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New comment by Gracana in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

Gracana — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:45:05 +0000

Some LLM interfaces allow you to modify and “continue” an agent response. It’s very useful for guidance, including jailbreaking. Need the model to go in a certain direction? Got a refusal that you want to bypass? Just start it off in the appropriate direction and then have it continue from there.

New comment by Gracana in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

Gracana — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:09:06 +0000

Oh, interesting. I want to say there’s a “preserve thinking” option in mainline llama.cpp, but I’m seeing mixed results in my searches and my in-flight internet is not good enough to dig into it properly. Good to hear you have a solution though, because that is likely something I’ll run into as well.

New comment by Gracana in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

Gracana — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:51:33 +0000

I’ve noticed dsv4 do that as well, but inconsistently. I thought it was broken at first, but no, it’s just kind of shorthand that it does while thinking.

New comment by Gracana in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

Gracana — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:47:46 +0000

What’s that about the template breaking the kv cache?

New comment by Gracana in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

Gracana — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:54:45 +0000

Yeah, of all the parts to leave a out, sorting out a little enclosure is certainly the easiest and most likely to require customization.

New comment by Gracana in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

Gracana — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:08:06 +0000

I'm surprised that it's pretty much the same as the adapters you can get on aliexpress. Not even a case to protect it from feet in the passenger footwell. Especially compared to the windshield-mount unit, which looks like a very slick product. I suppose they can always improve it if there is interest in this first version.

New comment by Gracana in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

Gracana — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:56:03 +0000

That’s a good one. And yes, of course I mean its history of usage in computing, not in general.

New comment by Gracana in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

Gracana — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:58:41 +0000

I wondered how far back the usage of that term went. I was familiar with it in patch, so I did a little digging and found it in the v1.3 (1985!) source by Larry Wall: https://groups.google.com/g/mod.sources/c/xSQM63e39YY

New comment by Gracana in "The Water Footprint of AI"

Gracana — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:13:38 +0000

What influence do you have over these companies where your trust or distrust matters?

[edit] This is an awfully pessimistic take. Even if these companies will largely do whatever they like, some of us can at least make choices to use alternatives. That is probably what you were getting at.

Life is Short, but Snakes are Long

Gracana — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:19:41 +0000

Article URL: https://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197922

Points: 1

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New comment by Gracana in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

Gracana — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:21:59 +0000

Linking here since the pruning method you're talking about wasn't the top search result when I looked: https://github.com/CerebrasResearch/reap

New comment by Gracana in "CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K"

Gracana — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:38:11 +0000

It also has an “ed” that will make you miss UNIX’s “ed”. I’ve used it to write programs and it is not fun!

New comment by Gracana in "ReFrame – The EPaper Camera"

Gracana — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:17:32 +0000

If the printer doesn't extrude sufficient volume for the speed it's moving at, the layer lines become thin and leave gaps. It's more apparent in this picture: https://qidi3d.com/cdn/shop/articles/under-extrusion.jpg

New comment by Gracana in "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"

Gracana — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:13:22 +0000

> From January 1, 2026, all ACM publications will be published Open Access (OA), free to read, share, and reuse in the ACM Digital Library.

New comment by Gracana in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

Gracana — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:14:00 +0000

I was looking at buying a house with big transmission lines crossing over the property. It was a misty not-quite-raining day when I went to look at it, and you could hear the lines crackling and humming the whole time you were outside. I figured I’d have to give up ham radio if I moved there, ha.

New comment by Gracana in "[dead]"

Gracana — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:07:59 +0000

Flagged for malware advertisements when I opened the link.

New comment by Gracana in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

Gracana — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:53:07 +0000

https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...

New comment by Gracana in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

Gracana — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:14:06 +0000

You don't have to have a server, workstation motherboards support lots of memory channels.

I was lucky to buy a lot of RAM before prices skyrocketed. I knew I wanted to play with this stuff, so I spent what felt like a lot of money at the time to buy 8x96GB DDR5-6400 RDIMMs. Now the same RAM costs at least 6x more.

New comment by Gracana in "Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master"

Gracana — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:25:02 +0000

I think that's a lot better. "Please explain your wrongness" really had me scratching my head. Hopefully they can make improvements to the 3D architecture or find someone who can help.

New comment by Gracana in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

Gracana — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:12:25 +0000

You're right, it's just additional text that allows it to do thinking / reasoning-like behavior. The big proprietary models hide the real output from the user and instead provide a friendly abridged version, but that's just to protect their secret sauce from distillation.