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ouraf··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
A very effective strategy among Middle Management, i might add
ouraf··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Honest question: can you sue OpenAI for the attack coming out of their infrastructure with their tools or do they have the same safeguards as a free speech platform?

Also, can you at least ask them directly to put a permanent rule on their agent sandbox to never access your site?

ouraf··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
Yes. Good design and a developer with good taste can make your site so much better than something mechanically excellent, but tasteless or derivative.
ouraf··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
I love tailwind's work, but AI stole their customer base worse than a natural disaster would destroy a factory or other kind of business,

At least some of them got an escape plan before going bankrupt

ouraf··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
And who will the shareholders blame when the business go under?
ouraf··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Is there a set of prompts to mitigate these claude-isms without losing reasoning or going full caveman mode?
ouraf··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Today I learned a new word...
ouraf··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Passive aggressive is an understatement. Why did it focuses on summarizing its sexual content guidelines before anything else?

I know the machine can't judge the user or browbeat them into changing subject, but the reply is a bit unsettling.

ouraf··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
If they want to take my awful prompts and poison their model with it, it's their loss.

For anyone else that believes their input needs secrecy, you need to check the corporate plan of any provider for data protection clauses. Most use the cheaper plans as bait to get more training data and free feedback.

ouraf··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
This is the first time an AI provider makes a trailer[0] for their main release and game development is the first demo and main hook.

Anthropic might dominate general purpose programming,but I think there's enough of a market for a model laser focused on game scripting or tool development for game studios.

I hope it succeeds in serving that audience.

[0]https://youtu.be/bn0atstgavo

ouraf··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Noob question, but is there, on a harness level, a way to compress or optimize the "pre processing prompt" or any other preamble?

I know you can give instructions to guide an agent, but they are still plain English, the interpretation still isn't absolute and the more rules, the less likely it is to respect the whole set of rules in the preamble, but the whole process seem so... "Unprofessional"?

As I see it, a tool should be reliable and the less bloat, less possible points of failure.LLMs seem overly verbose and you can't shake the feeling it might veer away from the objective at any point. You can pay to mitigate or work around the risk, but it still doesn't inspire confidence in anything with more than 30 lines

ouraf··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Optimism and status reports burn extra tokens and make the user more prone to ask the model to process the problem again because it was "so close to solving".

This way you get more profit per API user and subscription users reach their quota faster and are contacted to update their plan to a higher tier.

It's working exactly as intended

ouraf··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
If you bought the product, the money went to the company. You don't need to take personal responsibility beyond that, and the company isn't doing the thing you hate so much. By the same token that "some of your money might end up (after many twists and turns) empowering politics you find repugnant", a much bigger share of this money is paying for the food on the table of the employees, their families and their children.

How many people unrelated with your personal gripe, people that were doing a good job since you were paying and satisfied customer, are you willing to punish in order to "send a message"?

This is an impossible standard to live by and demand from everything you buy and every service you pay for. Doubly so if you need to announce to the world you're dropping a product because of something that isn't done by or responsibility of its employees.

ouraf··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Mail the EFF
ouraf··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
I think it failing miserably to make an accurate profile just with generic training data is a good thing. Identifying someone with precision should require a minimum of intent, if not effort.
ouraf··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
Try putting the nickname of your friends and see how many false positives it can find.

It thinks a polish friend of mine is a Brazilian footballer.

ouraf··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
How to murder bug bounty programs with one website
ouraf··on New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
So... If your latest nap was comprised of nightmares and solving a job issue, can you charge your boss for overtime and harmful working conditions?
ouraf··on Zed 1.0
I encourage you to mail them specifically about this concern.

If it is a matter of communication, they can fix and clarify it. If it's genuinely scummy, they can change their approach now that they know they were caught in the act

ouraf··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
We are extremely well served in open source and free options for SNES emulation. The dev wants to make something new, is using Unity for multiplatform and gor partial shader code abstraction and he has proven he can deliver good stuff if properly funded.

Let the man cook, and if you have some technical question, i'm sure Lord would answer you.

ouraf··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
download it and test on virustotal
ouraf··on Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Guess you could say it helped you find some clojure
ouraf··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
So they've been advancing in making the AI use the computer through the same API as a person (screen/cursor/keystrokes), and the dream is a Future where AI can use a PC and handle tasks and tools like a human user.

But to use their product,you have to go through the non-human-friendly API route, or else it's against the rules and Anthropic will sic their legal team onto you...

Something about this reasoning seems brittle. Specially in a world of Agentic tools

Ok

ouraf··on Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war
Have someone already brought the "reinstate the Fairness Doctrine" talking point for this issue? The best back and forth arguments happen under it.
ouraf··on PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
One thing I never understood on these recompilation projects is how static recomp translates the graphics between radically different architectures. Even with the supporting libraries, this translation shouldn't "just work"
ouraf··on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
The second big board with all the radio buttons doesn't work in my phone.

I barely started the article and CSS is already causing problems.

ouraf··on A Research Preview of Codex
Don't shoot the messenger. He's just sharing his experience with the tool and using an anecdotal example.
ouraf··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
this means the example wasn't made to be lightweight. You'll need an apples to apples example to convince any detractor. Implement the same app using two different toolsets, document the process with each and then benchmark it
ouraf··on Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit
Anyone here old enough to remember if the Fairness doctrine worked? Current internet is impossible to regulate and it's easier to run Doom in a walnut than getting any site to issue a retraction or correct blatant lies, but relying on "arbiters of truth" or wasting hours or days to untangle every article and author is also a hard to concile with real life obligations.
ouraf··on Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
We already advanced beyond Taylorism's myopic time-motion glorification. This isn't a tool to improve the process, but to push the employee towards the meat grinder rather than look for a more intelligent approach (matching an employee's tasks and abilities rather than just giving him a red rating and ugly performance numbers)
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