Tag: Hacker News
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/gemini-25-computer-use-captchas/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs Feedly Summary: Google just introduced a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, specially designed to help operate a GUI interface by interacting with visible elements using a virtual mouse and keyboard. I just tried their demo… and watched…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/2/curl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Feedly Summary: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on Mastodon: Joshua Rogers sent us a massive list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/26/how-to-stop-ais-lethal-trifecta/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” Feedly Summary: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” This is the second mention of the lethal trifecta in the Economist in just the last week! Their earlier coverage was Why AI systems may never be secure on September 22nd – I…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/25/improved-gemini-25-flash-and-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Feedly Summary: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Two new preview models from Google – updates to their fast and inexpensive Flash and Flash Lite families: The latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was trained and built based on three key…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comparing the memory implementations of Claude and ChatGPT
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/claude-memory/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comparing the memory implementations of Claude and ChatGPT Feedly Summary: Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy Shlok Khemani has been doing excellent work reverse-engineering LLM systems and documenting his discoveries. Last week he wrote about ChatGPT memory. This week it’s Claude. Claude’s memory system has two fundamental characteristics.…
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Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/webgpu-local-folder/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Feedly Summary: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Inspired by a comment on Hacker News I decided to see if it was possible to modify the transformers.js-examples/tree/main/llama-3.2-webgpu Llama 3.2 chat demo (online here,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/cloudflare-radar-ai-insights/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights Cloudflare launched this dashboard back in February, incorporating traffic analysis from Cloudflare’s network along with insights from their popular 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I found this chart particularly interesting, showing which documented AI crawlers are most active collecting…