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New comment by F7F7F7 in "Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens"

F7F7F7 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:59:11 +0000

What is the system prompt for $1000 Alex (RIP)?

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

F7F7F7 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:24:54 +0000

Wechat is large enough to be able to negotiate requirements with Apple. They are the gateway to an entire continent and close to 2 Billion users. And since they are a 'everything app' the frequency of use and reliance is likely compounded.

Apple's not picking up the phone for 50 million users. So we shouldn't expect anything different here.

Luckily there are other phones and mobile os's to develop for.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

F7F7F7 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:42:14 +0000

They strategically use patterns that directly trigger the release of dopamine into the brain.

They've created algorithms that use slot machine like experiences that keep kids hooked to the screen.

These algorithms feeds users barely moderated content that feeds their worst instincts. With almost surgical precision when wanting to illicit engagement.

Then when research shows them the harm their causing they bury it, hire lobbyist, and double down.

Switch out a few words up there and you have the big tobacco playbook.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Apple Business"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:19:49 +0000

Sure, Apple's dominance in sourcing, manufacturing and all other aspects of logistics surely has no place in this conversation. '

The NEO is a masterclass in how integrated these systems actually are.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

F7F7F7 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:27:56 +0000

You sound like you're not a home owner. In populated areas it could take a week to get a electrician or plumber out. And contractors are hard to find.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

F7F7F7 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:10:24 +0000

Is a carpenter who relied on a CNC to cut all of their pieces a builder?

New comment by F7F7F7 in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:00:54 +0000

It's been like this since GPT 3.5. This is not a limitation and is generally considered a natural outcome of the process.

So there's no major update in the sense that you might be thinking. Most of the time there's not even an announcement when/if training cut offs are updated. It's just another byline.

A 6 month lag seems to be the standard across the frontier models.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:48:34 +0000

Google would sooner turn off the feature than build some convoluted solution to protect a custom brand font. It's a problem that's not worth solving.

I can just as easily download them from any of the brand's official websites. The vast majority are being utilized via font-face and are rendering inside of heading and body text.

Convenient WOFF format, all weights, and available in 2 clicks in Dev Tools. And if Dev Tools is too difficult there are dozens of free extensions that will do it for you.

I'd argue that what little Google provides now is more secure than the official websites' usage.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "AirPods Max 2"

F7F7F7 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:15:19 +0000

The H2 enables lossless audio over wireless. So this reads like a temporary limitation that software might solve down the road. But knowing Apple's track record for enabling features in partially dormant hardware ... I wouldn't buy these expecting that.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "AirPods Max 2"

F7F7F7 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:11:27 +0000

I've been wearing Quiet Comforts for almost 15 years now during travel. I've flirted with the Sony XM line (music sound, call mic, UX are superior IMO) but always come back to Bose.

I see both of those lines as utilities for travel. Not sure why I can't shake that.

The Max's don't do anything particularly well. I work within the Apple ecosystem and the Airpod Max's plug seamlessly into it. So because of that they are my daily drivers.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware"

F7F7F7 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:17:28 +0000

I come from a barely middle class upbringing. Now that I'm raising my own kids and seeing the pressures of holiday gift giving and budgets there's two things I regret.

1. Sega CD

2. Game Gear

My parents could have done better things with that money. Excited to see what people can do with this combination (CD + 32x) today that Sega couldn't.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

F7F7F7 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:01:45 +0000

That word is not as loaded as you might think it is anymore. At least not with the next generation of users.

With your average 18-24 year old swimming in Google Docs, Notion, Monday, Airtable and a dozen others..."Office" will belong to the EU in no time.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:46:14 +0000

When we are at the point where society feels the need that privacy means encryption at compute ... a product like this (or anything else in the supply chain) is not going to save them.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "The Enterprise Context Layer"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:02:41 +0000

Don't worry. Someone will come along and run the same 1000 lines on a Docker container using ECS Fargate launched with Step Functions under the watchful eyes of Cloud Watch all glued up with Lambda and stick everything behind IAM roles and a parem store and charge 100x more...then it can fit your definition.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:08:50 +0000

The conspiracy theorist side of me whispers "instead of the rumored Sonnet 5.0 you got Opus 4.6...suspicious"

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Admin Says OpenAI Agrees to All Lawful Use"

F7F7F7 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:20:04 +0000

This just further points to the real issue at hand: the US Department of War (Defense) wants to be the arbiter in determining what 'lawful use' means. They don't want to be audited or policed. Which IMHO makes any mutual 'agreement' pretty much useless.

It also sounds like they are trying to clean up Altman's carefully crafted hedging. Because the chances of this NOT ending up in court are nil.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

F7F7F7 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:42 +0000

"B0tH SiDeS ArE ThE SAme!"

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Compress Your Claude.md: Cut 60-70% of System Prompt Bloat in Claude Code"

F7F7F7 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:15:32 +0000

I've found that maintaining minimal structural cues (typically a single repeating heading) in Claude.md helps it better index information. And anecdotally a lot less GREP'ing, web searching and wasted tokens.

I also include a short instruction a the top of my file. Requiring context to be written as single line rationales with up to 1 additional line for links/refs/pointers. While explicitly forbidding "tutorial-like" explanations and blocks/pages of code.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

F7F7F7 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:34:48 +0000

I'm a product exec now but used to be designer and lead UX teams. Even though I don't use those skills as much nowadays it's still a almost daily hobby of mine.

Like the rest of HN (maybe it's HN's fault!) I managed to convince myself that I not only needed a Mac Mini desktop but also a 4090 rig for AI.

The 4090 hasn't been booted up in 9 months and the Mac Mini is now the world's most amazing 10GBE NAS server. My older M1 Max Macbook Pro and underpowered newer Macbook Air are the only things I use.

New comment by F7F7F7 in "Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks"

F7F7F7 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:33:34 +0000

Not too long ago Anthropic started hiding chain of thought in Claude Code. Returning the 'thinking' all at once for only a second or two.

There's a lot of good insight inside of there and you can immediately identify any misconceptions and stop an LLM from going in the wrong direction or doing damage.

A lot of their decisions as of late make sense now. The experience has suffered and some of the examples they cite as signs of distillation point to things only getting worse.