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  1. Ask HN: Illustration Themes in AI Apps?

    Have any of you been successful in generating authentic drawing styles via AI apps? Drawing design/scribble/actual good looking hand drawings.

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  5. Ask HN: Agentic Prompt Compaction Strategies

    What are your favorite reasoning/compaction strategies for saving token spend, and why?

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  6. Ask HN: What function will inference cost take v.s. time?

    If you had to project what kind of pattern we'll see in inference cost v.s. time, what would you predict? Over the next 2, 5, 10+ years?

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  7. Ask HN: Infinitely Scalable Prompts

    Prompts and prompt rot could potentially be solved by dynamic injection of relevant, embedded snippets to dynamically build prompts. Right now most company's prompts are too small to suffer from such bloat, but I'm…

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  8. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System

    Given a system with N components and M pairwise connections between said N components, there exists infinite sequences of [component, command, ...] for a series of operations. A component displays data and a command…

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  9. Ask HN: Neuromorphic Computing

    Does anyone here have a lot of knowledge on neuromorphic computing, or has worked in the space? What do you think of it? Also, do you see any ethical issues with this type of engineering...

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  10. Ask HN: Image Recognition

    In this thread I would like to discuss the interesting ways we've found to increase model accuracy when analyzing images. I have been learning about vision models and trying a few different strategies, to varying…

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  11. Ask HN: Is A2A the Future?

    Wanted to have a brief discussion here as to whether you see A2A as the 'final state' for most AI automation. Are there any alternative patterns that you feel might be competitive, or better than A2A? Thoughts on A2E?

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  12. Ask HN: Behavioral assumptions in self driving cars

    Do self driving cars ever make assumptions about the lack of desirability of a lane if there is no one in it? While counterintuitive, sometimes that is an indication that there might be a parked car not currently…

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  13. Ask HN: Theory That Economic Growth Stagnates in a Civilization

    I have had a theory for a while that economic growth or the economy in terms of CAGR will go to 0% or becomes linear with population as the population grows. This in my mind aligns with the opportunities for lifestyle…

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  14. Ask HN: Is any logic instinctive, or all trained?

    Is there evidence that understanding causality (action -> reaction, cause -> effect, etc.) is instinctive or does it need to be trained in humans? It seems obvious that humans need to be taught some forms of logic, like…

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  15. Ask HN: Why is Apple so far behind with Siri?

    Siri is a really bad product when compared to GPT. Why has it taken Apple so long to get AI right?

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  16. Ask HN: Do you think neuromorphic engineering is the future?

    I see some different names thrown around for this concept. Names aside, will this be the future, or do we anticipate humans sticking with the current hardware path? What are the performance or space tradeoffs of the two…

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  17. Ask HN: OpenAI employees, how did you get the job?

    It's been entertaining reading about the OpenAI-Meta talent wars. I thought it would be an interesting discussion to ask some OpenAI employees here how they got an 'in' to one of the most challenging companies to join.…

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  18. Ask HN: Tranformer Models in Fintech?

    Any more details on uses here? I read a post from Stripe on this. Any other companies or any of you using these successfully? FYI... has anyone here considered how to represent background information (background…

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  19. Ask HN: What do you think the future of captchas is?

    Micropayments? Uselessness? I'd like to hear some thoughts.

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  20. Ask HN: Why Did Stripe Deprecate ACH Credit Transfer Before Migration Extensions

    Stripe extended migration dates to payment intents, however they killed the ach credit transfer option for sources on August 15 even if extensions were granted. Pretty surprising and would have expected a warning in the…

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  21. Ask HN: How Would You Build Restrictions for Deployed Model Prompts/Answers?

    I thought I would start a thread on here to discuss some of the challenges in Generative AI particularly with enforcing on-topic conversation and tone. It seems this poses substantial cost restrictions on deployment, as…

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  22. Ask HN: Has anyone implemented reranking with llamaindex chatengine?

    Looking at ChatEngine by LLamaIndex, it looks high level. I understand how cross encoder models work, and how to use them at a granular level (simply filter/rearrange chunks before llm call) in RAG, but I don't see any…

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  23. Ask HN: Avoiding irrelevant or undesirable model context in RAG

    Considering a RAG prompt say of the format: Answer question <q> using context <c>. Say <c> is a contradictory statement to what the model was trained on. There are certain situations where one wants the llm to use model…

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  24. Ask HN: ChatGPT thinks it can't solve 8 Queens problem, but it can?

    >invent a puzzle you can't solve: Here's a puzzle that I created that I cannot solve: Suppose you have a standard 8x8 chessboard, and you place a single queen on each of the first 7 rows of the board. The challenge is…

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  25. Show HN: NFTDropper – Launch NFT Drops Effortlessly

    Hi Hacker News, excited to share my product NFTDropper (https://www.nftdropper.app/), which lets creators launch NFT drops effortlessly. Here's a sample drop you can check out! Prices are set extremely low for testing:…

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