Hacker News: Freedumbs

New comment by Freedumbs in "US DOT deleting bike lane references"

Freedumbs — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:32:51 +0000

From what I've seen and heard, the propaganda is blaming pedestrians for being "distracted". I've heard ads on the radio telling kids to look up when walking and not walk distracted (because automobiles are dangerous). This is absurd and I'll spell it out: larger cars designed to generate more revenue and distracted drivers are problems, not people walking around with their heads down. Nearly everything is backward and designed to make money or blame poor people who don't know any better.

New comment by Freedumbs in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

Freedumbs — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:10:35 +0000

Eggs stick if the pan temperature isn't right or if there's not enough lube. User error or skill issue. Here's how to do it: buy good pans, turn on pan to ~medium, add oil and rub in with cloth, add more oil (or butter, butter is better with eggs), when pan is hot add eggs. This works with good quality (all clad) or heavy (cast iron) pans.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Claude Opus 5"

Freedumbs — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:53:03 +0000

Opus 5 also downgrades. it's now Fable -> Opus 5 ; Opus 5 -> Opus 4.8. Unclear why they want to nerf their own products with sometimes right classifiers. I guess the government ban might've been real and not coordinated marketing?

New comment by Freedumbs in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

Freedumbs — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:33:35 +0000

Why anyone would care what Hegseth thinks about open weight models? What's wrong with Chinese models? The censorship? I think it's good to have diversity of opinion. Get US flavored output on sensitive subjects from US models and ZH on ZH models. That's a useful tool.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding"

Freedumbs — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:53:41 +0000

because the maga regime operates this way. they make short term policies to inflate the economy that aren't sustainable while in power, then deadlock congress so the time bomb policies are locked in. it's the same play every time, but now insanely brazen as rules only sort of matter sometimes depending on the actor. gop has always wrecked the economy. this is true nationally, state and local levels. the evidence is there if anyone cares to learn. yes all politicians are corrupt. yes, most democrats are also corrupt. that means the system should be reformed to reign in campaign finance. and also prosecute all the criminals. we can't time travel to undo the mistakes, but we can start fixing them today. imprison the traitors.

New comment by Freedumbs in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Freedumbs — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:03:54 +0000

Right the areas that companies took money to roll out high speed internet to, then just kept the money and called DSL high speed or just did nothing. The government should keep giving companies money and investing in them. It's brilliant.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Tidal AI Policy"

Freedumbs — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:43:43 +0000

What's the technical distinction? Do you mean music that is composed by an LLM when referring to AI? How can one draw the line? It's like saying math doesn't count if the doctor used a calculator or your house isn't real because electricity was used to assemble it.

New comment by Freedumbs in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

Freedumbs — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:28:25 +0000

There's a lot of moving parts one of which includes the destruction of the concept of truth itself, so it's tough to describe. TLDR: we get to see how powerful modern propaganda systems are compared to those that existed prior to the great depression.

New comment by Freedumbs in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

Freedumbs — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:39:12 +0000

I don't think so. Covid just provided more cover and justification for the looting programs.

New comment by Freedumbs in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

Freedumbs — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:07:47 +0000

If we assume the play is the same as MAGA 1, the economic fallout happens post-2028. They'll keep inflating the bubble until MAGA cedes power. If that occurs.

New comment by Freedumbs in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

Freedumbs — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:51:45 +0000

Gotta say, I'm really annoyed that the corruption of the government is directly responsible for what new toys I'm allowed to play with.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

Freedumbs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:35:01 +0000

This article is absurd for an outlet who published an article that's meant to be news not editorial. Reuters was once a news wire and is still considered that. The first two paragraphs refer to "attack" and "strike" against Anthropic. This is sensational nonsense, not news. There was no strike, or attack. Block the accounts. Why is this news, and why are they pandering to the people who just banned the new model they burned at least $10 billion training? The closer you look at this AI stuff the more absurd it is. I assume the strat is to keep the bubble floating until post-2028, then drop the bomb on the Dem who wins. Just like with the covid inflation + economic rigging Trump did in 2016-2020.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents"

Freedumbs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:56:12 +0000

Same thing, but qwen has decided to rebrand certain LLMs that were trained slightly differently as "world models". Despite the fact that "world model" typically means !LLM.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

Freedumbs — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:39:43 +0000

It's possible that there are geographic differences. I don't dispute your experience, just sharing mine. It would be nice to experiment with their platform.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

Freedumbs — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:33:48 +0000

Again, neither Anthropic or OpenAI asked for PII. Only my payment information. Open Router requires a phone to get an account, which is why I'll never have one.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

Freedumbs — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:06:31 +0000

To create an OpenRouter account, you have to supply a phone number. Neither Anthropic or OpenAI required this. This prevents privacy aware users from signing up.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

Freedumbs — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:04:16 +0000

I don't know if it's unhelpful if you consider broader time scales. In 2027 or 2028, Anthropic and OpenAI might decide to stop subsidizing LLM usage and charge enough to profit. Would you pay $100 for a bug fix? They're already headed in this direction. Fable was 10x cost of Opus 4.6. They can't keep burning cash forever and we're reaching the peak of what can be justifiably spent on training cycles. Speaking of training, did OpenAI just give up?

New comment by Freedumbs in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

Freedumbs — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:59:04 +0000

I use claude and codex with VPN on and off everyday on personal computer. That's not why.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

Freedumbs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:45:10 +0000

When you label anything with an electrical current AI, ignore all copyright, then cite AI as cause for layoffs ... what do you expect? It's all vibes. Qwen released "world models" that are video processing models instructed through text. Words have no real meaning anymore.

New comment by Freedumbs in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

Freedumbs — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:17:08 +0000

This is correct and certain subjects are very close to if not impossible like "use versus mention", but LLM security isn't impossible. WAFs are real and have existed for a long time. Input text produces various signals and can be secured.

No security is ever perfect, but we can likely protect LLMs with WAFs that increase security to an acceptable level. Like nation-state required resources to break.