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granzymes··on Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack
Political violence is not acceptable in a democracy.

Full stop, no "but". That's all that needs to be said on this thread.

granzymes··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
Comes impressively close to GPT 5.4 / Gemini 3.1 Pro / Opus 4.6! Mostly behind OpenAI on coding/agentic benchmarks, behind Google on text reasoning, behind Anthropic on Humanity's Last Exam with tools (surprisingly the only benchmark where Anthropic leads currently).

Meta hasn’t fully caught up, but they came close and I think can solidly claim to be a frontier lab again. I’d call it a 3.5 horse race right now, and hopefully their next model improves. More model competition is good!

Poor Grok 4.2 should probably be dropped from the table.

granzymes··on More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class
You are commenting on the article that contains data that backs that up.
granzymes··on Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari
The irony of this webpage being terribly optimized for mobile clients…

Nested scrollbars! Horizontal and vertical scroll!

granzymes··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
They’re pretty upfront in their release post that they took an open source model and improved it with their own coding data. They mention “continued pretraining” (on top of the base model) and RL. Cursor never claimed to have done a full pretraining run.

More to the point, beating Opus 4.6 at coding and coming within striking distance of gpt-5.4 is impressive! The benchmarks outperform raw Kimi K2.5.

It’s particularly impressive given larger labs like Meta are struggling to catch up to OpenAI/Anthropic.

granzymes··on Composer 2
Beating Opus 4.6 and coming within striking distance of gpt-5.4 is impressive! Particularly given larger labs like Meta are struggling to catch up to OpenAI/Anthropic.

More competition among model vendors is great for developers!

granzymes··on Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
It is actually not argumentum ad hominem, not least because this author is clearly not a person. It is extremely relevant to substance of this post that it was written by an LLM based on an anonymous Reddit commit (based on "reporting" itself written by Claude).

>If it’s clearly wrong then demonstrate.

Sorry, this does not work in the age of AI. If you don't bother writing your own words, then no one should bother responding to them.

granzymes··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
Has HN really stooped so low that we are upvoting unsourced AI slop? This “article” is sourced to a random Reddit thread and was clearly written by an LLM.

> A Reddit researcher just exposed

>The technical reality hits harder than policy abstractions.

> Here’s where the lobbying gets surgical.

granzymes··on GitHub having issues [resolved]
I have a bug bash in an hour and fixes that need to go in beforehand. So of course GitHub is down.
granzymes··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
>Surely if OpenAI had insisted upon the same things that Anthropic had, the government would not have signed this agreement.

Have we been watching the same Trump admin for the last year? That sound exactly like something the government would do: pointlessly throw a fit and end up signing a worse deal after blowing up all political capital.

granzymes··on GPT-5.3-Codex
Insane! I think this has to be the shortest-lived SOTA for any model so far. Competition is amazing.
granzymes··on Claude Opus 4.6
It only came out 35 minutes ago and GPT-5.3-codex already took the crown away!
granzymes··on GPT-5.3-Codex
I think Anthropic rushed out the release before 10am this morning to avoid having to put in comparisons to GPT-5.3-codex!

The new Opus 4.6 scores 65.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, up from 64.7 from GPT-5.2-codex.

GPT-5.3-codex scores 77.3.

granzymes··on GPT-5.2
> It'll be noteworthy to see the cost-per-task on ARC AGI v2.

Already live. gpt-5.2-pro scores a new high of 54.2% with a cost/task of $15.72. The previous best was Gemini 3 Pro (54% with a cost/task of $30.57).

The best bang-for-your-buck is the new xhigh on gpt-5.2, which is 52.9% for $1.90, a big improvement on the previous best in this category which was Opus 4.5 (37.6% for $2.40).

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

granzymes··on US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee
I’ve gone through this process before and while it was more work it did not take 30 minutes.

I presented a student ID and was escorted through the security line. My baggage was selected for additional screening and I received a pat down search.

I went through an identical procedure on the return flight, right down to the exact words the TSA agent spoke to me while conducting the pat down.

granzymes··on All it takes is for one to work out
That $250k was their life’s savings. They made a huge bet on their son.

His mom took night classes while raising him so she could finish her education while working to support a family.

granzymes··on All it takes is for one to work out
Bezos’ mom had him at 17, his biological father owned a bike shop, and his mother remarried when Bezos was 4 to a Cuban immigrant who came to the country at 16 and ended up working as a petroleum engineer.

They wound up middle class after all that, but I certainly wouldn’t say Bezos came from a “wealthy family”.

granzymes··on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
For one, the simple answer is incomplete. It gives the fully unwrapped type of the array but you still need something like

  type FlatArray<T extends unknown[]> = Flatten<T[number]>[]
The main difference is that the first, rest logic in the complex version lets you maintain information TypeScript has about the length/positional types of the array. After flattening a 3-tuple of a number, boolean, and string array TypeScript can remember that the first index is a number, the second index is a boolean, and the remaining indices are strings. The second version of the type will give each index the type number | boolean | string.
granzymes··on Google is killing the open web, part 2
The standards body is deprecating XSLT with support from Mozilla and Safari (Mozilla first proposed the removal).

Not sure how you got from that to “Google is ignoring standards”.

granzymes··on ChatGPT Atlas
Thankfully the New York Times lost their attempt to force OpenAI to continue preserving all logs on an ongoing basis, but they still need to keep some of the records they retained before September.

https://mashable.com/article/openai-court-ordered-chat-gpt-p...

granzymes··on ChatGPT Atlas
Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.
granzymes··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
YouTube serves videos from CDNs, many of which it does not own.
granzymes··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
There is no balancing happening here. YouTube needs to make an API call to attribute a view to a video, and easylist started blocking that API call. YouTube was perfectly happy a month ago to count views for users that were blocking ads, and presumably remains happy to do so.

The only thing that changed is easylist blocked the API.

granzymes··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Thanks for lifting up my comment. It’s amazing how quickly people want to point fingers at YouTube for something they weren’t involved in.

Someone even relied to your comment implicitly assuming that YouTube cares about conditioning views on whether a user has an adblocker enabled when what happened is easylist added the view counter API to their privacy list.

granzymes··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
The re-enabled endpoint is yet a third endpoint different from the two I mentioned above.

Turns out YouTube has a lot of analytics.

granzymes··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
According to the GitHub issue, YouTube didn’t change anything. There are two endpoints that can be used to attribute a view. One is called multiple times throughout a video playback and has been in the easylist privacy filter for years. The other is called at the start of a playback, and was just added to the list (the timing lines up with the reports of view drops from tech YouTubers).

This is not definitive proof that easylist caused the view drops, but it’s I’ve read the issue and a writeup by a YouTube creator and it seems pretty likely.

granzymes··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Translation happens on-device.
granzymes··on Figma files for proposed IPO
Manual labor, going back to before LLMs were a thing. I just like reading S-1s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27701617#27702669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26362443#26363190

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143334#25143800

granzymes··on Figma files for proposed IPO
Mostly a 356% increase in R&D:

  FY Ended December 31, in millions except percentage

                             | 2023 | 2024 | YoY  
  ---------------------------|------|------|------
  research and development   | $165 | $751 | 356%   
  sales and marketing        | $201 | $472 | 134%   
  general and administrative | $168 | $316 | 88%

And most of that increase came from a one-time charge from allowing employees to sell their RSUs. While not a cash cost for Figma, it was booked as an expense and allocated as follows:

                             | 2024   
  ---------------------------|------
  cost of revenue            | $25    
  research and development   | $463   
  sales and marketing        | $187   
  general and administrative | $184   
  total                      | $858   

If you subtract the one-time charge, you get:

                             | 2023 | 2024 (adj.) | YoY  
  ---------------------------|------|-------------|------
  research and development   | $165 | $288        |  75%  
  sales and marketing        | $201 | $285        |  42%  
  general and administrative | $168 | $132        | (21)% 
  total                      | $534 | $705        |  32%
granzymes··on Figma files for proposed IPO
Headline financials:

  FY Ended December 31, in millions except percentage

                 |  2023  |  2024  |  YoY  
  ---------------|--------|--------|-------
  revenue        | $505   | $749   | 48%   
  gross profit   | $460   | $661   | 44%   
  op ex          | $534   | $1,539 | 118%
  net income     | $738   | $(732) | (199)%
  free cash flow | $1,041 | $68    | (93)%
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