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What would be the worse non-semantic alternative? Regex?

LLMs are the holy grail for getting beyond string matches. I would hope one was used to solve such a problem, otherwise that would be a poor product, right?

I did not investigate the product, but my point here is irony. The correct solution to implement the TFA product is to use an LLM.


Thank you for stating that. I feel like I must be taking crazy pills, that this is not a 5-alarm fire.

73% of users vote prior to reading TFA, according to this research. (I am sometimes guilty of this myself)

We live in a world being dimished by confirmation bias, but this isn't a new thing. Those who wrote/approved the headlines always had more power than those who wrote the articles.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315096490_Consumers...

edit: disclaimer, no hate on TFA. Just responding to the comment.


73% of Reddit users vote prior to reading TFA:

> In the present work, we introduce and make available a new dataset containing the activity logs that recorded all activity for 309 Reddit users for one year.


n=309 is better than n=1, but yeah...

However, tracking over a year might make the subject forget about the whole thing, and act naturally. As far as HN vs Reddit, not much difference really. I mean that as more props to reddit users than anything against HNers.


Reddit "users"

Huh, I didn't even remember to vote for posts, i just scroll down to read (and vote sometimes on comments)

This submission should be studied by people holding clipboards. It needs a follow-up:

"How I made it to the top of HN with zero content beyond a catchy title"

It further proves the key to getting your stuff on HN is not to post interesting content, it's to post something that sounds interesting.


D1 hater right here.

Here is my naive take on sovereignty, and how everything should work in the new "USA decided to kill its own dominance, and attack its allies" world. The world is now balkanized, let's live in that reality.

1. Almost every country has amazing universities with software tracks. A big issue is that universities often don't prepare their students for the real work, aka making and supporting products.

2. Governments should greatly favor products created by the students of their own universities.

The goal of every country should be to foster a sovereign software flywheel. Anything else seems pretty darn silly.


I ve had exactly same idea for many years now, but apparently that's not as obvisous to others

Developing new software? Universities! Maintaining/migrating old software? Universities! IT counseling and advise? You won't believe it ... Unive okey i stop here you got the point


SV VCs have been Stanford's biz dev team. Every country should use that as a template.

>The goal of every country should be to foster a sovereign software flywheel

The very simple economic problem with this is that autarky does not increase aggregate output. Saying "I will do this myself", always requires the qualification "at the expense of what else that I'm not doing?"

The adaption to a reality of a balkanized world for small countries is, like Singapore does successfully, triangulate between large countries, specialize what you're good at, be pragmatic and flexible and strategically neutral which makes big powers compete for you without drawing hostility, rather than trying to become 'sovereign', which makes you poor and a target.


When your previous major ally now threatens to destroy your country, and system of government, new compromises need to be made.

We are all in for a wild ride in the coming years. Many adjustments will need to be made. Those who adjust fastest will come out on top.


> I used billions of tokens last month alone.

I use Claude Code (Opus 4.6 at max effort) all day long, and I genuinely don't understand how this is possible. Is that usage paying off?

This is very likely due to my lack of understanding, but... how?


Don’t forget context. Basically I have 2 billion input and 1 million output. Every prompt you do, sends back the whole thing again and again. Let’s say you have 500k context used, you send 10 messages is 5 million. 100 messages 50 million. Use 5 threats is 250 million.

But how is it even possible (bad harness?), or wise, to send 500k or 1M tokens per call? Regarding cache, how are you not hitting the 1hr cache? Also, start new chats early and often!

I have been "agentic coding" since Sonnet 3.5 and after this paper came out, it became my bible:

https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa

Last I checked, all models suck as you fill the context window. "Context engineering" is how you do this whole thing.


Long codex sessions lead to a lot of cached token hits, esp when you resume them after a few hours.

I personally don't count cached hits as $used... Neither in my harnesses, nor in the LLM-enabled apps I create. A cached token cannot be counted 1:1 as to a non-cached token, that would be silly.

Wait... when some Claude 5x/20x users say they are getting "$2000 of tokens for $100," does the 2k value include cached tokens, counted at the same $/token either way?

We cannot be this dumb as a community, can we? I must be wrong/misunderstanding..


I'm a fairly moderate user, never hit any kind of usage limits, but I used 44 million cache create tokens and 1.5 billion cache read tokens, which ccusage estimates would have cost $990, and calculates the different categories separately.

Vibe coded a simple game (10,000 tokens of source code) with two popular coding agents. (Once each, to compare.)

One spent 200,000 tokens, to produce 10,000.

The other spent 1.9 million.

It could have been a single LLM call (10k tokens). lmao

(I note that the latter was designed by a company whose main source of revenue is token spend...)


What about the other 998 million tokens?

lots and lots of simple games

Ya got me there. Maybe he's running OpenClaw?

Just curious, how is this not an HN worthy post? Seems extremely YC/SV relevant for one thing.

One one hand, it's political news, which I abhor on HN. On the other hand, international travel out of SF provides underlying support for the tech industry and without it, would cause deep headaches. On balance then, yeah, I don't mind this on HN.

The scale of the explosion was really nuts, but there are also significant side-effects.

> According to Russian officials, drones struck the dormitory and nearby educational buildings of the Starobilsk College

I am biased, as while I love the Russian people, I despise Russian Imperialism, and I cannot believe anything that they say at this point.

I have seen no evidence to support that story. Given the preponderance of phone cameras, one would expect at least a photo or two.


good thing our politicians say the truth all the time so we get all confused to hear russians and question it

Can you please break this response down for me? I genuinely do not understand.

meta: Wait a second, how did you even see my reply to a 3rd party, on an old post, and comment back within minutes?


I have heard of the same thing happening with fancy used car dealerships, where cars that were to be sold on consignment have been lost.

And dealers have gone to prison for that.

Fun fact: "Betteridge's law" does not reflect reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...


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