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deepswe.datacurve.ai 1mo ago

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

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twitter.com 1mo ago

Xiaomi Mimo-v2.5 pricing is now permanently reduced

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ammar-alyousfi.com 1y ago

Exploring Goodreads data: Analysis of 10M books

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twitter.com 3y ago

A study confirms: Big changes in GPT-4 performance since its launch

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

What's your favorite interface for GPT API?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What's your go-to platform for written discussions, and why?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Have you noticed decreased quality in GPT-4 reasoning recently?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What is the main communication channel at your remote company?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Examples of great About sections on LinkedIn?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What tools are game changers for communication in fully remote teams?

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ammar-alyousfi.com 6y ago

Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019

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ammar-alyousfi.com 6y ago

Notes from (Show Your Work) on Building an Online Portfolio

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www.kaggle.com 7y ago

House Price Prediction: An End-to-End Machine Learning Project, Jupyter Notebook

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www.kaggle.com 7y ago

Analysis of 40k YouTube Trending Videos with Python [Jupyter Notebook]

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ammar1y.github.io 7y ago

Focus Phase – Simple, powerful, and open-source time tracker, from command-line

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github.com 7y ago

Upload multiple files to AWS S3 at once, and get their URLs with one command

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www.kaggle.com 7y ago

Reddit Top 1,000 Posts Analysis (for 18 subreddits).. Here are the results

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www.pairandcompare.net 7y ago

Show HN: P&C: Test, pair, and compare all Google fonts without installing any

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www.kaggle.com 7y ago

Show HN: I analyzed 40,000+ trending YouTube videos. Here are the results

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www.pairandcompare.net 7y ago

Show HN: Select the best web fonts for your next project, without the hassle

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github.com 9y ago

Automated script that fetch best links in HN, and opens them when you choose

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Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

Is there some sort of a leaderboard for this test? Like if you'd give each of Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 a score out of 100, what would the scores be?

I usually do this for complex features:

- Opus 4.7 writes the code - I make GPT-5.5 in Codex to review it (given context) - I provide the review back to Opus and ask it to verify the review findings - Make Opus plan the fixes then execute them - Ask GPT-5.5 to review the fixes and check if they solve the problems

My "trick" was to divide things into batches (which can be big with LLMs with larger context sizes) and classify the items in each batch, then take the resulting categories from each batch and feed them into an LLM to group semantically similar categories into groups with a representative category for each group. The representative category can be chosen from the group or created by the LLM. This is an over-simplification of the process but that's the gist of it.

DeepSeek OCR 9 months ago

Language support is not mentioned in the repo. But from the paper, it offers extensive multilingual support (nearly 100 languages) which is good, but I need to test it to see how it compares to Gemini and Mistral OCR.

Claude Skills 9 months ago

Claude Skills seem to be the option that offers highest flexibility to add more capabilities at most simplicity. Better than MCP in my opinion. Hope it becomes a standard and get adopted by OpenAI and the rest of labs.

Good question! I selected the edition with the smallest Goodreads ID¹ that has the publication date and cover photo available. If all editions don't have publication date nor cover photo, then we get the one with the smallest ID.

And you're right, in a few cases, this resulted in getting less widely read editions for some books.

1: Assuming smaller ID means earlier addition to Goodreads' database.

I have Raycast extensions for GPT and Claude models. Whenever I have a question, the most powerful LLMs in the world are two key strokes away.

This way is easier than going to the browser then ChatGPT tab for example then creating a new chat.

I found myself using LLMs more and getting more out of them because of this frictionless interaction. They've become more of actual "helpful assistants."

Like many people here have noticed, it's definitely less quality now than before. It's annoying to be honest to reduce the quality significantly without a notice while we are paying the same amount. I'm willing to pay $40 for the original GPT-4, though.

GPT-4 was remarkable 2 months ago. It could handle complex coding tasks and the reasoning was great. Now, it feels like GPT-3. It's sad. I had many things in mind that could have been done with the original GPT-4.

I hope we see real competitors to GPT-4 in terms of coding abilities and reasoning. Absence of real competitors made it a reasonable option for "Open"AI to lobotomize GPT-4 without a notice.

Big data is dead 3 years ago

Well, we have less than 2 TB of data, and although we are running MySQL on a large instance with ~120 GB of RAM, it's extremely slow when dealing with big tables (like a 25 GB table) and that's why we need "big data" tools like BigQuery.

Setting up a home gym to lift weights and trying to eat healthier...

Does a treadmill work instead of weight lifting? Curious to know based on your experience.

The Boring YouTube 5 years ago

Exactly! These points drive me crazy!

I think YouTube is filled with interesting content but they always choose to recommend the same videos for weeks!

However, their "New to You" section is much better and I think it should be on the home page.

I've used Miro before for mind maps but after your suggestion, I think it's great as a whiteboard, thanks.

Gather looks fun but I'm afraid it will make you more prone to interruptions and therefore have less focus time. For me, I think it would be stressful to be in a situation like that.

collaboratively manipulating shared representations

Thanks, I would think this is key to enhance meeting quality.

I got your point. Yes, telephone calls would eliminate distractions but it lacks a lot of necessary features. Sharing screen is a must in our company. Also no whiteboard alternative. And we have many non-native English speakers so voice only might not be enough to always understand what they're saying.

I think a telephone call might be good for a few cases but in our case (technology/marketing company,) I don't think it's a good way to communicate remotely.