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Show HN: ePub Fixer – repair a narrow set of EPUBCheck errors(epub-fixer.com)
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by shanewei 3mo ago
I get the love letter to text thing, but this is almost too bare. Copy-pasting every URL makes it feel like an unfinished apartment.
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by shanewei 3mo ago
I'm trying to understand the edge here. How is this different from using a crawler + LLM to fetch a page and extract the metrics? Is the main value coverage/reliability across sites?
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by shanewei 3mo ago
This feels less like a broad market and more like a market structure that favors a small number of sophisticated participants.
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by shanewei 3mo ago
That makes sense. Maybe the existing VS Code integration is the place to solve part of this for coding workflows: formatted output, artifacts, and search UI all seem useful next to the editor. The Claude.ai conversation corpus/search s
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by shanewei 3mo ago
What do you miss from the Desktop app that the CLI doesn’t cover? I’m mostly on Linux too and have just been using the CLI, so I’m curious.
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by shanewei 3mo ago
My understanding is that it’s mostly an inference-time knob, not different weights. OpenAI describes reasoning.effort as controlling how many reasoning tokens get used before the answer. Anthropic’s docs are even more explicit that effort t
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by shanewei 3mo ago
This matches my experience. I am building a small tool on top of DeepSeek, and the low model cost changes the pace a lot. It makes it easier to keep experimenting without turning every iteration into a budget decision.
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by shanewei 3mo ago
Congrats to the MySQL team. Nice to see another LTS release.
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by shanewei 3mo ago
Recommended by Codex
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by shanewei 4mo ago
Tried it with a PDF, but after upload I didn’t see any response or output. What kinds of PDFs does it handle best, and what’s the advantage over existing PDF-to-Markdown tools?
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by shanewei 4mo ago
I like this direction. Seems hard to get right, though.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
I’d bet on the boring one: easy to debug, easy to constrain, easy to rip out when it breaks.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
Right. The machine can emit caring-shaped text. Deciding whether it is worth someone else’s time is still the human part.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
I think the missing piece is ownership. AI can produce text that sounds considerate, but it cannot be accountable for wasting someone’s time or leading them in the wrong direction.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
The bottleneck becomes human review, not code generation. A PR can look plausible and still add more entropy than value.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
Exactly. The bottleneck becomes human review, not code generation. Agents can generate commits faster than humans can verify whether those commits should exist.
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by shanewei 4mo ago
As a developer, I don’t think it’s just that costs are going up. I’m also seeing more people lately talk about “vibe slop”.