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recsv-heredocon Trump orders US Government to call AI 'Super Intelligence'

Was OpenAI's demo day really that great?

recsv-heredocon OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription

The assumption of the math is that you are not using Astra (which is hilarious). If you are not using Astra there is no point currently when Claude Opus 5.5 exists.

recsv-heredocon Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

proof?

recsv-heredocon Claude is a Contrarian

No it's not! (I jest)

recsv-heredocon U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

"sudden"

recsv-heredocon WireguardTCP: WireGuard over TCP

TCP is very tough to get right - with this said ,this would be great to help network-deployments where UDP is blocked and other restrictions such as national firewalls apply.

Exciting iff this gets upstreamed.

recsv-heredocon qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

Realtime multiplayer - to clarify the position.

recsv-heredocon qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

Kinda makes sense. Multiplayer is at odds with async, generally speaking - and LLMs/agents really see their productivity rise up with async work.

recsv-heredocon qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

Aren't there a ton of products already doing this? Why not just use claude Cowork? Surely they're simpler/better/more featureful/developed than the alternatives here? What advantage does this have? Would love to see a 'QM vs Cowork' comparison!

recsv-heredocon Flux 3 seems to be imminent

This is now 404ing. Someone at BFL reads HN.

recsv-heredocon Flux 3 seems to be imminent

Hopefully they've had enough time to improve things since then.

Open SoTA hasn't dramatically advanced at the top end (efficiency gains, sure, but nothing remarkable yet) since those releases.

recsv-heredocon Frozen 2 should be Rated R

Why do you still have a television in your home?

recsv-heredocon How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

very load bearing suggestion.

recsv-heredocon Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode

Having to have Xcode installed is more than half the problem. It makes Visual Studio look lightweight.

recsv-heredocon Odyssey Linux

It's unlikely that someone who understands this well enough to see its value wouldn't be completely comfortable with a terminal interface.

recsv-heredocon Ask HN: Model access depends on citizenship. What should Non-US founders do?

Great article. This is exactly what we're doing from a product perspective.

What if the frontier-minus-6-months assumption does not hold? The US has 5x the AI Capex of China, and 10x the EU. Assuming AI is compute limited (we certainly seem to be given the RAM crisis) - wouldn't it be reasonable to assume frontier models are likely to continue to pull ahead?

recsv-heredocon Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

The harness is really important. It matters so much - possibly even more than the model. We had harness crashes after running many agents - granted we were doing quite a bit with it. Grok Build (as a product) review here:

UX friction behind is worse than Claude Code - but seems to be a strange positioning choice - they're more on the 'vibe' side than the 'agentic engineering' things.

Largest issue was actually reviewing output - but if you're going to largely make that opaque from the user, why choose a CLI-based interface that's so mouse-heavy?

There's also problems with the actual model. Thinking is visible, and every interaction goes like this:

"I would like you to investigate adding an API route to tackle x,y,z" *Grok, thinking: Okay - the user has asked me to add an API route to tackle x,y,z"

Also absolutely absurd other quirks - "I have no tools available in my context" being visible in the CoT.

The auto-approval (yellow, auto-mode) review of Claude Code via Opus is a killer feature - every build-it CLI should be offering this for long horizon tasks.

Messaged one of the engineers about our experience - no feedback.

You'd be better off with Claude Code 5x Max than the 300 USD/month subscription.

recsv-heredocon Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle

The cost of compute and inference efficiency keeps dropping. Deepseek has numerous advantages here that Anthropic has not likely implemented.

If we assume the current rate of 10x reduction every year or so, profitability is inevitable. It’s just a market-share cash-fight at the top right now.

recsv-heredocon No More JetBrains Products for Me

It's very hard to compete with the massively-token-subsidized big players when our entire team is spending nearly 20x the claude code subscription cost in API token usage - it's impossible for anyone else to do it without eating huge losses.

Junie - their coding agent - was also a miss. I've had Rider for almost 10 years currently - but considering dropping it. Tradcoding is basically dead, and a lightweight text editor with tree-sitter has come a long way - and it's good enough to read/micro edit with anyway.

I feel bad for them as it's been such a stable product for decades of excellent development, but the world moves on.

recsv-heredocon Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

Maybe that's not how it's being used though - Nobody needs photoshop to solve a specific focused problem.

Photoshop is a (formerly?) great toolbox. Toolboxes are good if you need to cater to a wide audience. An audience of one via bespoke software - the real revolution - doesn't need the full photoshop experience.

Countless examples previously requiring photoshop are now replaced with some ffmpeg and imagemagick pipelines written by AI daily.

recsv-heredocon Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

CloudFlare offers excellent service for many of the open-weights models. It's fast, cheap and simple to set up. Can highly suggest as an LLM provider.

They serve gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.

recsv-heredocon Show HN: Site Mogging

There's so much tracking on this site it's even running WebGL to try and fingerprint the browser. Is that really necessary for a joke site, or does this ship by default with every CloudFlare site?

recsv-heredocon L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

I can highly suggest visidata! https://www.visidata.org

It's an incredibly useful piece of software for data wrangling and exploration.

recsv-heredocon Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American

LLMs are rapidly becoming the first 'purely digital commodity'.

Being digital it's somewhat hard to apply any kind of trade protectionism or Chicken Tax onto them. Maybe there's a market for cruelty-free vegan non-GMO (low-water-use sustainable energy) LLM tokens as well as European ones?

I really like what Mistral did for open Models - but what is the plan to compete against the likes of Moonshot, DeepSeek in the global market? When you can get Kimi K2.6 served via cloudflare it raises tough questions on the economics of it all.

What exactly is Mistral's strategy is aside from niche regulatory requirements or a Eurocentric hedge for AI sovereignty? Do they even have ambitions to compete on the global stage?

recsv-heredocon Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

I tried to find them on GitHub. Doesn't seem to be FOSS/OSS either.

Does address a real use-case - might be great as a library or a lightweight alternative to Mermaid.

As SaaS it's a very hard sell.

recsv-heredocon Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

Yes - the interesting part is the decision that the “risk of losing internal comms to a ban is worth it” - even at that size.

According to one of the founders there’s no better way for them to reach a lot of low-skill part-time employees reliably.

It shows the need to bring AI to where people already are and onto the platforms they already use.

recsv-heredocon Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

The world’s most successful one!

recsv-heredocon Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

They do - but the utility is so high vs the risk (for a new number) that it’s worth doing anyway for many users and even organizations.

Just yesterday we spoke with a $50-100m ARR org org using baileys for internal messaging!

recsv-heredocon Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

This is such a sorely needed point of integration. Cool to see Peter still shipping tools. It’s such a pity meta refuses to play ball like Telegram.

Either they’ll double-down and make this even harder -or- hopefully realise that WhatsApp is likely to be a really common control plane for AI systems in the next few years. Let’s hope the Llama energy strikes and it’s the latter.

How does WhatsMeow compare with Baileys?

recsv-heredocon Introspective Diffusion Language Models

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/

This startup seems to have been at it a while.

From our look into it - amazing speed, but challenges remain around time-to-first-token user experience and overall answer quality.

Can absolutely see this working if we can get the speed and accuracy up to that “good enough” position for cheaper models - or non-user facing async work.

One other question I’ve had is wondering if it’s possible to actually set a huge amount of text to diffuse as the output - using a larger body to mechanically force greater levels of reasoning. I’m sure there’s some incredibly interesting research taking place in the big labs on this.