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shanewei

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shanewei··on Text/Plain Blog
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.
shanewei··on Show HN: Free API for social post metrics – URL in, views/likes/comments out
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?
shanewei··on Bitcoin pump to $63,700 triggers the most short liquidations since late April
This feels less like a broad market and more like a market structure that favors a small number of sophisticated participants.
shanewei··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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 seems like the part that may need deeper account integration.
shanewei··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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.
shanewei··on Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
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 trades off thoroughness vs token efficiency “with a single model”.

So I wouldn’t read the Claude Code cache warning as proof that a different model is being used. It may just mean the thinking/effort setting is part of the cache key.

shanewei··on We are in the golden age of Open Source
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.
shanewei··on MySQL 9.7.0 LTS Is Now Available
Congrats to the MySQL team. Nice to see another LTS release.
shanewei··on Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
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shanewei··on Show HN: AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Converter
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?
shanewei··on Faster Local engine built from scratch in Rust
I like this direction. Seems hard to get right, though.