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Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling

There's an ongoing debate about whether AI scaling laws will hold or hit a wall in the near future. However, what's clear now is today's models already have the power to increase productivity in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. We dig into the results of a recent o1 hackathon hosted by YC to find out what can be unlocked when founders leverage a SOTA reasoning model.

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1. IMG_0416 (ben-mini.github.io)
   2278 points by bewal416 | 324 comments


2. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (jan.miksovsky.com)
   2046 points by pabs3 | 243 comments


3. How I ship projects at big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
   1393 points by gfysfm | 378 comments


4. No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains (blog.transitapp.com)
   1052 points by dotcoma | 317 comments


5. Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties (lanparty.house)
   910 points by kentonv | 306 comments


6. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com)
   684 points by atan2 | 317 comments


7. Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (news.virginmediao2.co.uk)
   684 points by ortusdux | 259 comments


8. Leaving and Waving (deannadikeman.com)
   619 points by Duke_Pixie | 93 comments


9. Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages (lagrangepoint.substack.com)
   586 points by rithvikvibhu | 192 comments


10. What I wish someone told me about Postgres (challahscript.com)
    478 points by todsacerdoti | 189 comments