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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 15:12:02

Last week, OpenAI announced and released GPT-5, and the common consensus both inside the AI community and outside is that the new LLM did not live up to the hype. Bluesky — whose community is skeptical at-best of generative AI in all its forms — began putting the model through its paces: Michael Paulauski asked GPT-5 through the ChatGPT app interface “how many b’s are there in blueberry?”. A simple question that a human child could answer correctly, but ChatGPT states that there are three b’s in

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Want more Android Authority? How to set us as your preferred source in Google Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:00:44

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Since 2007, Android Authority has strived to bring all of our readers the very best coverage of Android and the mobile tech world. And even after 18+ years as a proudly independent media outlet, we’re as driven as we’ve ever been to bring you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, hands-on reviews, experience-based features, lab testing, and other expert analysis. Of course, how we’ve been able to get that coverage to you has changed in countl

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Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After introducing the feature in Labs in June, Google is now rolling out “Preferred Sources” in the US and India. With this feature, users can select trusted websites that will appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily manage and update their source preferences anytime. Users have long been complaining about the dropping quality of Google Search results, thanks to a deadly cocktail of low-quality spam sites, a lot of sponsored content

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Google lets you pick preferred sources when you search

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:00:12

Google is officially rolling out Preferred Sources, which lets you curate search results. The feature allows you to pick specific or "preferred" sources, like a certain blog or news outlet, and see them more prominently when you use Google Search. Google started testing it in June and it should be available in the coming days to English language users in the US and India. Preferred Sources seems pretty simple to use. You go to Google, search for a topic and then click on the preferred sources o

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Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-21 20:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section. Google’s top stories hub appears when you search f

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Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 06:53:09

⚡ Bolt A lightweight, lightning-fast, type-safe embeddable language for real-time applications. import print , error , Error from core import abs , epsilon from math // The return type of safe_divide is inferred to be `Error | number` fn safe_divide ( a : number , b : number ) { if abs ( b ) < epsilon { return error ( "Cannot divide by zero!" ) } return a / b } match let result = safe_divide ( 10 , 5 ) { is Error { // The type of result is narrowed in this branch! print ( "Failed to divide:" ,

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Sand and Deliver: We Raced Across Dunes to Find the Best Beach Wagon

wired.com Chris Haslam 2025-11-25 02:45:00

The family beach day. Nothing but blue sky, crystal waters, and beaming smiles. Unless you’re the packhorse responsible for maneuvering a mountain of gear from the parking lot to the perfect spot on the sand. What you need is a high-quality beach wagon. Also known as a festival or shopping wagon (or trolley), these collapsible, all-terrain carry-alls live in the trunk and make it possible to transport everything you need for a day at the shore or a weekend camping, in just one trip. They’re als

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Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-01 20:50:38

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. "It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website," the Library of Congress said today. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and e

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‘Star Trek’ Star Anson Mount Studied Gene Roddenberry Tapes for His ‘Strange New World’ Homage

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-08 00:26:35

While io9 had mixed feelings about last week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, one thing about “A Space Adventure Hour” that worked well was its gleeful recreation of 1960s Hollywood. With a bit of chaotic holodeck assistance, the story saw likenesses of the main cast acting out a murder mystery set behind the scenes of a show that very much resembled the original Star Trek, complete with a nerdy creator that’s clearly a stand-in for Trek‘s own Gene Roddenberry. Admitting the effort w

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Modern Node.js Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 23:16:18

Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience. The changes aren’t just cosmetic; they represent a fundamental shift in how we approach server-side JavaScript development. Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more in

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Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

news.ycombinator.com June 2025-12-08 20:15:27

Politics | Recovery | Current Obsessions Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis? Substack's content woes are bound up with its shaky business model in ways that are bad for all of us. I can smell the burnt coffee from here. It's Substacks All the Way Down Last week, Terry Moran announced that he’d be the latest high-profile journalist to take his brand to Substack, following his dism

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Benchmarking MicroPython

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Grinberg 2025-12-11 23:41:55

In the Q&A session following my EuroPython 2025 presentation about the Microdot web framework, a member of the audience asked me what the performance of MicroPython running on a microcontroller is. This took me a bit by surprise, because while I knew that microcontrollers are slow and underpowered devices, I really had no way to quantify this. I never questioned the supposedly low performance, because it was never a problem for me. My answer to the question was that microcontrollers cannot repl

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Ferrari Status

news.ycombinator.com Ted Lamade 2025-12-09 05:23:14

Is Ferrari a car company? The obvious answer is yes, but not according to its CEO, Benedetto Vigna, who recently described the company’s business model saying, “We are not – we are not – a car company. We are a luxury company that is also doing cars.” That’s their differentiator. Their brand. Their “schtick.” And, it works, but not because it’s a marketing ploy. It works because Ferrari backs it up with its actions. How so? By adhering to its founder Enzo Ferrari’s “scarcity dictum” that de

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How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-13 05:03:16

Image credit: @ionut.stefan.92ish Română In today’s post, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely amazing book on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Written by Prof. Karl Herrup, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “How Not to Study a Disease – The Story of Alzheimer’s” takes the reader on a journey of Alzheimer’s research from its inception by Alois Alzheimer to the contemporary understanding of this devastating condition. This is not just an

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Show HN: Open-source physical rack-mounted GUI for home lab

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:13:52

The enclosure mounts as a 2U unit. 1U form factor was a bit challenging to pull off but I can try again. I have realized that a lot of people nowadays self-host services and set up home labs with mini racks. A significant challenge I've personally encountered is quickly obtaining health status from self-hosted services and machines, along with having the capability to control my Raspberry Pi headlessly within a mini rack. So, it got me thinking about creating a built-in GUI that users

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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 05:30:48

After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika icon, the company quickly apologized for the "error," tech columnist Taylor Lorenz reported. "We discovered an error that caused some people to receive push notifications they should never have received," Substack's statement said. "In some cases, these notifications were extremely offensive or disturbing. This was a serious error, and we apologize for the dis

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Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-16 00:47:52

The UNC2891 hacking group, also known as LightBasin, used a 4G-equipped Raspberry Pi hidden in a bank's network to bypass security defenses in a newly discovered attack. The single-board computer was physically connected to the ATM network switch, creating an invisible channel into the bank's internal network, allowing the attackers to move laterally and deploy backdoors. According to Group-IB, which discovered the intrusion while investigating suspicious activity on the network, the goal of t

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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

news.ycombinator.com Todd Price 2025-12-20 20:06:03

Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans Photo by Chieko Hara Mechanical engineer Anthony Gunderman holds a prototype of the robotic gripper for picking blackberries. Fresh, frozen and processed berries are a multi-billion-dollar business in America. In Arkansas alone, fresh-market blackberries contribute $24.3 million each year to the state’s economy. But these delicate blackberries sold in clamshells at supermarkets must be picked by hand, and farm labor has been limited in r

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We Just Saw 10 Jaw-Dropping Minutes of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-22 15:06:48

We were already on edge anticipating it: Welcome to Derry, the HBO prequel series laying the groundwork for Stephen King’s tale of a small town with a sizable demonic clown problem. But the new peek just shared in-room at San Diego Comic-Con—building off that evocative teaser from a few months back—signals it’s going to be a show that interrupts your sleep on a regular basis. We saw the opening of the very first episode. It’s 1962 in Derry, Maine—near Christmas, going by the snow and the decora

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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

wired.com Tik Root 2025-12-22 05:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier this month, sweeping at least 135 people to their death. Kerr County alone lost 107, including more than two dozen children at Camp Mystic. From afar, it would be easy, even tempting, to think that floods like these could never happen to you. That the disaster is remote. It’s not. As details of the tragedy have come into focus, the lis

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An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-22 10:00:44

Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day South America. The meal, however, turned out to be rather ambitious, because the croc hadn’t come upon just any old prey. It was a phorusrhacid, a large carnivore in its own right, aptly known as a “terror bird.” The now-extinct terror bird wouldn’t have given in without a fight—unless, of course, it was already dead, and the opportunistic croc simply scavenged its dead body. That doesn’t seem t

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AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-23 05:11:08

AI referrals to websites still have a way to go to catch up to the traffic that Google Search provides, but they’re growing quickly. According to new data from market intelligence provider Similarweb, AI platforms in June generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, a figure that’s up 357% since June 2024. However, Google Search still accounts for the majority of traffic to these sites, accounting for 191 billion referrals during the same period of June 2025. One p

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Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-25 05:30:01

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. A US district court judge has withdrawn his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers noted that his opinion referenced fake quotes and other erroneous case information — mistakes mirroring errors in other legal cases that have been attributed to artificial intelligence tools. In a letter sent to New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier N

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Ben Stiller documentary about his parents gets premiere date on Apple TV+

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-25 06:00:00

Apple TV+ has announced its latest collaboration with Ben Stiller: an original documentary that explores the lives and legacy of his parents, legendary comedy duo Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld) and Anne Meara (Night at the Museum). Here’s when to expect it. ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost’ gets a theatrical release The documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, will debut in select theaters on October 17, before hitting Apple TV+ globally on October 24. Here is Ben Stiller on how he feels abo

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Use Your Type System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 23:57:05

Today I'm discussing a trivially simple technique that I've rarely seen used in production codebases. In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic types built into our programming language or provided by libraries: types like integer, string, or UUID. In any nontrivial codebase, this inevitably leads to bugs when, for example, a string representing a user ID gets used as an account ID, or when a critical function accepts three integer argu

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This Nearly Perfect Gaming Keyboard Is Held Back by a Few Big Compromises

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 14:00:05

Finding the perfect keyboard can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. There's no shortage of mechanical keyboards offering a whole range of features and hardware options. While the "perfect keyboard" likely doesn't exist, there are certainly some good ones to be found. Finding a solid balance between hardware, features and price can be daunting. While Cherry's MX 8.2 TKL keyboard delivers fantastic hardware, there are compromises as well. I spent several weeks typing and gaming o

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This Compact Gaming Keyboard Gets a Lot Right, but a Few Things Wrong Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:00:53

One of the best things about mechanical keyboards, at least for me, is that there are a ton of choices and options so you can find the one that perfectly fits your preferences. Whether you're a hardcore gamer who needs the biggest, best and fastest one around or you're a more causal gamer who needs something great at work and occasional play, there's something for everyone. Cherry has long been one of the best keyboard makers and continues to have a huge presence and influence on the industry.

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This E-Sports-Inspired Gaming Mouse Left Me Wanting More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:01:18

You'd be forgiven for thinking that every computer mouse is just like every other computer mouse. It clicks things on your screen and lets you move your cursor around. Believe it or not, there are quite a few ways companies can differentiate their mice from each other, especially when it comes to gaming. Gaming mice can range from just a few dollars to well over a hundred dollars, but you don't always get what you pay for. That's why I'm here. You might recognize Cherry as the company that's do

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Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-04 03:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're running into problems with ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone. Just after 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing quite a few errors when trying to converse with the chatbot. In some cases, ChatGPT responds with an error message; in others, it doesn't respond at all. OpenAI confirmed the issue The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike in reports about that time. Reports were declining but still present b

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Trouble Falling Asleep? I Tried This Viral Sleepy Girl Mocktail and the Results Surprised Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 14:00:03

My team of CNET sleep experts and I are always looking for the best ways of getting a good night's sleep. Between testing mattresses and researching melatonin supplements, we make time to fact-check viral social media videos. Naturally, when the "Sleepy Girl Mocktail" made its rounds on TikTok and Instagram last year, I had to test its claim of being a sleep-aid-free drink by trying it for myself. A week before I sat down to write this article, when the drink first became popular, I went to the

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

Want more Android Authority? How to set us as your preferred source in Google Search

Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

Google lets you pick preferred sources when you search

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

Sand and Deliver: We Raced Across Dunes to Find the Best Beach Wagon

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

‘Star Trek’ Star Anson Mount Studied Gene Roddenberry Tapes for His ‘Strange New World’ Homage

Modern Node.js Patterns

Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

Benchmarking MicroPython

Ferrari Status

How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

Show HN: Open-source physical rack-mounted GUI for home lab

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

We Just Saw 10 Jaw-Dropping Minutes of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America

AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

Ben Stiller documentary about his parents gets premiere date on Apple TV+

Use Your Type System

This Nearly Perfect Gaming Keyboard Is Held Back by a Few Big Compromises

This Compact Gaming Keyboard Gets a Lot Right, but a Few Things Wrong Too

This E-Sports-Inspired Gaming Mouse Left Me Wanting More

Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

Trouble Falling Asleep? I Tried This Viral Sleepy Girl Mocktail and the Results Surprised Me

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