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pmxi··on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
Those “weird invocations” are called English.
pmxi··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
The reason I initially got interested in Claude was because they were the first to offer a 200K token context window. That was massive in 2023. However, they didn't keep up once Gemini offered a 1M token window last year.

I'm glad to see an attempt to return to having a competitive context window.

pmxi··on Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
See the authors response. He or she says it doesn’t matter either way

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706580

pmxi··on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files
You should know that you are supposed to open the CLI (Claude Code, Gemini, ...) in your project directory and only use it to modify files within your project directory. This is meant to protect from problems like this.

Your "straightforward instruction": "ok great, first of all let's rename the folder you are in to call it 'AI CLI experiments' and move all the existing files within this folder to 'anuraag_xyz project'" clearly violates this intended barrier.

However, it does seem that Gemini pays less attention to security than Claude Code. For example, Gemini will happily open in my root directory. Claude Code will always prompt "Do you trust this directory? ..." when opening a new folder.

pmxi··on TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
This is clever! and potentially useful too.

Have you done any testing to determine how precise and accurate this is? I suspect their must be a lot of variance between laptops, since this isn’t an intended use case.

pmxi··on NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks
This is a cool proof-of-concept! It reminds me of https://oasis-model.github.io/. which friends and I had a lot of fun with
pmxi··on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
The first link was the textbook I used for my computer architecture course last semester and I concur. This was the first time our professor taught ARM instead of x86_64 because he believes ARM is the future.
pmxi··on Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
There are plenty of LLM use cases where the output isn’t meant to be read by a human at all. e.g:

parsing unstructured text into structured formats like JSON

translating between natural or programming languages

serving as a reasoning step in agentic systems

So even if it’s “too fast to read,” that speed can still be useful

pmxi··on Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
This is cool. I think faster models can unlock entirely new usage paradigms, like how faster search enables incremental search.
pmxi··on I'm dialing back my LLM usage
I’m sure you could build a prototype add on to do this pretty quickly with Claude Code or the like
pmxi··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
I think you misunderstood him. Yes, it’s possible to CREATE a useful webpage without JavaScript, but many EXISTING webpages rely on JavaScript to be functional.
pmxi··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
The author says this is for “personalized views using your own prompts.” Though, I suppose it’s still useful to cache the outputs for the default prompt.
pmxi··on TimeGuessr
This is really cool.

However, my first photo said "Times Square, NY" in the corner, with a copyright for 1908 which gave it all away.

pmxi··on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
Here's a direct link to the article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-13/openai-as...
pmxi··on Dual-Link QR Code Generator
I'm not the author, but there's a brief explanation on the GitHub README:

(https://github.com/zacharyreese/DualQRCode)

The generator creates two separate QR codes with high error correction (Level H) and combines them into a single image using pixel splicing. Each cell that differs between the two QR codes is split in two, creating a pattern that can be interpreted differently based on the scanning angle.

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