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Where's the line between AI helping with research vs AI just telling you what you want to hear?

been using LLMs to help process customer feedback, dump a bunch of reddit comments or reviews in and ask it to find patterns, objections, common language. works well enough that i'm a little suspicious of it now. the thing that got me thinking about this: i fed it a batch of comments about a product category and asked for the top objections. it gave me a clean confident list. except when i went back and reread the raw comments myself, a couple of the "top objections" were actually pr...
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AI and thinking

this account is linked to a small ai automation side project i run alongside the building firm. i run a small refurbishment outfit in scotland. mind you, we do have admin help, and it works when the task repeats and it's clear what they can decide. contract jobs don't stay like that. explain one odd item, then answer the questions that come back while the job is moving. miss the order today and it misses friday, so it turns up next week. doing it myself was usually quicker. the work sat in a...
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Character consistency in AI video — has anyone actually cracked it?

Been watching a project that claims to have solved the problem of keeping the same character looking and sounding consistent across multiple scenes. Not just a single clip — across a full 22-minute episode. Genuinely curious whether people here think that's actually achievable yet or whether they've just hidden the inconsistencies well enough.
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Xây dựng một website bán mô hình lắp ráp: Những điều mình học được

Khi bắt đầu xây dựng một website chuyên về mô hình lắp ráp, mình nghĩ công việc chỉ đơn giản là đăng sản phẩm lên rồi bán. Nhưng sau quá trình thực hiện, mình nhận ra để một website hoạt động hiệu quả cần rất nhiều yếu tố khác. Điều đầu tiên mình tập trung là tối ưu trải nghiệm người dùng. Một website bán hàng không chỉ cần đẹp mà còn phải tải nhanh, dễ tìm kiếm sản phẩm và hiển thị tốt trên điện thoại. Bên cạnh đó, mình cũng chú trọng đến SEO. Thay vì sao chép mô tả từ nhà cung cấp, mình ...
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One keystroke to a project: building a tmux session launcher with fzf

I hit Ctrl-F more than any other key combination on this machine. It runs a shell function called fts — "find tmux session," which is not a good name but it's four years too late to change it. I press it, a fuzzy finder opens listing every project directory I have, I type a few characters, and I'm sitting in a tmux session for that project with the panes already laid out. If the session already existed, I'm back in it exactly where I left off. If what I typed doesn't exist yet, it offers ...
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The plumbing behind newsletter apps: intake addresses, email-to-Atom, and what eight of them really cost

If you subscribe to more newsletters than you read, which tool fixes it depends entirely on which problem you actually have. Most roundups skip that step and just rank apps. Disclosure up front: we make one of the eight tools below. It's the last entry, it's new, and it has no track record — its section says so plainly. The other seven are real options and for most people one of them is the better pick. Every price and behaviour here was checked against the vendor's own site on 2 August 20...
TypeScript Just Got 10x Faster by Not Being TypeScript
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TypeScript Just Got 10x Faster by Not Being TypeScript

Table of Contents Introduction Putting the 10x Claim Into Perspective How Did We Get Here? This Was an Extensive Evaluation The Priority Was Compatibility Why Not Rust? Why Not C#? Why Go Fit the Existing Compiler A Port, Not a Simple Translation Where Does the Performance Come From? Native Execution Parallel Processing Memory Efficiency and Larger Projects The Benchmarks Memory Usage The JavaScript API Trade Off Is It Still TypeScript?...
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npx hosting — deploy any folder to a live URL in one command, no account

I built a zero-config CLI that deploys the current folder to a live site. Anonymous by default, with a single-use claim link if you want to keep it. Every static hosting tool I've used asks for the same ritual before you can see your site online: create an account, verify an email, install a CLI, log in, answer a config wizard. That's a lot of ceremony for "put these files on a URL". So I built hosting — a CLI where the entire flow is: npx hosting That's it. No acco...
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Microsoft Up 15%. Me? 100% Down.

hey there, so i wanted to share something with you. this is a bit personal but i have been watching the news this week and bruh... things are not going good. i am jobless right now, no other source of income, and day by day things are getting worse. and the worst part? AI is literally fuking every job in the software field. so when i saw this week's stock market drama, it hit me different. Microsoft popped. Meta tanked. Same AI boom. Two completely opposite reactions. and all i could think wa...
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How to Prove Every Company Laptop Is Managed: An Endpoint Audit Evidence Checklist

A spreadsheet containing laptop serial numbers is not proof that every endpoint is managed. It proves only that someone created a spreadsheet. For an audit, customer security review, onboarding check, or incident investigation, the evidence needs to connect four facts: The organisation expects the device to exist. The device is assigned to an accountable owner or lifecycle state. A management or monitoring control is actively reporting from it. The reported evidence is recent enoug...
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Why I created PyBotchi (v4.1.4)?

Hello Everyone, I'm the creator of PyBotchi, an intent-based AI Agent Orchestrator. In this post, I will discuss some key concepts why I created it. A little bit of background first. I'm a solutions architect with 10 years of experience as a software engineer. Most of my work are high throughput, high reliability, low cost and low latency services. This is while making it simple and readable to improve it's maintainabality. When I'm designing a system, I usually prioritize these concerns. ...
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The cache key that ignored the question

Two people asked a context compressor two completely different questions. It gave them the same answer. Not a similar answer — byte for byte the same 544 characters. Here's what that looked like: query="Fix the IntegrityError on commit" level=L0 -> 159 tok cache_hit=False query="Explain the tax rounding TODO in compute_tax" level=L3 -> 159 tok cache_hit=True identical output: yes (544 chars both) Different question. Different compression level. Same 544 charact...
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Mastering QWeb PDF Reports in Odoo 19: From Beginner to Advanced

Learn how to build professional PDF reports in Odoo 19 using QWeb . This guide covers everything from creating your first report to advanced techniques like reusable templates, custom paper formats, barcodes, multilingual reports, RTL support, and performance optimization. Introduction Every Odoo application relies on reports. Whether you're printing: Sales Quotations Customer Invoices Purchase Orders Delivery Slips Manufacturing Orders Inventory Labels ...
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SQL Patterns Hidden Inside Social Networks

From the outside, social features seem like something straightforward: follow a user, like a post, see a feed, but when you attempt to implement them at any real scale you find that every single one is something you've got to be aware of, a pattern, a well-documented query pattern with all its failure modes. Here's a step-by-step look at four of them: adjacency list, fan-out feed, mutual-friends join, and some graph traversal that SQL wasn't really designed for. The adjacency list an...
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Why Documentation Is Architecture

Most of the engineers consider documentation as an after-thought; a README on a finished system written in the final 20 minutes before a PR gets merged. That's the wrong way to do this relationship. Documentation is not a description of architecture. It is part of the architecture, and marking it as separate is the cause of so many rotting systems, which still pass all tests. The compiler doesn't care, your team does It could be a consistent codebase and yet it be undocumented ga...
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Ask HN: When will the AI version of 911 happen?

Whether the government/other 'friendly' entities were behind, coordinated, or were oblivious to the 911 attacks, they enjoyed what 911 allowed them to do (be completely free of the limits of the Constitution on their treatment of everyone) to not want to do it again. It lasted 25 years, which might be surprising, that Americans would give up their American-ness for that long, but they were 'patriotic' enough to accept just a single approval by Congress of a super-Unconstitutional muddy Act on a ...
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Ask HN: Is discovery channel using AI?

My family and I have been watching discovery's shark week, and I could swear that many of the B rolls we've been watching are AI generated. can anyone confirm? That seems... surprising to me. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144673 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown–and the Fight to Win It Back

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-openai-lost-its-ai-crownand-the-fight-to-win-it-back-7d069695 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144690 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Arrakis raises $8M for AI agent runtime security

Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/arrakis-security-raises-8-million-ai-agent-runtime-controls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144865 Points: 2 # Comments: 0