Hard pass. Digg already taught me once what happens when a platform betrays its community for short-term gain. Don’t need a sequel.
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johnnyApplePRNG commented on Ask HN: Is anyone using Super Grok Heavy for code? · Posted by u/rickcarlino
It's currently a distant 12th on https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/webdev
Only a hair better than grok 3 preview.
Hard pass.
I really wish someone had the political capital to do something about the tabloids. They’re really a detriment to society.
Politicians love the tabloids. They distract from the real goings-on.
johnnyApplePRNG commented on Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered phys.org/news/2025-07-hym... · Posted by u/wglb
Interesting literacy regression: this newly discovered Babylonian hymn was routinely copied by schoolchildren 3,000 years ago, while yesterday's article about why English doesn't use accents showed that by 1100 AD European literacy had contracted so much that monks were essentially writing only for other monks.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, ancient Babylon had institutionalized childhood education for complex literary works. Medieval Europe treated literacy as a specialized craft. So much for exponential growth.
You're skipping a lot of context here. Ancient Babylonian scribal schools were for a small elite—hardly universal childhood education. Medieval Europe's "regression" had a bit to do with the collapse of the Roman state, plagues, and centuries of instability, not just a lack of ambition. Comparing literacy rates across millennia without mentioning population size, language complexity, or what “schoolchildren” even means is a stretch.
History isn't exponential—it's bumpy.
I just learned this the hard way, unfortunately.
I upgraded to Team to increase my rate limits and merged my old Plus account over months ago. No warnings about irrevocable loss of data exportability when they took the money, of course...
Now that I need a copy of my chats, they're playing dumb and it's just "not available" for Team for some reason? When it's available for Free, Plus, AND Pro?!
What sense does that make?!
johnnyApplePRNG commented on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/scotchmi_st
They're going to need to deal with camoufox being easily able to circumvent their bot detection before they start charging for this, imho.