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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 ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?

Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? 9 by dondraper36 | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's my N-th attempt at learning to meditate. At some point, I realized that even lifting weights, sleeping and eating well aren't enough if you can't tame your thoughts and control your stress level. This time, I have started with the introductory course on the Waking Up mobile app. It's frustratingly difficult to even get through the first lesson in which you are supposed to focus on your breath and minimize the wandering of your mind. I think it would be very motivating to hear the stories of how other people incorporated the practice of meditaton into their lives and what the results are.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do you consider the function of AI to be in your life currently?

Ask HN: What do you consider the function of AI to be in your life currently? 3 by mpdpsycho | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was wondering what frames of view others had on how they use the new AI wave to augment themselves in some way or another. I realize that itself is somewhat vague, since you could take “augment” to mean anything from, i.e. in writing, prose review to full-on generation of articles or whatnot. The sense I mean particularly is that where it facilitates something in/by you, not necessarily just for you. I’ve taken to using LLMs as sort of “problem space fuzzers”. I know for a lot of people, myself included, learning something new feels a lot more natural when’s it’s by doing rather than simply reading/reciting (where possible). Sometimes, while a discipline itself interests me, I can’t find the initial angle to crack it at where it sparks my curiosity to do its own thing. To that end I’m finding that it’s not a bad idea to set an LLM loose on some related project ...