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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live?

Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live? 3 by beaunative | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been highly logical and obsessive with reading since early childhood, and I got into programming pretty early and built Flash animation since kindergarten. I've always had issues with my peers and teachers, I got bullied quite often, and it was a source of emotional distress. I felt the constant need to work on things that intrigues me, and I'd read books like encyclopedia, I didn't know that then, but I now suspect myself to be on the spectrum. I believe many in the HN community have or suspected themselves to be on a spectrum as well? It's pretty traumatizing growing up because most other kids don't think the way you do, this usually means your teachers don't think like you as well. I used to think it's purely based on the metrics of intelligence alone, but now it seems it's more to do with being on the spectrum. If you've been on the spectrum a...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot

Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot 2 by Imustaskforhelp | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was writing a comment recently when I realized just how bad the graphs in GPT 5 video are. I had almost forgotten about it. I wish to create a very minor website which can talk about all of these, I feel like there are some perverse incentives which make these companies show out the good and hide out the bad and our news cycle just keeps on moving and we all follow it. Also there can be some remarkable mentions as well which I wish to list Here are some other examples: OpenAI turning from non profit to open. Claude code software getting leaked (Anthropic) X/Grok generating non consensual deepfakes issue (XAI) OpenAI's deal with Military and backstabbing basically and now pushing for new laws. The graph thing by OpenAI being so horrendous which I mentioned earlier. Suchir balaji's death (I genuinely recommend searching this up if someone hasn...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?

Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now? 2 by whycombinetor | 2 comments on Hacker News. I get good, cheap, fast feature coding success with grok-4.1-fast for planning and grok-code-fast-1 for execution. But according to the Openrouter usage stats, grok-code-fast-1 is now old hat - usage dropped off a cliff in mid-Feb. What are you using now? (That's around the same price per token) (AND also blazing fast (100+tps)? is that possible?) (I'm finding Minimax M2.5 usable, but I think I still prefer grok-code-fast-1. Opus rocks but is expensive - good to have in the quiver for planning a big refactor.)
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New ask Hacker News story: Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?

Do founders' political views affect how you see a product? 3 by rishikeshs | 3 comments on Hacker News. There is a product I really like. Love using it, love tinkering with it, and I buy into the overall vision. Founder has also always been pretty respectful publicly. But I recently came across some of their political views and now I just feel a bit weird about it. Nothing changed about the product, just how I feel. Do you separate the product from the founder? Does this change whether you keep using something? Or only if it starts showing up in the product? Don’t ask what the product is. It doesn’t matter and I’m not going to share.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System

Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System 4 by davidajackson | 0 comments on Hacker News. Given a system with N components and M pairwise connections between said N components, there exists infinite sequences of [component, command, ...] for a series of operations. A component displays data and a command obviously executes a command. Has anyone here done research on using an agant to select happy paths to test based on user intent? Is there literature on this? Seems like a cost, compute, intent optimization problem. Assume latency is a restriction. Seems like something some AI research folks here can chime in on. I have my own opinions but want to hear what the community thinks.
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New ask Hacker News story: Is VC the new PMF strategy?

Is VC the new PMF strategy? 3 by networkOne | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems that companies use VC funds as the main advertising for their company these days. In fact, without capital raising it is hard to set yourself apart from the rest of the budding companies started in their thousands each day. The receiving of VS funds now seems the only way one can create any virality in the marketplace. People still have a plea to the expert-from-out-of-town in that they feel... "well VCs are very experienced people who know what to look for when investing", which is counter-intuitive when faced with the realisation that VCs fund 19 losers for every 1 unicorn. People want a company to be big before it has a marketplace-chance of being big. An press release of "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a $25M investment from Vulture VC Fund resulting in a $1B valuation" carries considerably more viral weight that a PR stating "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a business...
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New ask Hacker News story: Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET

Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET 2 by aleph_one | 0 comments on Hacker News. Cuttle is a combat card game of mysterious origins dating back to the 1970's. It feels like playing Magic or Yugioh!, but it's played with a standard 52-card deck. https://cuttle.cards is an open source (code: https://ift.tt/95JSIUe) project that lets people play Cuttle online, for free. The project is under active development and has a competitive format with 4 seasonal championships each year, followed by a world championship tournament. The Cuttle World Championship is tomorrow, April 11th, at 1pm ET. You can watch it live on Twitch (https://ift.tt/vMD8wgK) or Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/live/mBj04alF1Z8?si=amIR5flmW7zewmL9) and chat with the players on the Cuttle discord (https://ift.tt/BdRVtNf). *RULES* ### Goal The goal is to be the first player to have 21 or more points worth of point cards on your field. The first player to reach the goal ...
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