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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (martinalderson.com)
HN 515 pts 478 comments by martinald Aug 28, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (martinalderson.com)
HN 421 pts 702 comments by martinald Dec 8, 2025 thread
Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
HN 355 pts 341 comments by martinald Feb 1, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model (twitter.com)
HN 259 pts 202 comments by martinald Jul 12, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup? (martinalderson.com)
HN 137 pts 177 comments by martinald Sep 21, 2025 Programming (General) thread
Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in (martinalderson.com)
HN 18 pts 31 comments by martinald Dec 27, 2025 Programming (General) thread
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)
L 16 pts 4 comments by martinald 3d ago hardwaremac Apple / macOS / iOSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Claude Is Down
HN 16 pts 25 comments by martinald Sep 10, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Claude code not working, claude.ai can't login with 503 error, etc.
Flights disrupted as Airbus requests modifications to planes (bbc.co.uk)
HN 12 pts 1 comments by martinald Nov 28, 2025 thread
Unions merged into dotnet 11 preview 3 (github.com)
L 10 pts 4 comments by martinald 1d ago dotnet Programming (General) thread
Struggling to find a link that lobsters allows. But unions have been merged into dotnet 11: Julien Couvreur (@jcouv) We merged an early C# 15 preview feature into .NET 11 preview 3: unions. Adds union declarations (`union Pet(Cat, Dog, Bird) { ... }`) and union types (attributed with `[Union]...
[nl-ams-1] degraded performances due to abnormal temperature (status.scaleway.com)
HN 7 pts 1 comments by martinald Jul 1, 2025 thread
Ask HN: Gemini Reliability Degrading?
HN 7 pts 2 comments by martinald May 11, 2025 thread
I've been using Gemini (via the web interface) as my main 'daily driver' since 2.5 Pro came out. It's been super reliable until probably the past few days, where I am seeing a lot of slowness and 'errors', with chats not working or stopping after a few hundred tokens re...
Which programming languages are most token-efficient? (martinalderson.com)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by martinald Jan 9, 2026 Programming (General) thread
Spain and Portugal blackout blamed on solar power dependency (ft.com)
HN 6 pts 10 comments by martinald May 1, 2025 thread
Why I'm building my own CLIs for agents (martinalderson.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by martinald Dec 29, 2025 thread
Claude Is Down
HN 4 pts 5 comments by martinald Nov 11, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Getting 429 rate limit exceeded
Could Excel agents unlock $1T in economic value? (martinalderson.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by martinald Nov 2, 2025 thread
Next.js 15.5: some perf improvements but regressions w/ turbopack (catchmetrics.io)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by martinald Sep 11, 2025 Web Development thread
Ask HN: Best on device LLM tooling for PDFs?
HN 4 pts 2 comments by martinald May 18, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
I&#x27;ve got very used to using the &quot;big&quot; LLMs for analysing PDFs<p>Now llama.cpp has vision support; I tried out PDFs with it locally (via LM Studio) but the results weren&#x27;t as good as I hoped for. One time it insisted it couldn&#x27;t do &quot;OCR&quot;, but gave me an example of w...
Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents? (martinalderson.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by martinald Feb 23, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Turns out I was wrong about TDD (martinalderson.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by martinald Jan 25, 2026 thread
Gemini 3 rolling out (unconfirmed) to mobile users (old.reddit.com)
HN 3 pts 1 comments by martinald Nov 13, 2025 thread
Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by martinald Oct 26, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
A non-technical CFO is shipping better code than the agencies he hired (martinalderson.com)
HN 3 pts 1 comments by martinald Oct 18, 2025 thread
How I make CI/CD (much) faster and cheaper (martinalderson.com)
HN 3 pts 3 comments by martinald Sep 28, 2025 thread
Is the AI Compute Crunch Here? (martinalderson.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by martinald 3d ago AI / Machine Learning thread
Why on-device agentic AI can't keep up (martinalderson.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by martinald Mar 1, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Using OpenCode in CI/CD for AI pull request reviews (martinalderson.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by martinald Feb 26, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Anthropic's 500 vulns are the tip of the iceberg (martinalderson.com)
HN 2 pts 1 comments by martinald Feb 17, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Attack of the SaaS Clones (martinalderson.com)
HN 2 pts 1 comments by martinald Feb 14, 2026 thread