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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2023 Februaryuserbinator

About Microsoft launching a new Bing search powered by an upgraded ChatGPT.

Until an AI can answer questions like "what 44-pad QFN has marking DM164495-12" I'm not interested. In fact I don't want conversational, I want grep. It's disturbing how much computing power is being spent on AI search when it could be used for something more like actual grep.

An AI correctly answers lookups like "what 44-pad QFN has marking DM164495-12".

Has this happened?

Yes 41 (39%)Not sure 52 (50%)No 12 (11%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.