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Latency reduction for consumer facing AI applications

akiimehta — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:34:22 +0000

what are some of the hacks you have seen to make image edits faster without losing the fidelity? if a consumer workflow required 10 edits - a 15-20 second wait time isnt ideal between iterations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871083

Points: 1

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Banned from Reddit for my plugin that evades tracking and monetization

kookabburrabarr — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:59:09 +0000

Go back to old reddit style even when logged out. Admins hate it. Fuck 'em. u/spez was a moderator of r/jailbait

Evade tracking and being monetized:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sheddit/jmphfpemcclbhpkanmlglmnggcjmpamc

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sheddit/

https://github.com/kookaburrabarrel/sheddit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870768

Points: 6

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Ask HN: What am I missing with Siri AI?

ryeguy_24 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:12:14 +0000

I have a lot of experience with LLM’s and have seen them become very good at interacting with tools within an environment. I’m truly amazed at how poorly the new Siri is at handling very basic requests for basic interactions with different parts of the ecosystem. I’m really beginning to question whether LLM technology is being leveraged at all here. What am I missing with this? I have tons of examples where it fumbles softball requests.

For example: “Siri, can you give me the location of my driver. He just sent me a text message with his location.”

Response: Siri shows me a text from 5 days ago about a Seamless driver. Instead of a message just received that says “I’m at terminal 2 door B.”

This is beyond table stakes. In the message, I’m giving some really easy guidance on which tools to use and how to use them. For example, I mention text messages so we already know that we should be searching messages in the Message app. And if I say just messages me, it should be looking at the most recent texts. Not from 5 days ago.

And I have a whole slew of other examples that the old Siri was able to nail perfectly.

Example: “Make an appointment for Monday from 12 to 4 and label it Furniture Delivery.”

Response: Siri added an appointment for 3:48 to 4:48 today.

Then I said, “No, from 12-4.” It then moved another appointment to 4.

Yet Another Example: “Siri, send Jane a message saying I’m on my way home.”

Response: “Sure, what do you want the message to say?” (I just told you!)

What am I missing? A basic LLM can handle this. Why is this so poor? I’m not understanding why, if Gemini is the backend, it can’t handle this better.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869237

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How Jev in production for generative UI working out, anyone tried ?

imshaikot — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:52:23 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869020

Points: 1

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macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address

luckman212 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:21:10 +0000

Just a quick PSA. A handful of my scripts broke today after installing macOS 27. Turns out they decided to redact the interface hardware ether/MAC addresses, all of them report 02:00:00:00:00:00

(…unless you run with "sudo")

Luckily, you can still get the MAC addresses with

    networksetup -getmacaddress en0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868721

Points: 1

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I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be

effisfor — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:59:15 +0000

I'm not a computer science guy, but I had a play with Jev and found it impressive. It allowed me to offer non-technical researchers the ability to classify arbitrary things their participants enter, without prior training or classification, at near instant speed, and negligible cost. My users may find that very helpful in the qualitative research world.

I showed them an innocuous working example of how they could classify thousands of participant entries as "mentioning Italian food" whether it mentioned "pasta", "penne", "rigatone", etc etc. Jev did this task with high confidence, and showed it could differentiate between the inverse, eg had very low confidence when I switch entry to mentioning "hamburgers". I find that a very useful tool to pass on to non-technical colleagues.

But on HN, there are lots of much more qualified people saying Jev is a con, a step backwards, or bonkers that people are impressed. Will one of them tell me plainly what software was doing this prior to Jev, and the like? I don't doubt it existed, but I never came across it. I'm interested to hear from people more expert than myself.

To be precise, software must be able to: - Classify thousands of entries with arbitrary themes or topics, even if entry doesn't mention that theme or topic directly, with high enough confidence to be useful. - Do it with thousands of entries in 0-3seconds. - Do it at negligible cost, eg sub 0.1cents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868483

Points: 5

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Is this what SW eng has come to

bicepjai — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:42:55 +0000

With effort Thinking: high on claude Misting… (10s · thinking with high effort) Misting… (57s · still thinking with high effort) · Misting… (1m 18s · thinking some more with high effort) Misting… (5m 18s · deep in thought with high effort) still no answers ...

You are in flow and the brain wants to move along but ai-inference becomes a bottleneck to the extend that we accept the garbage it gives as long the tests passes and loose the flow, get angry and then post on HN to see if everyone goes through this mind-numbing process (even after paying) ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868329

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What's the most inspiring media you've consumed in the last 5 years?

hashim — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:34:42 +0000

Almost 5 years ago I asked about technically-inspiring media - movies, shows and documentaries that help you summon the constant motivation needed to single-handedly build a web app or bootstrap a startup. Alternatively, media that isn't technical but captures the other skills needed to build something to profitability, like sales or persistence, e.g. The Pursuit of Happyness.

So as not to repeat the common results of the other thread, this time I'm asking about media released in the last 5 years, but in almost any form you can think of.

Original thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106967

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868255

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Do you keep Emacs installed out of nostalgia rather than usefulness?

amichail — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:08:08 +0000

Maybe you use Visual Studio Code but occasionally run emacs anyway out of nostalgia and curiosity to see what is new?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867963

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?

beerglass — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:38:46 +0000

Let's say I have a Google spreadsheet on my Drive that I want an agent like Muse to work on. Currently my options are: a) I can allow Muse to access my Drive b) Share the spreadsheet with edit privilege to anyone with link and give that link to Muse. Both of these are not least privilege access that I'm comfortable with. Ideally I should be able to share access to a file with an agent. Other options like webhooks, burner accounts, etc are too tedious to do regularly. Any obvious solution that I am missing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867620

Points: 3

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Ask HN: In 3 months only 100 Stars, what I need to do?

Arshad-Talpur — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:21:32 +0000

We are building it since 3 months but no good traction, on other hand, I am seeing many weekend projects are getting much traction, what I need to do ? I have written articles in medium, dev.to and hashnode, issued a newsletter at linkedin still I am unable to cross basic threshold, would love to hear suggestions or comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866882

Points: 2

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Cashing in on Dust

spottedmarley — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:16:01 +0000

I stumbled upon some old btc wallet backups from a very long time ago. I had emptied most of them but several had small amounts of 'dust' still sitting in them (.004btc, .006btc, etc. even some .01's!). At the time the price was low enough that I really didn't care about losing a little dust on a given transaction but, fast forward to today and my collective pile of dust is worth over $10k!

Thank god I never deleted those backups!

PSA: If you were using bitcoin in the early 2010's and still have wallet backups, sweep out the dust!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866832

Points: 2

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Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?

variety8675 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:02:55 +0000

It seems like the major providers are starting to cut back the usage included with their monthly subscriptions. How are people handling inference for side projects these days?

Are you still using Codex/Claude subscriptions, paying for hosted open weight models, running local models, etc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866739

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What task manager do you use? What do you miss on them?

KlyX — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:45:22 +0000

There are so many task manager tools out there and I guess I tried most of them (I guess). There is always sth important missing or it does not look good (or does not make it easy to see the important stuff on a glance). Right now I am using Todoist and Sunsama (for daily planning). What are you using and what are you missing on the tools you use?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866602

Points: 1

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Ask HN: What does your AI workflow look like?

tadziokas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:11:31 +0000

With the recently released models and various open source tooling like harnesses or even solutions such as Graphify (is anyone actually using this?) or the death of OpenClaw I feel rather behind with regards to how I apply AI during my day to day engineering tasks.

The goal for this post is then therefore to act as a probe into what the public considers as standard/best practices when working with AI and maybe act as a sort of sharing space for articles / ideas you have found interesting or apply while working with AI.

I feel like this could be of great value (although maybe the approach I'm taking right now is not the most efficient) to see what the public thinks is working/is bogus since all of the recent hype trains and their subsequent crashes make me (and potentially you too) feel out of touch.

Clarifications: - by saying AI I refer to AI assistants such as claude, codex or similar.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865248

Points: 1

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Genius AI APı Anahtarı

Ayazefe — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:57:22 +0000

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865171

Points: 1

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How can you quikly tell if a technical article lacks firsthand experience?

sarra01 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:40:16 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865041

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Is answering GitHub issues with AI without declaring it a big deal?

LelouBil — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:10:31 +0000

I'm currently using the Mindwtr app to manage tasks, it's great and cross platform and all.

However I wanted to propose a feature and I looked at the issues and got a bit weirded out by the tone, and it's clear to me they are using an AI to write their responses, but even more intesting it seems also fully automated.

Things like saying to someone having the contributor tag on GitHub (and who also seems writing using an LLM) "Great breakdown — you've clearly looked at the codebase." after they provided input on a feature

You can see the thread here and many more examples in the repo: https://github.com/dongdongbh/Mindwtr/issues/361

Right now I'm a bit torn, the app works well, it's open source, but at the same time I don't feel like it's okay to do this, I see it a bit like abandoning a project to the whims of the LLM.

Hacker News: Ask HN

Latency reduction for consumer facing AI applications

Banned from Reddit for my plugin that evades tracking and monetization

Ask HN: What am I missing with Siri AI?

Ask HN: How Jev in production for generative UI working out, anyone tried ?

macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address

I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be

Is this what SW eng has come to

Ask HN: What's the most inspiring media you've consumed in the last 5 years?

Ask HN: Do you keep Emacs installed out of nostalgia rather than usefulness?

Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?

Ask HN: In 3 months only 100 Stars, what I need to do?

Cashing in on Dust

Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?

Ask HN: What task manager do you use? What do you miss on them?

Ask HN: What does your AI workflow look like?

Genius AI APı Anahtarı

How can you quikly tell if a technical article lacks firsthand experience?

Ask HN: Is answering GitHub issues with AI without declaring it a big deal?

Do whatever you want. You don't need to choose. You don't have to win or lose

Majority of YouTube comments seem AI generated to me now