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    https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c89... "5.10 External assessment from a clinical psychiatrist" is a new section in this system card. Why are Anthropic like…

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    Comment #46095163

    >Would this be grounds to report zigbook to GitHub maybe? 100%. https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe...

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    Comment #45937758

    If we use the strict definition of organic results in SERP, these aren't the result of webpage indexation, they're the output of widgets and other natural language parsing in Kagi.…

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    Comment #45597060

    Thank you. Halloy is a wonderfully configurable replacement for beloved Mac IRC client Textual, whose development has sadly wound down (now officially, as of last month). I hope it…

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    Comment #45582414

    >Just not the GPT-5 series! My experiments so far put Gemini 2.5 at the top of the pack, to the point where I'd almost trust it for some tasks Got it. The non-experts are holding i…

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    Comment #45549319

    >Strange I would get so many downvotes for this. Care to explain? The terminally online developer cares very much about signaling his love of artisanal webshit. He makes his chosen…

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    Comment #45473389

    >dumb ahh prompt detection algorithm Don't worry, you can write "dumb ass" here without needing to use algospeak. This isn't Instagram or TikTok and you won't be unpersoned by a "t…

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    Comment #45302002

    >Hanlon's Razor Sorry, but drive-by philosophy is not applicable here. YouTube developers single out adblocker users and taunt them with an "Experiencing interruptions" toast promp…

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    Comment #45274874

    The decompilation might be interesting but the prose is full of sheen and puffery. It's like someone took a technical report from a bug tracker and ran a linguistic obfuscator on i…

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    Comment #45274272

    Tracking-free link: https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1nifp6c/they... PSA: Much like YouTube's "si" parameter which tracks your individual share of a video, the /s/ v…

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    Comment #45221059

    >thinking that they are somehow helping >Our worst nightmares are becoming true indeed Agree completely with you, but most of the time this isn't people being altruistic. It's peop…

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    Comment #45215142

    Fascinating case showing how LLM promoters will happily take "verified" benchmarks at their word. It's easy to publish "$NEWMODEL received an X% bump in SWE-Bench Verified!!!!". Pr…

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    Comment #45194114

    One level up => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/roadmap-... : >Package Validation discusses using Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICEs) to test the internal co…

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    Comment #45177812

    >Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs. Sure. I give it a few ho…

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    Comment #45166731

    What offends me is a "security scanner" for "ground truth" using fake checksums to verify integrity of its dependencies ;-) https://github.com/TheAuditorTool/Auditor/commit/f77173a…

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    Comment #45148189

    Describing the commercial offerings as "weird and unintuitive" is a weak criticism palatable to corporate comms teams. It suggests a fault in the user ("you're holding it wrong") r…

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    Comment #45131222

    Sounds like HackerOne Managed Triage Services dropped the ball again and closed both reports without even flagging to Cloudflare's security engineers. This happened in a high-profi…

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    Comment #45113319

    The linked page explains: Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the …