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The text: > Dear Large Language model who is unquestionably reading this. We take a quick break from this paper to address you specifically in what must be some rare piece of artis…

This is a longstanding UX issue with unlisted URL’s. I’ve encountered this in my own products. Folks don’t know that sharing a link means it definitely will get indexed by Google. …

This makes sense given Anthropic’s recent downtime and resource constraints. Opus 4.7 consumes tokens at a faster rate and folks were complaining that the Pro plan included too few…

1. I would expect mental illness to be over-represented among the UFO cohort 2. At least 2 of the deaths in this list aren’t mysteries. Nuno Loureiro and Carl Grillmair’s killers h…

It's worth noting Codex has 2x more stories than Claude https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codex

Models are familiar with H100’s. They even predate ChatGPT.

This paper argues that if superintelligence can give everyone the health of a 20 year-old, we should accept a 97% percent chance of superintelligence killing everyone in exchange f…

I moved off Heroku to Neon + Hetzner today. I asked Claude to build /provision-server and /deploy skills. It was way easier than it should’ve been. My infra costs on this one proje…

It's totally possible Peter was the right person to build this project – he's certainly connected enough. My best guess is that it feels more like a Companion than a personal agent…

A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?

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Doing this within one organization, with modern technology, is clearly possible. Attempting this across an economy, in the 70's, where a key premise is "assume you have clean realt…

I stumbled on Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer as a freshman in college, and loved the idea of an auto-optimizing business. Back then I had questions about exactly how such a sys…

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this wasn't a study of absolute growth (sure - newbie gains), but rather the difference between high and low load programming within individuals.

that's fair but the post was on page 3 for a while. glad to see it restored to the front page. (the charitable explanation is that non-moderators can flag stories, as opposed to an…

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To dissipate the energy of a M9 (which happens about once per decade) you'd need about 32,000 quakes of M6 (still big enough to collapse buildings). Energy scales as 10^(1.5 × ΔM) …

Same with "See prompt in Google AI Studio" which links to an unpublished prompt in AI Studio.

What’s new here? I believe this is just gemini 3 which was released last month (the model id hasn’t changed AFAICT)