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New ask Hacker News story: Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?

Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? 3 by nothrowaways | 3 comments on Hacker News. Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?

New ask Hacker News story: Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked 8 by Thrashed | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During a recent leadership transition, the incoming club lead wanted to make changes to the DNS and didn’t know to contact me. They figured out the domain name was parked at NameCheap, so they initiated a password reset using the domain name. I got a password reset email and immediately filed a NameCheap support ticket saying “I did not initiate this”. They called me to verify I was the one who filed the ticket, and then followed up with a canned email with tips like check your anti-virus. The incoming club leader was persistent though, and called NameCheap support. He convinced them the domain registered in my name and address really belonged to his club, and with no verification or ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled?

Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled? 2 by zbikowski | 0 comments on Hacker News. I use Claude on the $20/mo plan, mainly for research, "rubber duckying," and as an idea soundboard (I was using Fable for this but am now relegated to Opus 4.8 or Sonnet 5), and recently noticed a severe downturn in Opus 4.8 response quality in high-context situations. To attempt to remedy this, I disabled the memory system (now labeled "Legacy" even though to my knowledge there is no replacement). With this setting disabled, aside from the slight tedium of inputting the necessary context each time for task continuations, I have noticed a drastic improvement in response quality and accuracy—I'm one of those shmucks who whined a bit after Opus 4.7 came out, and my theory is some change was made to increase memory context that resulted in a decrease in actual response quality. In general, I wonder if the high-context abilities of SOTA thinki...

New ask Hacker News story: Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages?

Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages? 3 by aashir-saas | 6 comments on Hacker News. Sorry for making it sound like a rant, but is anyone else actually tired of seeing the same AI slop landing pages? Those same card layouts and color shcemes? And those fake metrics, "Trusted by 10,000+ professionals", no bro my SimilarWeb extension shows 0 traffic on your site for the past 3 months.. I mean yeah I get it that you need to ship fast but maybe like delay your launch for 12-24 hrs and make at least a half decent and appealing landing page. These landing pages remind me of that scene from Toy Story where there was a shelf full of Buzz lightyear figurines. Do people actually have 0 taste? Do you guys trust such apps especially in B2B space? With a landing page that screams 0% trust and 100% AI generated, you bet I'm not gonna give you access to my credentials or repos etc.. Your landing page is the first impression of your app, at least make it count.. This concludes my...

New ask Hacker News story: New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode

New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode 3 by medicis123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi All, We are so excited to share the numbers and benchmark reports on our new inference server built specifically to run multi-model agentic workflows on DGX Spark clusters. We ran LlamaBench tests and also our own simulated traffic test on a 2 DGX Spark cluster setup and got some really good numbers. Here are the details. The full detailed report is available on our WoolyAI website. WoolyAI Private Multi-agent Inference Stack for DGX Spark is built to enable groups within enterprises to set up their own private, low-cost inference stacks for business agentic workflow apps. It was built with the forward-looking vision that companies will need their own private, low-cost inference setup and that single-model-based inference is not sufficient for complex enterprise workflow agentic apps. These workflows need multiple models of different specializations (hence si...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why can't Google create monopolies anymore?

Ask HN: Why can't Google create monopolies anymore? 3 by BeForce | 1 comments on Hacker News. Google in fields it has monopolised since 2000's to early 2010's is impossible to be dethroned (android, search, ads). Sure they had multiple failed products in this period too, like the google glasses or google+, but now it feels they storm a field become top 3 - 5 and just keep that position (fitbit, gemini, pixel).

New ask Hacker News story: Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed

Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed 2 by MaximTsyg | 1 comments on Hacker News. Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed I had some free google cloud credits (included nano banana for AI gen photos) Build a simple website - user uploads a selfie, receiving cool pics for dating apps with his face + he can edit photos with promts. 3 photos with watermarks for free, after that pack with 25 photos for 9,99$, In the backend its prefiltered cool photos + face recognition in order to return only photos with a good simularity. End result - $202 spent, funnel - 123 clicks (8,0% CTR, $1,64 per click) 37 made free photos, 2 purchases I want to try Meta Ads as well, I like the idea that you could check meta ads library for competitor's creatives (video and pics) and copy those which are running for a long time. Nobody will run a creative for a long time if it doesnt have a good ROI. I want to try this Expirience ...