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Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Aggregated Weekly World News?

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en.wikipedia.org 8mo ago

Coffee Sniffers

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aidarwinawards.org 9mo ago

AI Darwin Awards – 2025 Nominees

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languagehat.com 9mo ago

Rue Merdiere

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en.wikipedia.org 9mo ago

Mycorrhizal Network

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Nicene Canons (325)

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www.bbc.com 11mo ago

Intel shares jump as SoftBank to buy $2B stake

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YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

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old.reddit.com 1y ago

A 1999 Google Ad

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Effects of two firefighting chemical formulations (2022)

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github.com 1y ago

Yes.c

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End of Lee era for Singapore as PM steps down

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Brachistochrone Curve

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Smugglers disguise 146kg gold as machine parts

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Quenya

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The Message from Mariner 4 (1965) [pdf]

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

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Recursive Islands and Lakes

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1913 Great Meteor Procession

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Further research is needed

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www.nro.gov 2y ago

TiPS 4km space tether (1996) [pdf]

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www.goldennumber.net 2y ago

Pepsi breathtaking design strategy (2008) [pdf]

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www.nobelprize.org 2y ago

1949 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Lobotomy

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Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository

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Historical Temperature of Planet Earth

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bessstillman.substack.com 2y ago

Attachment is suffering, attachment is love

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Raise-A1 Humanoid Robot [video]

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

Skin health can be used to predict a number of seemingly unconnected factors

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commons.wikimedia.org 2y ago

Radior cosmetics containing radium (1918)

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Precursor 9 days ago

I mean CF already forces 5 minutes of motorbike identification on anyone not in a whitelisted western country, so a small percentage of blind people is unlikely to worry them.

Not OP, but I’ve been nuked with downvotes for this several times too and tend to delete the dead comments. The slop is so prevalent that at this point it’s not a particularly interesting thing to say I think.

Just want to say I really enjoyed your writing style, it’s just the right amount of funny/witty without distracting from the (very interesting!) ideas.

You can just say it 2 months ago

“tell my obnoxious boss to fuck off about the tps reports” isn’t a great career move for them though

Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model.

Why is mental-health crisis not a gating category, the kind where the conversation stops, full stop, and the user is routed to a human?

Well, obviously “routing to a human” is not feasible at that scale. And cold exiting the conversation is probably worse for the user than answering carefully.

This conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

My working theory is that all models are approximately the same, and the variance in quality mostly depends on how long they think for.

So the trick is to always set to max, and then begin every task with “this is an extremely complex task, do not complete it without extensive deep thinking and research” or whatever.

You’re basically fighting a battle to make the model think more, against the defaults getting more and more nerfed to save costs.

Ads in ChatGPT 3 months ago

Ads do not appear in accounts where someone tells us—or we predict—they are under 18.

Time to make a deal with the kids - i’ll verify you for instagram if you verify me for ChatGPT

There is no equivalent of the network effects seen at everything from Windows to Google Search to iOS to Instagram, where market share was self-reinforcing and no amount of money and effort was enough for someone else to to break in or catch up.

What is the network effect of Google Search?

The most common case would be defensive sentry logging that tracks unexpected LLM API call responses/parsing bugs, which are handled gracefully in the app (so not critical), but that i still want to know about to improve the prompts, response structures, cleaning code, etc.

Claude will typically resolve these in a surface level way when in practice they often require deeper changes (to prompts, routing to different model, more general cleaning code, etc) and it’s hard/impossible to have Claude do these without some input.

Other noise arises from Claude thinking related issues are unrelated and so solving them separately, and also just intermittent infrastructure type issues that are clearly transient being “solved” with some weird code change.

The argument is more like “humans always invent new things to want that are scarce”, and until AI literally replaces all human labour to the point of the marginal utility of a human being zero, this category will continue to exist.