If we use the strict definition of organic results in SERP, these aren't the result of webpage indexation, they're the output of widgets and other natural language parsing in Kagi.
Halloy is a wonderfully configurable replacement for beloved Mac IRC client Textual, whose development has sadly wound down (now officially, as of last month).
I hope it continues to grow in popularity while keeping performance and privacy at the core.
>Just not the GPT-5 series! My experiments so far put Gemini 2.5 at the top of the pack, to the point where I'd almost trust it for some tasks
Got it. The non-experts are holding it wrong!
The laymen are told "just use the app" or "just use the website". No need to worry about API keys or routers or wrapper scripts that way!
Sure.
Yet the laymen are expected to maintain a mental model of the failure modes and intended applications of Grok 4 vs Grok 4 Fast vs Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-4.1 Mini vs GPT-5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5...
It's a moving target. The laymen read the marketing puffery around each new model release and think the newest model is even more capable.
"This model sounds awesome. OpenAI does it again! Surely it can OCR my invoice PDFs this time!"
I mean, look at it:
GPT‑5 not only outperforms previous models on benchmarks and answers questions more quickly, but—most importantly—is more useful for real-world queries.
GPT‑5 is our best model yet for health-related questions, empowering users to be informed about and advocate for their health. The model scores significantly higher than any previous model on HealthBench , an evaluation we published earlier this year based on realistic scenarios and physician-defined criteria.
GPT‑5 is much smarter across the board, as reflected by its performance on academic and human-evaluated benchmarks, particularly in math, coding, visual perception, and health. It sets a new state of the art across math (94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools), real-world coding (74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 88% on Aider Polyglot), multimodal understanding (84.2% on MMMU), and health (46.2% on HealthBench Hard)
The model excels across a range of multimodal benchmarks, spanning visual, video-based, spatial, and scientific reasoning. Stronger multimodal performance means ChatGPT can reason more accurately over images and other non-text inputs—whether that’s interpreting a chart, summarizing a photo of a presentation, or answering questions about a diagram.
They're clearly competent developers (despite mis-identifying GPT-5-mini as GPT-5o-mini) - but they also don't appear to have evaluated the alternative models, presumably because of this bit:
"This solution was selected given Thalamus utilizes Microsoft Azure for cloud hosting and has an enterprise agreement with them, as well as with OpenAI, which improves overall data and model security"
I agree with your general point though. I've been a pretty consistent voice in saying that this stuff is extremely difficult to use.
The solution architect, leads, product managers and engineers that were behind this feature are now laymen who shouldn't do their due diligence on a system to be used to do an extremely important task? They shouldn't test this system across a wide range of input pdfs for accuracy and accept nothing below 100%?
>Strange I would get so many downvotes for this. Care to explain?
The terminally online developer cares very much about signaling his love of artisanal webshit. He makes his chosen flavor of the month JavaScript framework, and by extension, the "platform" used to host it, part of his identity. Maybe his favorite mustachioed "influencer" shills it on YouTube with a coupon code for 50% off your first month, or maybe an idol with 700k Twitter followers says it's the framework (and not his fanboys) that makes him $200k monthly passive income from side projects. Branded laptop stickers are a guarantee, maybe even a hoodie. So when he encounters a rational, level-headed observation like yours, he takes it as a jab at his beloved Vercel Inc., benevolent maintainer of Next.js valued at $3.25bn with the best customer support in the industry, and hits "downvote". His job is done.
Don't worry, you can write "dumb ass" here without needing to use algospeak. This isn't Instagram or TikTok and you won't be unpersoned by a "trust and safety" team for doing so.
P.S. No need for a space after your meme arrows :-)
Sorry, but drive-by philosophy is not applicable here.
YouTube developers single out adblocker users and taunt them with an "Experiencing interruptions" toast prompt that locks the video stream for ~5 seconds. Curiously, it contains a link to the YouTube Help Center, to the section fragment "#check_ad_blockers". In other words: "yeah, we know you've got uBlock Origin enabled, enjoy the speedbump".
Player base.js:
api.XL("innertubeCommand",{openPopupAction:{popup:{notificationActionRenderer:{responseText:{runs:[{text:"Experiencing interruptions?"}]},actionButton:{buttonRenderer:{style:"STYLE_OVERLAY",size:"SIZE_DEFAULT", text:{runs:[{text:"Find out why"}]},navigationEndpoint:{commandMetadata:{webCommandMetadata:{url:"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3037019#check_ad_blockers
So that's what it is! I've never seen the toast message, but I had a suspicion it was intentional on YouTube's side considering it doesn't occur in Chrome. Sadly I don't see a work-around in that reddit thread. I wonder if someone has a violentmonkey script for it.
PSA: Much like YouTube's "si" parameter which tracks your individual share of a video, the /s/ value in the URL is a Reddit tracking ID generated upon selecting "Share".
These new links work like short URLs and will only redirect you after Reddit associates your visit with that particular short URL.
Agree completely with you, but most of the time this isn't people being altruistic.
It's people spraying bullshit at maintainers to try and score "CVE IDs as trophies" for their résumé or payouts from the vendor-backed Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program on HackerOne.
100%.
https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe...