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Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:55PM (#48465832)
Yeah it just uncovered quite a few flaws it than refused to fix :-(
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:50PM (#48464736)
I just asked Fable to do a task that has nothing to do with cybersecurity or is dangerous at all but the defense kicked in and it switched to Opus... :(
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:40PM (#48197444)
Those are (mostly) new, faster TPU
Re:Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts? on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:16AM (#47045713)
Google search is also free to use
Re:GPT-5.2 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:42PM (#46235245)
I don't feel the S-curve at all yet. Still an exponential for me
Re:GPT-5.2 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:36PM (#46235165)
The benchmarks are very impressive. Codex and Opus 4.5 are really good coders already and they keep getting better.

No wall yet and I think we might have crossed the threshold of models being as good or better than most engineers already.

GDPval will be an interesting benchmark and I'll happily use the new model to test spreadsheet (and other office work) capabilities. If they can going like this just a little bit further, much of the office workers will stop being useful.... I don't know yet how to feel about this.

Great for humanity probably but but for the individuals?

Thanks, didn't know that but aligns with my experience
I have canceled my Claude Max subscription because Sonnet 4.5 is just too unreliable. For the rest of the month I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released. When I hit 4.1 Opus limits I'm using Codex. I will probably go through with the Codex pro subscription.
Re:Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:17AM (#45759717)
I think Opus 4.1 is still much better than Sonnet 4.5
I'm only hosting a newly started side project there, but it does have paying users so I'm really unhappy at the moment.
This is a worst case scenario. Even worse is the no-communication and not turning off the restore function. This is having serious economic impact

Tell HN: Supabase database restore from backup corrupting projects

There are multiple reports that restoring a database from Supabase backups currently corrupts the entire project.The Supabase dashboard shows the following error message:“Something went wrong while restoring your project. Your project’s data is intact, but your project is inaccessible due to a restoration failure.”However, it appears that at least some of the backups, if not all, are either...

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Re:What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:33PM (#45688222)
My current top 3 apple software flaws:

1) battery warning above tabs in browser with no x to close it

2) WebKit bugs that make inputs and visual diverge so you have to click under the input to hit it

3) flickering email app when it’s opened

Re:Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:49PM (#45544188)
They also managed to introduce regressions into WebKit so that the visual and touch positions of fixed input elements diverge. Really makes you question what’s going on at Apple.
Re:"Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:23PM (#44513275)
Pushing out an exact way to extract that data without giving the creator time to fix it may even be worse than using such code in production. The data may than be in the hands of malicious people who wouldn’t have found it otherwise
Re:"Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:15PM (#44513195)
Doesn’t supabase provide security warnings on its dashboard?
Probably true. The EU needs to enact daily fines for non-compliance, going back to the day the legislation came into power.
Only in the US feels like shooting themselves in the foot again. The EU is already cracking down on them for their malicious compliance with the DMA, and it’s only a matter of time before similar pressure builds
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:51PM (#43210542)
China can be pretty sure that the US will not act if they attack Taiwan. Trump and Vance are weak. All talk, no walk.
Re:EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:26PM (#43199743)
// Lets discuss how Windows is a flaming pile of poo. I'm now casting the header

     // directly into the structure, because its the one I want, and this is just how
   
  // its done. I hate Windows. - jkmcd
   
  DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME *vol = (DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME*) (hdr);

     // @todo - Yikes. This could cause us all kinds of pain. I don't really want 
     // to even think about the stink this could cause us.

     TheFileSystem->unloadMusicFilesFromCD(vol->dbcv_unitmask);
   
  return TRUE;
And an additional (!) 6-7.5 cent per KWh is payed by the "Klima und Transformationsfonds" to the producers of renewable energy.
Renewables are very cheap if you only consider LCOE and not the systemic costs - which is what people like Zoadian love to do. Just ignore all those grid and backup costs. The grid fees alone have been increased substantially and Germany pays out an additional 7 cent per KWh through a fund that is not shown in the electricity bills anymore.
France hasn't payed subsidies since 1981. EDF has payed a dividend nearly each year since then. EDF made $11bn profit last year and $10bn the year before. France energy prices have been reduced this year. Germany pays much higher prices.
Re:Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:29AM (#42243633)
+1
Re:DigitalOcean Is Down on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:05AM (#42005990)
The maintenance is coming up in a few hours. DO was down for a few minutes, including spaces, app platform etc.
If you really want someone interested in software development to run away, hand them books like this one.
I too have great memories of cypher. Such an elegant way to write queries.

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