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Users Were So Addicted to GPT-4o That They Immediately Cajoled OpenAI Into Bringing It Back After It Got Killed

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 10:52:54

Last week, OpenAI startled the world by announcing that its long-awaited GPT-5 would replace all of its previous models, The move sparked outrage. Apart from being severely underwhelmed by the performance of OpenAI's newest offering, power users immediately started to beg CEO Sam Altman to bring back preceding models, often for a reason that had little to do with intelligence, artificial or otherwise: they were attached to it on an emotional level. "Why are we getting rid of the variants and 4

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Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

news.ycombinator.com Ewa Szyszka 2025-12-28 11:59:42

Kilo just broke through the 1 trillion tokens a month barrier on OpenRouter for the first time. Each of the open source family of AI coding tools (Cline, Roo, Kilo) is growing rapidly this month. Part of this growth is caused by Cursor and Claude starting to throttle their users. We wrote about Cursor at the beginning of July and about Claude in the second half of July. Their throttling sent users to the open source family of AI coding tools causing the increases you see in the graphs above. C

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Best Period Underwear for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 11:30:00

I'm no stranger to period underwear and other "alternative" period products (where my menstrual cup fans at?), so I jumped at the chance to write this guide. When you're on your period, staying dry and comfortable are the top priorities, so I judged every pair of these underwear through that lens. I first tested all of the above underwear for fit, to determine if they are true to size. That mostly involved a lot of trying them on, wearing them under pants to see how bulky or slim they were and

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Want to See More Visits to Your Bird Feeder? Try These Expert-Approved Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 22:16:00

If you're looking for an easy way to slow down and enjoy the outdoors, adding a bird feeder to your outdoor space is an excellent choice. Whether you have your own trees out in the suburbs or you have a small backyard patio in the city, adding a bird feeder to your space can invite feathered friends to visit for a few minutes each day. Along with the joys of birdsong, taking a few minutes to hang out with birds can deliver benefits to your mental health. Studies show that spending time around b

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Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-28 11:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

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Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 new low up to $150 off, M4 Pro MacBook Pro $299 off, iPad Air, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-12-29 03:45:11

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals are kicking off with the lowest prices we have tracked online for GPS + Cell Apple Watch Series 10 models. Alongside GPS only variants at $100 off, you’ll now find the cell variants at up to $149 off in brand new condition with a full Apple warranty in tow. Those deals also join one of the best prices to date on the M4 Pro MacBook Pro at $299 off the list price, ongoing all-time lows on M3 iPad Air, and more. Everything awaits below. Apple Watch Series 10 Cell

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9to5Mac Daily: August 11, 2025 – Low-cost MacBook, Siri upgrades

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-12-29 03:45:25

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:34:44

Elon Musk-owned xAI is testing Grok 4.20, a new model update to Grok 4, which already competes with GPT-5 in some benchmarks, such as ARC-AGI 2. GPT-5 is one of the best models for coding, and it competes with Claude Opus 4.1 head-to-head in some coding challenges. On the other hand, Grok falls a bit short when it comes to building full-fledged apps. But that might change soon as xAI is testing Grok 4.20. In a post on X, Elon Musk teased Grok 4.20 for a late August launch. Previously, Elon

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Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:53:55

Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60 3 days ago Share Save Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent Share Save BBC Theo Leggett at the wheel of the oldest Ford Transit still in existence Climbing into a 1965 Ford Transit is like stepping into a time capsule on wheels. Forget your modern high-tech nicknacks like satnavs and touchscreens. All you get here is a steering wheel, a big chrome-lined speedometer dial and a chunky heater control. There isn't even a rad

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Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:51:53

OpenAI's GPT-5 model went live for most ChatGPT users this week, but lots of people use ChatGPT not through OpenAI's interface but through other platforms or tools. One of the largest deployments is iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o. It turns out those users won't have to wait long for the latest model: Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has not officially announced when those OS

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Optimizing My Disk Usage Program

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 08:59:01

In my previous post, Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS, I wrote about dumac. A very fast alternative to du -sh that uses a macOS-specific syscall getattrlistbulk to be much faster than the next leading disk usage program. I received some great technical feedback in the Lobsters thread. After implementing some of the suggestions, I was able to increase performance by ~28% on my large benchmark. hyperfine --warmup 3 --min-runs 5 './before temp/deep' './after temp/deep' Benchmark 1: .

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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-12-29 03:00:00

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of being trained on text, the system is based on electroencephalogram (EEG) data, which is collected via electrodes placed on the scalp and then read out by a computer in a series of wavy lines. EEG records the brain’s electrical activity, and changes in this activity can indicate a problem. In an ICU

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Designing Software in the Large

news.ycombinator.com David Foster 2025-12-29 08:25:58

Designing Software in the Large Software75 Jul 22, 2025 – Filed as: A Philosophy of Software Design is my favorite book I’ve read to date about designing large long-lived maintainable software programs. Here’s what I learned: Complexity Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand & modify the system. Symptoms of complexity: Change Amplification - A seemingly simple change requires code modifications in many different places. High Cog

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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:59:02

August 11, 2025 I’ve tried them all. Notion, Todoist, Things 3, OmniFocus, Asana, Trello, Any.do, TickTick. I even built my own todo app once (spoiler: I never finished it). After years of productivity app hopping, I’m back to where I started: a plain text file called todo.txt . I’m not alone in this. Jeff Huang wrote about his “never-ending .txt file” that he’s used for over 14 years. Reading his post validated everything I’d discovered on my own. The Endless Search My productivity journey

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Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-29 08:40:37

We need an affordable MacBook, now more than ever. It’s time to face the fact that today’s headlining laptop chips are overkill for what most folk need a computer for. If the majority of internet users are browsing the internet on phones that cost $200 or $400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it only makes sense to put a mobile chip into a laptop shell and call it a day. New rumors suggest that Apple could do just that, and we could see this cheapo Mac before the end of the year. Apple suppl

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In 'Alien: Earth', the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape

wired.com Adam Morgan 2025-12-29 08:47:04

Seventeen years ago, Noah Hawley became a father during the Great Recession. If you look at everything he’s written since having children—including the TV series Fargo and Legion—Hawley says it all revolves around the same question every parent faces: “How are we supposed to raise these people in the world that we're living in?” Hawley’s new series, Alien: Earth, which premieres August 12 on Hulu and FX, explores this question even more directly than his previous work. Set two years before the

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The best Nintendo Switch 2 games for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:00:07

Mario Kart World isn’t quite the reinvention of the massively popular franchise that I thought it might be based on Nintendo’s extensive preview of the game. No matter. Mario Kart is a proven formula, and Nintendo has done more than enough to make MKW the kind of game that millions of people will play over the next decade or so. There are a ton of cleverly-designed new tracks that you can pick up and play immediately — but the more time you put into them, the more shortcuts and secrets you’ll fi

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MacBook Air deal: Get the M4-powered laptop for a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:30:37

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then today is your lucky day. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for $1

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Apple's AirPods Pro 2 are back on sale for $169

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:35:22

They might be nearly three years old at this point, but Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro remain some of the most popular wireless earbuds around for a reason, and right now they’re down to $169 on Amazon. That’s a not-insignificant 32 percent off the usual $249 price of the noise-canceling in-ears. Apple’s flagship AirPods were $100 off — a record-low $149 — during Prime Day, so we have seen them even cheaper than this, but for a non-sale period, Amazon’s current deal is worth considering.

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GPT-5 bombed my coding tests, but redeemed itself with code analysis

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-29 17:51:36

MF3d/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 Pro delivers the sharpest, most actionable code analysis. A detail-focused prompt can push base GPT-5 toward Pro results. o3 remains a strong contender despite being a GPT-4 variant. With the big news that OpenAI has released GPT-5, the team here at ZDNET is working to learn about and communicate its strengths and weaknesses. In another article, I put its programming prowess to the test and came up with a less-than-impressive result. Also: I te

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Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-30 04:34:22

We learned back in June that Apple is working on a new entry-level MacBook, to be powered by the A18 Pro chip rather than an M-series processor. This would be the first time the company has ever offered a MacBook below $999. A new supply-chain report says that the first stage of production is scheduled to begin sometime next month, with full-scale manufacturing potentially in progress by the end of the year … Low-cost MacBook The MacBook Air has always been the cheapest model offered by Apple

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The Great American EV Tax Credit Rush Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-29 05:39:05

The great EV buying frenzy has officially begun. In the last 48 hours, Tesla has seen delivery times for some of its most popular models skyrocket from a few weeks to nearly six months, a clear signal that consumers are stampeding to buy an electric vehicle before a crucial federal tax credit disappears for good. This is the short-term sales boom that experts have been predicting, a last-chance gold rush for buyers. But for the EV industry, it’s also a sugar rush that could lead to a brutal cra

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The hidden cost of living in Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-29 09:59:20

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report that details how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The pièce de résistance: a seven-foot sta

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It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-28 15:06:23

It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI? 1 day ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Shutterstock US President Donald Trump had been in office scarcely a week when a new Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app called DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley. Overnight, DeepSeek-R1 shot to the top of the Apple charts as the most downloaded free app in the US. The firm said at the time its new chatbot riv

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Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 02:26:30

“Raised by Wolves” is the type of sci-fi project that deserves some respect for its ambition alone—whatever you feel from it, you have to admire its full commitment to its Biblical proportions, and the way that it uses its androids and killers to tell a story about faith and parenting. Ridley Scott directed the first two episodes of the series, and using his name as part of the marketing is a fair move (even if it was created by Aaron Guzikowski, who wrote “Prisoners.”) This space oddity is very

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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2025-12-29 10:06:07

OpenAI just released their new open-weight LLMs this week: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. And yes, thanks to some clever optimizations, they can run locally (but more about this later). This is the first time since GPT-2 that OpenAI has shared a large, fully open-weight model. Earlier GPT models showed how the transformer architecture scales. The 2022 ChatGPT release then made these models mainstream by demonstrating concrete usefulness for wri

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 02:32:31

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terribly tough. It helps to be a fan of college football rivalry games, and of a certain legendary baseball player who sadly died young. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-30 05:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

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Dark Rumors Swirl as Boar's Head Plans to Reopen Notoriously Disgusting Meat Processing Plant

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:00:43

Over a year after a deadly bacterial outbreak forced a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia to shutter indefinitely, the facility is reportedly set to reopen — but that doesn't mean they've cleaned up their act. Starting in May of last year, a number of people throughout the middle- and eastern-US began falling ill with symptoms eerily similar to the flu. Following several hospitalizations and two deaths traced to the same source, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officially launched a

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