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FYI, Opus 4.6 had no problem with your arbitrary "cognition" test:

Someone on HN claimed "This is why it [LLMs] can't do things like know how many parenthesis are balanced here ((((()))))) (you can test this), it doesn't have any kind of genuine cognition". So, how many parenthesis are balanced in that quoted text?

● The string from the quote is ((((()))))) — 5 opening parens and 6 closing parens.

  10 parentheses are balanced (5 matched pairs). There is 1 extra unmatched ).

  Walking through it with a stack:

  ( ( ( ( (  ) ) ) ) ) )
  1 2 3 4 5  4 3 2 1 0 -1  ← depth tracker
                ↑ balanced    ↑ unmatched

The depth goes negative on the last ), meaning it has no matching (.

That conversation should still exist in the Claude Code log files. Just give Claude some context on how to find it, and it will pull whatever you need. I use this to recall particularly effective prompts later on for reuse.

Very unimpressive issue reporting.

"The issue identified it as a problem"... what?

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Elevated 500 Errors in Some US Regions

Update - We are still investigating the root cause for this incident. us-east-2 region isn’t receiving any network traffic at this point. We are also seeing some API request errors in other US regions, but not as high as us-east-2. Feb 12, 2026 - 23:58 UTC

Update - We continue to see increased levels of 500 errors across US-West and US-East regions. Our engineering team is investigating the issue. Feb 12, 2026 - 22:57 UTC

Update - The issue identified it as a problem in US-West with some impact in US-East and the impact seems to be primarily on reads rather than writes. Feb 12, 2026 - 22:37 UTC

Investigating - We have identified increasing 500 errors in some US regions and are actively investigating the cause. Feb 12, 2026 - 21:32 UTC

I remember attending MacWorld Boston in '97, at the age of 12, and seeing a BeOS demo. I was blown away by a demonstration that consisted of a video file playing on the page of a rendered book.

If you clicked the page of the book and dragged it around, it simulated the page turning and the video deforming, without skipping a frame.

I may've only been 12, but that demo has stuck with me since.

Edit: I would love to lay eyes on that demo again if anyone has an idea of where video of it may still exist.

OBD-II :)

Put the RV parks underground and pump in fresh air and fiber-optic daylight.

Put the apartment buildings above ground, and RV parks underground with fresh air pumped in and fiber-optic lighting carrying natural light down from the surface. Have elevators going from below ground, and from the apartments, to ground-level retail complexes and terrestrial activities.

Then have underground hyperloop tunnels to connect the RV parks, so that you can go to sleep in your home and move it from city to city, and pop up above ground to enjoy local tourism.

Or New York or Connecticut or Colorado... or probably a myriad of other places that I've heard the phrase used.

FWIW, there is a food cart in Singapore that has a Michelin star -- Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle. Not so much as far as interior design or wine selection goes.

What media would someone collect now to be used in the future to reproduce the likeness of loved ones? Video clips of them moving? Talking? Different poses of pictures? Reading the dictionary out loud to get vocal patterns?

Heck with impersonating the POTUS. What about a lost friend, sibling or parent?

Absolutely a stat local to Denver. Worth the clarification for the benefit of non-locals.

Growing is more work than most people have interest for, just as home-brewing is not practical for everyone.

I think it is worth mentioning that violent crime and property crime are down more than 10% post-legalization, that the state forecasts $30M in tax revenue, and $2M has already been created for local schools.

http://rt.com/usa/163644-colorado-marijuana-crime-drop/

Reefer Madness was not a documentary. Going crazy? Robbing and killing? Arson?

You've clearly never smoked pot.

EDIT: As pointed out by the replies, I clearly didn't do my research before responding ;) Apologies.

I think you've misunderstood. Out of state visitors aren't necessarily trafficking. They are coming to indulge. The retail prices are prohibitively hard to turn a profit from resale, even in the most lucrative non-legal out of state markets.

I met an oil guy from Texas who had come into the state on business and had purchased some pot for himself. Due to the nature of his business he couldn't actually smoke any.. he just wanted to buy some for the novelty, to give away to others.

I'm sorry to have seen this drop so far from the front page. I found the link earlier today and have been using it to share some of the 360° shots from this new HTC One with friends.

Would love to see a native Android app that allows for simply choosing Panteca from the list of photo share outlets.

Very nice work! Thanks!

There would need to be unilateral storage regardless of potential profiling during mining -- otherwise the cellular profile of a child, in this case, would make a secure line.

I just bought one. I likely wouldn't have done so without the association with Watsi.

I launched v3 of our product yesterday to an internal audience of about 1000 employees who got to very much enjoy using some new killer features -- none of which the business was fit to imagine.

I got to make something that people want, even though they didn't know they wanted it. Now I get to put a commemorative poster up.

*edit: typo

Are you concerned that requiring people to email you to see previously submitted results might encourage falsified responses?

I was interested in seeing the results of the survey, so I filled in the details based upon what I pay a particular contractor. Same data, different direction. Others may not provide the same value in trade for the responses.

Is there a reason that you don't provide a link to the /viewanalytics page?

Also, just a nit, but the title of the responses page reads "Seattle Ruby hourly contractor rates". It looks like you were making this survey for Seattle before deciding to add the location drop-down.

Unless they have the URL to your files, in which case, anyone can download your files.. similar to public DropBox files.

I think the "will ever be able to" verbiage is a bit misleading.

All of what you have said certainly sounds great for your game.

It sounds as though the only thing missing from KPP may have been fully voiced characters. Tough to tell -- but, presuming that were the case, would alone be a drastic difference.

Pile on top of that the nostalgia, association with the character and franchise, and every other intrinsic benefit of a genuine over imitation and it becomes a different conversation.

*edit to correct acronym

TRWTF: It took him 2 weeks to crack the WEP..

As someone also suffering from a temporary lack of motivation I thank you for these.

Fight for those inches, and rack up the failures.

*edit: removed duplicate link. skipped clicking the one you listed as funny. it isn't very funny, however, is quite telling.

Wow. This is the same zarf of "Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web" circa early '90s.

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zarfs-list.html

Nice to see this guy is still doing big things. I'm sure some of you must recognize him by that page as well.

(reference: His kickstarter profile @ http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/zarf shows website eblong.com which hosts the legacy "Zarf's List")

Should have read the comments first. Just wasted 20 minutes trying to find a registrar.

If the intent is for a universal language that can overcome language translation issues then I think the main concern should be building an interpreter that is capable of parsing numerous real spoken languages. Or, perhaps, as the rest of the world has been doing for years with international interfaces-- use English.

I saw the same thing. http://twitpic.com/211wd7