ValentineC

I have an Apple Watch, but kept that feature off because I didn't want the possibility of someone else being able to fiddle with my MacBook when I'm near enough for the watch unlock to trigger.

I wonder if Jeff Dean facts [1] (I hope people remember the reference) will carry over to the new startup.

[1] https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts

Anyone interested in a meetup in Singapore?

Randomly, my Philips Hue E27 bulbs last far longer than any of the China Zigbee clones I've bought, but like all mass produced goods, there are outliers that fail.

The cheap China stuff tend to fail in a few months, while I've only had two Hue bulbs in my collection fail ever, so Philips seems to be doing something right.

> Microsoft too is a cash cow and seemingly hasn't bet the farm on Copilot.

I think a good follow-up question is: which Copilot?

Anyway, Microsoft seems to be leaning hard into the whole "you can't get fired for buying Microsoft" thing that used to be IBM and AWS. Normies all around the world still insist on using Microsoft Windows and Office.

Anecdotally, they supposedly lost a lot of money on GitHub Copilot's inference costs, at least until June. So they'd be far more equipped to survive an AI crash now.

@dang please update the existing 404 link to https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash

Beige/cream colours and orange accents — wait, isn't that literally the HN design?

(Randomly, I love the Solarized colour schemes, so anything similar is great, vibe-coded or not.)

You're right that it's model dependent, even within Claude models.

I've found Opus 5 far better as a subagent with very limited context window use, which could suggest that it might not have good long context performance unlike its predecessors. (I was one of many tearing my hair out trying to work with Opus 5 for the past week.)

Claude's cache breaks with a reasoning effort adjustment:

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/effort...

It's fixed per account, unlike ChatGPT's which starts when you use it.

Medium or low supposedly prevents Opus 5 from overthinking:

https://xcancel.com/danshipper/status/2080700057892815114

I mentioned this in one of the earlier Opus 5 threads [1], and it's still infuriatingly bad after days.

I've read that Opus 5 has more success if used with Fable as orchestrator, but since I refuse to pay for subscription access to Fable, I'm now trying Opus 4.6 as orchestrator (also since that was the version that got me loving Claude), and Opus 5 low effort as implementor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052980

I'm surprised the layoffs worldwide hasn't produced more entrepreneurs building their own software product.

I haven't been impressed with Opus 5 over the past ~30 hours either.

It's made countless careless mistakes folding in plan amendments after they get reviewed by Sol, and has produced sloppy mockups (e.g. buttons overflowing past cards) despite all the supposed verification claims.

Commit Strip seems to be down, so here's the Wayback Machine version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260521130338/https://www.commi...

Ah, thanks for clarifying!

What I think is more alarming is that Claude's advice for prompting Opus 5 says that Opus will verify its own work [1]:

> Claude Opus 5 verifies its own work without being told to. If your prompt contains explicit verification instructions ("include a final verification step for any non-trivial task," "use a subagent to verify"), remove them: instructions like these cause over-verification on Claude Opus 5, and removing them reduces wasted tokens with no loss in quality.

My own experience over the past ~20 hours hasn't been great either, with Opus producing sloppy mockups (e.g. buttons overflowing past cards) without doing any of the purported verification.

[1] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

I wonder if this is one of the few times simonw's pelican was broken on the first try [1]:

https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...

My experience with Opus 5 thus far haven't been that great either. It's been making mistake after mistake editing my coding plans that were being reviewed by GPT-6 Sol.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/24/introducing-claude-opu...

Suing them could also result in one getting banned from Amazon for good.

I wonder if there's a way the law could make it so companies can't retaliate against people who seeking redress for problems they caused.

Have you considered making it into a PWA?

I've always thought of cloning the old Zero fasting app into one, when I have a bit more time to point my Claude at building something else.

Team is 1.25x the price of personal accounts, but supposedly also gives 1.25x more usage.

Team Premium has Fable 5 too.

I signed up, but wanted to look into the site's history and somehow found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1umrhpz...

Still, I do think Reddit definitely needs more alternatives because their moderation system is broken with power-tripping moderators, and the community admins don't want to do anything about it.

All the best!

For Macs, treat a renewable AppleCare subscription as part of the cost.

Ok, that's fair, and I think that AI isn't that useful for people who don't really know what they want to learn or do.

What I had in mind (and found personally useful myself) was being able to ask a chatbot to break something down into simpler and simpler concepts, until my weak fundamentals or lack of formal education could grasp some bit of it.

I'm not sure many humans (or colleagues at a workplace) would have the patience to tolerate the stupid questions I've been asking.

What are these "top talent" usually talented at, then?

(I'm not talking about OpenAI/Anthropic at this point, but maybe a <10 people startup.)

One thing I've repeatedly told people is that chatbots are often the most patient teachers we'll ever get (especially when explaining "stupid" questions) — compared to what we've encountered on StackOverflow or Reddit.

I don't know if things have changed since, but my understanding remains that Matt runs WordPress.org using his own servers and money, not the foundation's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689906

The foundation was, at some point in time when the drama was at its peak, mostly a feel-good non-profit initiative.

Why do you think it's the best plan available?

> And since the WordPress foundation controls the extension marketplace, they can reliably determine which parts of the API surface are in use, or even invest a chunk of money every month to send AI-written patches to plugin maintainers to ease the transition.

What WordPress foundation?