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New comment by golfer in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

golfer — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:51 +0000

Arena.ai:

> Gemini 3.5 Flash’s pricing shifts the Pareto frontier in Text. 8 models from GoogleDeepMind dominate the Text Arena Pareto curve where only 4 labs are represented for top performance in their price tiers.

https://x.com/arena/status/2056793180998361233

New comment by golfer in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

golfer — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:15 +0000

Arena.ai is saying "Gemini 3.5 Flash’s pricing shifts the Pareto frontier in Text. 8 models from GoogleDeepMind dominate the Text Arena Pareto curve where only 4 labs are represented for top performance in their price tiers."

https://x.com/arena/status/2056793180998361233

New comment by golfer in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

golfer — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:06:33 +0000

Here's the benchmark scoreboard they published:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...

Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years

golfer — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:03:12 +0000

https://archive.ph/XI1sQ

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/s...

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196868

Points: 14

# Comments: 4

Second Jury Finds Uber Responsible for Sexual Assault by a Driver

golfer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:39:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/uber-sexual-assault-verdict-bellwether.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841989

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by golfer in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

golfer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:38:59 +0000

"Crying wolf" constantly like this is so frustrating. It waters down the message until they send something you really need to worry about, which you ignore like the rest of the pointless messages.

Apple to shutter its first unionized US store in Maryland

golfer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:07:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/apple-shutter-its-first-unionized-us-store-maryland-2026-04-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713149

Points: 20

# Comments: 5

New comment by golfer in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

golfer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:09:29 +0000

Agree wholeheartedly. Very confusing. If they want people to care, they need to explain the situation in a way to make people care.

New comment by golfer in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

golfer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:32:03 +0000

Non-walled article reporting the rescue:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downe...

New comment by golfer in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

golfer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:50:40 +0000

I found it plucky and intriguing. A great metaphor, not often seen in tech. Not everything has to be in the lowest common denominator of language.

New comment by golfer in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

golfer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:20:12 +0000

touche!

New comment by golfer in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

golfer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:45:21 +0000

Why on God's green earth is Windows running on the Artemis spaceship?

Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

golfer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple-microsoft-google-hp-meta-tesla/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591208

Points: 82

# Comments: 84

New comment by golfer in "Apple Just Lost Me"

golfer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:17:05 +0000

Wow, this seems to have hit a nerve, based on the early downvotes.

New comment by golfer in "Apple Just Lost Me"

golfer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:05:55 +0000

It doesn't bother me at all -- in my post, I said it cracks me up. They all have their reasons for breaking up with Apple. FYI I'm not an Apple guy myself.

New comment by golfer in "Apple Just Lost Me"

golfer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:56:46 +0000

These "breaking up with Apple" stories pop up from time to time here. Cracks me up because they all follow the same pattern:

"I'm done with Apple. I've been a Mac user since since $EARLY_YEAR. I loved using $OLD_APPLE_HARDWARE to work on $VARIOUS_INTERESTING_PROJECTS. I fondly recall $FORMATIVE_APPLE_MEMORY.

But they've gone too far. $NEW_APPLE_ENSHITTIFICATION is the last straw, I can't do this any more. This will be hard because $REASONS. But I'm going to adopt $PLATFORM because it's the right thing to do."

Most of them mention Steve Jobs but this one didn't actually.

New comment by golfer in "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"

golfer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:58:37 +0000

This is very cool, nicely done.

One note: the Property link, that links to the actual news source, is broken.

Also, the test link you're using for Nautilus (the top scoring site) is 404 (https://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/the-multiverse-as-muse)

New comment by golfer in "Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking"

golfer — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:56:56 +0000

This is a very clever idea. Unfortunately I dislike installing extensions, because so many of them seem to get taken over by nefarious owners. Sadly it's poisoned the whole extension platform for me.

FYI: On Youtube, the keyboard shortcut for changing the video speed is simply pressing < or >

New comment by golfer in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

golfer — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:26:47 +0000

Early in my career I worked at a place where the sales people would half-joke about signing deals on December 40th -- to claim it in the previous quarter/year.

New comment by golfer in "Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount"

golfer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:18:15 +0000

A company in incredible turmoil. Would not want to be there now. Morale must be brutal.