💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Even though the impacts of LLMs have never been seen before, they feel familiar to earlier assumptions. For context: I wasn’t the “PhD scientist,” working on models. I was the guy who worked on productionizing their proof-of-concept code and turning it into something people could actually use. I worked in industries ranging from software/hardware automated testing at Motorola to small startups dealing with accessibility and education.So here is what I've learned:This AI hype cycle is missing the mark by building ChatGPT-like bots and “✨”…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model. Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.Claude Haiku 4.5 even surpasses Claude Sonnet 4 at certain tasks, like using computers. These advances make applications like Claude for Chrome faster and more useful than ever before.Users who…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: My work is supported by members. If you find my work valuable and have the means, consider supporting it with a membership or sponsorship! This members-only article has been made publicly available. You can see more of my work at alexanderobenauer.com. The last chapter of Bootstrapping Computing is all about user environments. One of the more unique user environments mentioned is found on the Canon Cat, an obscure machine that didn’t last long on the market, but took some specific philosophies to an extreme, presenting fascinating…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: My kids have this RC fire engine that works in the 27MHz band. I got curious how the communication is, with objective to control the toy from laptop. I had an RTL SDR in my toolbox. I have used it with gnuradio software for a couple of analog reception tasks. Not for anything serious so far. So I started simple and kept building on top. Following is the final block diagram I arrived at. Seems complex right?. I will walk you through the steps…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence—human-level intelligence) partly because I don’t believe in the possibility of AGI and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to it. But I also think there’s something we should actually be afraid of long before AGI, if it ever comes. When talking about humans in any context, whether it’s us vs sharks, or us vs wolves, or us vs , and especially when it’s us vs , I…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: October 15, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features with visionOS 26 and all-new spatial apps and Apple Immersive content CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced Apple Vision Pro with the powerful M5 chip that delivers a leap forward in performance, improved display rendering, faster AI-powered workflows, and extended battery life. The upgraded Vision Pro also comes with the soft, cushioned Dual Knit Band to help users achieve an…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: It all started with a simple, devastating problem. My client’s e-commerce website registered 50,000 visitors last February but made only 47 sales. A conversion rate of less than 0.1%. That was the moment I realized something was fundamentally broken with the way we measure success on the internet. As the head of a digital marketing agency, I am no stranger to confusing analytics. But this was different. An e-commerce client approached me last April, completely bewildered. They were pouring $4,000 a month into Facebook ads, their…
🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: NVIDIA DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem 14th October 2025 NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post if you like, but they did not pay me any cash and aside from an embargo date they did not request (nor would I grant) any editorial input into what I write about the device. The device retails for around $4,000. They officially…
✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: I’ve been more quiet here lately as I’m knee-deep working on my latest project. Agentic engineering has become so good that it now writes pretty much 100% of my code. And yet I see so many folks trying to solve issues and generating these elaborated charades instead of getting sh*t done. This post partly is inspired by the conversations I had at last night’s Claude Code Anonymous in London and partly since it’s been an AI year since my last workflow update. Time for a check-in.…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.The vote was pulled at the last minute.Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency's hope to get the text approved. Denmark still hopes to push this through by the end of its EU presidency in December. I personally would like to be optimistic and think that the tech community managed to raise enough concerns with EU policymakers.Hundreds of European companies…
