15:[[49171630,{"by":"rpnx","descendants":8,"id":49171630,"kids":[49174005,49180529,49179054,49171819,49180214,49177768],"score":3,"text":"So here's the question I wanted to pose around AI usage. With modern advanced AI, much of the time, using AI consists of sending a message a waiting a long time (often an hour or more) before the AI finishes a task.

Which I think brings up an important question, is it okay to take short work breaks to send instructions to AI working on your personal projects during work hours?

Do any employers have policies around this? And how does it interact with legal standards?

Are the rules around work-product well suited to the modern AI age?

Does it matter if I'm hourly vs salaried?

Should we do the same thing for work (asking work AI to do things occasionally during personal time)?","time":1785862733,"title":"Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?","type":"story"}],[49170050,{"by":"JimsonYang","descendants":1,"id":49170050,"kids":[49170333,49177764],"score":4,"text":"Just got confirmation with my account manager as well as info on byteplus that the price of seedance 2.5 is 50% more than seedance 2.

For a 30 second video it'll be around $7.50 for a 30 second 720p 16:9 video. (lower than I heard)

And 2.5 is actually available now through their Lumina business package(it's like $300/month) right now, or it'll be released via api in 1-2 weeks","time":1785856136,"title":"Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing","type":"story"}],[49150433,{"by":"leandrobon","descendants":29,"id":49150433,"kids":[49150757,49161237,49150748,49151233,49153822,49157004,49160507,49152159,49159582,49161415,49151155,49151014,49154517,49155285,49177921,49154421,49152985,49153103,49177750,49163782,49153342,49151532],"score":11,"text":"Have we hit a point where most advances come in the form of new integrations, or applications, rather than outright better models? How much more productivity will we be able to squeeze from them?","time":1785722976,"title":"Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?","type":"story"}],[49162887,{"by":"unjuno","descendants":2,"id":49162887,"kids":[49162894,49164565,49165889,49166053,49163777,49163831],"score":3,"text":"It seems that generating hypotheses is no longer the main problem.\nThe harder problem may be continuously collecting real-world data, building accurate world models, and using them to guide experiments.\nIs this where automated research is heading?","time":1785801568,"title":"Ask HN: Does AI research need \"world models\" more than bigger LLMs?","type":"story"}],[49149599,{"by":"apatheticonion","descendants":5,"id":49149599,"kids":[49150271,49154150,49152406,49163817],"score":5,"text":"I've been using DeepSeek v4 flash for guided agent workflows (in-IDE, prompt/review diffs) and have found no noticeable benefit to using Haiku, Opus, Sonnet in this workflow.

For around a dollar a day, I am able to more than double my own productivity. What are the frontier models for/what are they trying to solve?

Are they designed to one shot applications? Is the expectation that we want to be able to "yolo" prompt LLMs and have them complete work unsupervised?","time":1785714712,"title":"Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?","type":"story"}],[49139845,{"by":"skeptic_ai","descendants":18,"id":49139845,"kids":[49139888,49274579,49274360,49141797,49165980,49140472,49142248,49153344,49142116,49141677,49140102,49142259,49149394,49169698,49140337,49152998,49142585,49140393,49148713,49144469,49146483,49141324,49142720,49150587,49140004,49144314,49145099],"score":17,"text":"I’ve asked AI a few times and I still don’t get it.

Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs?

Couldn’t I just have an AGENTS.md that points to folders of .md files and tells the agent when to read them? That feels functionally equivalent to me.

What am I missing? Is there a real architectural benefit, or is it mostly a standardization/convenience thing?

I doubt we’d create so much hype about skills if they’d just be a md file that’s in a skills folder. So I feel I’m missing something.","time":1785629342,"title":"Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need \"skills\"","type":"story"}],[49138466,{"by":"mfalcon","descendants":23,"id":49138466,"kids":[49139042,49152673,49152155,49144734,49153372,49139037,49150522,49138618,49152415,49138974,49138734,49146528,49139213,49141339,49139101,49142366,49140348,49146108,49139732,49159385,49143049,49141240,49157220],"score":9,"text":"It's time to start learning advanced topics again and I thought it'd be at least interesting to take advantage of LLM's to help me learn better or faster.

I've read here that some of you are using "socratic skills" where you give the LLM some content and then you get a series of questions in order to learn but I don't think it's the only approach to this.

I'll start tackling the "Attention is all you need" paper and then I want to go deeper.

What's your approach?","time":1785618238,"title":"Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?","type":"story"}],[49131376,{"by":"bavovna","descendants":4,"id":49131376,"kids":[49131587,49136207,49133815,49137784,49141229],"score":2,"text":"Just checked my grafana dashboard and was surprised to see 4th OpenAI usage reset this week. It's a $200/mo account and all 4 happened ahead of my scheduled reset:\n- 7/31 around 8:45pm\n- 7/28 around 9:15pm\n- 7/27 around 8:30pm\n- 7/25 around 12:30pm

Athropic needs to keep up.","time":1785562746,"title":"OpenAI Usage Reset 4th time in 7d","type":"story"}],[49121047,{"by":"chrislim","descendants":4,"id":49121047,"kids":[49122805,49122663,49146040,49123806,49141108,49151645],"score":8,"text":"I started with OpenAI back in the GPT-3 days, then bounced between the major labs (with a brief interlude with Workers AI).

I eventually settled on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite as my workhorse, using it against structured data/vectors as a chatbot. It was cheap, good enough, and most importantly, fast - but it's now being sunset and I'm not sure where to go to find similar performance.

Groq seems promising but developer access hasn't been available for months. I'd love to use open source, but I never found anything comparable (cost/performance/speed).

Would love to hear your suggestions.","time":1785491184,"title":"Ask HN: What are you using for LLM inference in production?","type":"story"}],[49125917,{"by":"mark_l_watson","descendants":6,"id":49125917,"kids":[49140515,49130028,49126234,49130112,49130600,49131429],"score":3,"text":"I have just had my 3rd session in less than a week when I had to eventually quit Claude Code and do a task using another model/subscription.

Am I just unlucky?

EDIT: it is working again. Today I was asking for research and I kept getting warnings that the model was unavailable (Opus 4.8)","time":1785517894,"title":"Ask HN: Has Claude Code been (mostly) usable for you?","type":"story"}],[49117698,{"by":"hmokiguess","descendants":4,"id":49117698,"kids":[49122930,49124399,49131394],"score":3,"text":"I'm not sure how to best characterize what I just experienced with Opus 5 but my attempt to describe it, and hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, is that it "spoke" with an "accent" to me.

By speaking I don't mean voice mode, but it wrote the following and I will omit for brevity:

"... stuff ... dry-run ... more stuff"

"... 死run ... stuff"

I had to lookup what 死 was because I don't speak chinese, and I found it means "die" and I thought it was too weird of a coincidence because in foreigners accent I have heard "dry" sound like "die" before.

Am I crazy? Who wants to take a crack at this","time":1785458210,"title":"Can LLMs have an \"accent\" like second language speakers?","type":"story"}],[49103837,{"by":"0gs","descendants":6,"id":49103837,"kids":[49104781,49104962,49105390,49107688,49105391,49131237],"score":8,"text":"maybe it's like TM, and we're not supposed to know.

for me, weekly reset is (has always been? surprisingly constant despite all the other UI/UX/model motion) 4P ET thursday, rain or shine, regardless of plan.

knowing what i know about software release cycles/superstitions/wisdom, it feels like it might be one and done. which would be nuts!

anybody know? apologies if dupe!","time":1785363606,"title":"Ask HN: Is everybody's Claude weekly quota reset time the same?","type":"story"}],[49104392,{"by":"DaveParkCity","descendants":2,"id":49104392,"kids":[49105723,49118420,49146026,49105088],"score":9,"text":"$16","time":1785367690,"title":"How to get more coding productivity with LLMs","type":"story"}],[49116411,{"by":"lpjstack","descendants":3,"id":49116411,"kids":[49130470,49129336,49118138,49133468,49123823,49128813,49117353,49123466,49118410],"score":5,"text":"As LLMs get stronger, I'm pruning my agent skill library. I've removed multi-step workflows (like superpowers) and web wrappers (like Agent Browse) that base models now handle natively, which speeds up context and improves performance.

Are you doing similar cleanup? What former go-to tools or skills have you recently ditched?","time":1785448799,"title":"Ask HN: What former \"must-have\" AI agent skills have you deprecated?","type":"story"}],[49098513,{"by":"gaborme","descendants":2,"id":49098513,"kids":[49100362,49118404,49119795],"score":13,"text":"$17","time":1785337566,"title":"Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app","type":"story"}],[49098829,{"by":"SMAAART","descendants":9,"id":49098829,"kids":[49101492,49099094,49099947,49099809,49122867,49108824,49099909,49103681,49205374,49177426,49128007,49129661,49106719,49126211],"score":6,"text":"$18","time":1785339095,"title":"Ask HN: How would you learn AI-assisted development from the ground up?","type":"story"}],[49080775,{"by":"KellyCriterion","descendants":22,"id":49080775,"kids":[49082195,49081899,49081523,49081272,49083420,49087937,49106897,49082112,49085428,49082446,49092219,49106712],"score":45,"text":"Dear all,

our team is using a Claude AI Team plan for more than 1 year already:

- we are a normal company, doing normal business, nothing critical

- all our bills are paid and we can see them as paid

- nontheless, the service is not available for more than one week to us

Question:

- any other idea to reach out to them than their "Fin AI Chatbot" at support@anthropic.com?

- did anybody else had the same experience? If yes, what helped to solve it?

Its really frustrating :-(

(especially since some people built their interal workflow around Claude, now they are somehow stuck)","time":1785225619,"title":"Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support","type":"story"}],[49085375,{"by":"johnnymakes","descendants":3,"id":49085375,"kids":[49085401,49086659,49098450,49106695],"score":3,"text":"$19","time":1785252439,"title":"SOTA on the hardest AI memory benchmark (BEAM, 10M tokens), with a smaller model","type":"story"}],[49081970,{"by":"novlrdotcom","descendants":19,"id":49081970,"kids":[49158143,49083836,49083545,49084651,49082152,49084138,49103512,49089077,49104928,49101109,49084345,49086412,49095492,49084498,49092908],"score":22,"text":"$1a","time":1785235559,"title":"Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5","type":"story"}],[49080135,{"by":"hyhmrright","descendants":6,"id":49080135,"kids":[49080176,49080152,49081197,49080172,49092875],"score":5,"text":"Anthropic has released the new Opus 5 and Fable 5 models. Many existing resources—such as `claude.md` files and custom skills—are no longer compatible with these new models. How should one rewrite or adjust `claude.md`, or develop skills better suited to these models?","time":1785220179,"title":"Ask HN: How to rewrite `Claude.md` and install the skill for Opus5 and Fable5","type":"story"}],[49081491,{"by":"sarjann","descendants":1,"id":49081491,"kids":[49089980,49092841,49086957],"score":2,"text":"With the move with AI tools to storing everything especially meeting notes where every interaction is transcribed and embedded for agents to use as context.

Does this not create a huge liability? I imagine in discovery there'd be massive trove of data, including off hand comments the company has.

I'm especially thinking of companies like Google who enforce rules on language, like don't say "dominant" or "kill". If every meeting is recorded this would be a lot easier to find and with AI analysing discovery data it'd probably be hard to miss.

I don't think I've seen any products that wrap these tools or built in features to sanitise meeting notes, and it might be more complex if you're currently under litigation in which case sanitisation might be counted as destroying evidence?","time":1785231370,"title":"Ask HN: Is there legal risk in AI memory?","type":"story"}],[49054859,{"by":"prologic","descendants":10,"id":49054859,"kids":[49056627,49056136,49069235,49058219,49056774,49056587,49078567,49078166,49055138,49057826],"score":12,"text":"So... If PoW (proof-of-work) schemes like Anubis ultimately don't' work in practise, because Bots/Crawlers are increasingly using headless browsers, are able to solve captures, proofs, etc;

What options do we have realistically to filter out or block unwanted traffic?

What clever schemes can we come up that don't rely on centralised serices like Cloudflare?","time":1785041711,"title":"Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?","type":"story"}],[49047714,{"by":"jonthepirate","descendants":6,"id":49047714,"kids":[49051375,49068527,49052884,49052838,49059218,49069086,49047970,49052886,49078542],"score":11,"text":"I'm looking for some concrete examples of any AI advancements actually causing someone to financially prosper where they didn't before. Most of the examples I can think of make someone or something slightly more streamlined or productive, and so I'm looking for cases where company X is now Y% more profitable because of AI advancements.","time":1784988717,"title":"Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?","type":"story"}],[49049662,{"by":"Hussain04","descendants":13,"id":49049662,"kids":[49049838,49078529,49055282,49049835,49063873],"score":4,"text":"If someone has made a free-to-use tool that is open-source and legitmately helpful (and not AI slop). How do I get it to people?

I have already posted it here on HN, on subreddits, on LinkedIn, and some forums. Where else can I post (for free)?

What other social media platforms would be good for this?

For context I have two tools: one is robotics related and the other is ML related.","time":1785000745,"title":"Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?","type":"story"}],[49057337,{"by":"mempirate","descendants":4,"id":49057337,"kids":[49057458,49067060,49064357,49060207,49057385,49059642],"score":10,"text":"I started dabbling with ESP32-based MCUs from Waveshare with Rust, and I'm quite impressed with the state of things (esp-rs, embassy, probe-rs etc). Note that I haven't really done embedded in any other languages, so I don't really have anything to compare it with.

One thing I did notice was that creating beautiful, interactive user interfaces on MCUs with displays is a little harder, libs like embedded-graphics don't look that great.

This made me wonder, are people using Rust in their professional embedded work?","time":1785067883,"title":"Ask HN: Are you using Rust on embedded devices yet? If not, why?","type":"story"}],[49048125,{"by":"tbharath","descendants":8,"id":49048125,"kids":[49049690,49049100,49049224,49050863,49064333],"score":13,"text":"What really happens behind the scenes when we select high effort vs medium effort for the same LLM models?","time":1784991592,"title":"What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?","type":"story"}],[49049986,{"by":"mavsman","descendants":8,"id":49049986,"kids":[49050668,49054885,49127059,49061227,49057122,49061621,49057516,49057811,49177413,49064323],"score":10,"text":"Maybe a dumb question but I don't think I've ever experienced more down/waiting time in my career so I'm much more prone to opening YouTube, HN, etc. despite not really wanting to.

Most likely the answer is to just sit and do nothing. But have you discovered an approach to making agentic coding, etc work for you without feeding into distraction and attention deficit?","time":1785002606,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?","type":"story"}],[49027099,{"by":"zbikowski","descendants":1,"id":49027099,"kids":[49028053,49030886],"score":3,"text":"$1b","time":1784836187,"title":"Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled?","type":"story"}],[49022755,{"by":"bwb","descendants":4,"id":49022755,"kids":[49025450,49025992,49030878],"score":20,"text":"They shut down their API program years ago, but I was hoping to find someone who had an old key I could use.

I run BookDNA.com and it would be helpful for us. Anyone know anybody who still has a legacy key?","time":1784818834,"title":"Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?","type":"story"}]]

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