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Wow, that’s an egregious chart crime. Surely there’s a way to make a chart that isn’t so dishonest. Just plotting the SPR level would make the same point honestly.

Hmm in my experience (I've done a lot of head-to-heads), Opus 4.6 is a weaker reviewer than GPT 5.4 xhigh. 5.4 xhigh gives very deep, very high-signal reviews and catches serious b…

This feels similar to March 2020 when COVID was in Seattle. “It’s in the US but maybe it’s just a one-off.” We’ll see, I guess.

this was really delightful. The Easter eggs in particular made it feel like someone was actually on the other side

I find Opus 4.5 very, very strong at matching the prevailing conventions/idioms/abstractions in a large, established codebase. But I guess I'm quite sensitive to this kind of thing…

I believe the new grad DOGE employees were GS-15s. So yes, it seems likely that they plan to hire at GS-14 or GS-15.

tried replicating w/ a slightly different system prompt w/ sonnet-4.5 and got some different results, esp w/ progressive to conservative questions. Prompting seems pretty load-bear…

AI tools have been so good for me for making home-cooked software. As a new-ish parent, it’s so much easier to do stuff. I don’t need to go into extra-deep focus mode to learn how …

I had a good laugh at the image showing that 2018 had a “quality focus” I think Jonathan Blow gave his “Preventing the Collapse of Civilization” talk (much stronger treatment of th…

> Gold has reached all time highs this is true > US debt (ie T-bills) selling at all time lows this is not true unless you’re doing some kind of adjustment. For t bills, us03m yiel…

I would not debase myself by causing the starvation of children.

Just got it at work today and it’s a dramatic step change beyond Cursor despite using the same foundation models. Very surprising! There was a task a month ago where AI assistance …

Amrstrong’s heart rate spiked to >150bpm during the moon landing, more than double his resting heart rate

Thank you, Dan! I really appreciate all the work you do making HN what it is