Show HN: Cheap-IM: Thinking Machines' demo on a CPU laptop
3 by mrkn1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet
Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet
2 by bigger_fish | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet. For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway). For media, it's admittedly fairly weak, as it relies on C2PA metadata which is stripped from all of the social media sites where it would be most helpful. (Anyone else have chronically online boomer parents continually gobbling up slop like it's real information?) I have a D-slop+ version in the works that should be able to handle the media itself, but it's going to have to make API calls to have real teeth, which means I can't offer it for free. If this extension validates the concept, I'm happy to build it for y'all. Yes, I vibe-coded it, but an ancillary bonus to the project accrued when it inspired me to cook dinner listening to Metallica's "Fight Fire with Fire," which in turn brought my 5 y/o running into the kitchen with every musical instrument in the house for an impromptu karaoke speed metal session. It's MIT license open-source, full brief at https://ift.tt/94neHt2 ; This forum is full of people smarter than me, so I'm open to suggestions.
2 by bigger_fish | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet. For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway). For media, it's admittedly fairly weak, as it relies on C2PA metadata which is stripped from all of the social media sites where it would be most helpful. (Anyone else have chronically online boomer parents continually gobbling up slop like it's real information?) I have a D-slop+ version in the works that should be able to handle the media itself, but it's going to have to make API calls to have real teeth, which means I can't offer it for free. If this extension validates the concept, I'm happy to build it for y'all. Yes, I vibe-coded it, but an ancillary bonus to the project accrued when it inspired me to cook dinner listening to Metallica's "Fight Fire with Fire," which in turn brought my 5 y/o running into the kitchen with every musical instrument in the house for an impromptu karaoke speed metal session. It's MIT license open-source, full brief at https://ift.tt/94neHt2 ; This forum is full of people smarter than me, so I'm open to suggestions.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
2 by rubyn00bie | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, HN! I'm wondering what y'all are using for your daily driver these days and why ? I've found myself using GPT-5.5 more than Opus 4.7 for work; which, has been a pretty big reversal. Previously, I was using Opus 4.6 for everything, and GPT-5.4 was only ever in the picture to provide a second opinion (with Grok a distant 3rd only when I wanted to throw some "chaos" into the mix). The reason I've personally pivoted, is I've found GPT-5.5 to be a bit more consistent, predictable, and tends to write in a way I find less tiresome (even if the code isn't quite as good as Opus 4.7). For personal projects, I've started experimenting with DeepSeek V4 and have been pretty blown away by it because of it's cost to quality and I've found the 1M token window to be incredibly helpful for long-running tasks. Though I may also have an over abundance of fear of compaction during tasks. DeepSeek isn't quite as good at one-shotting things as either GPT-5.5 or Opus-4.7, but with sufficient linter/static-analysis guardrails I've found it's really hard to complain or find faults (especially at the price). Finally, if you're also making use of reranking and/or embedding models, or anything else, to augment or perform specific tasks please share those too!
2 by rubyn00bie | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, HN! I'm wondering what y'all are using for your daily driver these days and why ? I've found myself using GPT-5.5 more than Opus 4.7 for work; which, has been a pretty big reversal. Previously, I was using Opus 4.6 for everything, and GPT-5.4 was only ever in the picture to provide a second opinion (with Grok a distant 3rd only when I wanted to throw some "chaos" into the mix). The reason I've personally pivoted, is I've found GPT-5.5 to be a bit more consistent, predictable, and tends to write in a way I find less tiresome (even if the code isn't quite as good as Opus 4.7). For personal projects, I've started experimenting with DeepSeek V4 and have been pretty blown away by it because of it's cost to quality and I've found the 1M token window to be incredibly helpful for long-running tasks. Though I may also have an over abundance of fear of compaction during tasks. DeepSeek isn't quite as good at one-shotting things as either GPT-5.5 or Opus-4.7, but with sufficient linter/static-analysis guardrails I've found it's really hard to complain or find faults (especially at the price). Finally, if you're also making use of reranking and/or embedding models, or anything else, to augment or perform specific tasks please share those too!
New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
5 by stackghost | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Got the following from hello@mindie.dev ---- Hey Stackghost — Saw your HN comment about freelance time tracking / invoicing. TimeChat is a Telegram bot: type "1.5 acme bug fix" after work, end of month it auto-generates the PDF invoice for your client. Side-by-side vs Toggl: mindie.dev/vs/toggl. For HN readers I'm running EARLY10: $1/mo (was $7). One-click checkout: timechat pro 2-mo trial If it's useful, I'd love your feedback. Free tier covers solo testing if you want to start there: https://ift.tt/LDCH0QP Not relevant? Reply STOP and I'll never email again. — the Mindie team mindie.dev ---- I went back through my comment history and I don't believe that I have ever mentioned freelancing, time tracking, or invoicing in a comment except once when I mentioned an invoice peripherally a year ago. Thus, mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles and hallucinating relevant reasons to try to grease their sales funnel. Attempting to unsubscribe via their "reply stop and I'll never email again" resulted in a bounced email. I find this behavior to be ultra scummy and dishonest. I enjoy the communal feel from people having open emails on their profiles but it seems the taboo has been broken. I will be removing my email from my profile and suggest you do the same.
5 by stackghost | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Got the following from hello@mindie.dev ---- Hey Stackghost — Saw your HN comment about freelance time tracking / invoicing. TimeChat is a Telegram bot: type "1.5 acme bug fix" after work, end of month it auto-generates the PDF invoice for your client. Side-by-side vs Toggl: mindie.dev/vs/toggl. For HN readers I'm running EARLY10: $1/mo (was $7). One-click checkout: timechat pro 2-mo trial If it's useful, I'd love your feedback. Free tier covers solo testing if you want to start there: https://ift.tt/LDCH0QP Not relevant? Reply STOP and I'll never email again. — the Mindie team mindie.dev ---- I went back through my comment history and I don't believe that I have ever mentioned freelancing, time tracking, or invoicing in a comment except once when I mentioned an invoice peripherally a year ago. Thus, mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles and hallucinating relevant reasons to try to grease their sales funnel. Attempting to unsubscribe via their "reply stop and I'll never email again" resulted in a bounced email. I find this behavior to be ultra scummy and dishonest. I enjoy the communal feel from people having open emails on their profiles but it seems the taboo has been broken. I will be removing my email from my profile and suggest you do the same.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
13 by klez | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Of course I don't mean they stopped being fun for everyone. My impression is that they've been on one side "corporatized", and on the other became a vehicle for mindless entertainment. I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own (and no, I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?) I don't even code for work anymore since I moved to a project/service management role. Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone. Any suggestion on getting it back?
13 by klez | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Of course I don't mean they stopped being fun for everyone. My impression is that they've been on one side "corporatized", and on the other became a vehicle for mindless entertainment. I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own (and no, I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?) I don't even code for work anymore since I moved to a project/service management role. Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone. Any suggestion on getting it back?