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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?

Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'? 2 by adinhitlore | 0 comments on Hacker News. So, a side project I've spent/wasted ~1000 hours on, with 2 goals set in mind: 1. faster than transformers on CPU; 2. smarter than transformers. couple of screenshots below (the black/red part are censored on purpose...for now): https://ift.tt/XCRrD2q https://ift.tt/m4M6xHC https://ift.tt/ku2pTXF Summary: what the hell is this? Two architectures - 1. Linear RNN which solves the long memory problem in current front-runner RNN transformer alternatives (RWKV, Mamba), in addition to being cpu friendly and entirely in C from scratch, but not too big: ~4000 lines. 2. 2 SNN experimental programs (in C originally but also ported to C# and F#) that turned out to be better than expected but unfortunately for the time being: dumber than the linear RNN one (i need more tests). The question is: what to do with them? google gemini pro 3.1/sonnet 4.6 told me to patent, IP, estimating val...

New ask Hacker News story: Uni feels so usless, I cant focus anymore

Uni feels so usless, I cant focus anymore 2 by EteenSMASH | 0 comments on Hacker News. Im a 18 y/o first year student, and I honestly have always liked school, been super passionate about CS forever, loved school sports and all that jazz. Dont get me wrong I love my uni, its a great school, very good global recognition and stuff, and lots of cool opportunities and stuff going on. I'm a really passionate guy and I love building, and so I literally on the first day just walked into the CS professors office hours, and was showing him stuff I built. I got offered a research position, joined in on the research meetings for a bit, and then got told that they dont pay right now, so I stopped. I want to make capital, and I dont want to build for someone else to own it just so that I can put it on my resume. It makes me feel like a cuck, and then the prof claims the work. I literally asked him, if students come to you with these ideas why dont they just build it themselves, and struggle ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?

Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local? 4 by tpurves | 1 comments on Hacker News. To anyone upgrading their daily driver Mac this year, are you considering going to a Max + high memory config? eg. with the hope (now or in near future) of being able to do usefully run agents/LLMs locally on your main machine? Or is the few extra thousand dollars difference between a base and max-spec MBP still just better spent on literally any other practical option (like different harware, remote hardware, cloud AI subscriptions or credits). Or wait to see if there will be an M5 Studio or what inferencing performance next year's M6 may bring? I am tempted, but even with some new models getting skinnier and more efficient, I am not sure moore's law and the M5 generation is quite there yet to be worth the trouble? What call's are ya'll making and why?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?

Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier? 2 by whatarethembits | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering $20/month variants only. I've had a Claude subscription for the past year, although I only really started properly using LLMs in the past couple of months. With Opus, I get about 5 messages every 5 hours (fairly small codebase); more with Sonnet. I then cancelled that, since its practically unusable and got ChatGPT sub about a week ago. Currently using it with 5.4 High and I haven't had to worry about limits. But the code it produces is definitely "different" and I need to plan more in advance. Its plan mode is also not as precise as with Claude (it doesn't lay out method stubs it plans to implement etc) so I suppose I may need to change how I work with it? Lastly, for normal chats it produces significantly more verbose output (with personality set to Efficient) and fast (with Thinking) but often it feels as thoug...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?

Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money? 2 by bhaviav100 | 1 comments on Hacker News. My agents retry a bit more than it should, and there goes my bill up in the sky. I tried figuring out what is causing this but none of the tools helped much. and the worse thing for me is that everything shows up as aggregate usage. Total tokens, total cost, maybe per model. So I ended up hacking together a thin layer in front of OpenAI where every request is forced to carry some context (agent, task, user, team), and then just logging and calculating cost per call and putting some basic limits on top so you can actually block something if it starts going off the rails. It’s very barebones, but even just seeing “this agent + this task = this cost” was a big relief. It uses your own OpenAI key, so it’s not doing anything magical on the execution side, just observing and enforcing. I want to know you guys are dealing with this right now. Are you just watching aggregate usage a...

New ask Hacker News story: Someone is flagging political posts

Someone is flagging political posts 3 by xvxvx | 3 comments on Hacker News. Today alone I’ve seen articles shared from The Guardian and The Washington Post flagged and removed. What did they have in common? Reporting on war crimes by Israel and the US. I’ve seen the downvote and flagging campaign increase here by the week. Will HN please do something about this manipulation?

New ask Hacker News story: I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds

I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds 2 by alebarbon | 0 comments on Hacker News. I built Ceeve after going through the job application process myself as a student. What frustrated me most wasn’t the effort, but the inefficiency—rewriting the same CV over and over, trying to guess what each recruiter actually wanted, and often getting no feedback. At some point I realized the problem: most people apply with the same CV everywhere, but every job is different. So I built Ceeve. It lets you: tailor your CV to a specific job description in seconds generate personalized cover letters track applications in one place The goal isn’t to automate everything blindly, but to help people align their experience with what each role is actually looking for. It’s still early, but it’s already been used by students at Bocconi, Imperial, and LSE, and was recently mentioned by Speedinvest among emerging AI startups in Europe. I’m trying to understand what actually helps people get ...