illnewsthat | 10 days ago | on: OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
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illnewsthat | 1 month ago | on: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
Github copilot has support for this stuff as well. Agent skills, background/subagents, etc.
illnewsthat | 1 month ago | on: Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop
> Devin Review is free and available for PRs on regular GitHub repositories (not GitHub Enterprise). Public PRs don’t require a Devin account.
I guess the tokens are cheap enough or their pockets are deep enough, but this still seems surprising. I guess they can chalk it up to a marketing cost.
illnewsthat | 3 months ago | on: Raycast for Windows
Have you tried Everything by Voidtools? I’m curious how these tools compare with that. I like how fast and simple it is.
illnewsthat | 9 months ago | on: A Research Preview of Codex
I haven't checked in on it recently, but maybe a similar open-source option would be https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands
A not open-source option this looks close to is also https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace (released April 2024, but I'm not sure it's gotten any significant updates since)
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: ChatGPT Search
Looks like this was timed to coincide with Google adding search grounding data to Gemini API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008834 // https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-api-and-ai-studi...
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)
I know there is a HN guideline about not commenting on stuff like this, but in this case the text was so large it prevented me from wanting to read the article at all. Just uncomfortably large.
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool
What’s the technical difference in how this works vs. previous face swapping tech (like Snapchat filters)?
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook (2023)
Missing (2023)
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Generally Available
Yes, I played around with Skyvern and it works really well!
illnewsthat | 1 year ago | on: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
I created a bit.ly link that points to http://yourpiholehost/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=api_key
Bookmark it for myself and other people in the house and then turn it off for five mins whenever there is an issue.
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best way to sell $1 digital product?
I think Paypal's micropayment option[1] doesn't have a ton of competition, but at 4.99% + 9 cents you will do a lot better than typical stripe rate.
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: How Gyms Make Money (2015)
> Usually about 75 per cent of all gym memberships are taken out in the month of January.
That's a pretty wild claim to include without a source...
I googled it and found a source that said 12% of signups in January compared to average 8% the rest of the year which sounds a lot more realistic. [1]
[1] https://www.ihrsa.org/improve-your-club/how-to-keep-resoluti...
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
I am not following how playing in a band for money has the same business plan as this app
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Llama 2
The paper[1] says this in the conclusion:
> [Llama 2] models have demonstrated their competitiveness with existing open-source chat models, as well as competency that is equivalent to some proprietary models on evaluation sets we examined, although they still lag behind other models like GPT-4.
It also seems like they used GPT-4 to measure the quality of responses which says something as well.
[1] https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-found...
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities
Can you give some examples of things you don’t like about Azure UI/UX or Azure docs?
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
> They had Bing running in the background for years losing truckloads of money.
Maybe a nitpick, but I think Bing has been profitable on its own for a while now.
(2015) https://time.com/4084975/microsoft-bing-search-engine-profit...
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
This worked well for the one sample query I tried. Running unlimited GPT-4 API calls (plus search API calls maybe?) for people sounds expensive.
What is your monetization strategy for this tool?
illnewsthat | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering Defenders at the Speed of AI
illnewsthat | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do Glassdoor type websites verify employee status?
> Does Glassdoor verify employees?
> At Glassdoor, we aim to verify as much of our data as possible. Considering the reality of our digital age, however, we're unable to fully confirm our users' identities, the truthfulness of their contributions, or their employment status.
> Through our Terms of Use, we do require users to certify their employee relationships to companies when posting any content. We also require email verification from a permanent, active email address, or a valid social networking account.
https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/Does-Glassdoor-verify-e...
So, they don't. But if you do require verification, using an employee email address is probably the only realistic option.
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> Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre-money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.