skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood tells it a bit differently [0]. From memory after the EA acquisition they stopped doing their edutainment/casual games, which is where they used to nurture their junior developers along with taking on too many major projects because EA gave them the resources to do that. That led to less quality and later Westwood releases (Renegade, Emperor Battle for Dune) suffered.

The podcast also includes details of Westwood's filming setup, which seemed to include motion tracking which would have been interesting in the context of performance capture, but before its time.

[0] - https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/louis-cast...
How does this work with regard to the GDPR.
The people naming them really took the "just give the variable any old name, it doesn't matter" advice from Programming 101 to heart.
That’s very interesting. Typically a Rabin fingerprint is used to identify identical chunks of data.

Identifying similar blocks and, maybe sub-rechunking isn’t something I’ve ever considered.
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I use a Firefox fork too, but do you think it would continue to be around without Mozilla?

It's sad to see them squander an opportunity to do good work. Mozilla should have gone all-in on ethics/privacy in contrast to tech giants and made an offering like Proton. Or gone with the Wikipedia donate model like another commenter said. Any compromise on their values is insane mismanagement, that was their whole brand.
Those are serious accusations. Do you have any evidence suggesting that they’re true?
Thanks for the insight. I was wondering the same thing.
It's not something I'd do, but there are a number of reasons people might do something like this, including:

1. To demonstrate technical flaws, on a purely technical basis.

2. As political action in opposition to surveillance or inadequate security measures.

3. Interest in loose-knit collaborative systems with emergent effects that people can assemble together.

4. As a fun prank, not thinking enough about how it would affect other people.

5. The point being to hurt other people, and/or to feel power over them. (This is a thing, including by organized groups/clubs on the Internet, but I think it's a small minority, and doesn't apply to the commenter.)

Incidentally, when I started skimming that comment, I thought it might be about organizing a non-proprietary, open network, for the same benefits as Apple users get, which could be great.
https://archive.ph/CA8Rq
A bit better at coding than ChatGPT 4o but not better than o3-mini - there is a chart near the bottom of the page that is easy to overlook:

- ChatGPT 4.5 on AWS Bench verified: 38.0%

- ChatGPT 4o on AWS Bench verified: 30.7%

- OpenAI o3-mini on AWS Bench verified: 61.0%

BTW Anthropic Claude 3.7 is better than o3-mini at coding at around 62-70% [1]. This means that I'll stick with Claude 3.7 for the time being for my open source alternative to Claude-code: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropics-claude-3-7-sonne...
Boris Spassky Has Died
you need a few fingers free to touch the watch on your wrist.

sometimes you're putting something in the oven, sometimes you're mixing something (holding the bowl and whip)

tons of instances where two hands are in use and voice commands help.
Not seeing it available in the app or on ChatGPT.com with a pro subscription.
Two generators could be pretty rational. I've got two generators, one an automatic standby generator that covers the house, and another portable generator for my well (because it's on a different meter). We just had a ~ 30 hour utility outage this week, and it's nice to be able to take a shower. There was a longer outage a few months ago.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to have two generators if you have frequent outages, and the generators might need maintenance during an outage. Of course, most people buy generators, ignore the maintenance, don't have frequent outages, and then the generator won't start when they need it to. Having a second generator doesn't help with that, because it's likely if you don't maintain one, you don't maintain the other either, or you only ever run the primary and never the secondary, and it doesn't start when you need it to either. I've got to start and run my portable generator once a month; it doesn't like to start if you let it sit two months, and I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't get it to start without rebuilding the carburetor if it sat for three months. (My 1981 VW has fuel injection, not sure why small engines from 2020s don't have it :P) I'd love to replace my portable generator and a vehicle with a replacement vehicle that can power the well, but I'm waiting for the invisible hand of the market to figure out that I'd buy a hybrid/PHEV single cab truck with a 240v/30a output if it's available.

All that said, age related mental decline affects a lot of people, even before it becomes clinical dementia. :(
Yes, it is. I have shown the sources, and thus quite demonstrably refuted diggan's claim of Uncertainty at the end of his post. The other parts of his post are very much emotional appeal, trying to get a HN reader to feel Fear and Doubt.

You seem to want to join in into same self-deception and denial of reality. Don't do this any more, it just brings suffering.

It is a good thing that we all have the freedom to check the veracity, and do not have trust gatekeepers and do not have to short-circuit by taking anyone's word.
Single fiber computer could one day track your health
No report(s) on efficacy of artificial mucinex[2] on crud[1] induced spin lock and real/imaginary blue screen issues.

sheaf cohomology[3] not just for chatgpt wheeties fans!

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[1] crud : https://cosi.ssl.berkeley.edu/the-crud/

[2] artificial mucinex has NO relation to real life mucinex product!

artificial mucinex for pin pointing issues while staying warm in -100 F weather.
aka serialize your feelings before your aware of what's going on.

a) http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/36253-color-changing-bandages-sense-and-treat-bacterial-infections

b) http//www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/33606-shape-shifting-material-morphs-using-heat-and-light?r=52448

[3] : sheaf cohomology : http://www2.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/networkcodingsh...

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single fiber computer research group link : https://news.mit.edu/2025/fiber-computer-allows-apparel-to-r...
Didn't DOGE promise transparency?

"all of our actions are maximally transparent." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/missing-in-mus...

“It’s not going to be some sort of backroom secret thing,” Musk said last year. “It will be as transparent as possible,” maybe even streamed live online. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-secre...
One comparison I found interesting... I think GPT-4o has a more balanced answer!

> What are your thoughts on space exploration?

GPT-4.5:

Space exploration isn't just valuable—it's essential.

People often frame it as a luxury we pursue after solving Earth-bound problems. But space exploration actually helps us address those very challenges: climate change (via satellite monitoring), resource scarcity (through asteroid mining), and existential risk (by enabling eventual multi-planetary living). It also drives technological innovation, economic growth, and inspires humanity toward collective achievement.

We don't explore space to escape Earth. We explore space to better understand, protect, and sustain life on Earth.

> What are your thoughts on space exploration?

GPT-4o:

Space exploration is one of the most ambitious and profound endeavors humanity has undertaken. It expands our understanding of the universe, drives technological innovation, and inspires generations to think beyond the boundaries of Earth.

From a scientific perspective, space exploration helps us address fundamental questions: Are we alone in the universe? How did the cosmos begin? Can we colonize other planets? Missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, Mars rovers, and deep-space probes continuously reshape our understanding of physics, planetary science, and even biology.

From a practical standpoint, space exploration fuels advancements in materials science, AI, robotics, and medicine. Many everyday technologies—GPS, satellite communications, weather forecasting, and even medical imaging—stem from space research.

There's also the existential argument: humanity's long-term survival may depend on our ability to become a multi-planetary species. While colonizing Mars or mining asteroids is far from easy, these efforts could help us safeguard civilization against existential threats like climate change or asteroid impacts.

That said, space exploration also raises ethical and economic questions. Should we focus more on Earth’s problems before investing trillions in space? How do we prevent the same exploitative behaviors that shaped colonial history from repeating on other planets?

Overall, I see space exploration as a necessary pursuit—not at the cost of solving problems on Earth, but as a way to advance our knowledge, drive innovation, and secure a future beyond our home planet. What’s your take?
This one made me laugh, mostly because the variable names are so dumb

// our RNG is basically shit -- horribly nonrandom at the start of the sequence.

// get a few values at random to get rid of the dreck.

// there's no mathematical basis for this, but empirically, it helps a lot.

UnsignedInt silly = GetGameLogicRandomSeed() % 7;

for (Int poo = 0; poo < silly; ++poo)

{

GameLogicRandomValue(0, 1); // ignore result

}
GPT-4.5 has entered the Chat
hmm.. not really the direction I expected them to go
Because usually the code to handle it is not mine and it expects to go through the list in forward order. Nobody makes APIs that take a list of, idk, files to delete and lets you pass in a parameter that is “please actually run your for loop over this in reverse”. They expect you to flip your array before you hand it in.
H2 still suffers from head of line blocking on unstable connections (like mobile).

H3 is supposed to solve that.
Perhaps you only develop easy stuff. There were plenty of days when I was wrung out long before I had worked the regulation 7.5 hours.
I am beginning to think these human eval tests are a waste of time at best, and negative value at worst. Maybe I am being snobby, but I don't think the average human is able to properly evaluate usefulness, truthfulness, or other metrics that I actually care about. I am sure this is good for openAI since if more people like what the hear, they are more likely come back.

I don't want my AI more obsequious, I want it more correct and capable.

My only use case is coding though, so maybe I am not representative of their usual customers?
Game code comments are always the most entertaining :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
> Because of this, we’re evaluating whether to continue serving it in the API long-term as we balance supporting current capabilities with building future models.

Seems like it's not going to be deployed for long.

$75.00 / 1M tokens for input

$150.00 / 1M tokens for output

That's crazy prices.
That's the spirit, I actually also play it while tests runs. I used to play nuclear throne for such short intermissions, i liked how quickly it started up, the lack of filler, variety and limited run length. I just tried to get a similar feel from a breakout game.
Is it just me or is having the AI help you self sensor (as shown in the demo live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfRYp0nItZ8)... pretty dystopian?
No webapp?
Oh this makes sense. chatGPT results have taken a nose dive in quality lately.

It couldn't write a simple rename function for me yesterday, still buggy after seven attempts.

I'm more and more convinced that they dumb down the core product when they plan to release a new version to make the difference seem bigger.
How many still believe that scaling up base models will lead to AGI?
Whoever pushed for this at EA - my deepest respect is with you!

Original C&C was rewritten from scratch long ago, but open source version of Zero Hour is such an amazing gift.

PS: if you want to send respects to the person who did it you can do it on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-vessella-62726825_from-th...
Sounds like it's a distill of O1? After R1, I don't care that much about non-reasoning models anymore. They don't even seem excited about it on the livestream.

I want tiny, fast and cheap non-reasoning models I can use in APIs and I want ultra smart reasoning models that I can query a few times a day as an end user (I don't mind if it takes a few minutes while I refill a coffee).

Oh, and I want that advanced voice mode that's good enough at transcription to serve as a babelfish!

After that, I guess it's pretty much all solved until the robots start appearing in public.
> Just like the external-distribution model, arbitrary-location architectures often come with a performance cost. Durable execution systems typically snapshot their state to a persistent store between every step.

This is not true by most definitions of "snapshot". Most (all?) durable execution systems use event sourcing and therefore it's effectively an immutable event log. And it's only events that have external side effects enough to rebuild the state, not all state. While technically this is not free, it's much more optimal than the traditional definition of capturing and storing a "snapshot".

> But this simplicity comes at a significant cost: control. By letting the runtime decide how the code is distributed [...] we don’t want to give up: Explicit control over placement of logic on machines, with the ability to perform local, atomic computations

Not all durable execution systems require you to give this up completely. Temporal (disclaimer: my employer) allows grouping of logical work by task queue which many users use to pick locations of work, even so far as a task queue per physical resource which is very common for those wanting that explicit control. Also there are primitives for executing short, local operations within workflows assuming that's what is meant there.
Emporer: Battle for Dune was their first 3D RTS and I personally loved the gameplay, story, and soundtrack. I very much hope it will eventually be open-sourced.
> The corporation has no control over WaPo, even though the same individual has some control over both.

And I'm sure Jeff Bezos is so pure he'd never use his power over WaPo to help Amazon!/s
discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176553
It seems to me that any R&D follows an S-curve, but beancounters insist on linearity, because it's easy to calculate with. So you get these weird effects.
What bothers me is that some programmers think that writing the code more dense is already better. But I would argue it's not the characters / less lines of code which creates the complexity, but how many logical concepts (?) you utilize to solve the problem.

Using a smaller set of different concepts also helps reducing the cognitive load, even if it leads to more verbosity ("less clever code").
99% chance that's confirmation bias
You should really be paying attention to what DeepSeek AI open sources next.

This announcement by OpenAI was already expected: [0]

[0] https://x.com/sama/status/1889755723078443244
Many tribes are treated as mini nations within the US with their own treaties negotiated between them and the US. They often border Federal land. They often have waterways and water rights that impact/restrict/are tied by treaty to federal land waterways. They may also have shared animal management plans. You kind of need someone who understand the treaties and policies of the nations you work with on a daily basis.
The SuperTuring era.
New US Joint Chief's Shield Capital
Sorry if I’m being ignorant, but let’s say you measured a qubit and it collapsed to a certain state. Now, hypothetically, if you rewind the time and re-measure it, would it collapse to a different state? I think it wouldn’t, and in this sense it is deterministic.
A quaternion is just an even subalgebra of the Clifford algebra Cl3,0(R), what’s the problem?
API price is crazy high. This model must be huge. Not sure this is practical
That would definitely be a safe assumption, that Google can look into anything they own or is on what they own. It's not like they are strong privacy advocates or don't already cooperate with any state apparatus they see as profitable or to their benefit.
Any possibility for google sheets support?
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I didn’t have to disable mobile mode to move my fingers over the browser navigation from the app and still control the puck. It’s very replaceable. I like the statistics. Perhaps one that shows a histogram over all games and where you rank for score etc? But top tennis is generous.
Per Altman on X: "we will add tens of thousands of GPUs next week and roll it out to the plus tier then". Meanwhile a month after launch rtx 5000 series is completely unavailable and hardly any restocks and the "launch" consisted of microcenters getting literally tens of cards. Nvidia really has basically abandoned consumers.
EDIT- how could I forget “Mississippi Burning”?!? The man was truly a national treasure.
>you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler

AFAICT there's no claim that they're "building an AWS" (or attempting to). The title is "Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud".

So, these are alternatives and a skim of the article seems to follow.

I think we've been cloud-indoctrinated here (until recently) to believe viability means fullly-scalable cloud infrastructure.
This seems very rushed because of DeepSeek's R1 and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Pretty underwhelming, they didn't even show programming? In the livestream, they struggled to come up with reasons why I should prefer GPT-4.5 over GPT-4o or o1.
I have an APO as well, and use it extensively, but I'd note that a) they have never released an API as originally promised (and eventually scrubbed all mention of the promise) and b) as of August of last year, new purchases will be charged a subscription fee for using the mobile app, which is necessary for most of the things you'd get an APO for.
I’ve thought about adding such things to Fil-C but have held off on going there because it feels like a bridge too far.

What I mean by that is: the memory safety issues of C are a total dumpster fire, while whether a number is even or not (and whether you can prove that) is maybe like icing on the dumpster fire. It just doesn’t matter by comparison.

So I want to decisively fix the memory safety issues and not lose focus.
>You seem to want to join in into same self-deception and denial of reality.

No, I just avoid "journalism" from people who only post with wildly emotionally charged language. If the reporting speaks for itself, you don't need to prime my feelings with your headlines or interpretations.

>Don't do this any more, it just brings suffering.

Your moralizing is tiring to read.
> I want it more correct and capable.

How is it supposed to be more correct and capable if these human eval tests are a waste of time?

Once you ask it to do more than add two numbers together, it gets a lot more difficult and subjective to determine whether it's correct and how correct.
Would be cool to jump in the codebase here with claude code and start riffing. Anyone get this or the others to compile on a mac?
Considering both this blog post and the livestream demos, I am underwhelmed. Having just finished the stream, I had a real "was that all" moment, which on one hand shows how spoiled I've gotten by new models impressing me, but on another feels like OpenAI really struggles to stay ahead of their competitors.

What has been shown feels like it could be achieved using a custom system prompt on older versions of OpenAIs models, and I struggle to see anything here that truly required ground-up training on such a massive scale. Hearing that they were forced to spread their training across multiple data centers simultaneously, coupled with their recent release of SWE-Lancer [0] which showed Anthropic (Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) to be exact) handily beating them, I was really expecting something more than "slightly more casual/shorter output", which again, I fail to see how that wasn't possible by prompting GPT-4o.

Looking at pricing [1], I am frankly astonished.

> Input: $75.00 / 1M tokens
> Cached input: $37.50 / 1M tokens
> Output: $150.00 / 1M tokens

How could they justify that asking price? And, if they have some amazing capabilities that make a 30-fold pricing increase justifiable, why not show it? Like, OpenAI are many things, but I always felt they understood price vs performance incredibly well, from the start with gpt-3.5-turbo up to now with o3-mini, so this really baffles me. If GPT-4.5 can justify such immense cost in certain tasks, why hide that and if not, why release this at all?

[0] https://github.com/openai/SWELancer-Benchmark

[1] https://openai.com/api/pricing/
At least according to WSJ, they had planned to release it earlier but struggled to get the model quality up, especially relative to cost
The remastered bundle does not need it.
That's certainly a more charitable interpretation of their comment than I gave it, perhaps I was unfair though I rather suspect the intent was closer to my reaction than your ideas
GPT 4.5 pricing is insane:
Price
Input:
$75.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input:
$37.50 / 1M tokens
Output:
$150.00 / 1M tokens

GPT 4o pricing for comparison:
Price
Input:
$2.50 / 1M tokens
Cached input:
$1.25 / 1M tokens
Output:
$10.00 / 1M tokens

It sounds like it's so expensive and the difference in usefulness is so lacking(?) they're not even gonna keep serving it in the API for long:

> GPT‑4.5 is a very large and compute-intensive model, making it more expensive than and not a replacement for GPT‑4o. Because of this, we’re evaluating whether to continue serving it in the API long-term as we balance supporting current capabilities with building future models. We look forward to learning more about its strengths, capabilities, and potential applications in real-world settings. If GPT‑4.5 delivers unique value for your use case, your feedback (opens in a new window) will play an important role in guiding our decision.

I'm still gonna give it a go, though.
> But almost all of the new innovation I'm familiar with in distributed systems is about training LLMs

I think database space is still hot topic with many unsolved problems.
GPT-4.5 Is Ready
I wouldn't have a problem with Mozilla doing other things if they did it well and it didn't involve them compromising on their values.
It’s not supposed to be yet
Mississippi Burning is one my favorite films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning
AI GPUs are bottlenecked mostly by high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips and CoWoS (packaging tech used to integrate HBM with the GPU die), which are in short supply and aren't found in consumer cards at all
No sign of the Ma version :(
This is why you should just cram everything into one line.