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by tombot 8d ago
Major American tech companies are using “scraping,” which involves training AI models on text written by human creators, leading to them “extracting the worlds knowledge” the Chinese National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastru
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by tombot 13d ago
What do you mean spinning off these nieche offerings? This is akin to a demo / SDK ready to plug into a store, it’s just making it easy for devs to get started. it’s still using core models and APIs, no special magic models.
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by tombot 27d ago
Just switch back opus 4.8, it's just as capable and you can actually understand the output
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by tombot 1mo ago
Opus 5 feels slower and less consistent, switching back to 4.8 at this point so I can actually get my work done
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by tombot 2mo ago
We stopped using CFCs to fix the hole in the ozone layer
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by tombot 2mo ago
Apple isn’t friends with OpenAI anymore
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by tombot 3mo ago
"I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code." new flow state is having 10 terminal tabs in diff worktrees and trying to remember what each bit is
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by tombot 3mo ago
“16 developers across 246 tasks”
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by tombot 3mo ago
I believe this game had some interesting anti cheat, it would still let you play if it knew it was cracked but would just make your aim worse and worse until you gave up.
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by tombot 3mo ago
Glad HN is getting to experience the true level of adverts on “news” sites in the UK. It really is next level.
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by tombot 3mo ago
Most people don’t have jobs they enjoy, programmers have somehow escaped this; better pay and more “protected” time instead of doing what the rest of us were doing all along
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by tombot 3mo ago
I really don’t know why there isn’t a brand that’s capitalising on this. Messaging, calls, maps, notes but no way to take or view images. Marketed simply from a global brand.
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by tombot 3mo ago
Not sure why this has ended up preferable to a smartphone ban for under 16? Surely we could decide to sell dumber devices that allow communication without internet and image sharing / capture?
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by tombot 3mo ago
Regular device accounts now ask you to prove you are 18+ through different processes, mine was enabled based on age of Apple ID. This is entirely seperate to the family sharing permissions that’s presumably the op is talking about, where I
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by tombot 6mo ago
Here’s a hack, get yourself a cheap eSIM data only plan from an alternative UK network (VOXI, Talkmobile etc) if you main network doesn’t have connectivity; they will!
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by tombot 6mo ago
Find my works fine on a coin cell battery on AirTag, hard to imagine they need to power up the headphones to do the same.
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by tombot 7mo ago
> Developers need the dopamine hit of creation. That’s not a perk, it’s what keeps good engineers engaged, learning, retained, and prevents burnout. Are developers some kind of special creature? or must they simply learn to deal with the
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by tombot 7mo ago
https://archive.is/iI6rY
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by tombot 7mo ago
https://archive.is/jgMF4
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by tombot 7mo ago
Mullvad UK customer here, I don’t think watching Americans order at a drive thru is a very compelling ad, had this campaign been more than jus “oh they banned us” you might have got somewhere. Many many UK ads have been banned over the year
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by tombot 7mo ago
The tool might be desktop only, but you can’t explain it or show me a video even on mobile?
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by tombot 7mo ago
Have you read the best practices? https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices Are you using plan mode?
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by tombot 10mo ago
I like supporting Wikipedia, I’m glad they raised plenty of money
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by tombot 10mo ago
I don’t feel irritated, I feel pleased I am supporting the web I want to see.
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by tombot 10mo ago
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of crooks
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by tombot 10mo ago
why can’t I just pay ticketmaster the face value, why must we allow another middleman to charges me more? because capitalism? na mate
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by tombot 10mo ago
Why isn’t there autosaving? Why go to all this effort to make such a hostile UX?
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by tombot 11mo ago
sorry, but why is this plastered with ads?
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by tombot 1y ago
UK already has a social credit system with our credit score, we even need to pay to see it.

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