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New comment by alphabetting in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

alphabetting — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:00:13 +0000

the agentic benchmarks for 3.1 indicate Gemini has caught up. the gains are big from 3.0 to 3.1.

For example the APEX-Agents benchmark for long time horizon investment banking, consulting and legal work:

1. Gemini 3.1 Pro - 33.2% 2. Opus 4.6 - 29.8% 3. GPT 5.2 Codex - 27.6% 4. Gemini Flash 3.0 - 24.0% 5. GPT 5.2 - 23.0% 6. Gemini 3.0 Pro - 18.0%

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

alphabetting — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:37:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46507710

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

Performance Hints

alphabetting — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329530

Points: 59

# Comments: 1

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

alphabetting — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:48:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287848

Points: 315

# Comments: 92

VLLM TPU: A New Unified Back End Supporting PyTorch and Jax on TPU

alphabetting — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/10/16/vllm-tpu.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607702

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to Think About GPUs

alphabetting — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:18:36 +0000

Article URL: https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44943666

Points: 395

# Comments: 122

New comment by alphabetting in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

alphabetting — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:37:21 +0000

I doubt there was a condition on writing positively. Other people who tested have said this won't replace engines. https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-...

OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry

alphabetting — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-openai-taps-google-unprecedented-134814870.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236872

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by alphabetting in "Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent"

alphabetting — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:03:20 +0000

https://jules.google/docs/faq/#does-jules-train-on-private-r...

Apple helped China become America's biggest tech rival

alphabetting — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/how-apple-helped-china-become-americas-biggest-tech-rival-8f83tttv5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957863

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by alphabetting in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

alphabetting — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:12:10 +0000

It definitely saves system prompts and has for some time.

New comment by alphabetting in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"

alphabetting — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:10:56 +0000

The one other unique thing I use from them is the interactive mind maps. Like a table of contents on steroids

New comment by alphabetting in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"

alphabetting — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:06:49 +0000

I found this prompt online and tweaking it for audio overviews works extremely well for me.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lawsen/p/notebooklm-podcasts-b...

Generate a deep technical briefing, not a light podcast overview. Focus on technical accuracy, comprehensive analysis, and extended duration, tailored for an expert listener. The listener has a technical background comparable to a research scientist on an AGI safety team at a leading AI lab. Use precise terminology found in the source materials. Aim for significant length and depth. Aspire to the comprehensiveness and duration of podcasts like 80,000 Hours, running for 2 hours or more.

New comment by alphabetting in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

alphabetting — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:53:15 +0000

Over half of Amazon's third party sellers are Chinese companies who regularly false report to dodge tariffs on their products in ways that American competitors can't. Amazon claims to police them but they're extremely reliant on them at this point and the Chinese sellers just start up new brands if penalized.

https://x.com/zackkanter/status/1908343624464576666