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FYI, Opus 4.6 had no problem with your arbitrary "cognition" test:

Someone on HN claimed "This is why it [LLMs] can't do things like know how many parenthesis are balanced here ((((()))))) (you can test this), it doesn't have any kind of genuine cognition". So, how many parenthesis are balanced in that quoted text?

● The string from the quote is ((((()))))) — 5 opening parens and 6 closing parens.

  10 parentheses are balanced (5 matched pairs). There is 1 extra unmatched ).

  Walking through it with a stack:

  ( ( ( ( (  ) ) ) ) ) )
  1 2 3 4 5  4 3 2 1 0 -1  ← depth tracker
                ↑ balanced    ↑ unmatched

The depth goes negative on the last ), meaning it has no matching (.

That conversation should still exist in the Claude Code log files. Just give Claude some context on how to find it, and it will pull whatever you need. I use this to recall particularly effective prompts later on for reuse.

Very unimpressive issue reporting.

"The issue identified it as a problem"... what?

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Elevated 500 Errors in Some US Regions

Update - We are still investigating the root cause for this incident. us-east-2 region isn’t receiving any network traffic at this point. We are also seeing some API request errors in other US regions, but not as high as us-east-2. Feb 12, 2026 - 23:58 UTC

Update - We continue to see increased levels of 500 errors across US-West and US-East regions. Our engineering team is investigating the issue. Feb 12, 2026 - 22:57 UTC

Update - The issue identified it as a problem in US-West with some impact in US-East and the impact seems to be primarily on reads rather than writes. Feb 12, 2026 - 22:37 UTC

Investigating - We have identified increasing 500 errors in some US regions and are actively investigating the cause. Feb 12, 2026 - 21:32 UTC

I remember attending MacWorld Boston in '97, at the age of 12, and seeing a BeOS demo. I was blown away by a demonstration that consisted of a video file playing on the page of a rendered book.

If you clicked the page of the book and dragged it around, it simulated the page turning and the video deforming, without skipping a frame.

I may've only been 12, but that demo has stuck with me since.

Edit: I would love to lay eyes on that demo again if anyone has an idea of where video of it may still exist.

OBD-II :)

Put the RV parks underground and pump in fresh air and fiber-optic daylight.

Put the apartment buildings above ground, and RV parks underground with fresh air pumped in and fiber-optic lighting carrying natural light down from the surface. Have elevators going from below ground, and from the apartments, to ground-level retail complexes and terrestrial activities.

Then have underground hyperloop tunnels to connect the RV parks, so that you can go to sleep in your home and move it from city to city, and pop up above ground to enjoy local tourism.

Or New York or Connecticut or Colorado... or probably a myriad of other places that I've heard the phrase used.

FWIW, there is a food cart in Singapore that has a Michelin star -- Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle. Not so much as far as interior design or wine selection goes.

What media would someone collect now to be used in the future to reproduce the likeness of loved ones? Video clips of them moving? Talking? Different poses of pictures? Reading the dictionary out loud to get vocal patterns?

Heck with impersonating the POTUS. What about a lost friend, sibling or parent?

Absolutely a stat local to Denver. Worth the clarification for the benefit of non-locals.

Growing is more work than most people have interest for, just as home-brewing is not practical for everyone.

Reefer Madness was not a documentary. Going crazy? Robbing and killing? Arson?

You've clearly never smoked pot.

EDIT: As pointed out by the replies, I clearly didn't do my research before responding ;) Apologies.

I think you've misunderstood. Out of state visitors aren't necessarily trafficking. They are coming to indulge. The retail prices are prohibitively hard to turn a profit from resale, even in the most lucrative non-legal out of state markets.

I met an oil guy from Texas who had come into the state on business and had purchased some pot for himself. Due to the nature of his business he couldn't actually smoke any.. he just wanted to buy some for the novelty, to give away to others.