Anyone else converting PDFs to Markdown before giving them to LLMs? The token savings are crazy.
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Anyone else converting PDFs to Markdown before giving them to LLMs? The token savings are crazy.

Lately, I’ve been manually converting all my research PDFs and DOCX files into clean Markdown before pasting them into ChatGPT or Claude. If you just copy-paste a raw PDF, you’re paying a massive "hidden layout tax." The model wastes thousands of tokens trying to parse layout trivia; broken hyphens, weird line breaks, headers, and footers. Not only does it bloat your dev budget and eat up your context window, but it actually degrades the output quality because the AI gets distracted ...
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What non mainstream AI subscriptions are actually worth it?

Hey ​ What non mainstream AI subscriptions are actually worth paying for right now? ​ I already know the big ones like ChatGPT Claude and Gemini I am more interested in smaller or lesser known tools that are actually useful and not just hype. ​ What do you personally use and think is worth it?
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Tiny Seed → Aligned Interaction → Codex (Model-Agnostic Behavior Mapping)

A method I'm using to create portable trajectory maps that produce similar behavioral patterns across different models. Begin with a tiny seed. ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS──────────────────────── ENTRANCE • PATHWAY GOOD • WORN • COMFORTABLE POISE • PROFESSIONAL • MOTHERLY ⎯(≣•)⎯────────END EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS───────────────────── Do not define a character. Do not define traits. Do not define behavior. Instead, align to the seed and interact from within the space i...
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A2A, how it looks in an enterprise build

The team has been deep in agentic AI for enterprise lately and wanted to share some architecture notes from a recent build, specifically around how MCP and A2A play together in practice. The workflow was a fully autonomous churn risk pipeline. Six agents, one human touchpoint: ML model scores customers by churn risk Recommendation agent proposes relevant products based on buying history Availability check filters out-of-stock items Pricing/promo agent surfaces applicable promotions ...
If you are a bad developer, AI can’t help you!
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If you are a bad developer, AI can’t help you!

A very healthy view of AI . And omg, wow, Croatia has such a big company! I really wish this guy and his team good luck. It’s no wonder they’ve lasted 20 years.
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AI infrastructure spending still feels early.

AI infrastructure spending is still accelerating, especially in data centers and advanced chip production. While most attention goes to chip makers, the companies enabling that ecosystem may have a longer runway. Do any of you work in similar companies and can give a broader perspective on it ? Teradyne sits in a pretty interesting spot. More AI chips being produced means more testing capacity is needed, and this is one of the key players in semiconductor testing equipment. Could testing ...
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GitLab says Git is being reengineered for "machine scale." Was the idea of "Git for AI agents" ahead of its time?

I was reading GitLab's recent statements around agentic software engineering, and one quote really stood out: "Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale." ( Business Insider ) According to GitLab, future software development will involve AI agents that: plan, code, review, deploy, and repair software, with humans providing oversight and architectural judgment. ( Business Insider ) That got me thinking. There has been projects for some time arguing th...
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Show HN: Track top AI companies and get daily AI news

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bigtech-ai-news/aehmpingbppjnlppejppiifmijdjjiej Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476350 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Economists Weigh in on the Future of Work and AI

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/economists-weigh-in-on-the-future-of-work-and-ai-f59311e9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477134 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Can Socratic dialogue cut through AI "bullshit"?

Article URL: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/06/09/can-socratic-dialogue-cut-through-ai-bullshit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477170 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Skimming an AI answer cost me 100 passwords

Article URL: https://alwaysdraft.com/skimming-ai-answer-cost-100-passwords/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477307 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: AuthAI, an open-source relay for user-authorized AI sessions

Hello HN, My name is Riccardo and I created AuthAI for indie hackers. The idea is quite simple: let the end users connect their chatgpt/grok/copilot account and route the AI requests through their AI subscriptions. This enable a lot of new cool ideas where the business model/unit economics don't always make sense. The flow is straightforward: They click on "login with AI", choose their provider, and authorise the device on the provider's website. Tokens get encrypted using a per-user AES-256-GCM...
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Show HN: Papermill Press – An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generation

If you’ve generated PDFs from HTML, you’ll know the pain: headless Chrome in Docker, CSS hacks, content that flows over pages or table boundaries and other quality issues. The fundamental problem is that HTML was designed for screens, not print. We built Press, a markup-based document language where pages, content flows, and assets are first-class concepts. Content can flow across frames, columns, and pages without manual pagination. Pages are created dynamically based on the available content. ...
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Writers Against AI

Article URL: https://www.writersagainstai.net/essay Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477749 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Siri AI Is a Malware Vector

Article URL: https://loufranco.com/blog/siri-ai-is-a-malware-vector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478009 Points: 1 # Comments: 0