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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy

Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy 4 by behnamoh | 2 comments on Hacker News. * High level reasons: It increases the gap between the rich and the poor. You think indie devs and individuals have the resources to pay per token? The direction Anthropic is taking is one that leads to more inequality, only this time it's intelligence inequality between small and large corps. Anthropic also intentionally crippled the model when it comes to doing AI research. And then Karpathy (an AI researcher who defected to Anthropic) has the audacity to praise the model? These decisions were already made by Anthropic (a company that actively wants AI regulation and banning of open source models) BEFORE the USG request to take down the model, so they can't blame the politics for this. * Earthly reasons: We were originally going to get 100% usage from June 9th to June 23rd (15 days) Instead we got 100% usage for 3 days and 50% usage for 7. And it's nerfed o...

New ask Hacker News story: 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready

0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready 2 by priyanshu-j | 0 comments on Hacker News. I spent some time building AeroScore, a scoring engine that evaluates how well major documentation portals support AI agents. In short, none of the 6 that I evaluated in this first batch are sufficiently prepared. The methodology and criteria are based on the AFDocs Spec (an open-source checklist for agent-ready documentation) and one specific extension for PDF-heaviness since aerospace as a field places so much importance on PDFs. Each site gets scored 0-100 across criteria like llms.txt presence, robots.txt, and many others that can be found both on the AFDocs repo and at the aeroscore webpage. Key Findings: -0/6 have an llms.txt -0/6 support url variants -the best score was ICAO with a 69/100 The fact that major aerospace documentation portals are not AI agent ready yet is important because it means the field is not being fully efficient. AI agents allow the analysis of data...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN

Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN 2 by mr_o47 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account

Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account 6 by SurprisedTiger | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just had a peculiar experience with Reddit. I had an account. I downloaded my data, used a bot to replace all posts with random sentences (Reddit won't let you delete, but you can edit, so this is what you do), then deleted the account. This was a good two or three years ago. Today I received an email from Reddit telling me my account may be under-age and they will require age verification. I went to account recovery, entered the username, received an email to reset the password and lo and behold, I was back in my account. The account was marked as "permanently banned". I then deleted the account again, with all the procedural and textual paraphernalia of permanent account deletion. Reddit when they say "delete" they would seem to be misleading users, and changing only the account status.

New ask Hacker News story: From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space

From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space 2 by pyeri | 0 comments on Hacker News. What I realized today while sipping my morning cup of chai is that a large part of the present AI hype cycle is just about the 'narrative of AI'. The LLM technology itself is just a digital tool like many others that came before it but all this chatter about 'AI is the future', 'learn it or perish', 'machines will replace humans soon', etc. keeps it in the news and creates a burger out of nothing. But folks lose their energy and sleep over this which becomes a problem. And many a benign enterprises are falsely led to believe that this technology can do wonders, it's a great disservice being done by those selling these bridges. For folks like us who are fed up of this slop narrative - instead of fighting it, it's better to try and shift the narrative towards determinism. For centuries and millennia, we have been trained to avoid and even fear fatalis...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?

Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis? 2 by argee | 1 comments on Hacker News. Today I noticed the inclusion of emojis in Craigslist's listings/categories: https://ift.tt/LqFKpcg . Now, Craigslist, as a legacy of the 1990s web, has for a long time stubbornly maintained its minimalist style, to the point where several "modern" startups have popped up to try and offer Craigslist-like services to new generations. So why this change? And what's with the timing? It's coinciding with the wanton proliferation of emojis everywhere courtesy of everyone's favorite GPT. At a time where people are beginning to feel emoji fatigue, Craigslist, of all places, has decided to put them front and center. Has Craigslist succumbed to the modern algorithmic context of competing for attention? Is this a small concession so they can largely keep their legacy look while still participating in the zeitgeist? When and with what intention was this emoji intr...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings 37 by zkldi | 7 comments on Hacker News. Just hit this today and I'm furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had. I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features", so I've never touched it or wanted to enable it. pic: https://ift.tt/RWdzjco Upon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they've said: > Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Clo...