What kind of hallucinations are you seeing?
Since I mostly use it for code, made up function names are the most common. And of course just broken code all together, which might not count as a hallucination.
Readit Newstechpression commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax
techpression commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax
"They claim impressive reductions in hallucinations. In my own usage I’ve not spotted a single hallucination yet, but that’s been true for me for Claude 4 and o3 recently as well—hallucination is so much less of a problem with this year’s models."
This has me so confused, Claude 4 (Sonnet and Opus) hallucinates daily for me, on both simple and hard things. And this is for small isolated questions at that.
techpression commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes
Vanguard and Blackrock are just asset managers. Public companies are owned by everyone with mutual funds, like pension funds and individual retirement accounts.
Thanks, but ”just asset managers” feels a bit generous, from that same link;
”But large asset managers may help bring issues to the attention of boards.”
Is that the case here, no idea (likely not), but I do find it strange that both Visa and Mastercard refuse to take part of the multi billion dollar industry that is adult content.
I have heard that it’s a volatile market with a lot of cash backs and fraudulent transactions, but they are happy to participate in other such endeavors.
techpression commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes
Anti-monopoly laws are good, but how about some harsh anti-duopoly laws?
Could also hit the iOS-Android bird with the same stone!
It’s not even a duopoly, look at the majority shareholders of both Visa and Mastercard, Vanguard and Black-rock in both. So it’s effectively a monopoly.
techpression commented on Instrumenting Next.js with runtime secret injection phase.dev/blog/instrument... · Posted by u/nimishk
Looks like the Next.js gish-gallop machine is firing on all cylinders, augmented by generative AI.
.env files are problematic because they often end up in version control or left lying on local disks unencrypted, increasing the risk of a secret leak. They're nearly impossible to manage securely at scale, are difficult to distribute across a team, and offer no access control or security.
Need to share a secret value? Use any number of secure communications systems your company has in place. Or generate your own from the system that is issuing secrets. It's not the 1950s, when sharing a secret was considered a national security endeavor. This doesn't need to be rocket science.
You can communicate what's supposed to go in the .env file with a .env.template file, with a list of env variables set equal to an empty string.
I'm glad they at least share the nightmare that is client-side environment variables. Prepare to waste days/weeks of your life sifting through unresolved issues in Next.js repo on GitHub, only to discover that you have to re-architect vast swaths of an application just so a secret (of any kind) is never required on the client. This is incredibly challenging and frustrating to deal with, especially when on a deadline and you're 95% done with a working solution.
In typical Next.js fashion, the official documentation for instrumentation.ts is complete dog crap. It's deceptively short, making the naive developer think it's simple to configure. In reality, you should first read through the 50 open and 71 closed GitHub issues related just to instrumentation (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20stat...), and make sure you understand all the undocumented ways in which instrumentation.js will destroy any semblance of productivity or enjoyment of programming.
I'd highly recommend staying away from the dumpster fire that is Next.js. It's too bad it's like the top skill asked for by employers these days, who seem to have no idea what they're signing up for.
> I'd highly recommend staying away from the dumpster fire that is Next.js. It's too bad it's like the top skill asked for by employers these days, who seem to have no idea what they're signing up for.
Oh yes, Next.js is on my permanent blacklist of ”I won’t take a job if they use it”. It’s truly one of the worst maintained software I’ve ever used, they break stuff constantly, completely without awareness.
Does usb-c spec break backward compatibility ?, a 2018 macbook work perfectly fine with 2025 usb c charger
I don’t know if it’s the spec or just a plethora of vendors that ignores it, but I have many things with a USB-C port that requires USB-A as source. USB-C to A to C works, yay dongles, but not just C to C.
So maybe it’s not really breaking backwards compatibility, just a weird mix of a port and the communication being separate standards.
techpression commented on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games gematsu.com/2025/06/sega-... · Posted by u/kelt
Oooooh, Crazy Taxi has the original music. Other ports didn't/couldn't license it.
One of the best game soundtracks ever, many fond memories of it playing hours upon hours on the Dreamcast.
techpression commented on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-t... · Posted by u/wut42
> I’ve used both the non official libraries and they work fine
Maybe fine today but what about 5 years from now?
Can you say, with any degree of confidence, if these these libraries are going to be properly maintained in the future? No, you cannot.
Goes for every library out there though. Official or not.
techpression commented on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-t... · Posted by u/wut42
I'm surprised they are investing into this. I checked Phoenix recently because I was interested in LiveView and there isn't even an official AWS SDK for Elixir.
Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.
Considering the horror the official AWS CLI is this seems like a strange example. I’ve used both the non official libraries and they work fine. The one that is auto generated doesn’t feel very Elixir, but that’s to be expected.
techpression commented on Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis default.blog/p/lets-talk-... · Posted by u/greenie_beans
We already have more insta feed or video games than you can eat. We've been inundated with optimized slop ever since social media became a commercial force, and the ages of cheap TV and tabloids wasn't that different either.
To make a fundamental difference AI-generated content would have to have some categorically different qualities from the sea of human-sourced garbage we're already swimming in. That's possible, but it isn't clear what that would even entail, much less when or whether generative models will be able to provide it, or what sort of social effect it would have.
I would argue it’s very different. You’re not in actual control of those feeds, you have some choice but most of it is out of your hands. Accidentally watch a video for a second that you had no intent of watching and you’re looking at a week of broken recommendations.
With AI-generated content you are the driver, you dictate exactly what you want, no erroneous clicks or suggestions, just a constant reinforcement of what you want, tailored to you.
And I’m aware of people having extremely narrow feeds, but I don’t think it comes close to what AI feeds will be.