lordgrenville

> ATTENTION. The books are accessible only via the Tor Browser. Follow the guide HERE.

First time seeing this. Is this a piracy thing? Hiding from AI scrapers?

While I can understand this for muscular guys, I never got why it can also be used to mean a very curvaceous/attractive woman.

Great term. Plus the related "Politician Said a Thing!" journalism

If attackers are cheaper than defenders, the attacker might be able to bankrupt the defender, or at least temporarily deplete their supply of defenders. So not useless at all.

a) Attack missiles need to hit a stationary target, whereas the defenders need to hit a moving target. So defenders are more expensive.

b) A human defender can hunker down in a safe space and shoot at attackers. The attackers need to move and are more vulnerable

Haven't been following this debate closely, but what's the issue with "strip mining open problems"? Surely the supply of interesting mathematical problems is (in theory) infinite?

Am I correct in guessing that this is a ToS violation and could lead to getting blocked?

For some reason, Firefox thinks this article is in Portuguese.

n00b question I guess but what is the value of a standalone password manager? Seems like most browsers and operating systems offer this capability nowadays.

I think what makes Shazam magically "just work" is that they are searching for the exact embedding of the recorded version of the song - it doesn't work for a cover version, acapella, etc even if it is very similar. (Everyone would want an app that you can hum into and it will ID the song, but I guess it's a very tough problem.)

Merlin is solving the more general problem so makes sense that it's much more finicky and less accurate.

If you want to be pedantic, it actually dates back to 1980, in a talk at the Naval War College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

Lucky we have the counterexample of a tech company run by a guy who did a humanities PhD under Jürgen Habermas...Palantir.

I don't think Claude's writing style is peculiar, it is just that we are being flooded with it. Everything becomes stale with overuse.

"Any eighth-grade boy or girl who is 'all there' should solve it in about thirty seconds" is hyperbole (it took me a couple of minutes), but in general the public reaction to this seems like a demonstration of the Flynn effect.

Yes, except if you launch a process with nohup, then close your terminal and open a new one how do you reconnect to it? I assume there's a way to do it but I don't know how (probably someone with more unix-fu will reply), plus you can't see the previous output. Whereas with screen/tmux you can just pop it open again and see the whole session.

Reiterating what I wrote above, sharing these would have been more interesting imo than sharing the pipeline output.

Great, then rather post that! Although that repo looks like 100% AI artifact, not human intervention. (What does "flagging issues for human review at scale" mean in this context?)

While it's really cool that this is possible now, this project seems to be a thin wrapper around running Claude. Presumably, someone who wanted to read one of these books could just run it through Claude themselves with comparable results.

Sharing some artifact of your own added value, or things you learned in the process, would be more interesting to me than the output.

> I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role

Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "I'm not good at X, but LLMs are so impressive at it". Like do you think there might be some connection between those two points?!

There was a post on here the other day explaining this exact phenomenon: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html

> Many made the same prediction about Twitter, and it seems to be more or less the same or higher activity than before, and Bluesky is continuing to rapidly decline

Not at all correct, they are plummeting.

"In June 2025...X year-over-year growth declined by 15.2%." https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail...

Almost every comment here is appealing to personal experience. By contrast, OP refers to two studies that compare performance on some kind of standardised test over a range of models.

Can't speak to how good those tests are, but they can't be worse than anecdotal evidence for something as vague/subjective as LLM performance.

I've never heard it before, but immediately understood it and found it a useful term for something I didn't have a single word for.

It's not really an attack surface though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/932/

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

I recently read Tarka the Otter [1], which is the story of a life of an otter. At the end he is hunted by a farmer and a pack of otter hounds. It is pretty brutal. Reminds you that at the time they were seen as vermin and a nuisance, not cute and furry.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75899

I think OP meant that Farmville was built by a different party (Zynga). FB was trying to encourage other businesses to build apps on its platform, not build them itself.

Wow, yeah. "The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate".

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-d...

Are you sure these are actually issues, or are you just trusting that the AI criticism is correct?

As Matt Levine often points out, there are two possible cases for ESG

1/ This will bring worse returns, but I'm willing to accept the loss in order to forward values I support

2/ This will bring better returns, since the market underrates risks from bad ESG companies (e.g. the long-term return on capital for coal companies will be worse than the market expects)

People marketing ESG funds (or anti-ESG, same rule applies) usually emphasise the second.

> Anyone claiming they can consistently beat any large index is just delusional, aren't they?

This is obviously not true. RenTech would like a word.