Who coined the phrase "cyber" for security related things lol. It's so 1999.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google has been doing staged roll outs on all their products since forever.
What stage of the roll out are we where I don’t even see 3.7-flash which was released 2-3 weeks ago?
Try updating the app? You should see at least 3.7 I think. It's been available for quite some time.
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#223For my application, I'm still happily using gemini-2.5-flash and the only problem is when it reports being overloaded. It's for interpreting a downscaled phone camera photo of a hand-written shopping list on a whiteboard, and it works stunningly well. My handwriting sucks, too.
(I guess the only relevance here is that if your problem matches a model's strengths, then you can do fine with a model that is several generations out of date.)
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#224The speed combined with the fact that this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting. Here's what I got for 1.8 cents and 13 seconds from the prompt "make me a cool thing in html": https://gisthost.github.io/?6a77bc41a81718c6aaa10d4ab243c59f Transcript here (it was part of a chat): https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...
I saw your username, clicked the link without reading, and was very confused to see a cosmic vortex and not a pelican.
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#225The speed combined with the fact that this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting. Here's what I got for 1.8 cents and 13 seconds from the prompt "make me a cool thing in html": https://gisthost.github.io/?6a77bc41a81718c6aaa10d4ab243c59f Transcript here (it was part of a chat): https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...
I saw your username, clicked the link without reading, and was very confused to see a cosmic vortex and not a pelican.
Hah, the pelican is in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553#49538217
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#226Who coined the phrase "cyber" for security related things lol. It's so 1999.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1573/
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#227I've been using Gemini 3.7 for my personal trip planning app. Across multiple benchmarks, it ranks higher on everything I tried: - Real world knowledge (when a thing opens and closes, the geographic region, historical facts). It's also the best at taking a cluster of places and working out a visiting order. - Photo ranking (which photo should be the hero). Gemini can tell whether a photo is of the thing or of the vie…
I've swapped over to it in the past two weeks, it's been really good. It does what I ask and doesn't think it knows better than me, which so far has made it the most pleasing experience I've had when slop-coding.
My only wish is it were somewhat cheaper, as it tends to balloon pretty quickly when I'm using it in Opencode. I'm currently trying to offload a lot of work to subagents to stop the context expanding so rapidly. But on the upside, I rarely have to correct it - I've spent far less time arguing with this than with anything else so far.
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#228Not to rain on anyone's parade but I find it strange how excited and giddy people on HN get for any new X.X model releases. Pumping it straight to the top, clamoring to use it, check and compare benchmarks, bragging about it being your "daily driver"?
Are you people truly this excited about this crap? I mean I guess if you work for Google or Anthropic or whatever I could see it??? Otherwise, are these just bot comments?
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#229Pelicans (thinking effort high, medium, low): https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... - high cost 8.9742 cents Here are the 3.7 pelicans for comparison: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer.html?u... - high cost 8.4387 cents (I think thinking level low is a regression on 3.8 compared to 3.7.)
It's about to squash a tiny baby pelican
Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#230The speed combined with the fact that this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting. Here's what I got for 1.8 cents and 13 seconds from the prompt "make me a cool thing in html": https://gisthost.github.io/?6a77bc41a81718c6aaa10d4ab243c59f Transcript here (it was part of a chat): https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...
> this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting.
I would hope the people who make one of the most used JS engines in the world are capable of making a model good at JavaScript ;)