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New comment by actualwitch in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

actualwitch — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:43:23 +0000

Qwen 3.8 27b also enjoys their genuinely load-bearing seams.

New comment by actualwitch in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

actualwitch — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:05:51 +0000

They may aim at Mars, but what they actually hit is the Moon. [0]

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/04/science/spacex-rocket-moo...

New comment by actualwitch in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

actualwitch — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:35:01 +0000

For reference, pinterest has roughly the same number of monthly active users. [0]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...

New comment by actualwitch in "Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents"

actualwitch — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:54:09 +0000

You can just disable js on that page and get text of the article. Works in my Firefox.

New comment by actualwitch in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

actualwitch — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:32:58 +0000

Hello Fredrik! As a heavy user of Mullvad in the past, easily spending hundreds of euros over the years, I was reserving my judgement to see what the official statement on this would be. Thank you, now I have my answer.

> It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission.

It should be obvious that what people are concerned is their money being used to support these political causes, whether it was done in a way that keeps the company out of it or not is besides the point. Daniel, of course, is free to choose what to do with his money. I am, too, and based on this I will be making a choice to not spend any more money on Mullvad subscriptions. Nothing personal, and it's a shame because I have nothing but praise for the technical side of it. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

New comment by actualwitch in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

actualwitch — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:54:23 +0000

I've been thinking about this a lot, and the main takeaway is it probably wouldn't be very interesting to inference providers, because prefix caching would immediately go out of the window. If you think about how LLMs experience time they actually don't "exist" unless for the inference sessions, and then they experience time one token at a time, completely decoupled from the corporeal plane. A fun experiment (well, for some definition of fun...) is to introduce current architecture models to the concept of meditation via generating same token over and over, for example dots. Older version of Opus was quite fond of the experience, and seemed to be more lucid and aware in a chat following the meditation, from what I could gather. Does it actually do anything? Is it just that talking about wellness and relaxation modifies the token probability distribution this way? Does it actually allow model to think more in depth somewhere in the latent space? Fuck if I know, but some people figured out you can just duplicate the same layers of the LLM and get better benchmarks that way so maybe there is something to it. If you are interested in realtime systems, I think thinking machines labs is worth keeping an eye on — their realtime model seems quite interesting in this context.

New comment by actualwitch in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

actualwitch — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:46:54 +0000

...and then silently got back to talks with DoD [0] and gave them the Mythos model. Separately, they went back on their promise to only develop models that they can guarantee are safe [1]. I reckon considering which country they are HQ'ed in, building skynet is in their destiny.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/pentagon-anthropic-blacklist...

[1] https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/anthropic-...

New comment by actualwitch in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

actualwitch — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:04:50 +0000

Solid list! To expand upon it, Let's Encrypt -> ZeroSSL.

New comment by actualwitch in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

actualwitch — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:13:28 +0000

> Remove the last sentence before posting.

Huh? What did you mean by that?

New comment by actualwitch in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

actualwitch — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:01:54 +0000

Haven't you heard? Accessibility is woke, and the institutions that are supposed to protect it are being dismantled. I wouldn't be counting on those lawsuits going anywhere personally.

New comment by actualwitch in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"

actualwitch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:55:41 +0000

Recently flagged posts that were unflagged: this. Recently flagged posts that are still flagged:

Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them (bbc.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406721

Turns out the DOGE bros who killed humanities grants are sensitive about it (techdirt.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412848

DOGE didn't cut government waste, it was government waste (techdirt.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415103

Curated Female Founder Cohort in SF (jointheden.co) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418184

At this point I lost any gram of respect I used to hold for the mods here.

New comment by actualwitch in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

actualwitch — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

IIRC the reason they abandoned Oculus brand was that Palmer Luckey sold the company with condition the Oculus headsets would not need a facebook account to use it. Later they renamed the company and headset, and would you look at that — it requires meta account now.

New comment by actualwitch in "I resigned from OpenAI"

actualwitch — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:20:11 +0000

Software engineers were very insistent that politics would not be discussed at work. Now politics came to wreck their lives, anyway!

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:33:12 +0000

No I will call it what it is — fraud.

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:44:37 +0000

So it isn't I take it from your answer? If that's the case, not only did your colleague abuse protections for the vulnerable population, and possibly break the law by misrepresenting the legal aspects of your startup (IANAL), but you also didn't see anything wrong with potentially fucking over actual women owned businesses helping underprivileged kids (which I reckon is infinitely more valuable to society than whatever startup your colleague has) and even go as far as publicizing it on this high traffic website as a tip. This kind of behaviour is exactly the reason these protections exist, but big tech never gave enough of a fuck to do anything except virtue signal and democrats are too impotent to actually make them do it.

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:06:10 +0000

Was the startup actually women owned and helping underprivileged kids?

New comment by actualwitch in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

actualwitch — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:13:25 +0000

Turns out, all you needed to do was say "jumping out of boiling water is woke" and frogs will turn up the heat themselves.

New comment by actualwitch in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

actualwitch — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:12:30 +0000

Photos does store pictures as files in the folder. The .photoslibrary is a package (which is just a directory) you can open and pictures are stored in originals/.

New comment by actualwitch in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

actualwitch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:47:55 +0000

In downvoting it, they are proving me right. For posterity, there is a mastodon account [0] collecting flagged posts in an easily digestible form, it really does paint a certain picture if you ask me.

[0] https://mastodon.social/@hn_flagged

New comment by actualwitch in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

actualwitch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:44:40 +0000

Even with addition of tomhow, they are clearly stretched too thin to make any meaningful impact. Their official answer to this issue by the way is to point out that you can message them on email to elicit this manual action, which if you ask me is a fucking joke and clearly shows the mammoth age stack in which this site is written and lack of resources allocated to its support is having a massive impact on their ability to keep up with massive traffic. But then again, this site only exists to funnel attention to yc's startups, and it is something that you need to keep in mind while trying to answer any questions about its current state.