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New comment by yismail in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

yismail — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:42:13 +0000

I wonder what the relationship is between a model's capability and the personality it develops.

Page 202:

> In interactions with subagents, internal users sometimes observed that Mythos Preview appeared “disrespectful” when assigning tasks. It showed some tendency to use commands that could be read as “shouty” or dismissive, and in some cases appeared to underestimate subagent intelligence by overexplaining trivial things while also underexplaining necessary context.

Page 207:

> Emoji frequency spans more than two orders of magnitude across models: Opus 4.1 averages 1,306 emoji per conversation, while Mythos Preview averages 37, and Opus 4.5 averages 0.2. Models have their own distinctive sets of emojis: the cosmic set () favored by older models like Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 and 4.1, the functional set () used by Opus 4.5 and 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Mythos Preview's “nature” set ().

New comment by yismail in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

yismail — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:24:03 +0000

There's GPT‑5.3‑Codex

New comment by yismail in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

yismail — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:51:20 +0000

ElevenReader works well and has a pretty good free plan

New comment by yismail in "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks"

yismail — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:01:25 +0000

That's true, but it looks like it's been updated since then because the benchmarks include Claude Opus 4.5

New comment by yismail in "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks"

yismail — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:47:38 +0000

Would be interesting to see Gemini 3.0 Pro benchmarked as well.

New comment by yismail in "The “S” in MCP Stands for Security"

yismail — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:41:21 +0000

Nice article but is this whole thing just AI generated?

Profile picture definitely seems to be StableDiffusion'd and the account was created today, with no previous articles.

Plus I couldn't find any other references to Elena Cross.

New comment by yismail in "Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio"

yismail — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:00:06 +0000

I got in the beta a couple weeks ago and tried it out on some papers [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41020635

New comment by yismail in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

yismail — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:03:02 +0000

on macOS, option + ; seems to work …

Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks

yismail — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:17:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/leonardo-da-vincis-notebooks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340691

Points: 1

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New comment by yismail in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

yismail — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:26:32 +0000

let l = 0; let h = dictionary.length - 1;

const textbox = document.querySelector("input");

while (l <= h) { const m = Math.floor((l + h) / 2); const guess = dictionary[m]; const textbox = document.querySelector("input"); console.log("Guessing:", guess);

  textbox.value = guess;
  guessWord();

  if (document.querySelector(".correct")) {
    console.log("Found the word:", guess);
    break;
  } else if (textbox.placeholder.includes("after")) {
    l = m + 1;
  } else {
    h = m - 1;
  }

}

Here's mine in JavaScript, you can paste it in the console.