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Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: 10-year-old CNN beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on skin cancer diagnosis. Pills: 62 vs 42 percent, 200 lesions, 20-minute fine-tune

A 10-year-old CNN beats the frontier at skin cancer

A dermatologist gave 200 biopsy-proven lesions to GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and a 2015-era CNN. The old network won 62 to 42 percent, and the failure modes tell you why.

Dark thumbnail with glowing memory panel art: Sam Altman is half right about your RAM. Pills: 6,463 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA, Character.AI in Chapter 11, rent compute own memory.

Sam Altman Is Half Right About Your RAM

Altman called local inference a terrible use of scarce RAM. On compute he has a point. On memory, a bankruptcy and a wave of bans this month say otherwise.

Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: The score gap is noise. The bill is not. Pills: 13 percent rerun flip equals harness flip, 17,134 vs 1,382 first-call tokens, cost per task up to 3x

Your coding agent harness sets the bill. The model sets the score.

A new 8,032-trial study swaps Claude Code, OpenCode and mini-SWE-agent around fixed models. Pass rates churn like a rerun; cost per task moves up to 3x.

Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: headline Moonshot shipped a model it made worse on purpose, pills for 1,096-point HN debut and open weights by November 4

Moonshot shipped a model it made worse on purpose

Moonshot's own chart shows the unfiltered checkpoint at 90.5 percent on its exploit benchmark. The shipped model does 81.0. The 9.5-point gap is deliberate.

Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: headline a backdoor in the tool you already trust, with pills for 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, at most 5,000 users, and one case 8 hours past the window.

A backdoor in the Claude Code extension, and the window that does not matter anymore

Fake builds of Anthropic's Claude Code extension sat on Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours on October 29, reaching at most 5,000 users. What the payload did, the bugs that blunted it, and why one infected Mac kept beaconing 8 hours after the window closed.

Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: headline a trillion parameters, your hardware, with pills for 1.06 TB of weights, 128 experts with 4 active per token, 1M context at 52B active params.

Mistral released a trillion parameters, and your hardware cannot run them yet

Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4 and the download alone is 1.06 TB across 54 files. What is inside, the license carve-out nobody read past, and the hardware math before you self-host.

Dark ajianaz.dev thumbnail: headline the terminal is still home turf, with pills for 12.5 million JetBrains users, 90% less memory per terminal, and 10,000 terminals on 8 GB of RAM.

Ghostty 1.4 topped Hacker News, and the terminal is still home turf for developers

Ghostty 1.4 topped Hacker News with more than 1,000 points and 300 comments. The release notes are good. The libghostty story underneath them is the signal for anyone building developer tools.