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This makes sense given Anthropic’s recent downtime and resource constraints.
Opus 4.7 consumes tokens at a faster rate and folks were complaining that the Pro plan included too few credits for real work.
And Anthropic now allows `claude -p` (which invokes Claude code) for 3rd party agents like OpenClaw, which consume far more tokens by running autonomously, 24/7.
1. I would expect mental illness to be over-represented among the UFO cohort
2. At least 2 of the deaths in this list aren’t mysteries. Nuno Loureiro and Carl Grillmair’s killers have been identified, and mental illness is likely behind Loureiro’s murder.
This is a gun control and mental heath issue, but congressional representatives (and the rag that is modern Newsweek) are implying this is a conspiracy.
It's worth noting Codex has 2x more stories than Claude https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codex
Models are familiar with H100’s. They even predate ChatGPT.
This paper argues that if superintelligence can give everyone the health of a 20 year-old, we should accept a 97% percent chance of superintelligence killing everyone in exchange for the 3% chance the average human lifespan rises to 1400 years old.
I moved off Heroku to Neon + Hetzner today.
I asked Claude to build /provision-server and /deploy skills. It was way easier than it should’ve been.
My infra costs on this one project have gone from $1200 to <$200/mo.
Neon is awesome, with lightweight branching and instant restores.
Heroku is most definitely dead.
It's totally possible Peter was the right person to build this project – he's certainly connected enough.
My best guess is that it feels more like a Companion than a personal agent. This seems supported by the fact I've seen people refer to their agents by first name, in contexts where it's kind of weird to do.
But now that the flywheel is spinning, it can clearly do a lot more than just chat over Discord.
A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?
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Doing this within one organization, with modern technology, is clearly possible. Attempting this across an economy, in the 70's, where a key premise is "assume you have clean realtime data across all industries," is a fool's errand :) That the ideas sound similar is like arguing Stockfish is based on the original Mechanical Turk. Only true in a superficial sense.
I stumbled on Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer as a freshman in college, and loved the idea of an auto-optimizing business.
Back then I had questions about exactly how such a system could be implemented, the algorithm was very hand wavey, but I assumed surely they must’ve figured it out before writing a book about it.
As an adult with 20 years extra experience, I’m fairly confident that, no, aside from the high level concept, they had no idea how to build such a system. That coup was probably the best possible outcome for Beer - it gave credibility to his ideas without actually testing them.
Broken in mobile safari
this wasn't a study of absolute growth (sure - newbie gains), but rather the difference between high and low load programming within individuals.
that's fair but the post was on page 3 for a while. glad to see it restored to the front page. (the charitable explanation is that non-moderators can flag stories, as opposed to an official policy to protect YC companies)
s/professional divers/free-divers/
To dissipate the energy of a M9 (which happens about once per decade) you'd need about 32,000 quakes of M6 (still big enough to collapse buildings).
Energy scales as 10^(1.5 × ΔM)
ΔM = 9.0 − 6.0 = 3.0
10^(1.5 × 3) = 10^4.5 ≈ 31,600
Same with "See prompt in Google AI Studio" which links to an unpublished prompt in AI Studio.
What’s new here? I believe this is just gemini 3 which was released last month (the model id hasn’t changed AFAICT)
We don’t really know whether that’s true, since it’s hard to prove a negative (i.e., suppliers aren’t colluding). But given their history of price fixing it may be worth looking into.
Parent is likely thinking of sparse attention which allows a significantly longer context to fit in memory
To save others the trouble, it doesn't matter whether you use Chrome or Safari for the auth flow. It's broken on both. (I'm using a personal @gmail account.)
Source?
There’s growing evidence of cardioprotective effects independent of weight loss.
Eg https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The cardioprotective effects of semaglutide were independent of baseline adiposity and weight loss and had only a small association with waist circumference, suggesting some mechanisms for benefit beyond adiposity reduction.
I was suggesting OP may have been influenced by submarine articles since the popularity of speed dating is a potentially unfounded premise of their argument. (Personally, I know very few folks who’ve done speed dating but of course that’s anecdotal.)
Like a lot of people in this thread I prototyped something similar. One experiment just connected GPT to a socket and gave it some bindings to SQLite.
With a system prompt like “you’re an http server for a twitter clone called Gwitter.” you can interact directly with the LLM from a browser.
Of course it was painfully slow, quickly went off the rails, and revealed that LLM’s are bad at business logic.
But something like this might be the future. And on a longer time horizon, mentioned by OP and separately by sama, it may be possible to render interactive apps as streaming video and bypass the browser stack entirely.
So I think we’re a the Mother of All Demos stage of things. These ideas are in the water but not really practical today. Similarly to MoaD, it may take another 25 years for them to come to fruition.
I don’t think speed dating is as popular as submarine[1] articles suggest. But the constraint of being in-person and with a limited set of options may be helpful for some people. The paradox of choice is a significant issue on apps.
I do agree that bandwidth is significantly higher in person, we’ve evolved efficient pattern detection, and wish it were more acceptable to meet up for a quick coffee immediately after matching. But a few bad apples spoil the bunch.
There’s an alternate explanation - that the fittest companies prioritize engagement and revenue until reaching some threshold of user dissatisfaction. The healthiest businesses often have customers who wish they could leave, but can’t.
a very costly operation
It's only costly due to the waste heat from breaking. If you captured that energy with perfect regenerative breaking you could return to the same speed in the opposite direction. (In a spherical cow sense anyway.)
You’re playing apologist. Obviously, Benioff could have a set of actual, authentic values. Sadly he seems to point whichever way the wind is blowing.
He's also implying that Rails does not use web sockets to communicate with frontend which is not only wrong it should be evidently wrong to anyone who built a Rails app in the last 3 years.
I’m actually a rails dev but I’d reach for phoenix if my app required a large number of persistent sockets (e.g. high-volume MCP servers). I say this mostly because the hosting story is better for phoenix (gigalixir) than rails (heroku, or similar services that run behind a request router). Of course if you want your own infra this argument doesn’t apply. But a $100 gigalixir box can easily serve 100k persistent connections — even a few thousand persistent connections is a non-starter on Heroku.
A sustainable business can pay more employees than a failed startup. And pivoting with 150 employees is nearly impossible; all those people were hired for a different business.
Once a service can actively involve you and/or your LLM in ongoing interaction
Is there any progress on that front? That would unlock a lot of applications that aren't feasible at the moment.
Edit: Sampling is a piece of the puzzle https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/cli...
I also see a lot of discussion on Github around agent to agent (a2a) capabilities. So it's a big use case, and seems obvious to the people involved with MCP.