3mo ago
Same - have accounts with 3 different services and have never been KYC'd even with heavy usage.
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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy(blog.includesecurity.com)
235 points by nikcub 3mo ago|105 comments

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