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Logged in to agree with all the other comments: this is so, so pretty. Will try the demo soon.

Huh. I find myself preferring aspects of TEXT-DAVINCI-001 in just about every example prompt.

It’s so to-the-point. No hype. No overstepping. Sure, it lacks many details that later models add. But those added details are only sometimes helpful. Most of the time, they detract.

Makes me wonder what folks would say if you re-released TEXT-DAVINCI-001 as “GPT5-BREVITY”

I bet you’d get split opinions on these types of not so hard / creative prompts.

I would not have expected frontier models to be caught on something like this but I tried it and they absolutely do.

This got me curious. Tried on Gemini 2.5 Pro out of curiosity. It gets it right, but it did think about it, and then even explain itself a lot in its official text response.

Thinking:

Here's my thought process for solving this classic riddle: Identify the key players: The problem mentions Alice, her brothers, and her sisters. Establish Alice's family structure: Alice is a girl. She has 3 brothers. She has 6 sisters. Determine the total number of children in the family: Girls: Alice (1) + her sisters (6) = 7 girls Boys: Alice's brothers (3) = 3 boys Total children: 7 girls + 3 boys = 10 children Focus on the question: "How many sisters does her brother have?" Shift perspective: Now, consider one of Alice's brothers (let's call him Bob, although his name doesn't matter). Analyze Bob's siblings: Bob is one of the children in the family. The family consists of 7 girls and 3 boys. Count Bob's sisters: From Bob's perspective, all the girls in the family are his sisters. How many girls are in the family? We already determined there are 7 girls (Alice + her 6 sisters). Count Bob's brothers: From Bob's perspective, the other boys in the family are his brothers. How many boys are in the family? 3. How many other boys are there besides Bob? 3 total boys - 1 (Bob himself) = 2 brothers. (This isn't asked, but it helps confirm the perspective shift). Answer the specific question: The question asks how many sisters Bob (Alice's brother) has. We found there are 7 girls in the family. All 7 girls are his sisters. Final Check: Does the answer make sense? Yes. All the children in a family share the same set of siblings, just categorized differently based on their own gender. All the boys have the same number of sisters, and all the girls have the same number of sisters. Alice has 6 sisters (the other 6 girls). Any brother has 7 sisters (Alice + the other 6 girls).

Final message: Here's how to break down the problem: 1. Identify the total number of girls in the family: Alice (1) + her sisters (6) = 7 girls. 2. Identify the total number of boys in the family: Alice has 3 brothers. 3. Consider one of Alice's brothers: Any one of her brothers is part of the same family. 4. Count his sisters: From the brother's perspective, all the girls in the family are his sisters. So, her brother has 7 sisters.

What about the site led to the assumption that the time limit is related to discipline and social media overuse? The tag-line is "Because social media is better when we're all online together" not "because social media is hard to stay off of and we need boundaries forced on us."

You're making a great point, and one I think most people agree with, but I'm not sure it's relevant. At least, based on what I see of the website in its "offline" status.

This gave me a chuckle

Seconding this. I get really great results from Flash 2.0 and even Pro 1.5 for some things compared to OpenAI models.

And their 2.0 Thinking model is great for other things. When my task matters, I default to Gemini.

And this link of yours counts as something "truly novel"?

https://youtu.be/Of9yvKINITg # 10 hours of silence occasionally broken up by the Taco bell Bong

I'm joking, this is really funny, and many of your links are very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

Well I clicked one too many times. Came across a funeral procession with 0 views. Couldn't see any faces or identifying information, thankfully. But sad nonetheless.

Decided to give this a read.

Kagi’s argument is simple: Google should give public access to their Search Index so that any company can take advantage of the core machine directly, under some terms of agreement. Like an API.

Agreed. The Ubuntu ad feels like it's written with Apple Intelligence. "Secure, Certified, Everywhere, For You"

The really funny thing about the "lies about birthday present" one is that the wife asks the AI to make a Woodworking Memory Video, and while they're watching it, it looks like a beach vacation photo is included in the mix.

For a second I forgot where I was, and thought she'd be found out, then remembered it's an ad, and everyone is impressed.

Maybe the image is actually related to the woodworking? But I couldn't help but think, "that's about right - a random, ill-fitting photo"

An estimated 40% of global websites use Wordpress in some way. It's hard to come up with a more generally applicable set of skills than "Wordpress" at least based on total users worldwide (I'm not here to defend WP, I've never liked it)

That said, I don't think the author's experience with Wordpress has poor transportability into other niches anyway.

If this is the actual error message, it's written very poorly. Sounds like it was written by someone frustrated with the fact that they had to write it at all, and made it up on the spot.

I learned something today! Didn't realize that the microphone could throw off audio quality indirectly. Sidenote: this might do well on SetApp.

This is a little annoying. He vetoes the bill, agrees with the intention, paints the "solution" as improper, suggests there is some other solution that is better, doesn't entirely describe that solution with any detail, and encourages future legislation that is "more right."

I'm exhausted already.

I can't think of a less efficient way to go about this.

A more accurate and even more confusing statement would be “Wordpress is not Wordpress” which is a reality that I’ve had to explain to clients (in a former life) countless times.

“But when I go to Wordpress.com…”

SORRY, forget everything you saw there, that’s not Wordpress. Same logo? Yes. Branding? Yes. Company? Yes. But it’s not Wordpress.

This one setting that WP Engine disables is a shame, but it’s nothing compared to the confusion that Automattic has brought upon themselves

As someone with an app built on firebase, yes. As the author rightly points out, it's very easy to misconfigure, but basic security practices like these are highlighted in bright, bold warning text in the Firebase docs.

Security rules are meant to be taken seriously, and it's your only line of defense.

Agreed. There should be a warning to those that will be left behind soon, instructing them not to upgrade if they don’t plan on updating, or can’t update iOS.

I like this! As an iOS developer rocking an iPhone 11, I do find some comfort in knowing that a performant experience on my device suggests it will be a performant experience on others’

Not a new trend. Many places I’ve worked at (whose business models center around iOS apps) routinely plan to drop old iOS versions, yearly, as the new ones come out.

It gets increasingly more expensive to support older and older iOS versions. These “new features” you’re talking about wrapping in if statements aren’t here and there. Many upgrades are pervasive, and would eventually make every file a branching mess.

Now, you could argue that that should still be the chosen route. I can empathize with that. I like software that just keeps working forever.

Agreed. I got the RM2 because I thought it’d be “a notebook I can search.” No. I regret every piece of writing that has ended up locked up inside that device vs on paper notebooks.

It’s like an anti-discovery device.

They even acted unhelpful in a bug report I tried to submit. I provided ample detail, and they continued to request other things that didn’t seem relevant. I supplied all version numbers, my account info, versions of my devices (iOS and Rm2), a screen recording, and I think it never got fully filed since I didn’t keep responding to them?

The bug was critical imo. The app wasn’t saving my work, and then would crash.

It’s supposed to be “like paper” plus sync. But it’s not like paper, and sync is unreliable. So, I use for an extremely narrow set of functions now. That is, editing my writing.

I’ve heard this and tried and didn’t notice a difference. What’s supposed to happen here? I have the Marker Plus.

Same. I can draw a straight line down my screen, and the drawn path deviates noticeably in certain areas, despite the pen moving in a straight path. Makes writing difficult. Have to sort of trust your hand movement, rather than watching your markings on the screen. Adjusting to the drawn marks will just lead you off slanted.

Adding this to "simple solutions I've never considered but wow, I should"

Seriously, I've had this same thought after switching to HEY getting pretty frustrated with it. Considered other options, but worried that I'd just repeat the process. However, if I use a custom domain next time around, this whole problem goes away. Yay

Wow, msty looks really cool. I've bookmarked it to look into more later as a replacement for how I use a locally-hosted instance of LibreChat. It'd be a huge improvement to use local models rather than remote ones, for much of my queries.

That said, do you have a reason for keeping msty closed source rather than open? I read your FAQ for "why should I trust msty" and it feels lacking.

We are a small team of developers who are passionate about AI and privacy. We have worked on projects before that have been used by thousands of people such as this (I've never heard of Cleavr). There are real faces (real faces = Twitter account link?) behind the product. And come chat with us on our Discord server to know us better.

This is much, much better than having no attribution, but it's miles away from being able to verify trust by reading the code. Would love to hear what your reasons against this are.

Still thinking about trying it out, anyway...

Agreed. And the poor Settings app. They butchered its soul. I’m sad every time I have to interact with it.

I clicked through to this webpage (and many of its linked pages) and I don't see how I could personally get a hold of this build. I'm eventually told that "if I want to learn more I should contact a Windows IoT Distributor" which is its own page with a lot of email addresses.

Am I missing something? Like many workarounds mentioned in this thread, this certainly doesn't seem to be one the average Windows user could reasonably take advantage of.

I like this article, and got really interested when the author says that “neither avoiding or resigning to boredom is the answer.”

I was curious to see the non-obvious, eye-opening solution.

But the solution is a reworded “resign yourself to boredom.”

I still appreciate this conclusion, and it’s the one I expected from the article’s opener, but I’m not sure how else to describe fixing this.

Expect to be bored. It’s a superpower if you can embrace it. Definitely not healthy to flit from one exciting but fleeting activity to the next.

I'm going to have to log off of HN for a while. Got a beach trip coming up, so your comment is timed awfully haha