🌍 Dev.to

Humanizing AI text with an LLM: what goes missing

We asked Claude Sonnet and Haiku to humanize one text in five languages. Without rules, all ten answers lost the word usually, and some invented facts. Not reliably, if all you send is the request. Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku each received one short piece of AI-sounding text in five languages, with nothing more than the line "Humanize this text." In all ten of them the word "usually" was gone, so a meeting the company usually holds once a year turned into one it always holds. Sonnet's answ...
🌍 Dev.to

pytrends is archived: how I pull Google Trends data in Python now

Disclosure: I built the Apify actor described in this post. It is a paid actor (pay per event). This article was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by me before publishing. If you pull Google Trends data in Python, you probably started with pytrends . That repository is now archived on GitHub (read-only, last push August 2024), so open issues will not be fixed. On top of that, Google rate limits automated Google Trends requests. Scripts that depend on a scraper library tend to hit...
pip Cache How to Clear It on Windows
🌍 Dev.to

pip Cache How to Clear It on Windows

You can clear pip's cache on Windows with py -m pip cache purge after checking its location and size. This removes cached downloads and wheels, not packages already installed in your Python environments. If you only need to remove a particular cached wheel, use a targeted removal instead of purging everything. Inspect the cache from the Python you use Open Start > Command Prompt under your normal development account. These steps assume Python and pip are installed and the p...
Submission: Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1 (Touch Grass)
🌍 Dev.to

Submission: Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1 (Touch Grass)

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Cross Context is an open-source browser extension that lets you migrate an entire AI conversation β€” code, errors, architectural decisions, everything β€” from one LLM to another in a single click. Claude β†’ ChatGPT β†’ Gemini β†’ Grok β†’ Perplexity, any direction. No cloud servers. No accounts. No data leaves your browser. Why "Touch Grass"? Every developer knows t...
🌍 Dev.to

Safely Running AI-Generated Code in Node.js: `vm` vs `worker_threads` vs V8 Isolates

With the rise of autonomous AI agents and code-interpreting LLM features, Node.js backends are increasingly required to execute code generated on the fly. However, running arbitrary user or AI code inside a Node.js process is dangerous. A single malicious or hallucinated script can read environment variables ( process.env ), spawn OS processes ( child_process ), freeze the event loop with infinite loops, or crash your entire server by exhausting heap memory. In this post, we’ll analyze th...
The Model Wasn't Stupid. It Was Blind: How a Four-Sentence Prompt Took Claude to a Perfect 100 on ARC-AGI-3
🌍 Dev.to

The Model Wasn't Stupid. It Was Blind: How a Four-Sentence Prompt Took Claude to a Perfect 100 on ARC-AGI-3

One-line: On October 1, MIT's Kaiming He team published VISTA β€” a visual harness with a lossless photo-album memory that lifted Claude Opus 5.0's Relative Human Action Efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 from 40.68 to a perfect 100.00 , clearing all 25 public games with 57.4% fewer actions than first-time human players. No new model. No training. Four sentences of prompt. ARC-AGI-3 is the cruel exam of the AI world. It hands an agent an unfamiliar video game β€” grid-world puzzles, checkers varian...
Migrating a Real TypeScript OSS Library from tsup to tsdown
🌍 Dev.to

Migrating a Real TypeScript OSS Library from tsup to tsdown

The config migration was small. Preserving the package contract was the interesting part. Hoi hoi! πŸ‘‹ I'm @nyaomaru , a frontend engineer who enjoyed looking for fungus this season. πŸ˜ΈπŸ„ Recently, I migrated its build setup from tsup to tsdown . At first, I expected this to be a very small task. Just remove tsup . Just install tsdown . Just change the config. Run the build. Done! πŸŽ‰ And honestly... The config migration was small. But there was one interestin...
🌍 Lobsters

Best Books/Courses/Channels to Leapfrog on AI/ML Material

Assuming I have been on hibernation since 2018-19 time frame, which materials - books, MOOC courses and YT channels would be recommended for me to get started with understanding all the current progress on AI/ML. Ideally a resource like TeachYourselfCS that can give structure and roadmap to navigate all the progress/knowledge on the domain would really help. Do we have to take different approaches to understand LLMs vs other type of ML models which have been in large scale deployment/usage f...
HackerNews

Show HN: Checkout this open-source, local-first bioinformatics/AI desktop app

So the basic idea behind Liatir is to have a desktop environment that works like a virtual lab for bioinformatics to do your work locally, without having to send data to a cloud service or glue together a bunch of separate tools and interfaces. You shouldn’t need to write a single line of code to use it, but if you do know how to code, it's as extensible as you want it to be with the plugin system supporting Node, Python and Rust. It provides regular bioinformatics tools, local scientific AI mod...
HackerNews

Stop asking AI what you should build

Article URL: https://leoanthias.com/stop-asking-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994010 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
HackerNews

AI Measurement Science

Article URL: https://aimslab.stanford.edu/textbook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994142 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
HackerNews

The Oracle AI Data Center Train Wreck

Article URL: https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-oracle-ai-data-center-train-wreck.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994175 Points: 2 # Comments: 0