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by deminature 18d ago
Maybe I'm just incredibly lucky, but my reviews on Google Play take roughly an hour and appear to be entirely automated. My initial review was about a week, but everything after that has been 1hr. My Apple reviews are still around a da
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by deminature 20d ago
https://topicle.com/ A social media platform trying to solve misinformation, astroturfing and inauthentic posting. I also thought there was a real space for some non-US-based social media, so this is based in Australia. Thi
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by deminature 21d ago
Building quality software with LLMs is still very time-consuming. The vast majority of people are not going to bother, regardless of how low the bar to entry is, because time is not free. That and making software is not interesting to most
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by deminature 2mo ago
Fireworks (the author of OP's article) is a western provider based in San Mateo, California
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by deminature 3mo ago
Your main source is Ryan Greenblatt who is a regular recipient of community notes and has no corroboration for the 15% statistic other than his assertion. The other tweet (Sauers_) is also community noted as engagement farming with a false
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by deminature 3mo ago
It does not reproducibly identify itself as Claude, there's evidence to the contrary in the very thread you linked: https://x.com/bobbyNewcomb5/status/2078151562828947954
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by deminature 3mo ago
I encountered something similar recently. I put a lot of effort into making a PWA mobile-optimized version of my product which is effective an app in a browser. And I was flooded by user feedback saying they simply would not use the product
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by deminature 3mo ago
I'm working on https://topicle.com/ An alternative to Reddit that more aggressively polices bots, spam and astroturfing and has strong guardrails in place against bad moderation. No private profiles that bots use to hi
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by deminature 3mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636632
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by deminature 3mo ago
Opus 4.8 is nearly unusable at the moment. Making extremely obvious errors, failing to debug issues even after being prompted with the exact line of code where the problem is. It should be illegal not to disclose serious degradations of per
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by deminature 4mo ago
I've seen videos of LLM-based automated post generators running on Reddit and it's pretty horrifying. I've also witnessed large subreddits being entirely controlled by bad actors and users having no recourse. I'm definit
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by deminature 4mo ago
I'm working on Topicle ( https://topicle.com ), a Reddit-inspired link sharing, voting and discussion platform that rethinks a bunch of basic aspects like moderation, anti-abuse and privacy to try to address some of the bigge
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by deminature 4mo ago
One of the major attack vectors is distillation, where millions of questions are auto-generated and coordinated to produce training data for new LLMs. Anthropic alleges Minimax, Deepseek and Kimi were trained this way. Deepseek 4 compares f
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by deminature 4mo ago
The leading hypothesis is the same one that explains why women get more autoimmune disease generally. Women mount stronger immune responses than men - protective in acute infection (men had worse acute COVID outcomes), but it comes at a cos
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by deminature 4mo ago
>implying there is at least a substantial fake element to it. The article actually argues against that reading: IgG transferred from patients into mice reproduced the symptoms. Mice don't have a nervous disposition. That points to a
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by deminature 4mo ago
I caught this in the Dec 2023/Jan 2024 Covid wave, in a densely-packed Bay Area tech office. I only returned to near-full mental clarity in Jan 2026 - two years later. It's an insidious illness that needs more visibility. Poorly v
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by deminature 5mo ago
This research has been commercialized by a company called Pangram, who sells access to AI detection as a service, via an API.
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by deminature 6mo ago
This is a distinction without a difference. Users were assured their selfies would not be retained and they were. Discord then proceeded to lose those selfies to bad actors, after promising not to retain them. The incident has caused enormo
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by deminature 6mo ago
Not immediately deleting the selfie is a pretty fundamental and egregious mistake to make. People are particularly sensitive to selfies not being handled correctly after Discord lost thousands of them, despite promising to delete them after
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by deminature 6mo ago
People played Turtle because it was a superior experience to the paid official classic offering. It had properly balanced classes, tons of new, high-quality content, real support staff instead of bots with sub-5 minute wait time for service
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by deminature 6mo ago
Nobody is taking the side of the IRGC here, it's an awful regime that should fall in a just world. But it's inevitable they will retaliate against their neighbors, if their neighbors are complicit in attacking them. Qatar, Bahrain
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by deminature 6mo ago
Its neighbors are hosting US bases which were used to launch attacks on Iran. Bahrain in particular hosted the largest US radar station in the region which was being used as the control centre to coordinate the attack on Iran [1]. These cou
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by deminature 6mo ago
Intel has just released a high VRAM card which allows you to have 128GB of VRAM for $4k. The prices are dropping rapidly. The local models aren't adapted to work on this setup yet, so performance is disappointing. But highly capable lo
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by deminature 7mo ago
Adding some tests that prove equivalent functionality to Redis would make people much more likely to adopt this. Very cool project otherwise.
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by deminature 7mo ago
All of Apple's software is rotting, from OSX to iOS to the developer tools. Massive bugs like the keyboard no longer working properly [1] are left unresolved for years. Whichever executive or engineering leader used to keep the quality
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by deminature 7mo ago
They've just gotten some substantial amount of traffic of defectors from ChatGPT, so their system may be creaking under the load. They have previously said they don't degrade their models under excessive load, but the models sure
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by deminature 7mo ago
Selecting a server is one of the reasons the fediverse appears to have not seriously challenged incumbents. As soon as a non-technical user sees this, they bounce.
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by deminature 9mo ago
Other manufacturers are likely to use the same panel as the new XDR and Studio display. The peak display tech this year will be the same glossy, high refresh rate mini LED used in the Apple displays, sold by third parties for a more reasona
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by deminature 9mo ago
Apple has updated Studio Display and XDR coming out soon, they just filed for regulatory approval in China, which historically has meant 1-3 months until release [1]. The updated models are expected to have a 2000+ zone Mini LED backlight a
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by deminature 9mo ago
Apple hasn't followed their own HIG for quite some time now. I'm not sure they even remember it exists.

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