Dias Khalniyasov

love building weird stuff

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

Full writeup: https://t.co/N8VpLhoEjS

The thing being measured is our Web Access API. Any URL → clean markdown.

Free key, first 5k requests: https://t.co/RviqYjJptx
MCP: npx -y @usestring/mcp

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

Every web scraping vendor claims a 98–100% success rate.

We tested 15 of them against 90 real sites. Same harness, same URLs, 6,750 live requests

The actual range: 33.3% to 95.8%.

They can't all be right. So we open-sourced the whole thing - targets, harness, adapters 👇

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

Our Web Access API was the best. You can test yourself here: https://t.co/oMwrXiB7UW

If we configured your provider wrong, open a PR and I'll rerun it.

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

Every web scraping vendor claims a 98–100% success rate.

We tested 15 of them against 90 real sites. Same harness, same URLs, 6,750 live requests

The actual range: 33.3% to 95.8%.

They can't all be right. So we open-sourced the whole thing - targets, harness, adapters 👇

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

2026 predictions:
1. agent swarms on hype
2. OSS LLM gpt5 level (deepseek please)
3. new standard coding + comp use benchmark (swe bench like)
4. eval building agent prototypes (we need it)

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

1. actually opus4.5 was kinda an iPhone moment
2. idk why I said that, its obvious
3. gemini 2.5 pro, 3 were pretty in general tasks
4. didn't happen

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

2025 predictions:
1. AI agents overhype (but no major progress in fact. Maybe 15-20% improvement but no “iPhone moment”)
2. Researchers focused on building new benchmarks
3. Strong VLM base models appear
4. Models’ pricing cut 5x
I hope grokking in transformers will have results

[Rohit Shenoy @realrohitshenoy]

Pretty surreal to get a shoutout from @auren on his podcast with @yipitdata CEO @vacanti!

Public web data is getting exponentially harder to access.

At String, we're helping customers stay ahead of that curve so they don’t have to think about antibots, proxies, or really any of the complexity behind the scenes.

This is also one of the most insightful alt-data conversations I’ve listened to. Vinicius’ emphasis on actual business value, not just selling data, is likely why Yipit is the only unicorn in the category. And Auren’s questions were incredibly useful from a founder perspective.

Excited for the sequel!

[Logan @myhandleisbest]

Anyone else being incorrectly double charged by @cursor_ai? Second time this is happening, now I'm being blamed for subscribing to the same product twice (I didn't) and had my account suspended because I didn't pay for the same thing twice.

emails in the thread

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

@johnrushx no Zencoder?

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

@m_adipola Quantitatively how much better is it in comparison with previous version?

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

@m_adipola keep updated if it is better than previous version

[zencoderai @zencoderai]

🚀 We just launched Zencoder on @ProductHunt!

It's a coding assistant that works for engineers.

Our deep understanding of the codebase, agentic pipeline, and 20+ integrations make Zencoder a true dev assistant, not just another AI tool.

👉Show some support and share feedback here: https://t.co/Pg8FpbTIit

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

@_akhaliq @JustinLin610 any chance on model release on hf?

[James Yamazaki @yamazakijim]

dropped some post about measure theoretic foundations of policy gradients

https://t.co/EiIgbzEwLE

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

@_akhaliq The bounding boxes work fine, but even o1 can’t handle 150+ boxes and starts to hallucinate

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

We got 1st place in HP challenge at HackUPC 2023! 🙌 @Devpost
https://t.co/ep2kdwt1gk

[anita · vellum.ai 👾🦾 @anitakirkovska]

Audio is all you need?🔊

A lot of the latest AI models push the boundaries for music/audio generation.

Here are 6 new models that were launched this week.

🧵

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

This audio generation papers this week make me wanna go full in academia after MSc

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

I meant harmonai. This is gonna be huge 😬

[Dias Khalniyasov @deeus_kh]

I wonder how latent diffusion can be applied to audio domain. Signed up for stability ai beta, waiting for beta release next month!