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Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I have, clicked on the upper left for a menu, it went to the front page and...I guess it lost the transcription and the edits with no way to get it back. Cool idea but it seems unusable at the moment, I'd say you have a lot more weekends of work to have something suitable for either Show HN or Product Hunt.

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

being able to replicate it in the open means that there's nothing special about frontier models. Frontier models would have to do something extraordinary or unique, or unreplicatable, because clearly there is no moat, and US companies are sitting on huge nvidia valuations and get surprised when competitors beat them.

AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying

Oh so you're aligned with AI lobbying then? j/k, but then again, it's not like we have other means to "help make good governance decisions" that we haven't already tried before. Maybe except the failed cybernetics experiments that came a little before their time and in the wrong political regime, but then those are effectively replicated by any large multinational internally to some extent.

Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)

Whatever brings the most flies to the yard. The farm next door occasionally grows cauliflower. Like 15 acres of it. When that happens and they do the harvest in the end of August the whole area stinks like rotting brassicas and there's flies everywhere. If I could just replicate that experience in mid-May...

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

Just replicate dogs brain. It is the ultimate state of art (far smarter than people). But you need a few kb of memory to replicate resoning skills. Dogs are very smart!

The Strongest El Niño Ever

Carbon capture is physically unable to be as effective as we need it to be. To an approximation, growing a tree is able to capture as much carbon as burning the wood from that tree. If most of our released carbon came from burning wood, we would just need to re-grow that amount of wood (unfortunately it's not even that simple, as the soil stores carbon long term in a way that just growing the tree doesn't capture, and is also released over time when old growth forests are cut down). Instead, the carbon we're burning comes from processes which efficiently concentrated the carbon from plants and microorganisms over millions of years to create coal, oil, and gas. Carbon capture technology would have to artificially replicate these millions-of-years-long processes, and do it on a scale of yea…

Ask HN: I spent personal money on game dev. How to turn stalled project around?

One of the reasons that has caused hesitation in deploying the idea early is the possibility that the mechanics might be instantly swallowed up by a publisher who could replicate it in a matter of a few months. However, if player's don't care about the gameplay, no publisher will either. So that's a very practical piece of advice in your comment. Building the audience to validate the idea should take a higher priority. On the positive side, the studio showed enthusiasm across the team while working on the project (biased as it may be)

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg

I read that audio engineers actually use specialized and very expensive ripoff hardware in their signal processing chain to replicate the effect of the electromagnetics (hysteresis?) of tape systems on the audio. To me, this seems like wasted effort. Any such filter can be implemented using DSP.

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI

> Chinese models have government-enforced censorship, while American models have security and legal restrictions. They are both government enforced. The USA administration is using early access and export control restrictions to do their enforcing. As for the effects: while I'm told the Chinese government is sensitive to some internal political topics, I've never seen it myself. I guess that's because I don't write code dealing on Tiananmen square or similar topics, and I don't know anyone who does. In contrast the restrictions on the USA models are a right proper pain in the arse. Hugging Face being forced to swap Chinese models to defend against the OpenAI GPT attack is a good an illustration as any. That said, these USA restrictions are a new thing that seemed to start with Mythos -…

Show HN: Anyclaude-SDK – Claude Code-Style SDK for OpenAI/Anthropic Endpoints

Kimi K3 is not cheap

No I think you're right that the amount of compute spent on office work is lower than coding - although I don't have any sense for the right share. The best source I could find was an OpenAI report [1] which mentions that ~66% of enterprise token generation is via Codex, which I would expect to skew entirely towards coding. But it's hard to say how the remainder is split, what proportion is 'frontier', or whether it's representative for Anthropic. On your questions - I've spoken to a number of execs and seniors behind closed doors but nothing public I can point to. Anecdotally, I've spoken to senior leaders at banks spending billions of tokens on one-off tasks like prepping execs for earnings calls or piloting end-to-end agent workflows for specific use cases (but mostly piecemeal/on…

The relay market powering token resellers and fraud

About the same way you'd know Anthropic is getting you the model you picked. Which to me is not really obvious, given clear differences in quality throughout the day and month

Elevated Errors for Opus 5

Anthropic is not fully in control of the model.

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

Just like OpenAI/Anthropic vs open models it's way too early to call winners or losers in the self-driving market. I called it a Tesla R&D project on purpose. They are at least in 2nd place to Waymo but it's barely a market in 2026, Waymo has been very conservative with expansion the last 5yrs for a good reason. It was still R&D. Ramping up Cybercab production is definitely high risk play. Which is counter to OP's point that Tesla is now just some boring non-visionary company, especially combined investments in humanoid robots and semiconductors. If Tesla was just looking to make safe easy money they wouldn't be making huge gambles on new markets.

Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

Where are you from? You see, I've been in Ukraine in 2014, and I've been observing everything from the front seat, so to say. Generally what ruskies say does not matter. Not a single word. But specifically, the pretexts they may be stating now (I don't follow what they say), may be different from what they stated in 2014. It baffles me that after so much bs spewed by russian propaganda, people waste their effort trying to synthesize a coherent story. The only rock fact: ruskies say whatever gives them tactical advantage at the moment.

Anthropic versus the entire tech industry

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

Google also has around a 14% stake in Anthropic (as at 2025 [1]) and they participated in the "G" funding round [2]. Amazon has a significant stake in them too. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/technology/google-investm... , https://archive.md/f0BxC [2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-s...

Kimi K3 is not cheap

But if you compare to Anthropic's models? The cost difference is huge. Anthropic is clearly concerned that people are realizing they are expensive, since the Opus 5 blog post dedicated a lot of time to talking about how cheap the model was compared to the competition... but this doesn't hold water when I haven't seen any independent benchmarks claiming Opus 5 is cheaper than GPT-5.6-Sol, even if it is supposedly closer. GPT-5.6-Sol is pretty competitively priced, but not all American frontier models are, and even 10% to 30% is still significant for any commodity that's as fungible as frontier models often are. > as you say that could go down to 20-30% cheaper I never said anything about 20% to 30%. We don't know how much it actually costs to host this model yet, and that will determine…

The relay market powering token resellers and fraud

Otoh I don't care about the ethics of doing this to big companies like OpenAI and anthropic and not small ones

Kimi K3 is not cheap

Agreed, Kimi is cheaper for coding - I say that explicitly in the post too. However I'd have to disagree with you on the "office task" front. General office work is one of the big frontiers the labs are pushing on, and it's part of how they're justifying the value proposition to enterprise customers. It's also accounts for a big portion of the spend on RL; tasks/environments designed to train agents to navigate Slack or Salesforce. If you're Anthropic pitching Claude to a bank (taking an example I'm familiar with), coding probably accounts for ~20% tops of the workforce, and it doesn't drive direct revenues. The 'agentic coding bump', but for all your analysts, traders, and wealth managers, would be a much more attractive prospect. I don't disagree that coding is the most successful …