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The monorepo: my personal software infrastructure

iafisher.com

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Line Rider

linerider.com

1 pointsby thornewolf3 năm trước0 comments

Show HN: TuringJest – Pretend to be an AI and spot the real one

turingjest.app

61 pointsby thornewolf3 năm trước20 comments

Eliminate ID Generation Boilerplate Using the Python Secrets Module

thornewolf.com

1 pointsby thornewolf3 năm trước0 comments

Ask HN: What are you looking forward to in the next year?

1 pointsby thornewolf4 năm trước4 comments

The Spreadsheet Is Society's Most Powerful Tool

docs.google.com

4 pointsby thornewolf4 năm trước0 comments

Heroku and Heroku Alternatives

thornewolf.com

3 pointsby thornewolf4 năm trước2 comments

comments

13 ngày trướcdiscuss

My response is going to be about Gemini generally and less about NotebookLM.

Google's last frontier model release was Gemini 3.1 Pro, which was in February of this year[1]. At the time, it was ahead of the (at the time) flagship models of Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.2/5.3. From my recollection of the time, it was the best model in the world.

Anthropic released Opus 4.5 Nov '25, 4.6 in Feb '26, 4.7 in April, 4.8 in (late) May. Then Fable in June. 4.7 beat 3.1 Pro on multiple metrics. Fable eats it for breakfast. However, I want to note the 3 month gap between those first two Opus versions.

OpenAI released 5.2 Dec '25, 5.3 Codex Feb '26, 5.3 Instant Mar, 5.4 Mar, 5.5 (late) May, 5.6 July. 5.4 beats 3.1 Pro on agentic benchmarks[2], seems to be similar/losing on non-agentic. 5.5 seems stronger than 3.1 Pro[3].

Gemini 3.5 Pro is alleged to be launching within the week. Why do I type this all out? Because I think Google is getting a bad rap. They are delayed on a frontier release by a month or two and are being regarded as if they cannot release frontier models. I think their last release demonstrates strength and we need to see a weak release before we call them "behind" (in any reasonable sense). These companies swap back and forth constantly. I recall a multi-month span where 2.5 Pro was just the best thing out there by a large margin (in my opinion).

[1]: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

[2]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

[3]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

17 ngày trướcdiscuss

just read this when reviewing OpenAI's "spinning up" documentation as it was linked there!

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

The author explain this in more detail in the article; I also was initially confused. The key details come from their broken down pandoc command. Specifically, these two flags:

  --pdf-engine=typst
  -V template=article.typ

Despite the input content being a .md file, we see that the .md contents populate the .typ file. Pandoc then understands how to convert the populated .typ file into a .pdf. The author also notes in their hyperlinked .typ document where the body content is placed:

  // THIS IS THE ACTUAL BODY:

What is not clear to me is the actual mechanism that tells pandoc where to place the body contents in the template. I presume it's some "magic" from the pandoc docs. The pandoc templates documentation[1] does reveal to us that `-V` is setting a variable called `template`. I don't have pandoc locally, but from another post[2] from the same author and a chatgpt query, it seems that the `body` symbol in the template is the chosen substitution symbol.

[1]: https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/6-templates.html

[2]: https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2024/pandoc-typst-tutorial/

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

not dead, they are on "luma". quality is higher in some ways, lower in some ways when compared to "old school" meetups

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

I can't smell much at all. one time when i was 17 my friend told me i was kinda smelly (i had just exercised). I've been stressed about it since. the human brain can latch on to the oddest things

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

there is something "wrong" with the ux that is hard to pin down. these things generate even text summaries more rapidly than i can read them. i need a better method for dumping info into my brain + dynamic control (if necessary)

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

They have named themselves sqliteai and are releasing a library called adam. this is just advanced seo. seems neat though

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

it's a security feature. otherwise my malicious site could check for cdn.sensitivephotoswebsite.com and blackmail you if it was cached already

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

more ai articles on my front page :(

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

I noticed this article is written by AI. Have you considered adding a disclosure?

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

just disclose please. i churn on non-disclosed ai generated content as a matter of principle. i don't necessarily churn on other variants

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

this article comes back 100% ai (for the opening). i will not reveal the tell that made me churn

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

I have swapped to using gemini over chatgpt for casual conversation and question answering. there are some lacking features in the app but i get faster and more intelligent responses.

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

For the comment from "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning", the article author editorializes

"One of the great benefits of AI tools, is they allow anyone to build stuff... even if they have no ideas or knowledge.

One of the great drawbacks of AI tools, is they allow anyone to build stuff... even if they have no ideas or knowledge."

into

"One of the great benefits of AI tools is they allow anyone to build stuff, even if they have no ideas or knowledge. One of the great drawbacks is they allow anyone to build stuff."

which removes the rhetorical effectiveness of the comment (and also breaks the promise of a quotation). I recommend that OP represents the source exactly.

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I now see that this article contains multiple GPT-isms

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

dispell the hate from your heart

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

it's because this argument of "what is $0.01 more?" can be extended forever, implying you are willing to pay an infinite amount of money for anything. since we know this is silly, we try to understand what our "real" maximum is. this is difficult to do for exactly the reasons you mention in your comment! surely $0.01 is negligible! there is a tension here.

and so, absolute max price is not a fantasy - the world would be absurd if it were - but instead its a real and difficult to construct value

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

as someone who worked at the company, i understood the meaning behind the tweet without the additional clarification. i think she assumed too much shared context when making the tweet

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

while we can't trust their word as absolute truth, they did specifically say they still not do this in the article

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

I estimated that i was 1.2x when we only had tab completion models. 1.5x would be too modest. I've done plenty of ~6-8 hour tasks in ~1-2 hours using llms.

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

some forms of meditation can be. it's a very general term