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I really like the concept. I think users are completely outmatched when it comes to social media. The big platforms have literally thousands of super smart people working to make their products sticky. All we have is our caveman brains that didn't evolve for this. I don't think regulation is the answer — we need smart tools like this that help us control how we use the platforms.

I tried out the extension now and it seems to work well. Great job on it!

I'd recommend changing the placeholder content for "Block Tags". "Enter a Keyword" made me think it would filter exact matches but it's actually filtering based on semantic meaning. Keyword also makes you think it needs to be a single word and not a phrase...

IMO the free tier is a bit too restrictive and doesn't give a good sense of the full value of the product (e.g. you'll lose someone who isn't on Twitter but wants to try it for Reddit). I'd suggest either opening the free tier up a bit, or moving to a trial rather than freemium model.

All in all, really well done! Hoping this is successful

GavCoon A 'Dopamine Fast' Will Not Save You from Addiction

https://archive.md/iVWxP

GavCoon Show HN: Free tool to find RSS feeds, even if not linked on the page

Cool. I'm a big fan of RSS feeds.

Wondering if it's necessary to continue with the other checks if you find a feed in the meta tags?

GavCoon Reflection 70B, the top open-source model

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/mattshumer/Reflection-70B

Playground: https://reflection-playground-production.up.railway.app/

GavCoon M4 Macs might start with 16GB of RAM

source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-23/when-is-a...

GavCoon ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model

Not clear based on what criteria OP has determined this is the best OS model. I also don't see that claim being made anywhere in the GitHub repo so I suspect it might be a case of vibe-based benchmarking (VBB).

As pointed out by u/modeless, there is an established leaderboard and this model isn't on it (yet)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508445

GavCoon GPT-4o hit 54% accuracy on CodeContests with AlphaCodium, up from 48% for GPT-4T

valid point. i'm not a statistician but it does seem to me to be statistically significant.

According to the paper, the validation set has 107 problems so it's a difference of 6 problems solved, not just 1-2.

Also, it's not a typical eval with multiple-choice answers — these are difficult coding problems from competitions where the answers are strings or integers, so the odds of "guessing" a correct answer are very low.

GavCoon GPT-4o hit 54% accuracy on CodeContests with AlphaCodium, up from 48% for GPT-4T

It's interesting that with direct prompting there's only a 1 point difference between GPT-4o and GPT-4 turbo, but with the AlphaCodium flow it becomes a substantial 6 point difference.

AlphaCodium works by decomposing a competitive programming problem into simple steps and has an automated flow that uses the LLM for each step. It's iterative, so compilation errors and test results are fed back into the model and the model can fix mistakes.

IMO this is a much more useful benchmark than a typical eval because it reflects how LLMs are actually used in the real world. It seems like it also surfaces subtle differences in reasoning abilities that zero-shot evals don't capture.

GavCoon Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

Here ya go https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-boo...

GavCoon Google employees finding out if they're laid off by testing their access badges

Fair enough. He was a reporter for many years at Fortune [1] and at Yahoo Finance [2]. This guy is a career reporter who must understand journalistic standards.

Isn't conclusive proof that this is true but can't just be dismissed as some random guy on Twitter... Media and journalism are changing

[1] https://fortune.com/author/daniel-roberts/

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/author/daniel-roberts

GavCoon Google employees finding out if they're laid off by testing their access badges

That's pretty standard practice in journalism. You have a source (e.g. google employee) who you develop a relationship with over years and learn to trust — this is called a trusted source. They tell you something that they have seen first-hand , so you rely on that to be true.

Depending on the standards of the reporter/publication and the impact of the claims being made, you might try to verify the scoop with one or more additional sources.

Considering the guy is self publishing on Twitter and is not currently a reporter at a well respected publication, I'd bet this is just based off of a single source.

The system isn't foolproof but it works pretty well most of the time

GavCoon Google employees finding out if they're laid off by testing their access badges

Random guy is the EIC of a publication with 4M monthly visitors (for comparison, HN has 12M).

There isn't much difference between a reporter breaking news on Twitter and on a news website

GavCoon IBM Quantum System Two

This podcast episode is great as a high-level introduction https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/147-quantum-computing-...

GavCoon Elon Musk Oversaw Tesla Video That Exaggerated Self-Driving Capabilities

https://archive.md/ORxxX

GavCoon CNCF accepts Kubescape as its first security and compliance scanner project

The story somehow managed to include 9 links, none to the actual project

https://www.armosec.io/kubescape/

GavCoon ChatGPT Banned in New York City Public Schools

https://archive.md/R2SBI

GavCoon YouTuber Logan Paul’s CryptoZoo NFT project is a total mess

A guy built a working version of the game in a few hours. A recent update from Logan said it would be ready in 2023/24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exbxjXAqQ5Y

GavCoon The Twitter Files, Part Six

Really appreciate that you take the time to weigh in with these explanations. The moderation can feel heavy handed and arbitrary at times so these comments help to shine a light on the difficult balance you're trying to maintain. The explanation about SNI especially helped me understand some of the tough judgement calls that the mods need to make.

Is there a manifesto of some sort that defines the philosophy and approach of HN moderation? Or is just tribal knowledge that mods have built over time?

GavCoon Jack Dorsey will donate $1M per year to The Tor Project

Total contributions to Tor in 2020 was $4.4M so this is very significant https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/208...

GavCoon Accounting Firm Mazars Pauses Work with Binance and Other Crypto Clients

https://archive.ph/TNHwl

GavCoon Microsoft Product Terms – Azure can no longer be used to mine crypto

Acceptable Use Policy

Neither Customer, nor those that access an Online Service through Customer, may use an Online Service:

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- to mine cryptocurrency without Microsoft’s prior written approval;

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Went into effect on Dec 1st

GavCoon JxckSweeney suspended (ElonJet guy's personal account)