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greenchairon Gemini 4 Argon

my uncle who works at nintendo said the same thing!

greenchairon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

hi load-bearing.

greenchairon Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

evolution theory was discarded long ago

greenchairon Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

na, we are just more civilized.

greenchairon Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

yep we did, they bent the knee.

greenchairon iPhone Duo

what a response

greenchairon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

most people are not on the unlimited plan and can't use it all day every day for complex work which is one reason they are forced to learn about the options available and optimize their workflows.

greenchairon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

try sol and you'll see

greenchairon The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change

al gore, hold me!

greenchairon Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

I canceled this week too. They must be in worse shape than we thought.

greenchairon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

thank goodness the adults are in charge now

greenchairon Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

Best use cases are along the periphery: security checks, performance checks, test generation.

greenchairon TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

good grief. Guess I'll redeem my i series now. btw AI says print the redemption confirmation details while logged in prior to the cutover because you'll need them for taxes in 2027.

greenchairon Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

Even for green-field projects it is painful to use with every decision opening opening up multiple more decisions to make most of which are low priority or irrelevant. Huge time waster. 4.8 was good and I really don't know what happened with 5.

greenchairon DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

yep, it is so bad i had to create rules to cut down on the techbro language and domain slang.

greenchairon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

maybe because every time UBI is tried it fails?

greenchairon Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

This is driving me crazy. opus 4.8 did not do this to me not (at least during pre-5.0 timeframe). Feels like the new cycle is one step forward, two steps back.

greenchairon Claude Is Down

5 definitely burns through my 5 hour quota quicker than 4.8 did.

greenchairon Our position on open-weights models

Its called a cold war.

greenchairon Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4

Probably also related to the fact that many devs don't want to switch to the mgmt track.

greenchairon Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

right, so use the right tool for the job. most apps are boring CRUD apps and dont support chat.

greenchairon Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Absolutely amazing! Thank you for making it free and posting too!

greenchairon Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

1999 CNN interview where Gore stated: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet".

greenchairon AI 2040: Plan A

I can think of many examples that I won't name but you can imagine in biology/medical fields where certain lines of investigation are not performed due to ethical and legal repercussions.

greenchairon Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

sounds like a business opportunity!

greenchairon My main Android phone is now 99% Google free

use a bank that provides a website?

greenchairon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

almost spit out my drink!

greenchairon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

check the results from texas and illinois

greenchairon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The ending reads like a petulant child.

greenchairon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

bingo