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Matt Van Horn bed0557b65 feat(quality): GOAT synthesis improvements - hybrid cross-source linking, YouTube synonyms, human-readable xref tags
Ran 15-way blinded comparison (5 topics x 3 versions). CROSS won all 5 topics
(4.74/5.0 avg vs HN 4.10, Base 3.73). Then improved CROSS further:

- dedupe.py: hybrid similarity (token+trigram Jaccard) at 0.40 threshold,
  cross-source links went from 3 to 13 items across 5 topics
- render.py: [xref: HN5, HN4] -> [also on: HN, Reddit] for human-readable tags
- youtube_yt.py: SYNONYMS dict so "hip hop" matches "rap" (0.33 -> 0.71 score)
- SKILL.md: instruction #7 tells Claude to lead with cross-platform signals

Validation: improved CROSS scores 4.38/5.0 vs original 3.98 (+0.40), wins 4/5
topics. Biggest gains in specificity (+0.8) and format compliance (+1.0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-25 16:06:53 -08:00

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"text": "You can use Seedance. If Seedance 2.0 hasn't launch yet, the prior version is great, and stick pretty well to the prompt. Of course the video agent must be well trained. \ud83d\ude42Also, you can offer SORA for the paying plans, and Seedance or wan for the free tier. I use wan and Seedance everyday, to save video credits in another platform that I use. I don't like SORA to much anyway.",
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"text": "\ud83d\udea8Phishing Scam!\n\nWatch for emails titled:\n\n[Seedance &amp; Wan AI] Unrestricted generation with Grok Imagine video added\n\nThis is not real. We don't have a Seedance account, and the links are not official.",
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"text": "- Kling (https://t.co/WGphQsdLf1)\n\n- Seedance 2.0 (https://t.co/A8UzLTRGNo) \n\n\u261e AI-powered video editing:\n\n- Descript (https://t.co/q4axNEjDzt)\n- OpusClip (https://t.co/5XPn4EPH6u)\n- Submagic (https://t.co/5bZs7OeLey)\n- Veed (https://t.co/rtDOTEeJzQ)",
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