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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?

Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model? 3 by waldrews | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else in a panic over the Gemini 2.5 model generation (Pro, Flash) being sunset in October before there's even any Pro class model in general availability (with geo restrictions etc.)? Google wants everyone to migrate to 3.x Flash, which beats the older Pro models on the benchmarked tasks, but isn't the same thing as the Pro class on reasoning-heavy tasks like complex reasoning on very large documents (my big use case). The Gemini family had a distinct niche in document comprehension, with thousand page input documents taking only 300k tokens. Nothing quite like that in OpenAI or Anthropic world, even at more than 10x the token adjusted price. Should we just give up on Google at this point and engineer around the competitors' limits and eat the costs? Totally unnecessary own goal by team Google.
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New ask Hacker News story: Dreamcast Development Links

Dreamcast Development Links 2 by hefner1456 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just replied to somebody on here with these links, thought I should share them. If any one has something to add, dont be shiesty:) It was a pain to find these. https://ift.tt/gq8QnwZ https://ift.tt/0OsziGS https://ift.tt/NH7Podl https://ift.tt/3S4iL6X http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/infinitedream_HTTP_USER_AGENT.html http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/jeffma_useragent.html http://kamui.cool/zz_lab/browsermatrix.html https://dreamcast.wiki/Development https://ift.tt/lbg1J6r https://ift.tt/5jW1F3L https://ift.tt/Hmd03xJ
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?

Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made? 4 by superasn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am curious what actually happens between two generations of AI models. For example, how do you go from Sonnet to Opus? Is Opus trained from scratch, built on Sonnet, or mostly the same model with more compute and training? And how do models like Astra suddenly make a big jump in some capabilities? What is stopping Anthropic, Mistral, or others from doing the same thing? Is the main difference just more compute and money, or are there training methods, data, architecture, and research breakthroughs that competitors may not know about? I can't think of a better place to ask this. I am guessing there are people here who actually work on these models and know what goes on behind the scenes.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?

Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death? 2 by MrCoffee7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is the average number of hops in your social network to someone living who knew someone who was killed in the 9-11 attack? I am particularly interested in how the answer would vary depending on the age of the first person in the social network graph?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood? 32 by cromka | 4 comments on Hacker News. Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broad-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff that I believe would previously be met with some discussion. Note that I don't care that my submissions were ignored, I don't need that validation. Problem is that if my stuff gains no traction, I am myself not seeing similar stuff posted by others, stuff I am genuinely interesting in and would want to hear about from this community. Here are two most recent examples: - Lenovo showed a model that incorporates solid-state air cooling. That technology has been around for a while but it looks like it matured and is production-ready. This allows for super-light and slim designs, which, in turn, should ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace

Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace 4 by zishutron | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I built Stardust Store, an independent Android app marketplace as part of my ZISHU TRON ecosystem. Website: https://ift.tt/9ZxGW7B The main idea is to focus on app discovery, rather than simply providing a large list of APKs. The current platform has: Editor's Choice Trending and New Releases Popular Apps and Games Search by name, developer and category Top Free / Paid / Grossing / Trending / Rated rankings App categories User profiles Wishlist Download history Reviews I built the project independently and I'm currently focusing on improving the marketplace based on feedback from users and developers. The Android version is also available here: Download APK: https://ift.tt/DHoWV5n Privacy: https://ift.tt/HQIofyM Terms: https://ift.tt/HT9Qyx6 I'd especially appreciate feedback on the marketplace UX, discovery model, rankings, and what developers would expect from an ...
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New ask Hacker News story: What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?

What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career? 4 by hackersnooze1 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
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