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Fireworks (the author of OP's article) is a western provider based in San Mateo, California

Your main source is Ryan Greenblatt who is a regular recipient of community notes and has no corroboration for the 15% statistic other than his assertion. The other tweet (Sauers_)…

It does not reproducibly identify itself as Claude, there's evidence to the contrary in the very thread you linked: https://x.com/bobbyNewcomb5/status/2078151562828947954

I encountered something similar recently. I put a lot of effort into making a PWA mobile-optimized version of my product which is effective an app in a browser. And I was flooded b…

I'm working on https://topicle.com/ An alternative to Reddit that more aggressively polices bots, spam and astroturfing and has strong guardrails in place against bad moderation. N…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636632

Opus 4.8 is nearly unusable at the moment. Making extremely obvious errors, failing to debug issues even after being prompted with the exact line of code where the problem is. It s…

I've seen videos of LLM-based automated post generators running on Reddit and it's pretty horrifying. I've also witnessed large subreddits being entirely controlled by bad actors a…

I'm working on Topicle ( https://topicle.com ), a Reddit-inspired link sharing, voting and discussion platform that rethinks a bunch of basic aspects like moderation, anti-abuse an…

One of the major attack vectors is distillation, where millions of questions are auto-generated and coordinated to produce training data for new LLMs. Anthropic alleges Minimax, De…

The leading hypothesis is the same one that explains why women get more autoimmune disease generally. Women mount stronger immune responses than men - protective in acute infection…

>implying there is at least a substantial fake element to it. The article actually argues against that reading: IgG transferred from patients into mice reproduced the symptoms. Mic…

I caught this in the Dec 2023/Jan 2024 Covid wave, in a densely-packed Bay Area tech office. I only returned to near-full mental clarity in Jan 2026 - two years later. It's an insi…

This research has been commercialized by a company called Pangram, who sells access to AI detection as a service, via an API.

This is a distinction without a difference. Users were assured their selfies would not be retained and they were. Discord then proceeded to lose those selfies to bad actors, after …

Not immediately deleting the selfie is a pretty fundamental and egregious mistake to make. People are particularly sensitive to selfies not being handled correctly after Discord lo…

People played Turtle because it was a superior experience to the paid official classic offering. It had properly balanced classes, tons of new, high-quality content, real support s…

Nobody is taking the side of the IRGC here, it's an awful regime that should fall in a just world. But it's inevitable they will retaliate against their neighbors, if their neighbo…

Its neighbors are hosting US bases which were used to launch attacks on Iran. Bahrain in particular hosted the largest US radar station in the region which was being used as the co…

Intel has just released a high VRAM card which allows you to have 128GB of VRAM for $4k. The prices are dropping rapidly. The local models aren't adapted to work on this setup yet,…

Adding some tests that prove equivalent functionality to Redis would make people much more likely to adopt this. Very cool project otherwise.

All of Apple's software is rotting, from OSX to iOS to the developer tools. Massive bugs like the keyboard no longer working properly [1] are left unresolved for years. Whichever e…

They've just gotten some substantial amount of traffic of defectors from ChatGPT, so their system may be creaking under the load. They have previously said they don't degrade their…