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Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:16PM (#49323260)
Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:42PM (#47681108)
I wonder what the relationship is between a model's capability and the personality it develops.

Page 202:

> In interactions with subagents, internal users sometimes observed that Mythos Preview appeared “disrespectful” when assigning tasks. It showed some tendency to use commands that could be read as “shouty” or dismissive, and in some cases appeared to underestimate subagent intelligence by overexplaining trivial things while also underexplaining necessary context.

Page 207:

> Emoji frequency spans more than two orders of magnitude across models: Opus 4.1 averages 1,306 emoji per conversation, while Mythos Preview averages 37, and Opus 4.5 averages 0.2. Models have their own distinctive sets of emojis: the cosmic set () favored by older models like Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 and 4.1, the functional set () used by Opus 4.5 and 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Mythos Preview's “nature” set ().

Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:24AM (#47215227)
There's GPT‑5.3‑Codex
Re:Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:51PM (#47038678)
ElevenReader works well and has a pretty good free plan
That's true, but it looks like it's been updated since then because the benchmarks include Claude Opus 4.5
Would be interesting to see Gemini 3.0 Pro benchmarked as well.
Re:The "S" in MCP Stands for Security on Sunday April 06, 2025 @12:41PM (#43602796)
Nice article but is this whole thing just AI generated?

Profile picture definitely seems to be StableDiffusion'd and the account was created today, with no previous articles.

Plus I couldn't find any other references to Elena Cross.

Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:00PM (#41506057)
I got in the beta a couple weeks ago and tried it out on some papers [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41020635

on macOS, option + ; seems to work …
let l = 0; let h = dictionary.length - 1;

const textbox = document.querySelector("input");

while (l <= h) { const m = Math.floor((l + h) / 2); const guess = dictionary[m]; const textbox = document.querySelector("input"); console.log("Guessing:", guess);

  textbox.value = guess;
  guessWord();

  if (document.querySelector(".correct")) {
    console.log("Found the word:", guess);
    break;
  } else if (textbox.placeholder.includes("after")) {
    l = m + 1;
  } else {
    h = m - 1;
  }
}

Here's mine in JavaScript, you can paste it in the console.

Re:Minecraft (2014) on Saturday July 27, 2024 @03:07PM (#41088596)
In a similar vein, I'd recommend Factorio and The Binding of Isaac.
Re:Figma AI is a rip-off engine on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:36AM (#40856022)
Re:They make USB-C cables with displays now on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:58AM (#40704694)
Neat I remember seeing these on Marques Brownlee’s channel a couple times too.

[0] https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1478413987259822081

Re:Extracting concepts from GPT-4 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:49PM (#40601600)
Interesting, reminds me of similar work Anthropic did on Claude 3 Sonnet [0].

[0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...

Re:Python's many command-line utilities on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:25PM (#40569351)
also, open . opens your current directory in Finder
Re:How I run a software book club on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:44PM (#40527255)
Is there any way to look over past discussions on the books?
Re:Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:47PM (#40460807)
product aside, I thought the design of the website and the branding was quite sleek, kudos to the team.
Re:Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text on Monday May 20, 2024 @01:27PM (#40417835)
I use macOS’s Preview which lets you redact text through (Tools -> Redact).
Re:Homoiconic Python on Sunday May 12, 2024 @06:05PM (#40337937)
Similarly a course I took in university made us implement a (rudimentary) Lisp interpreter in Lisp.
Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:28PM (#37298490)
If I recall correctly, you can set your firebase rules such that a user can only read/write/delete certain collections based on conditions such as if user.email == collection.email.