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webappguy··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
I personally can’t wait for programming to ‘die’. It has stolen a decade of my life minimum. Like veterinarians being trained to help pets ultimately finding out a huge portion of the job is killing them. I was not sufficiently informed that I’d spend a decade arguing languages, dealing with thousands of other developers with diverging opinions, legacy code, poorly if at all maintained libraries, tools, frameworks, etc if you have been in the game at least a decade please don’t @. Adios to programming as it was (happily welcoming a new DIFFERENT reality whatever that means). Nostalgia is for life, not staring at a screen 8hrs a day
webappguy··on LLM architecture comparison
Would love to see a PT.2 w even what is rumored in top closed source frontier models eg. o5, o3 Pro, o4 or 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4 and Claude Opus 4
webappguy··on Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs
Confirmation email doesn't work, so cannot try it. I attemtped twice and checked spam
webappguy··on Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri
Please. Don't mention apple and AI in the same sentance. Siri is worse than zero, it is utterly absolutely useless. And to partner with OpenAI. They have to get their S** in order here and fast, but if I put out a product like Siri I would be INSANELY embarrassed. If I was a trillion-dollar company and did, I would resign in discrace.
webappguy··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
Where Turkey? What type Did you get, heard horror stories
webappguy··on StreamVC: Real-Time Low-Latency Voice Conversion
RFK Jr.
webappguy··on One Million Checkboxes
I love some stats and details on this, what kind of traffic are you seeing etc. Do you have a way to determine how many boxes in your visitor checks/unchecks? 97% of your pictures from Hacker News etc. Congrats on the hit!!!! Fun playing with it!!!
webappguy··on Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn
And then a second more simple Query ‘find me people who have posted on Mamba architecture and might be looking for jobs’ and got;

We have analyzed 695 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 50 seconds to complete.

webappguy··on Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn
Cool but after waiting 2 mins for a one sentence prompt I got;

We have analyzed 1681 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 2 minutes ago and took 1 minute and 42 seconds to complete.

webappguy··on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
Curious to know more. Will search but if anyone finds anything
webappguy··on Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Why not just allow users to do on their own?
webappguy··on Code Finder – The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories
Agreed, AND last commit, date. Time is pretty critical in most of my searches even more so than stars
webappguy··on How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system
GPT voice is almost exactly always what I want, I think using whisper, and yet every app and both OS devices android and iOS can’t even transcribe a single sentence correct without errors. Pathetic really.
webappguy··on Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work
Zero spec info. Eyeroll.

But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.

webappguy··on Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
love this thanks!! Wish we could classify and rank tables and rows (like all OpenAI models).
webappguy··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Integrating an AI tab organizer of which they’re very few and the chrome one is essentially garbage, would make this a definite purchase for me. The AI should organize my own tabs and the ones I share
webappguy··on Mistral Le Chat
This can be (could be) a total hallucination. There may be some training data from OpenAI but outside it responding that way, except for me aforementioned point, where is the proof thus far?
webappguy··on Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
It's good that this is in this thread, as I bet a ton of power users (I check HN multiple times a day for years but likely only a time or two have glossed over the FAQ), did not know FLAG could be used as a downvote tool. Interesting choice by PG, I agree with the previous comment, we have all come to know FLAG as a violation tool on most platforms. Now we know.
webappguy··on Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
I tried with the Chinese in the app and a lot of times at timed out, or went exceedingly fast, I see the snail, but it might seem like cart before the horse to do full Chinese sentences for a beginner. Maybe not and this is proven I'm not sure, but I can say that you act needs some slight tweaks, especially always the pronunciation over top of the Chinese characters. What's the point of serving a chat bubble with Chinese characters to a person that is just learning Chinese? Maybe even the English translation below the Chinese characters and the Chinese pronunciation above. This has huge promise though
webappguy··on Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software
Personally while I liked it at outset, and still looks cool (just not for what I thought it was) I got quite annoyed looking it over that you don't differentiate clearly that it is cross-platform VIA browser. Your description/headline make as if it's an installable shell for building a program on various OS, which it is not.
webappguy··on Quora cookie settings: We and our 128 partners store and/or access information
That include POE
webappguy··on Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software
Actually was building a program right now I'm looking at some of these challenges but I would make it a little more clear on the website that the games is just an example utilization of what you've built. From Reading here I thought it was exactly what it was and then confusion hit when I was looking at the website that it might be specific to gaming
webappguy··on MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts
I'd put my money OpenAI has tried internally
webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
Exactly
webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
What's the update internally here? How long this been going on for? Any juice?
webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
Easy, flexible scheme nosql, plenty of baked in features. Has it's place, and many times when it would not be a good choice too.
webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
It was only DETECTED on the 13th, and they suspect had been going on 'for some time'. And basically not sure if user data was touched but they suspect or haven't provided it yet buly saying'NOT'.

I want answers.

webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
Mongo has made huge improvements tbf, but this is funny
webappguy··on MongoDB security notice
Just got email alert
webappguy··on What is the point of a public key fingerprint?
OLVID App by the French Government asks users to swap a 4 digit PIN. App is great for OpSec check it out.
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