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techcrunch.com 2mo ago

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: What Happened to Llama Models?

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: Git branching strategy when using multiple CLIs running multiple agents?

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news.ycombinator.com 8mo ago

Ask HN: How Do you undo or checkout changes from Codex CLI and others?

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github.com 10mo ago

RefChecker for Fine-Grained Hallucination Detection

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: How important are model knowledge cutoff dates, really?

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: Is anyone running LLMs directly on GitHub Actions runners?

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: Applying AI in Latam?

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dotipa.app 1y ago

Decomposing iOS Builds and Tracking Size Changes over Time Locally

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developer.apple.com 1y ago

Get started with Foundation Models adapter training

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developer.apple.com 1y ago

Acceptable use requirements for the Foundation Models framework

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apps.apple.com 1y ago

Show HN: iOS App Size Analysis Tool for macOS

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dotipa.app 1y ago

DotIPA – macOS App for Local iOS App Size Analysis

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caseyak.com 1y ago

Whats Your Case Worth? Answering the Illusive Question Using LLMs/Neural Nets

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www.apple.com 1y ago

Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy

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leg.colorado.gov 2y ago

Colorado State Legislature Passes Bill to Broadly Regulate AI

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wordpress.org 2y ago

Car Accident Law Firms Can Add Case Value Predictions Backed by AI on WordPress

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github.com 2y ago

The Google AI SDK for Swift

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone using GitHub Copilot in production?

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caseyak.com 2y ago

CaseYak – AI Estimates Car Accident Case Values Based on US Jury Verdicts

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caseyak.com 3y ago

CaseYak Leads – Motor Vehicle Accident Leads (CO, CA, FL)

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caseyak.com 3y ago

What's my case worth? ML to try to answer the question on PI Lawyer Ads CA/FL/CO

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why can’t I use emojis on HN?

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caseyak.com 4y ago

Estimate Car Accident Case Values (CO,FL,CA) with CaseYak's Machine Learning API

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caseyak.com 4y ago

CaseYak Motor Vehicle Accident Case Value Prediction API (CA/CO/FL)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Was Elon Musk a Good Programmer?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Are Regression Suites Worth a Shit?

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caseyak.com 4y ago

Show HN: Predicting Car Accident Legal Case Values (CO, CA)

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kdvr.com 4y ago

Colorado to become first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments

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kdvr.com 4y ago

List of rejected vanity license plates in Colorado in 2021

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Thanks! Curious what kind of friction you’ve encountered. In my experience buying phone numbers is not hard, finding vanity phone numbers (especially in certain area codes) is because it requires keeping an eye on their rolling availability.

I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.

Typical use case can be someone's running an existing campaign (ads, billboard, referrals) and we add a dedicated texting number as the 24/7/multilingual layer on top. No new spend, just coverage after hours or in Spanish etc. Can also serve as the primary feature of a new campaign, admittedly a novel approach but I see there being potential to provide a new channel to reach users where they already are (sms) in extremely saturated markets.

I work mainly with law firms, there are some potential examples on my website if you're curious: https://fractional-engineer.com/sms-intake.

Happy to chat more.

I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.

Raised multilingual here (as in father spoke one, mother spoke another, living abroad and US back and forth). I don't know about the stronger social ties but I have found that thinking in a different language helps me get to sleep easier. There are times when I'm spinning around in webs in English (work, life etc) at night, and when I switch over to Spanish thoughts I fall asleep easier.

Maybe just stuff like that is enough to make a difference.

I work in AI, both building at a large company and consulting on the side. My manager (of two months) uses claude to reply to everyone in Teams and emails, usually filled with nonsensical slop. I believe in its potential when applied correctly but also am realizing that it's unlocking an entirely new kind of fraudster.

At a kill s@@s hackathon at work, I was able to build something that

uses a node image installs claude code runs a /review-like command puts inline comments to PR deletes old comments when rerunning

OCR seems cool, but overkill, and I'm definitely not using Code Rabbit after their CEO was on here acting snobbish a while back.

Point being AI code review in Git** itself isn't hard to do and can add a lot of value quickly.

The Prompt API 3 months ago

Apple's Foundation models seem great on paper until you see the 4k context window. (though I know we are still early in this chapter).

Really cool idea. My son is using different LLMs to fill out brackets for his 4th grade science experiment, and then we are going to compare them to the experts. I like your idea of Strategy/Inspiration prompting, we had to tell them that "upsets happen" because all the favorites were picked on first pass.

Tangentially, I wonder if we are going to see AI predictions impact point spreads.

This is a known limitation with small LLMs (0.6B-1.2B) doing tool calling.

To me this is this nut to crack, wrt tool calling and locally running inference. This seems like a really cool project and I'm going to dive around a little later but if it's hallucinating for something as basic as this makes me think it's more of POC stage right now (to echo other sentiment here).

The Codex App 6 months ago

this just calls Codex CLI with OS sandboxing

The git and terminal views are a big plus for me. I usually have those open and active in addition to my codex CLI sessions.

Excited to try skills, too.

I maintain an app size inspection tool that runs locally on your macOS and added the file inspector (Sunburst chart) for Gmail if anyone is interested in exploring its contents.

As others have pointed out, the main executable is huge (~300MB) and there are a lot of localization files, but not too much traditional asset duplication.

You can click into different slices of the app and see what it's made of if interested: https://dotipa.app/?app=Gmail#examples

Not just about the products imho. I do some consulting for law firms who typically use the MSFT stack, and I was excited about the private ChatGPT services in Azure, because from my (admittedly limited) sample of law firms, nobody likes using Copilot and LLMs need to be private/secure. The amount of outdated and poor quality documentation for Azure services is amazing given how nascent these services are.