16 comments

  • bearjaws an hour ago

    Since its behind an account wall, I can't tell if they are saying that Opus made the clone for cheaper or that Opus failed? It appears that Fable did far more "work" based on output tokens.

    Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.

      guessmyname an hour ago

      > Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.

      Also, links to twitter.com never change color after you click them because they redirect to x.com. As a result, the original Hacker News post always appears as an unvisited link, which many people find frustrating.

      shaewest an hour ago

      On the aside, where's the difference between someone posting a Twitter link and an Economist link? Both are locked behind a wall, whether it account-wall or pay-wall.

        bearjaws an hour ago

        We can ban those too.

          sourcecodeplz an hour ago

          if we would ban everything that is not 100%: free, ad-free, tracker free

          what would we be left to read? couple of snarky remarks and maybe 2-3 paragraph of coherent text.

          journalism is a job! money has to come from somewhere

            kbelder 37 minutes ago

            Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.

        CamperBob2 an hour ago

        The Economist isn't owned by someone who cheats at video games, subverts the government, and thinks Nazi salutes are funny.

      rpdillon an hour ago

      Yeah, I have to manually edit the URL to be xcancel instead every time. Maybe there's a grease monkey script around that handles this kind of thing. I can write one if not.

      Edit: going to try this out https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/531615-x-com-to-xcancel-co...

      benj111 an hour ago

      Same with medium. Why?

  • cadamsdotcom 41 minutes ago

    I’m confused. The post is a long description of merging one branch into another in a clean way, done by agents, at a scale never seen before. Bravo.

    Does it do anything now that it didn’t before?

    Who’s this for?

    Why did it matter?

    Is the world better now?

    Unfortunately the post doesn’t discuss outcomes so I’m having a hard time seeing how the team’s $800 was best spent on this vs. some other priority.

  • escape_key an hour ago
  • jsnell 29 minutes ago

    This reads like AI-generated slop, flagging.

  • kylehotchkiss an hour ago

    It's really unusual that developers would rather write behind a twitter authwalled link than to write to their own site and just tweet about it.

    If you can spend $800 on Fable in a day, you can launch a fantastic looking/performing personal site in 15 minutes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Perhaps Hacker News could ban this style of link to help encourage that?

      sourcecodeplz an hour ago

      nowdays people get their reading on social media.

      social media, also started heavily demoting posts with external links.

      thus if you want reach, you need to post on platforms...

      supriyo-biswas an hour ago

      But then you couldn’t engagement-farm like Twitter /s

        hadlock an hour ago

        I guess if you enjoy engaging with an echo chamber