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Bug Blindness

Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 381 # Comments: 245

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AI Search - AI Search now supports GLM-5.3 Flash

AI Search now supports @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash for text generation. The model has a 1,048,576-token context window and runs on Workers AI. To configure the model for an AI Search instance, refer to Supported models.

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MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway

and are 50% off on AI Gateway from August 30 through September 13, in partnership with MiniMax.MiniMax H3H3 Max The discount covers requests billed through AI Gateway, at every duration and in every aspect ratio the model supports. The model IDs ( and ) are unchanged, so requests you already send pick up the discounted rate with no code change:minimax/minimax-h3minimax/minimax-h3-max Renders take minutes, so runs the generation as a background job and makes short status requests until it lands

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A Finding Is Not a Discovery

This is the first contest I have entered. I built the honesty controls before I built the agent, which is probably backwards for a hackathon and exactly what I wanted to learn from. Everywhere this piece names a limit, the limit is measured rather than modest, and I would rather you find the seams from me than from a clone. I gave an agent two files it had never seen. I did not tell it what was wrong. The harness refuses to build the prompt if the words bug, defect or vulnerability appear in its

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I’m Looking for the Right Problem, Not the Right Job Title — Could It Be You?

This is a slightly unusual post. After almost 20 years of writing software, creating and leading an open-source project, writing multiple books, spending several years as a Microsoft MVP, and generally spending far too much of my free time thinking about developer tools, I've reached a point where I think I know what I want to do next. And I'm not entirely sure what the job title is. So instead of starting with a job title, I'm going to describe the kind of work I'd love to do. I'm looking for a

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Microsoft Strips Copilot's Free Features — and Puts Deep Research Behind a Subscription

Open the Microsoft Copilot app this week and it may be missing a few things you used. As of 18 August, Microsoft began retiring a clutch of free consumer features — the standout being Deep Research, the tool that turned a prompt into a long, sourced report — while it folds its two Copilot apps into one. The most useful of them doesn’t vanish so much as move: the in-depth research successor now sits behind a paid Microsoft 365 plan. Answer first, because the shape of the change matters more than

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