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Show HN: ChatHawk – Ask once. Get advised by all the top models
by chadlad101 | 2025-10-22 17:46:47+00:00
I kept pasting the same question across several AI platforms to make sure I got the best answer. I found this process time-consuming, and difficult to compare the answers between platforms.

So I built ChatHawk.

It's a tool that lets you ask a question and have it answered by all the flagship AI models at once. These models are currently Gemini 2.5 pro, GPT-5, Grok-4 and Claude: Sonnet 4. ChatHawk also uses AI to get the best parts from each response to provide a 'Best of All Models' answer.

I've found it useful for these use cases: 1. When you want to make sure the answer is right. E.g. for calculations and legal or accounting questions. ChatHawk lets you check the AIs have the same answer. 2. Strategy questions. E.g. for negotiating contracts or salaries it is useful to get advice from each AI model... It's like having an AI board of advisors. 3. Ideation. For coming up with new ideas it's beneficial to talk to several AIs and see each response.

Some AI aggregation tools exist BUT they show the AI answers side-by-side or in a grid. I found this overwhelming from a user experience perspective. I wanted to see one answer at a time and click tabs to swap between them! So, I hope you enjoy ChatHawk's UX as much as I do :)

It's also incognito as ChatHawk doesn't save any message history. It's annoying how all AI platforms store chat history when it's not that useful a feature. In my view, they do this to data mine and build memories which lock you into their platform. So don't worry about that on ChatHawk.

Please let me know if you have any feedback. The tool is free to use with no paid option at the moment...
by logtrees | 2025-10-22 17:47:01+00:00
No, I don't think so. By the time quantum supremacy is really achieved for a "Q-Day" that could affect them or things like them, the existing blockchains which have already been getting hardened will have gotten even harder. Quantum computing could be used to further harden them, as well, rather than compromise them. Supposing that Q-Day brought any temporary hurdles to Bitcoin or Ethereum or related blockchains, well...due to their underlying nature resulting in justified Permanence, we would be able to simply reconstitute and redeploy them for their functionalities because they've already been sufficiently imbued with value and institutional interest as well. These are quantum-resistant hardenings.

So I do not think these tools or economic substrate layers are going anywhere. They are very valuable for the particular kinds of applications that can be built with them and also as additional productive layers to the credit and liquidity markets nationally, internationally, and also globally/universally.

So there is a lot of institutional interest, including governance interest, in using them to build better systems. Bitcoin on its own would be reduced in such justification but because of Ethereum's function as an engine which can drive utility, the two together are a formidable and quantum-resistant platform that can scale into the hundreds of trillions of dollars and in Ethereum's case...certainly beyond $1Q in time.

I'm very bullish on the underlying technology, even beyond tokenomics for any particular project. The underlying technologies are powerful protocols that facilitate the development and deployment of Non Zero Sum systems at scale. With Q-Day not expected until end of 2020s or beginning of 2030s, that is a considerable amount of time (in the tech world) to lay the ground work for further hardening and discussions around this.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-22 17:47:17+00:00
> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab.

It's coming any day now!

> "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes

It's only a matter of time before the superintelligence decides to lay off the managers too. Soon Mr. Wang will be gone and we'll see press releases like:

> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, so the logical step I took was to reduce the team size to 0" ... AI superintelligence, which now runs Meta, declared in an interview with Axios.
by fwip | 2025-10-22 17:47:18+00:00
To me, it matters because it's a sign that it might not be particularly transferable as a method of computation.

A wind tunnel is a great tool for solving aerodynamics and fluid flow problems, more efficiently than a typical computer. But we don't call it a wind-computer, because it's not a useful tool outside of that narrow domain.

The promise of quantum computing is that it can solve useful problems outside the quantum realm - like breaking traditional encryption.
by darkpools | 2025-10-22 17:47:48+00:00
What if you could talk to your computer and have it perform tasks through the Bash terminal, without you writing a single command? With NVIDIA Nemotron Nano v2, you can easily build a natural language Bash agent from scratch, in under an hour, and with roughly 200 lines of Python code with minimal dependencies.

This post will walk you through the core components and considerations step-by-step, so you can easily follow along. First, we’ll build everything from scratch. Then, as a bonus, the blog will show how LangGraph can simplify the design further.

Let’s dive in.
by palmotea | 2025-10-22 17:48:03+00:00
> giving a wrench to someone where you charge based on usage should be something that is agreed upon up front, not at some point later, after a rug is pulled out from under the customer.

You're mixing up non-capitalist kindness and reciprocity relations with market relations. They're different things. Downloading open source code doesn't make you anyone's "customer."

The thing that happens first with these "open-source gone closed stories" is the community (or one particularly big mooch) failed to reciprocate the developer's efforts or was otherwise undercutting them. Then the developer responded.

And of course, the predictable response from some parts of the community is "how dare you not let me mooch off your efforts forever. I am entitled!1! Protection racket! Rug pull!"
by r_lee | 2025-10-22 17:48:18+00:00
IMO you CAN predict, but with the busts it's not like there's a set timeline, it usually takes a sudden dip in confidence, some of which we are seeing right now, but nobody ever in humanity has gone all out just because we are questioning whether there is a bubble. So some kind of major scandal and catalyst where everything goes wrong at the same time or etc.

it likely won't burst even if everyone agrees that there is a bubble, it's only when things are so ridiculous that you literally must be hallucinating to believe whatever you're believing

so far there's still plenty of hype and partying.

just my 2 cents
by duxup | 2025-10-22 17:48:42+00:00
It was easier when "politics" and typical tech news overlapped now and then but not endlessly. You could filter ...

Now the culture wars and loyalty tests of the current government occur just about everywhere. There is no limit to the scope of topics that are part of the test, no objection will be tolerated. Any objection means you're <insert buzzword here>.

We're nearing the point where your point of view might even limit your choice of college (or maybe any college) if the president gets his way.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-10-22 17:48:47+00:00
I used to be a bit nervous about Gemini recording every call. Sometimes when there was a major disagreement I would review the summaries to make sure I didn't say anything I shouldn't have only to find an arbitrary, unrelated bullet point attributed to me. I quickly realized there was nothing to worry about.

Similarly I've had PMs blindly copy/paste summaries into larger project notes and ultimately create tickets based on either a misunderstanding from the LLM or a straight-up hallucination. I've repeatedly had conversations where a PM asks "when do you think Xyz will be finished?" only for me to have to ask in response "where and when did we even discuss Xyz? I'm not even sure what Xyz means in this context, so clarification would help." Only to have them just decide to delete the ticket/bullet etc. once they realize they never bothered to sanity check what they were pasting.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-22 17:49:05+00:00
It doesn't allow them to track, but it does allow them to more convincingly argue that they can nag them about it (I think some regulators in some EU countries have rejected this, but I don't think this is universal). i.e. it makes it ineffective as a means of stopping the annoying pop-ups. Because the companies are basically belligerent about it there needs to be a clear declaration of 'if this header is set you may not track _and_ you may not bug the user about it'
by stairlane | 2025-10-22 17:49:13+00:00
I don't see this ending well.

My fiancé and I have been doing better than most Americans. No debt, relatively high pay - we're pretty happy right now.

But we feel like we are stuck.

Perhaps its the golden handcuffs, or maybe we're being over-dramatic. But I couldn't imagine having a kid (or kids), and $XXX,XXX debt with the uncertainty of my profession alone. Having been through a couple layoffs in my ~10 year career. Take into consideration the state of the world, and we have decision paralysis.

I want to be optimistic, but I'm having a tough time.

This might come across as over-dramatic, but this country is a factory that mass produces the most dangerous thing on the planet. A young, lonely, angry man that has nothing to lose - a man that sees only doom in the future. And they can buy an AR-15 when they hit 18 in most states for less than it costs to get your teeth cleaned. Plus ammo delivered to your door!

Anyways enjoy your Wednesday.
by apizon | 2025-10-22 17:49:33+00:00
Thanks for the feedback

Have you tried the light mode? I find it has better contrast than dark one but I might need to add an accessibility setting too

The fourth icon is a head with a gear inside, it represents your progress on the pure theory challenge

You can still have a look, the beginner lessons are free. But when starting out I think just learning to play your favorite songs is probably the best way to improve at first
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-22 17:50:08+00:00
If I'm understanding this right his ELO was 2064 in 2001 when he was 11. I don't think he was using engines for post-game analysis at 11 or maybe he was, but he was certainly born better at chess than most people.

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1503014/chart

I love the original article. Hey guys you just have to be the best programmer in the world to not be replaced by AI!
by jdeibele | 2025-10-22 17:50:24+00:00
I was curious about that myself.

"To slow absorption of injected antigens (e.g., insect stings), a tourniquet may be placed proximal to the injection site. "

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2003/1001/p1325.html

The article says that tourniquets are no longer recommended. It doesn't seem like a tourniquet would be of any help if you ingested something but reasonable for insect stings. Anyone who has taken a first aid course gets warned multiple times about the danger of leaving a tourniquet on too long but maybe random people aren't aware of it.
by sodaclean | 2025-10-22 17:50:40+00:00
Because of how ethernet works (differential signaling + signal transformers), PoE is effectively a wire at 48v connected to nothing if the device doesn't support it.

The only issue arises if somebody wires a patch cable completely wrong (neither A nor B), and manages to put one leg of passive PoE's +24v pair matched to one leg of the 0v pair. Which, will promptly smoke the signal transformer... assuming short circuit protection doesn't cut power first. This is why we killed passive PoE.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-22 17:50:48+00:00
Islams founder's take differs quite a bit from Christianity's founder's take. We should be able to point that out without being called racist/bigot/receiving down votes. One had sex slaves, one did not marry and instead treated the world as his children.

Virtually every Christian I know aspires to be as Christ like as they can. You may not see that in their actions, but in their beliefs they definitely aspire to that. Are you saying Muslims don't hold their prophet in high regard? The prophet is just symbolic?

Christians believe you should wait until marriage for sex. So they very much preach item 2 you list.

Most Christians I know follow item 3 and literally espouse it. That you should not be greedy. You should not take advantage of others. You should live life for a moral purpose, for entry to heaven, not material gain.

Christianity teaches that you can't be Jesus, that is the point of the religion. You can't be a god. You can only be the best flawed human you can, and that is good enough, and you are forgiven for those flaws, IF you TRY to be better than your base nature. It teaches that Christs life was that of a god, and yet he still took time to take care of/see the lowest among us. Not that his life was one we can do, but definitely one we should aspire to. Does Islam not teach you should aspire to be like their prophet? That his morality should be an inspiration?

The west is freely accepting of calling out Christianity, Mormonism, Scientology. But we can't examine/be critical of Islam. That is not OK. I've known way more Muslims than Scientologists. It is not a foreign/abstract religion, but a real religion present in our communities. There is a lot in Islam that needs to be called out and processed by the Muslim faithful. Tom Cruise can be called out on his faith. Mitt Romney had his faith called out a ton and that was OK. Catholics get called out all the time for being Catholic. We can call out other religions too without it suddenly being racist/bigoted. No, it's calling out if a religion has some crappy beliefs/justifications and saying 'I'm not sure about a person who believes these things as a core part of their identity'.

All that said I would love to see Mamdani as mayor of New York. His religion/acts done under it shouldn't define him, just like with Tom Cruise, Mitt Romney. We're all people making our way, not caricatures defined externally.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-22 17:51:14+00:00
Yeah. He makes a good case for the computer side of upload being possible--and totally skips over the biological side, assuming it will be available on the same time frame.

Even if upload does not produce a singularity or the like it still is a huge step towards getting more time to address other issues and it makes interstellar solutions viable. But when we can read out the human mind remains an unknown.
by kulahan | 2025-10-22 17:51:39+00:00
Your infantile reading comprehension is a terrible counter to my comment.

>"I looked in every volcano on Earth, and was unable to find life. This is evidence that Earth is a lifeless husk."

How did you pull that out? This is a terrible analogy.

>"We've looked at handful of... planetary orbits(?!)... and have yet to find a single 'signpost' of civilization. This is evidence of absence."

Also not remotely what I said. I'll assume this is just a troll account and move on.
by hinkley | 2025-10-22 17:52:13+00:00
Trans fats are as bad or worse than saturated fats, but I’d be very surprised if they had anything to do with childhood food allergies. Some ethnic food uses raw peanut oil but it’s mostly disappeared from processed food. I remember that being discussed when I was a child, but cannot recall if it was peanut oil or hydrogenated peanut oil. Hydrogenated vegetable oil is unsaturated fat that we saturated via hydrogen ions. It can sub in for butter and lard in some recipes and we have vats of highly processed corn and soy owned by people who pay food “scientists” to invent needs for their surplus of product. Have been since practically the end of WWII. There are now two snack aisles at my grocery store. That’s changed in the last twenty years, and so has obesity. 80% of that is highly, highly processed, hyperpalatable food. But it turned out that margarine is objectively worse for you than butter. But cheap butter can have its own food allergy problems. IIRC Holstein cow milk has more allergens in it than older milk cow breeds and those are everywhere.
by bri3d | 2025-10-22 17:52:41+00:00
> You have correctly identified there is more complexity to this than is addressable in a HN comment. Are you asking me to write the laws and design a government-operated pentesting platform right here?

My goal was to learn whether there was an insight beyond "we should take the thing that doesn't work and move it into the government where it can continue to not work," because I'd find that interesting.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 17:53:49+00:00
And that's fine too. Someone else may or may not continue their work for the benefit of the community. They can be honest about it, and most people will be understanding and thankful for their work.

But that is not what happened in the case of MinIO, and many other projects. They deliberately removed features from the software, and made it more difficult to use. They prioritized working on their commercial product, and used the "community edition" as a marketing funnel for it. This is what I'm objecting to.

In any case, I've made my point clear, and don't like repeating myself. Cheers!
by logtrees | 2025-10-22 17:53:59+00:00
I don't consider the current system to be worthless. In fact, it functions remarkably well. There is certainly room for additional substrate layers though, and Bitcoin being digital or electronic gold and Ethereum being an e-steam engine or e-computer make for a powerful combination for applications together. I agree that the crowd here has historically not understood, or wanted to understand, the underlying protocols and what is possible. A bizarre kind of hubris perhaps, or maybe just a response to how the first iterations of a web2.5 or web3.0 were...admittedly more mired in a kind of marketing hype that was not as reflective of what is possible and sustainable in the space due to there not being realistic web and engineering muscle at the forefront of the hype.

I think this current cycle is going to change that though. The kinds of projects spinning up are truly massive, innovative, and interesting. Stay tuned!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 17:53:59+00:00
> In what way is Musk Isaacman's patron? He's a billionaire on his own

But politically impotent. Isaacman was Musk's man at NASA. His nomination came up because of Musk. It was annulled because of Musk.

The question seems to be coming back up due to Isaacman's work. But because Isaacman is Musk's client, it's risen back to Musk and Duffy trading insults on Twitter. (Which, to be clear, is an elevation Duffy--purposely or inadvertently--caused.)
by joshstrange | 2025-10-22 17:54:04+00:00
I guess I see what the author was trying to convey talking about Rust/Go at the start but I'll admit it confused the hell out of me when we got to Jj (horrible name IMHO but whatever).

Jj is a VCS, it was not at all clear (to me) until I got further and I was very confused as to why we were talking so much about source control (I thought Jj was a language since the article started by talking about Rust/Go).

Apparently Jj can work on/with git repos making it easier to adopt incrementally which is neat and the main point of this post is that the author is leaving Oxide to go work for a new company trying to to create the GitHub of Jj (my understanding at least).

I hope this helps someone else who might be confused like I was.
by varenc | 2025-10-22 17:54:17+00:00
The majority of UISP devices they sell are all relatively old products. For example the 'NanoStation 5AC Loco' is a great $50 product that continues to work well, but it was released in ~2019. And they continue to sell new models of products that have been unchanged for over a decade.

In the last 2 years they've released very few new UISP products and you're right that they continue to be passive PoE. I suspect this is for continued compatibility with their older product line. Upgrading from passive PoE to active 802.3 PoE requires replacing the injector and maintaining passive PoE makes it easier to upgrade. And the UISP product line is really meant for wireless ISP operators, not consumers, where the risks of passive PoE are smaller.

Anyway, I agree with the sentiment, but I don't hold it against Ubiquiti too much for continuing to use passive PoE for their UISP line, since I think it makes sense for their customers. As so-so work around you can get a 802.3 -> passive 24V converter: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ins-3af-i-g
by incomingpain | 2025-10-22 17:54:24+00:00
1500 usd? holy crap. Are you using the biggest most expensive model or something?

Most people are in that sub 200usd/month range for heavy coding. Sure you dont get some massive intelligent model, but it will do the job.

At that price, you could justify getting yourself a 96gb rtx pro 6000 and run like gpt 120b on it. Pay itself off in under a year.
by southwindcg | 2025-10-22 17:54:38+00:00
Regarding the `line` script, just a note that sed can print an arbitrary line from a file, no need to invoke a pipeline of cat, head, and tail:

sed -n 2p file

prints the second line of file. The advantage sed has over this line script is it can also print more than one line, should you need to:

sed -n 2,4p file

prints lines 2 through 4, inclusive.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-22 17:54:40+00:00
> But you should then have known that Tesla/SpaceX is very well known to remove stupid requirements or solutions if there is much better alternative. And they don't leave stupid decisions there.

I've worked directly with both SpaceX and Tesla; this is patently false. Tesla's worse than SpaceX but both are terrible at removing stupid and obsolete requirements.

> I'm no engineer, so I don't know.

I am an engineer. Starship's "durability" is neither particularly technically impressive, nor evidence that stainless steel was a good, nonetheless optimal, material choice.
by cool_man_bob | 2025-10-22 17:54:55+00:00
> Perhaps its the golden handcuffs, or maybe we're being over-dramatic.

I tried finding an escape from the handcuffs, but my career was also a dud, so I never had the insane salaries. Most jobs such harder, and the ones that don’t I’m never going to be able to do. There were a few things I was interested in, till I realized changing careers like that is insanely expensive both in real and opportunity costs and doesn’t happen often for a reason.

At this point, I want to just find some cheap property, away from people and maybe with some nice amenities like a nearby river. That’s the only was I see myself contented now.
by mangamadaiyan | 2025-10-22 17:54:58+00:00
Wow, the Mandelbrot set example really put things into perspective.

Unoptimized code would easily take tens of minutes to render the Mandelbrot in 640x480x256 on a 486. FractInt (written by Ken Shirriff) was fast, but would still take tens of seconds, if not longer -- my memory is a little hazy on this count.
by dmarcos | 2025-10-22 17:55:01+00:00
I’ve been in XR for a decade and there’s a big gap between people that make the headsets and those that use them. The actual use cases are too niche for the big companies to care long term so they have to invent narratives that don’t manifest. IMO, Valve focusing a headset in the best possible gaming experience is the only one well positioned for an honest play in the space.