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New comment by addandsubtract in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

addandsubtract — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:04:55 +0000

We had a story like this almost a year ago:

https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801

New comment by addandsubtract in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

addandsubtract — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:14:08 +0000

Delays, vandalized carts, people jumping on tracks, intoxicated people on the train, buskers, no AC in the summer / heating in the winter, people talking on speakerphone / not wearing headphones, ...

New comment by addandsubtract in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

addandsubtract — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:02:50 +0000

Templates need to be filled. Breaking template rules requires actual thinking.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

addandsubtract — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:50:08 +0000

Not to mention that loyalty programs and credit card bonuses don't exist in Europe.

New comment by addandsubtract in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

addandsubtract — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:58:27 +0000

Because you're POSTing them to a server? The same way you can't type everything into Google.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Flipdiscs"

addandsubtract — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:08:50 +0000

Someone on reddit did it: https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1rcs8dc/flipdot_di...

New comment by addandsubtract in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

addandsubtract — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:17:48 +0000

The American mind can't comprehend privacy. Just because it's company equipment doesn't make it "fair game" to spy and track you.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"

addandsubtract — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:02:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Looking through the data[0], some of the terms / sentences don't really reflect the target word meanings. For example, "beta" is only used in a derogatory way in 1 instance, out of 4. "facial" is used as an adjective instead of a noun 3/4 times. "eating out" is used in the context of going to a restaurant 4/4 times.

This leads me to believe the models are even MORE censored than you make them out to be.

[0] https://github.com/chknlittle/EuphemismBench/blob/main/carri...

New comment by addandsubtract in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"

addandsubtract — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:41:58 +0000

I know you're just sharing a single sample, but is this even the same test? In the article, the model is being inspected while generating the next token(s), and the probabilities are listed.

Here, you're asking the model to retrospectively fill in a missing word, and it's answering your prompt. We have no idea what the actual token probability in Claude is and no way of probing it by asking it.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Claude Design"

addandsubtract — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:22 +0000

Developers (and designers) need to be involved in the prompting phase. Handing off half-assed designs and code is just a recipe for disaster.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Claude Design"

addandsubtract — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:31 +0000

It works for me. Check again?

New comment by addandsubtract in "Claude Opus 4.7"

addandsubtract — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:47:25 +0000

Vote with your wallet, just like Americans.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Claude Opus 4.7"

addandsubtract — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:45:35 +0000

We started out with oobabooga, so caveman is the next logical evolution on the road to AGI.

New comment by addandsubtract in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

addandsubtract — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:58:42 +0000

FWIW, I just create a new Gemini API key today, and it had a different format than my old ones (created 10 days ago). So maybe they changed something?

New comment by addandsubtract in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

addandsubtract — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:08:38 +0000

Oh, I definitely look up products I intend to buy on YouTube. But I don't go there (or any other video platform) to discover them.

New comment by addandsubtract in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

addandsubtract — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:50:44 +0000

This whole concept of selling things in video format seems so alien to me. I didn't believe when someone told me they shop on TikTok now. It already takes me ages to browse through a gallery of items, I couldn't imagine going through items video by video.

New comment by addandsubtract in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

addandsubtract — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:07:00 +0000

But I downloaded Claude.exe /s

New comment by addandsubtract in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

addandsubtract — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:03:37 +0000

Meanwhile, I'm using MCP for the LLM to lookup up-to-date documentation, and not hallucinate APIs.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Am I German or Autistic?"

addandsubtract — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:04:49 +0000

There's a German word for that: Deutschgeistlichveranlagt.

New comment by addandsubtract in "Am I German or Autistic?"

addandsubtract — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:58:03 +0000

Tja.