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Monthly budget of 100k Opus tokens? So $2.50 worth?

This must be a remarkably expensive demo/toy to operate.

I literally had to solve the "preview Office files in the browser" problem last week. I couldn't find a decent solution, so I ended up making a endpoint that ran the files through headless libreoffice on the server to convert them to PDF.

For PPTX and DOCX, this solution is slightly worse than libreoffice conversion (this does not appear to output highlightable text, while PDF conversion does).

However, the XLSX preview BLEW my mind considering this was AI coded. Really good, even interactive!

Common sense. Most users are not running Claude Code or an on-device coding agent.

They're using ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude on the web.

Great project. The last time someone did this idea well they got acquired by Microsoft. Clipchamp has since been enshittified, making them ripe for disruption. The wheel continues to turn…

The author of this post could solve their problem with Cloudflare or any of its numerous competitors.

Cloudflare will even do it for free.

Roblox pays the full 30%.

FYI the second link (about Anthropic RLHF) 404's. Here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250428152855/https://www.surge...

On performance: 3.13 removed the GIL and added experimental first-party JIT (like PyPy).

In two years I bet we’ll be seeing v8 level performance out of CPython.

This is an amazing product. I don't have kids yet but I would buy this for them if I did!

However, since this is Hacker News, I must say I'd probably enjoy building this myself using TTS and LLM APIs...

FXAIX

I think some of the power user demand is fairly inelastic. I’ve seen developers who are allergic to spending money happily drop $200/mo on those new Claude subscriptions.

The “Cursor for Xcode” startups just got Sherlocked…

In terms of value per minute spent, it’s the same tier of slop as TikTok or Instagram

Insane take. Reddit hosts deep threaded discussions on almost any topic imaginable. In its prime it was the best forum on the internet. There’s a reason people commonly add “reddit” to the end of their search queries.

Unfortunately it feels like the community has gotten much dumber after they banned third party apps and restricted API access. It’s also lost almost all of its Aaron Swartz style hacktivist culture.

Reddit, in its prime, was incredible and beloved by almost everyone I know (most of which are far outside the HN sphere)

This would mean the White House Communications Agency has to carry such a secure base station wherever the president goes.

We used to take security so seriously.

And now we have our top defense officials using a fork of Signal which sends copies of messages to a third party.

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obsc... http://archive.today/LyWDy

That’s what this is. It’s caching the state of the model after the tokens have been loaded. Reduces latency and cost dramatically. 5m TTL on the cache usually.

Our metabolism is amazing and complex but CICO is a matter of thermodynamics.

People get burned when measuring the “out” part because our bodies want to hold on to as much energy as possible.

Markdown was designed to compile to HTML and web browsers are designed to render HTML. So I’d say a browser is the only reasonable choice.

Massive open TikTok training set lots of video researchers use

This guy is a genius; for those who don’t know he also brought us ControlNet.

This is the first decent video generation model that runs on consumer hardware. Big deal and I expect ControlNet pose support soon too.

This is great. I’ve thought about building something like this for myself.

Complaints:

- Discover It rotating categories not factored in. These are 5% and very significant.

- Can’t add Amazon Chase Visa, as someone else pointed out.

Also I would LOVE an iOS shortcut where I can just type in what I’m buying and you categorize it with an LLM and it just tells me what card to use.

Hi OP! Thanks for sharing.

I don’t totally understand the point of this. Why would you want to use a Canvas renderer for this use case? If you want to render a massive table, apps will render a subset of it on regular HTML elements like EveryUUID [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342382

I came back to this thread after realizing I whitenoise would solve my current problem...

I'm working on a small internal tool using Django. When I turned debug off, my files stopped serving. And for this small deployment, I really don't want to have to require a separate nginx server. I get it now.

Well the key it wants is for Anthropic and you can’t run those models locally.

a static files pipeline for Django with whitenoise, how is that not included by default?

It is. They have a file server in debug mode and recommend something like nginx for serving files in production (and provide a collectstatic command to make that easy).

People shouldn’t be using a WSGI server to serve static media. Whitenoise shouldn’t exist.

I have been guilty of this. I will sometimes use MST when I should use MDT due to muscle memory. And if I say MT it could be ambiguous when you consider Arizona (which doesn’t observe daylight savings).

I will not write “X city local time” though, I will take the extra time to make sure my timezone is correct.

MS won't like what happens in offices 10 years from now if they let students use Libreoffice for their schoolwork instead of Wordpad (eventually replaced with Word.) They'd better be working hard to get "student" copies of Office into kids' hands, even if they have to pay them to take it.

They have completely lost this battle. Google Docs was the standard thru nearly my entire K12 and university education.

WordPad was a quick and easy way to view/edit simple Word documents. When you double-clicked a .docx, WordPad would let you read it (albeit with some formatting issues).

Now when you click a .docx on a fresh Windows install, you get a generic “what app would you like to open this with?” pop-up.*

This leads the user to google free ways to view Word documents, leading to LibreOffice.

* Site note: I’m very surprised Microsoft doesn’t use this as an opportunity to sell you Office.

Probably too late to this thread for anyone to read this, but the real reason for this bump is Microsoft removing WordPad from the latest versions of Windows 11.