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I've just released PolyPrompt, a desktop application that lets you send the same prompt to multiple AI models simultaneously. It's designed to help maximize the ROI from all your AI API subscriptions by letting you use them in parallel rather than choosing between them.

*The Problem:* Many of us have subscriptions to multiple AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), but we typically use them one at a time. This means we're not getting the full value from our subscriptions, and we're missing out on the unique strengths of each model.

*How PolyPrompt Works:*

- Send one prompt to multiple models simultaneously
- See real-time streaming responses side-by-side
- Compare outputs across different models
- Save and export all responses
- Securely store your API keys locally

*Supported Models:*

- OpenAI: All models including GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5
- Anthropic: All Claude models including Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku
- Google: All Gemini models including Pro and Ultra

PolyPrompt is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's a paid app with a simple licensing model (monthly or yearly subscription).

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially from those who regularly use multiple AI models.
deque does not move elements once added, so it can’t be implemented like that.
I'm not surprised, but I also don't think that's likely to be a thing for VMware: Most small customers have one to three servers running a basic vSphere install and nothing complicated to speak of.

You can also delete most of the problem by limiting the support on given license tiers.
Somehow I expected after listening and fast forwarding a bit, then ejecting and re-inserting the tape it would retain the tape position, but instead it seems to reset back to the beginning.
> when people need help they ask the group and whoever is the best at that thing helps them -- or whoever hasn't helped in a while.

I agree this would be healthy for an organization, but I don’t think that is often possible. In this example, the organization is clearly NOT tracking mentor activity. So, anyone who helps someone else, is getting zero recognition for it.

I work with a lot of people where ‘ruthless prioritization’ is considered a good quality. That means no one gets any help. All taking. No giving. Pure selfishness really.

Back to the example. Tim is stepping up and filling in a major gap for the company. People need help. He has decided to go against the grain and help. However, instead of doing it with the help of leadership, he is just doing what needs to be done and it almost cost him his job.

Frankly, I identify with Tim. I love helping people figure out problems. Be it build env issues, failing tests, or some design gap. I help people all the time on top of my other work. While my immediate manager knows that and is good with it, upper leadership doesn’t care and just wants everyone to act like what they are working on is more important then what their peers are working on. Ruthless prioritizing is a seed of toxicity.

I got a bit off topic…
How to encourage helping peers and juniors when helping isn’t tracked and isn’t rewarded or encouraged? How do you maintain a healthy culture despite all the metrics?
Could you elaborate on how your servers use seL4? And are these production, commercial servers?
Working for a business with clients, I vastly prefer larger clients.

Larger clients usually have better in-house knowledge of our own products, leading to LESS support tickets.

Smaller clients think they are big dogs and are typically very demanding of support for very little pay. Due to these small companies abusing free support, we have had to introduce paid SLA levels.
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"Everything in biology is more complicated than it looks."

DNA is where we get our physical attributes (modulo environment).

No, a lot of DNA is "junk," i.e. we don't yet understand what it does.

No, a lot of functional DNA is turned on or off by the epigenome.

No, a lot of our metabolism is affected by our biome — thousand of species of bacteria that turn up or down various reactions, or produce other chemicals that we need...
I've seen this trick used around, where it really shines is when you want to prepare/commit a range of the ring buffer when interfacing with something that wants a contiguous chunk as an arg, using the mmap hack lets you pass any pointer into the ring buffer without needing to split it to handle the wraparound case.

There are a few blog posts out there about it, eg https://lo.calho.st/posts/black-magic-buffer/. One data structure that works around the limitations is the bip buffer: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3479/The-Bip-Buffer-The.... In that article the author talks about the mmap trick.
The reason is C had no built-in boolean type, so boolean values use an integer type just like error codes. In C, zero means false and non-zero means true, so that’s how boolean values are represented, and hence a boolean value is_success is non-zero on success and zero on failure. For error codes, on the other hand, the convention is that zero means “no error” and non-zero means some specific error. So exactly the opposite. Unix also reflects this same discrepancy, in that a process (i.e. main() or exit() in C) returning zero means success, but in Unix C programs that’s boolean false. (Not to mention that for pointer return values, null often means failure.)

A valid criticism might be that one shouldn’t use true to mean success.
I came here to say the same thing. General MIDI defines the sequence of the drum sounds. Unless there's a really good reason to deviate from that, it is a standard.
I used to work at CCP and asked about the backgrounds, and Homeworld was an influence. In fact the main reason they made a space game was it was easier to render detailed and beautiful spaceships/backgrounds with early-2000s tech, homeworld was proof of that. Aesthetics was literally the subject that made them all agree on a space game, which is interesting because what people tend to think of with Eve Online is the complex systems, but it also a really gorgeous game, even by todays standards.
Let's start with just agreeing that the wage gap and wealth inequality is a bad thing.

Which is all I wanted to say in the root post. I'm not gonna get gish galloped off topic any further.
> What did you expect?

I can't speak for all orgs, but I'm guessing it was something along the lines of "There's plenty of competition out there, we're paying them good money and they're profitable - why would they screw up a good thing?"

Almost every organisations will choose current cost over potential future issues to a greater or lesser degree. Backups most will spend a reasonable amount on ensuring they have them working. A cold-standby DR site, fewer.

I doubt many are defensively engineering their organisational IT strategy to run two competing platforms at every level just incase one gets bought out by the mob who turns up the pricing by several multiples.
We got better and better models when we threw more and more compute? I gotta work on my snarkiness. Seriously, that's pretty good empirical evidence. The smaller models we get are all some kind of distillation or student model of a larger model, so they can never claim they are not the result of large compute.
I have always been very dumbfounded by the lab meat craze, nature is very efficient by design, so it would be quite hard to even come close to this efficiency.

But on top of that we don't only get meat from animals (quite a few modern things use byproduct of meat production in fact) and the animals help us re/up-cycle things that would be just a waste otherwise.

All the anti-meat anti-animals' thing is just a new kind of religion that is based on the morals of a few alternative types who want to appear more virtuous than anyone else, in a desperate attempt at faux competition (race to the bottom).
I get it on 2, but I’m not sure how good a take you’d get on that from a rehearsed, scripted video.

I also sort of feel like, people already hate cover letters. Now we’re trying to normalize audition videos? Maybe it’s me who’s out of touch?
Take what lower paying jobs? I am saying they need to move to where the jobs are. Do those jobs require an education? Yes.

Maybe rural America should stop voting for politicians who are opposed to affordable college education (or trade school) and student loan forgiveness.
Lol, xbill.

xev is a cool tool for analyzing input events. A modern alternative is something like KWin Debug Console > Input Events.
The quality of that photo is so bad that it arguably hardly counts as anything, I cannot even understand it's head position. I bet most people wouldn't recognize it as a cat unless you tell them first that its supposed to be one.
Being pulled up onto the air is not abnormal when belaying, and is a sign that they are giving a soft catch. Granted with a belayer who is much lighter than the climber this can end up being "too soft", risking a ground fall lower on the route. Something you'll also often see is unclipping the first quickdraw to give the belayer more space to "fly".
Are there any opportunities for the local community to help preserve this history?

There’s a new development planned for the SRI site and I was hoping there’d be some honorary for that hallowed ground.
A few years ago we started tracking both office attendance and PR count. Management swore up and down that they understood the nuances, and these metrics would only be used to follow up on outliers.

But then one middle manager sets a target. His peers, not to be outdone, set more ambitious targets. And their underlings follow up aggressively with whomever is below target. For a few months there was an implicit "no vacations" policy in much of the company, until they updated the attendance dashboard to account for PTO. And now an engineer's position in the stack rank is presumed to be her position in the PR count rank barring very strong evidence to the contrary.

The approach you outline is probably optimal, but I don't think middle management as a culture would be capable of pulling it off. You give them a KPI in a dashboard, they're going to compete on it, in a very open and simple way. Metrics are hard to argue with, and nuance requires constant vigilance to maintain.
It’s a “bad thing” that over half of America wants (and a majority of poorer Americans) as they cheer on two billionaires that are gutting the safety net they need the most.

So they must be okay with it.
90% of drug trials fail. Shows you how primitive our accepted practice is. Where else is a 90% failure considered to be an acceptable outcome?
Paper available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08897-0
I feel like understanding this difference is what a good product manager should be responsible for. Not just optimizing any metric that is available but understanding the meaning behind them and choosing the push them the right direction.
Isn’t this already implemented by NSMutableArray in Apple SDKs/libraries?
That’s probably true, but the idea of using only the GPL version throughout an organization, then being asked to demonstrate to Oracle’s satisfaction that you don’t have one single extension pack anywhere, is enough to make me leery of it.
So, if any of you guys have any specific ideas on how i should approach that please contact me via luhasz.wesz at google mail.
Ask HN: Talent shortage high expectations, or something else?
I feel like tech job openings lately (not faang) especially "full-stack" roles are something like "we're looking only for unicorn talents for 55k" and this has been the trend for me lately.

I know that these hiring managers from respected companies with Senior Engineering backgrounds would not have such talent expectations.

But I have gotten through one, up to the final stage of the interview. Still, I was surprised when they asked me deep technical questions for any large-scale infrastructure knowledge. I was not prepared because it was not on the job description. FWIW, I looked-up their company and they recently had several rounds of layoffs.

Why have these companies not given up?
Looked up the numbers:

Trump initial 25% Tarif (30 down to 25), then Bidden up to 50%, then Trump up to 60% ... It adds up fast.

Europe had import tariffs from 2013 and those expired in September 2023. That is around the same time most countries stopped with subsidies for solar.

The ironic part is, that this flood of cheap Chinese panels, batteries, etc is a major boom to our energy independence as those installations easily last 20+ years. And given our neighbor to the easy issue, energy independence is high on the list.

The US does not have this issue with their gas/oil rich area's (and probably $$$ to politicians).
You should probably change the name, I thought it was associated with Manus usually projects like this will specifically have in the tag line “An Open Source alternative to X.”

Other than that looks very cool, reading through the code now. A lot of these projects very heavily lean on Browser Use.
I am curious if Wipr protects against all four major fingerprinting types, or if it only protects against canvas fingerprinting.
how does that work? i am looking for remote jobs globally. well, where it makes sense timezone wise, but still, i am not just looking for jobs in my area. some american companies may also be looking for people in other areas.

also what if you get the area wrong? the site is not telling me which area it detected for me. i am traveling a lot and i am often not in the area where i actually live. i hesitate to sign up and find out that i get notified for an area that i am no longer in or was never interested in finding jobs in to begin with.

for any area specific features, if you open up signing up to anyone with the caveat that if they are not in a supported area they may not benefit from the site, then you could use the popularity of sign-ups as a suggestion where to focus on next.
>I would hesitate to consider it as a replacement for Linux

It would depend on the scenario. Of course, Linux is easier to work with but OTOH there are requirements which only seL4 can satisfy.

There's a lot required on top of seL4 for it to be actually useful. Fortunately, there has been a lot of Open Source work there as well. This is where seL4 is in a much better position than just a few years ago.

For static scenarios, there's LionsOS[0], quite usable already.

For dynamic scenarios, there's the Provably Secure, General-Purpose Operating System[1], which is still early stages.

Both can be found in the Projects page[2] at trustworthy systems, which is linked in the seL4 website.

0. https://trustworthy.systems/projects/LionsOS/

1. https://trustworthy.systems/projects/smos/

2. https://trustworthy.systems/projects/
I believe there are numerous ways to transfer money without using physical bills; disallowing cash for large purchases doesn't imply a loan. Personal or certified Cheque, money order , wire, interac / email transfer are some of the options, I'm sure there are others.

Note, all other criticisms about privacy still apply, thisbis where cash is king of course. But it's not forcing loans :-)
Just double checked, I see multiple sources with the same information.

In state yearly tuition. Mind sharing your state ? Or one around you if you think that's too personal
That's dope!
And a follow up from the Krikkit species from the Hitchhiker's Guide:

- "It'll have to go"

:)
Jazz is...different. The Real Book is full of mistakes by some Berklee students in the 1970s. Standards as played on the bandstand are very different than what is on the records. The records are all different from each other. The melody is simplified or shortened or embellished, and the chords? Forget it, you'll find out that the piano player likes to play a dominant instead of minor only when you're actually playing the tune. Ask a pro how to think about the harmony of a standard, and they'll explain how they think about the harmony of the variant they prefer.
This sounds rather dubious, my impression was that climbing deaths are extremely rarely due to equipment failure. Also rope failures.. really? In normal use climbing ropes tend to fail by desheathing, dramatic but not necessarily that dangerous. Catastrophic rope failure only really tends to happen due to slicing over sharp edges under load, unrelated to wear and tear..

What are you referencing?
What about desloratadine?
Genode is an actively developed, general purpose desktop operating system that works today, and can use seL4, among other kernels.
Sight reading practice for voice is super useful, but not many of us have perfect pitch to pull a starting note out of the air! An option to get a starting note audible cue for vocal sight reading would be a great add-on (and hopefully not too difficult!)
> How convenient that you were already eating those every breakfast.

Who is actually doing that? Who has enough time and money to actually do that? I'm confused because in EU it's an extremely rare thing and as far as I'm concerned in the US you have a whole section just for breakfast cereal.

So surely if there are people doing that, there are the minority and considering how in bad health much of the US population is, maybe, just maybe, they are onto something.
>Of course as the Moore law refuses to die, we'll continue seeing 1.5-2x or so every year, but that's far from 10x.

This is another one of those anec-data throw away sentences that take thousands of words to disprove - with a lot of graphs - that no one reads.

More hot takes: Moores law has been effectively dead since the Pentium 4 on CPUs. It's been dead on GPUs since 2020. Right now we're not seeing a 1.5-2x grow of compute per year. We've seen zero growth for 5. The only way that GPUs have gotten faster is by running ever hotter, and building out a trillion dollars worth of data centers.

No one cares because the current hotness in AI is transformers which are memory bound in both training and inference. If someone manages to get diffusion models to become the next hotness all of a sudden everyone will realize this is a problem since those are compute bound by a huge margin and current gen GPUs are fire hazards when ran at 100% utilization for weeks on end.
Out of curiosity, what’s the French term for this technique?
Super cool. Congrats on the launch!

Let me know if we can help with something at Hyperbrowser.
Ask HN: Has your company shipped anything useful/successful using LLMs?
I have the exact same grigri shown in the video, and somehow it never fails to lock when I'm quickly trying to feed slack to a leader and don't put a bit of pressure on the left side. Even when I've added slack to the brake strand.

I wonder if it has something to do with the angle, as it's pretty uncommon to have the climbing strand going straight up from the belayer.
Chinese Satellites Practice 'Dogfights' in Space
I think the "resizes" occurring in this scenario would be to same-size buffers, meaning that the very same buffer could actually be reused. Provided that's in fact what is happening, then yes, this scenario would cause infinite resizes, all of which would be avoided by a ring buffer. But those resizes would still happen rarely enough to meet the amortised complexity claim, namely, 1 resize (copying of n elements) per n elements inserted.

(I'm not at all certain that this is how it actually does work -- the README is light on details. But this is how it might work.)
Australia just implemented laws where you have to show where the money came from when buying property, gold, and some other stuff with cash.
> we can move to new feudal leaders

Working on it

I love history. It’s a great cope to see how people can live fulfilling lives under completely different conditions from the standard 2025 life path. Maybe I will check it out :)
HuggingFace on Sheets
What does it even mean to be 5x more effective? Because that's the thing. Testimonials is where we're at because how do you measure "more effective"? I'm not making any claim on a number, 5x 10x? .2x because you have to go back and fix the shitty code it wrote? We don't have a good way to measure programmer productivity. We all know lines of code is ridiculous. And how do you account for how much brain space it takes up. If the LLM lets someone bang out useful code in between meetings all day, vs needing some truly quiet time for some deep deep work to properly get into the right zone... how do you metricize that and show, what, lines of code and interruptions per hour on a graph to have a line that goes up and to the right?

It turns out that it's actually a really hard problem to measure, so, even for a trillion dollar industry, it is hard.

What did you think of that video?
My point being that this same process can be true for the accusers as well, with the only difference being that the accusers have institutional support.

Is the primary criterion that a disputed fact is true whether the fact has institutional support? In order to "combat misinformation", are we going to select a bunch of oracles in institutions and have them decide what the truth is? (These are rhetorical questions, btw.)
Grok makes a better, more coherent text when asked to explain the steps involved in money laundering based on this article.
Although based on their bios and UK population statistics, it seems likely they're both English, the article omits this information. They do work at a British institution, located in England..
I think it comes down to ownership. Going forward it will be more important for engineers to show more product ownership of their domain. Product thinking is becoming more important.

That doesn't mean you are a salesperson. It means you are more connected to the users and their problems.
> you can eat a medium rare pork chop

Wut? Do people really do that? I would assume "medium rare" for a pork chop would mean that some of the meat would still be pink, and I personally would never even think of eating pork that wasn't cooked all the way through.
I've yet to have those things be a problem for a real webcrawling project but I guess there's a first time for everything. Sometimes I wonder if they are at least partially performative.

I was having terrible problems with CAPTCHAs on a 2019 Samsung Tablet which left me wondering if they're the new green bubble. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/182je9m/trying_to_unde...
There’s a PDF with the results in the repo: https://github.com/attilatorda/Shift-To-Middle_Array/blob/ma...

BTW, if OP is reading this, I recommend having the baseline in your plots (e.g. std::deque) as the relative 100%, that way the performance improvement is clear.
This is why belaying a lead climber shouldn't be considered a casual activity. The belayer literally has the climber's life in their hands. In addition to violet jerks, the belayer needs to keep their hands on the belay strand even if hit by falling rocks.

Also, use of belay gloves can help a lot and I think is more emphasized in Europe than the US.
Especially older people who didn’t have a fulfilling career. HOAs satisfy their desire for power and control. It’s really dumb we allow this quasi-government with no due process (I couldn’t mow because I was ill, for example) to exist.
Boost has a double ended vector with that name too. Devector
defaults write -g WebKitExperimentalIsFirstPartyWebsiteDataRemovalDisabled -bool true

If you set it in the global defaults, then Safari won't touch it.