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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?

Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. Of course you would like the AI to be more critical about your ideas but to be usefully critical requires more compute, right? Current AI feels like talking to a human expert who answers quickly without really thinking about the matter much.

New ask Hacker News story: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work 20 by nicholasjbs | 0 comments on Hacker News. Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center ( https://ift.tt/Kvde7Ag ) My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the initial idea of building "OkCupid for jobs." That idea quickly fizzled, and we spent the better part of a year pivoting between other ideas that also failed. Finally, we made something that we wanted ourselves: a self-directed programming retreat, where people built fun projects, contributed to open source, and helped each other become better programmers. After running two small batches, we launched on HN[1] and got an incredible reception. That post on HN helped us reach beyond our personal networks and meet programmers from around the world, many of whom have since become friends. HN brought us the majority of people who came to our next few batches, and in the years since, HN has ...

New ask Hacker News story: What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life?

What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life? 2 by Mdarwish2005 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?

Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs? 3 by silentmafia | 1 comments on Hacker News. E.g. what if someone prompts an LLM to solve the Riemann hypothesis using this or that approach; and the model actually solves it. Who gets the prize?

New ask Hacker News story: Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution

Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution 2 by yohji1984 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wrote a blog yesterday on how useless RTK and Ponytail are on real coding tasks. And published my agent harness long-horizon task benchmarks on 80% real token saving. I just want to know why people just ignore the fact those pulgins are useless and don't care about the real savings? full reports are on my repo: https://ift.tt/dHDVUxa Arm n Harness score Total tokens Modeled cost Rounds Duration No plugin 2 78.85% 6.660M $5.281946 62.5 895s Ponytail 2 80.77% -7.56% -8.87% -9.60% +13.51% RTK 2 76.92% +13.20% +7.18% +44.00% +40.69% Configuration Passes Pass rate Observed tokens Rounds Estimated cost Tura Balanced High 48/60 80.0% 229,695,477 2,017 $221.138 Tura Direct High 39/60 65.0% 75,108,167 969 $99.620 Codex CLI Medium 38/60 63.3% 333,538,349 3,...

New ask Hacker News story: Revised Polish Alphabet

Revised Polish Alphabet 2 by poloniaco | 0 comments on Hacker News. Aa Bb Cc Çç Dd Ee Ęę Ff Gg Ɠɠ Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Ǫǫ Pp Rr Ss Şş Tt Uu Vv Ww Yy Zz Ȥȥ Ьь Ɠ W E R T Y U I O P Ç Ǫ A S D F G H J K L Ş Ę Z Ȥ C V B N M Ç ь , . Changes: Some letters were removed as they don't make distinct sounds in the language. One letter one sound: cz -> ç ó -> u ch -> h sz -> ş Makes more sense regarding the sound: ą -> ǫ ć -> çь h -> ɠ ń -> nь ś -> şь ł -> w w -> v ź -> zь ż rz -> ȥ Introducing soft sign will allow for more possibilities (e.g. loaning from languages like russian). Introducing separate letter for every soft sign is redundant. ь is to be read as "miękki znak". With my alphabet the orthography of many words have to be changed a lot: żółw -> ȥuwv tchórz -> thuȥ włóczęga -> vwuçęga wolność -> volnoşьçь wąs -> vǫs bohater -> boɠater Notice how much better does orth...