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BrokenCogs··on DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B
Isn't that what monopolies are known for??
BrokenCogs··on Emacs Turns 50
Can you share a few more details? What did llms help you see that you didn't see before? I myself have tried to get into emacs several times but always went back to vs code as it just felt more natural to me
BrokenCogs··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Copium
BrokenCogs··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Yeah but there has been no evidence to suggest that a frontier language model is going to be better at such a domain specific niche task than a vision model trained specifically for that task. This is not the same discussion as a foundation model vs CNNs (which in my opinion would have made for a better blog post than what OP tested)
BrokenCogs··on Git for US Legislation
Maybe at this point we should just git revert
BrokenCogs··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
You must be out of touch with how machine learning works if this results surprises you.
BrokenCogs··on Things to know when you get cancer
That's because the baseline response doctors are used to goes something like this:

Doc: "Do you have any other medical conditions besides your {red eye,stomach ache,itchy foot}?"

Patient: "No."

Doc: "Are you taking any meds?"

Patient: "Yes I am currently on chemotherapy for my cancer."

Doc: "Okay... so you have cancer?"

Patient: "Yes I have lung cancer."

BrokenCogs··on Gemini 4 Argon
This pretty cool. Did you use Antigravity or just on gemini.google.com?
BrokenCogs··on Gemini 4 Argon
Every release I see a new benchmark with a new frontier. These graphs are just meaningless now
BrokenCogs··on Muse Wonder
I'm talking about the metaverse, not quest. The quest sold well before any of the metaverse nonsense
BrokenCogs··on Muse Wonder
That's just another way of saying that Meta failed to deliver a product that matters to the world today
BrokenCogs··on Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
No doubt inspired by the recent sonnet 5.5 release demoing a murmuration of birds
BrokenCogs··on FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
What are RFK Jr's stated goals?
BrokenCogs··on 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
What I think you saw was the Australian LP. The Australian pressing is CBS SBP 238022. It’s a gatefold sleeve with a separate printed inner lyric sleeve, so it opens out and has layers, which could easily look like a multi-disc set to a kid. The artwork has its own history. Tom Nikosey, who designed the 1984 poster, said his second painting was made for “the soundtrack double album cover fold out.” It looks like a double album was planned at some point. What shipped was a single LP in that fold-out sleeve.

Check the CD you still own. Look at the catalogue number on the spine and count the tracks. If it really has 20 or more score cues, that would be a genuine find, and I’d love to know the catalogue number and label. No catalogued release matches that.

BrokenCogs··on The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
I loved being part of the subreddit before the song was found "the most mysterious song on the internet"
BrokenCogs··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
For future visitors, the profile posted by the user brcmthrowaway was https://github.com/bartosz-openai
BrokenCogs··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Hardly proof - anyone could have made this account
BrokenCogs··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
That makes me sad, if true
BrokenCogs··on Claude Haiku 5.5
I guess I'm giving GP feedback about their product diffui.ai, not really about Opus' performance.
BrokenCogs··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Neither of these look "good" to me. There is so much visual noise on the page, like someone turned the "AI Slop" dial to 11. In fact I prefer the simpler design Haiku made.
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
Seizing the means of production
BrokenCogs··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Hardly any comparisons to Opus 5.5, which means it's not great
BrokenCogs··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Clone the repo and ask your llm of choice to audit any security risks
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives
Gemini 3.8 flash seems to (subjectively) be the outlier in terms of performance to cost ratio?
BrokenCogs··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Hugged to death
BrokenCogs··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
Almost all of the story missions are: 1) walk/drive/ride to this place 2) Talk to NPC 3) Do an extremely boring task (follow someone, drive somewhere, etc) 4) Walk somewhere else 5) Talk to someone else. 6) Collect XP or another reward.

Most of it is not enjoyable gameplay.

BrokenCogs··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
Somewhat of an aside but, personally, I also found GTA V and Red dead redemption 2 to be boring because these games didn't respect my time. I could play for two hours and still feel like I accomplished nothing except for "interacting with the world".
BrokenCogs··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
They're not the first. Each lab has its own: grok bot, codex desktop, perplexity computer, Claude whatever
BrokenCogs··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Interesting that all of the bikes are turquoise colored, except for the medium effort
BrokenCogs··on GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 is so good that all pelicans born after today will look exactly the one generated by simonw
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