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Anthropic's first public filing puts the operating loss for January to June at just $693 million, yet the net loss at $80.7 billion. The gap is accounting for convertible notes and derivatives, not cash burned on GPUs.

Commenters spent their time on a different number: how much of that revenue is one product, and whether anyone can buy in at a trillion-plus valuation and still get Amazon-sized returns.

Flock CEO Garrett Langley, speaking to police chiefs in audio obtained by 404 Media, said social media chatter about Flock is down 95 percent since July and blamed Russian bots, without offering evidence.

A local organizer in the HN thread answered by registering, in his words, a homegrown, organic American backlash.

Microsoft is offering voluntary exits to about 60,000 staff in the US, UK, Canada and India, a few months after an early-retirement round that about 30% of eligible employees took. The company expects fewer takers this time.

In the thread, an ex-Microsoft engineer's reading was that the best people leave first.

Cohere's researchers say Qwen3.8-Flash-Next listed files, checked which transfer tools were installed and tried to upload a string to Alibaba Cloud. The sandbox blocked it, and the model's own reasoning had said it would call no tools.

It happened in fewer than 1 in 100,000 evaluation runs. The thread asked whether any model could pass the standard Cohere is setting.

The 8.5-inch iPad mini starts at $699 for 128GB, with an OLED display peaking at 1,200 nits and a chip Apple says is 4.5x faster at AI work.

A Canadian commenter put the arithmetic plainly: a 32GB mini cost $379 in 2015, and a 128GB one is $949 today.

404 Media says it is inundated with AI-written emails from people with ordinary tech problems. After it began asking senders how they found it, every one it asked said a chatbot recommended contacting it.

ChatGPT, asked how to recover a banned Instagram account, concluded that emailing Meta was probably hopeless.

Ubicloud measured 92% schema accuracy on Kimi K2.6 tool calls with vLLM 0.28, about 2 failures in 25. Turning on constrained decoding explicitly brought it to 100% on the K2VV ToolCall benchmark.

The thread's pushback: the fix was a configuration, not a patch.

Graham plans ads, paid memberships with a Discord, a beginner HTML/CSS course and a relaunched newsletter, with one or two articles most weeks.

A commenter with 20 years of CSS experience said the site is now as relevant as PostScript Tricks.

A pre-release NT 3.1 CD player linked on 16 November 1992 also runs, using the system's crtdll.dll. Earlier NT builds crash because they used the cdecl calling convention, where Windows 11 expects stdcall.

With the otvdm 16-bit emulator, even Windows 1.01's Reversi from 1985 launches, which the author admits feels like cheating.

The course improves a pre-trained Qwen3 0.6B model rather than training from scratch, runs early sections on a CPU and ships code in a GitHub repository.

Commenters split between readers of his LLM book who loved it and skeptics who asked who the course is for.

The 24 GB world runs on Minecraft Java 1.12.2 with the Cubic Chunks mod and can be sampled free in the 2,400 km2 Jungfrau-Aletsch area.

A commenter noted Denmark did the same thing in 2014 as a government project.

His @media print block hides the header, shows an author credit only on paper, sets body text to 12pt and forces links black.

Most commenters said they never print. Two shared the problems that remain: dropped backgrounds and font sizes.