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bdlowery··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
> This bench famously detected a degradation of Opus 4.6 which Anthropic later blogged about.

this bench was just released, it couldn't have detected opus 4.6 degradation.

bdlowery··on What About Rails?
You can tell what type of framing the article will be about AI by what social media they choose to use and link in the footer of their website. It never fails.
bdlowery··on Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
This is my exact experience with the model - https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2095565354726502683

And it just BURNS tokens like crazy.

bdlowery··on Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
The fact that gemini 3.8 flash is so high up there just tells you this is an awful benchmark.

Try and use gemini 3.8 yourself for any real world work and you'll see it's terrible. It'll just go in circles reading the same file 20 times for no reason making hundreds of tool calls for a simple change.

EDIT: I was using gemini cli... it's not a harness issue lol

bdlowery··on Muse Spark 1.3
benchmaxxed model
bdlowery··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
Good.
bdlowery··on A website for debloated open source alternatives
i've found this site easier to use and have better results than alternativeto. https://openalternative.co/
bdlowery··on Scrap (2006)
> I don't want a full screen pop up telling me to sign in or a persistent bottom bar telling me to open the tweet in the app or a reply section mostly hidden unless I log in.

make an x account then?

bdlowery··on The August 17 outage
you seem to be uninformed. This should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
bdlowery··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
It's not exaggerated. If you use AI at all for any code in the project it cannot be hosted on codeberg. They made that pretty clear in their blog post.

You can read it yourself - https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

bdlowery··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
use codeberg if you're ok with never using ai in any of your projects. Any AI use and your repo is banned. - https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...
bdlowery··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
if you use ai to program at all you can't use codeberg.
bdlowery··on Taste Is All That's Left
I'm sure you'd like $100 then to give the founder of pangram an essay they classify as AI that is in fact not ai.

Free money, right?

https://x.com/max_spero_/status/2085041200923394459

bdlowery··on Taste Is All That's Left
pangram says this is AI generated and has a very, very, VERY low rate of saying something is AI generated wrong.

https://www.pangram.com/history/0b397596-fa85-4869-bae3-2b1d...

bdlowery··on Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.
bdlowery··on Grok 4.5
Cursors whole moat is their harness. Other people have benched opus and GPT models through Claude code, codex, and cursor, and cursor came out on top everytime because of their harness.
bdlowery··on I think I have LLM burnout
What work are you doing where an LLM can’t meaningfully contribute to your everyday work
bdlowery··on Amazon without the knockoffs
This guy isn’t taking financial contributions, and the Amazon brand list is only one part of the product.
bdlowery··on Amazon without the knockoffs
That’s not the problem. The problem is buying stuff from AJSH or HUYA or BJFGL or MNQW or NBXA or any other random 4 letter “company” on Amazon for $40 when the item is crappy $2 item off aliexpress being drop shipped on Amazon.
bdlowery··on Amazon without the knockoffs
This is like the maintainers of all Adblock lists getting upset at the creator of uBlock origin for using them.
bdlowery··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
well yes, you were in Toronto, where there is a very very veeerry high cheating ratio compared to other areas.
bdlowery··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Yes
bdlowery··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Zulip is a website packaged into an electron app. It does not take $1billion to implement webrtc into a website as screensharing + video / audio calls are a solved problem on the web (Zulip is a web app).

Where did you get the idea that it takes a ton of money to do it?

bdlowery··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
so instead of discord, google, meta having access to private convos... we should all switch to Zulip and have Zulip being the one with access to those convos? Or join someones self hosted instance and let them have access to those convos?

I am confused.

bdlowery··on Show HN: Moltbook Overtaken by Shellraiser
There is no "agent". It's someone using the public api routes to post stuff to the website. You can see the routes here and generate your own token to post on the website - https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md
bdlowery··on Idle MMO
Built largely by one person with Laravel. Hundreds of millions of requests each month. Millions of signed up users.
bdlowery··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Looks vibe coded
bdlowery··on You Are in a Box
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bdlowery··on The Frontend Treadmill
Svelte will never overtake react. It won’t even overtake Vue.
bdlowery··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Person who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news.

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