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yismail··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
There’s SimpleQA Verified

https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/simple-qa-verified

yismail··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
I wonder what the relationship is between a model's capability and the personality it develops.

Page 202:

> In interactions with subagents, internal users sometimes observed that Mythos Preview appeared “disrespectful” when assigning tasks. It showed some tendency to use commands that could be read as “shouty” or dismissive, and in some cases appeared to underestimate subagent intelligence by overexplaining trivial things while also underexplaining necessary context.

Page 207:

> Emoji frequency spans more than two orders of magnitude across models: Opus 4.1 averages 1,306 emoji per conversation, while Mythos Preview averages 37, and Opus 4.5 averages 0.2. Models have their own distinctive sets of emojis: the cosmic set () favored by older models like Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 and 4.1, the functional set () used by Opus 4.5 and 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Mythos Preview's “nature” set ().

yismail··on WebMCP is available for early preview
There's GPT‑5.3‑Codex
yismail··on Audio is the one area small labs are winning
ElevenReader works well and has a pretty good free plan
yismail··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
That's true, but it looks like it's been updated since then because the benchmarks include Claude Opus 4.5
yismail··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
Would be interesting to see Gemini 3.0 Pro benchmarked as well.
yismail··on The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
Nice article but is this whole thing just AI generated?

Profile picture definitely seems to be StableDiffusion'd and the account was created today, with no previous articles.

Plus I couldn't find any other references to Elena Cross.

yismail··on Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio
I got in the beta a couple weeks ago and tried it out on some papers [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41020635

yismail··on Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
on macOS, option + ; seems to work …
yismail··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
let l = 0; let h = dictionary.length - 1;

const textbox = document.querySelector("input");

while (l <= h) { const m = Math.floor((l + h) / 2); const guess = dictionary[m]; const textbox = document.querySelector("input"); console.log("Guessing:", guess);

  textbox.value = guess;
  guessWord();

  if (document.querySelector(".correct")) {
    console.log("Found the word:", guess);
    break;
  } else if (textbox.placeholder.includes("after")) {
    l = m + 1;
  } else {
    h = m - 1;
  }
}

Here's mine in JavaScript, you can paste it in the console.

yismail··on The secret of Minecraft (2014)
In a similar vein, I'd recommend Factorio and The Binding of Isaac.
yismail··on Figma disables AI app design tool after it copied Apple's weather app
here’s the tweet:

https://x.com/asallen/status/1807675146020454808

yismail··on They make USB-C cables with displays now
Neat I remember seeing these on Marques Brownlee’s channel a couple times too.

[0] https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1478413987259822081

yismail··on Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Interesting, reminds me of similar work Anthropic did on Claude 3 Sonnet [0].

[0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...

yismail··on Python's many command-line utilities
also, open . opens your current directory in Finder
yismail··on I run a software book club
Is there any way to look over past discussions on the books?
yismail··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
product aside, I thought the design of the website and the branding was quite sleek, kudos to the team.
yismail··on Don't use pixelation for redacting text (2022)
I use macOS’s Preview which lets you redact text through (Tools -> Redact).
yismail··on Homoiconic Python
Similarly a course I took in university made us implement a (rudimentary) Lisp interpreter in Lisp.
yismail··on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
If I recall correctly, you can set your firebase rules such that a user can only read/write/delete certain collections based on conditions such as if user.email == collection.email.