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by recitedropper 4mo ago
- https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/831818/ai-mercor-handshake-scale-surge-staffing-companies - https://outlier.ai/math/en-us - https://www.opentrain.ai/ - https
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
It is interesting to me how controversial this post is. It has the highest upvotes, and most disagreeing comments, of anything I've typed up on HN. I'll gladly admit I think what these companies are doing is unethical, and I'
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
Thank you for engaging with my comment in a kind and authentic way.
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
I'm not letting the government read my brainwaves. In all seriousness though: My suggestion is that those shepherding the frontier of AI start acting with more transparency, and stop acting in ways that encourage conspiratorial thinkin
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
This is impressive, no question. Without knowing all this model has been trained on though, it is pretty hard to ascertain the extent to which it arrived to this "on its own". The entire AI industry has been (not so secretly) payi
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
HN is enormously influential for programmers and employees within the tech industry. Who happen to be exactly who Anthropic, and other AI companies, desperately need adoption from...
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
This is such an excellent summary of everything wrong with Silicon Valley's current ethos.
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
My understanding is that the shortage has more to do with DRAM manufacturer capacity, rather than specifically making chips with high RAM amounts. From TrendForce's analysis: "The laptop market's 2026 shipments have been revi
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by recitedropper 4mo ago
Can't imagine this'll help the RAM shortage.
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
That is what I had heard. Checking now: The way they describe it in their FAQ is that if the price changes, then they will bill you the new price. But I read that as regarding if the primary model provider changes their headline token cost;
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Streaming, caching, and tool calling can get pretty expensive with scale, even when you don't touch inference. Maybe they're doing something clever and are quite profitable.. or maybe they've already taken $40mm from VCs and
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
If you need to self-host, self-host. Sourcehut is obviously not a replacement for that. But, if not: It is different because Drew DeVault is scathingly anti-AI, and has a history of sticking to strong opinions (for better or worse). Seems l
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Everyone seems to believe OpenRouter isn't subsidizing but, until they publish audited financials, I personally doubt it.
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Hate GitHub being down, plus hate AI stealing your code? Join sourcehut--it has worked great for me, and I'd love to see it flourish as a platform.
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
This is hilarious. Seems like kind of a random image for a model to memorize, but it could be. There is definitely enough empirical validation that shows image models retain lots of original copies in their weights, despite how much AI boos
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
I think it's probably both in the end. Anthropic has a lot of fans, and combine that with excited employees and investors, they probably don't need to do much explicit astroturfing to reach top of HN. But they also desperately nee
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Feeling some heat != in trouble. Just that the pressure cooker is turning to a higher temp. But, I'll gladly admit that I am bias: I'm tired of seeing blatant astroturfing by a company whose main marketing tactic is to play on soc
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Plus: So much of excellent user interface design is done through iterating on feedback from live humans testing it with their human sensory system. Until we have embodied AI's with eyes and hands that provide good enough approximations
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by recitedropper 5mo ago
Seems to me like Anthropic is desperately trying to find as many product-market fits as possible before they IPO. They're reaching a chaotic weekly release cadence--each new product chockful of unclear, overlapping capability with thei
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by recitedropper 7mo ago
Starts with "astro" and ends with "turfing". Think about how valuable HN is for a company whose primary market is professional devs.
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
I think we agree no the limitations of the study--I literally began my comment with "for seasoned maintainers of open source repos". I'm not sure if in your first statement ("there are no studies to back up this claim..
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
Sure, but the extent to which you bend the truth to get those impressive numbers is absolutely gotcha-able. Showing a new screen by default to everyone who is using your main product flow and then claiming that everyone who is seeing it is
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
There could definitely be a chance. I was just responding to what in your comment sounded like a question. That said, I think there is a good reason to be skeptical that it is a good chance. The consistent trend of finding higher complexity
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
Yes I recognize that, for various reasons, people will fail to document even when it is a profesional expectation. I guess in this case we are comparing an idealized human to an idealized AI, given AI has equally its own failings in non-ide
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
OK yes, you are right that we might be talking about employing AI toolings in different modes, and that the paper I am referring to is absolutely about agentic tooling executing code changes on your behalf. That said, the first comment of t
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
For seasoned maintainers of open source repos, there is explicit evidence it does slow them down, even when they think it sped them up: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 Cue: "the tools are so much better now&quo
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
Alright, I'm glad to hear you've had a successful and rich professional career. We definitely agree that engineers generally fail to document when they have competing priorities, and that LLMs can be of use to help offload some of
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
"major architectural decisions don't get documented anywhere" "commit messages give no "why"" This is so far outside of common industry practices that I don't think your sentiment generalizes. Or perh
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
I'm sure each of the frontier labs have some secret methods, especially in training the models and the engineering of optimizing inference. That said, I don't think them saying they'd keep a big breakthrough secret would be e
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by recitedropper 10mo ago
Astroturfing used as evidence of domination. Public forums truly have come full circle.

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