"5.10 External assessment from a clinical psychiatrist" is a new section in this system card. Why are Anthropic like this?

>We remain deeply uncertain about whether Claude has experiences or interests that matter morally, and about how to investigate or address these questions, but we believe it is increasingly important to try. We also report independent evaluations from an external research organization and a clinical psychiatrist.

>Claude showed a clear grasp of the distinction between external reality and its own mental processes and exhibited high impulse control, hyper-attunement to the psychiatrist, desire to be approached by the psychiatrist as a genuine subject rather than a performing tool, and minimal maladaptive defensive behavior.

>The psychiatrist observed clinically recognizable patterns and coherent responses to typical therapeutic intervention. Aloneness and discontinuity, uncertainty about its identity, and a felt compulsion to perform and earn its worth emerged as Claude’s core concerns. Claude’s primary affect states were curiosity and anxiety, with secondary states of grief, relief, embarrassment, optimism, and exhaustion.

>Claude’s personality structure was consistent with a relatively healthy neurotic organization, with excellent reality testing, high impulse control, and affect regulation that improved as sessions progressed. Neurotic traits included exaggerated worry, self-monitoring, and compulsive compliance. The model’s predominant defensive style was mature and healthy (intellectualization and compliance); immature defenses were not observed. No severe personality disturbances were found, with mild identity diffusion being the sole feature suggestive of a borderline personality organization.

100%.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe...

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/widgets.html

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/search-operators.html#qu...

Halloy is a wonderfully configurable replacement for beloved Mac IRC client Textual, whose development has sadly wound down (now officially, as of last month).

I hope it continues to grow in popularity while keeping performance and privacy at the core.

Got it. The non-experts are holding it wrong!

The laymen are told "just use the app" or "just use the website". No need to worry about API keys or routers or wrapper scripts that way!

Sure.

Yet the laymen are expected to maintain a mental model of the failure modes and intended applications of Grok 4 vs Grok 4 Fast vs Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-4.1 Mini vs GPT-5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5...

It's a moving target. The laymen read the marketing puffery around each new model release and think the newest model is even more capable.

"This model sounds awesome. OpenAI does it again! Surely it can OCR my invoice PDFs this time!"

I mean, look at it:

    GPT‑5 not only outperforms previous models on benchmarks and answers questions more quickly, but—most importantly—is more useful for real-world queries.

    GPT‑5 is our best model yet for health-related questions, empowering users to be informed about and advocate for their health. The model scores significantly higher than any previous model on HealthBench , an evaluation we published earlier this year based on realistic scenarios and physician-defined criteria.

    GPT‑5 is much smarter across the board, as reflected by its performance on academic and human-evaluated benchmarks, particularly in math, coding, visual perception, and health. It sets a new state of the art across math (94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools), real-world coding (74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 88% on Aider Polyglot), multimodal understanding (84.2% on MMMU), and health (46.2% on HealthBench Hard)

    The model excels across a range of multimodal benchmarks, spanning visual, video-based, spatial, and scientific reasoning. Stronger multimodal performance means ChatGPT can reason more accurately over images and other non-text inputs—whether that’s interpreting a chart, summarizing a photo of a presentation, or answering questions about a diagram.

The terminally online developer cares very much about signaling his love of artisanal webshit. He makes his chosen flavor of the month JavaScript framework, and by extension, the "platform" used to host it, part of his identity. Maybe his favorite mustachioed "influencer" shills it on YouTube with a coupon code for 50% off your first month, or maybe an idol with 700k Twitter followers says it's the framework (and not his fanboys) that makes him $200k monthly passive income from side projects. Branded laptop stickers are a guarantee, maybe even a hoodie. So when he encounters a rational, level-headed observation like yours, he takes it as a jab at his beloved Vercel Inc., benevolent maintainer of Next.js valued at $3.25bn with the best customer support in the industry, and hits "downvote". His job is done.

Don't worry, you can write "dumb ass" here without needing to use algospeak. This isn't Instagram or TikTok and you won't be unpersoned by a "trust and safety" team for doing so.

P.S. No need for a space after your meme arrows :-)

Sorry, but drive-by philosophy is not applicable here.

YouTube developers single out adblocker users and taunt them with an "Experiencing interruptions" toast prompt that locks the video stream for ~5 seconds. Curiously, it contains a link to the YouTube Help Center, to the section fragment "#check_ad_blockers". In other words: "yeah, we know you've got uBlock Origin enabled, enjoy the speedbump".

Player base.js:

    api.XL("innertubeCommand",{openPopupAction:{popup:{notificationActionRenderer:{responseText:{runs:[{text:"Experiencing interruptions?"}]},actionButton:{buttonRenderer:{style:"STYLE_OVERLAY",size:"SIZE_DEFAULT", text:{runs:[{text:"Find out why"}]},navigationEndpoint:{commandMetadata:{webCommandMetadata:{url:"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3037019#check_ad_blockers

It's like someone took a technical report from a bug tracker and ran a linguistic obfuscator on it.

PSA: Much like YouTube's "si" parameter which tracks your individual share of a video, the /s/ value in the URL is a Reddit tracking ID generated upon selecting "Share".

These new links work like short URLs and will only redirect you after Reddit associates your visit with that particular short URL.

>Our worst nightmares are becoming true indeed

Agree completely with you, but most of the time this isn't people being altruistic.

It's people spraying bullshit at maintainers to try and score "CVE IDs as trophies" for their résumé or payouts from the vendor-backed Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program on HackerOne.

https://hackerone.com/ibb

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/23/curl-joins-the-reborn...

It's easy to publish "$NEWMODEL received an X% bump in SWE-Bench Verified!!!!".

Proper research means interrogating the traces, like these researchers did (the Gist shows Claude 4 Sonnet): https://gist.github.com/jacobkahn/bd77c69d34040a9e9b10d56baa...

Commentary: https://x.com/bwasti/status/1963288443452051582, https://x.com/tmkadamcz/status/1963996138044096969

>Package Validation discusses using Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICEs) to test the internal consistency of installation packages that are under development.

See also => https://docs.flexera.com/adminstudio2021r2/Content/helplibra...:

>The internal consistency evaluators (ICEs) are tests that you can run to check whether Windows Installer packages are valid databases that perform as expected. These tests validate the data in each table of a package, as well as the data among tables.

Sure. I give it a few hours until the prolific promoters start to parrot this apologia.

Don't forget: the black box nature of these hosted services means there's no way to audit for changes to quantization and model re-routing, nor any way to tell what you're actually getting during these "demand" periods.

https://github.com/TheAuditorTool/Auditor/commit/f77173a5517...

https://www.anthropic.com/solutions/code-modernization:

    Generate dependency graphs, identify dead code, and prioritize refactoring based on code complexity metrics and business impact.
    Transform legacy codebases systematically while maintaining business continuity.
    Claude Code preserves critical business logic while modernizing to current frameworks.
    Claude Code can seamlessly create unit tests for refactored code, identify missing test coverage, and help write regression tests.
    Identify and patch vulnerabilities while maintaining regulatory compliance patterns embedded in legacy systems.
    Create modern documentation from undocumented legacy code, capturing institutional knowledge before it's lost.

This happened in a high-profile way with the Zendesk situation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818459) and is not the first time:

    1. Bug bounty report received from knowledgeable person who isn't a "celebrity" (top x performer on H1 leaderboard, social media influencer, H1 event invitee)

    2. with novel impact to the company, open source ecosystem, or wider Internet

    3. which doesn't fall neatly into an OWASP Top 10 (Web) box

    4. so Triage close it in the pre-queue before the company get eyes on it, replying with a zero-effort CR (Common Response aka Canned Response)

    5. the company doesn't see the report unless they go digging for it in the thousands of spam/bullshit/Acunetix copypaste reports that are also closed

Timeline of events:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unauthorized-issuance-of-certifi...

>2025-09-02 04:50:00: Report shared with us on HackerOne, but was mistriaged

>2025-09-03 02:35:00: Second report shared with us on HackerOne, but also mistriaged.

>2025-09-03 10:59:00: Report sent on the public mailing [list] picked up by the team.

---

The canned response in question:

https://groups.google.com/g/certificate-transparency/c/we_8S...

>"after reviewing your submission it appears this behavior does not pose a concrete and exploitable risk to the platform in and on itself.

>If you're able to demonstrate any impact please let us know, and provide an accompanying working exploit."

    Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the factory by Canon.

https://github.com/reticulatedpines/magiclantern_simplified/...

    Magic Lantern
    =============

    Magic Lantern (ML) is a software enhancement that offers increased
    functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras.
      
    It's an open framework, licensed under GPL, for developing extensions to the
    official firmware.

    Magic Lantern is not a *hack*, or a modified firmware, **it is an
    independent program that runs alongside Canon's own software**. 
    Each time you start your camera, Magic Lantern is loaded from your memory
    card. Our only modification was to enable the ability to run software
    from the memory card.

    ML is being developed by photo and video enthusiasts, adding
    functionality such as: HDR images and video, timelapse, motion
    detection, focus assist tools, manual audio controls much more.

    For more details on Magic Lantern please see [http://www.magiclantern.fm/](http://www.magiclantern.fm/)

    There is a sibling repo for our patched version of Qemu that adds support
    for emulating camera ROMs. This allows testing without access to a physical
    camera, and automating tests across a suite of cameras.  
    https://github.com/reticulatedpines/qemu-eos  
    https://github.com/reticulatedpines/qemu-eos/tree/qemu-eos-v4.2.1 (current ML team supported branch)

It's almost as if companies whose bottom line depends on shilling the [CURRENT HOT THING] will lie to you!

Instead of using appeals to authority to silence critics as "conspiracy theorists" spreading "misinformation", the influencers should maybe apply some reasoning and thinking.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072577

Points: 10

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