Hacker News: ancorevard

New comment by ancorevard in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

ancorevard — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:44:44 +0000

New comment by ancorevard in "Cloudflare threatens Italy exit over €14M fine"

ancorevard — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:33:18 +0000

From TBPN today: https://x.com/tbpn/status/2011930385555566600

New comment by ancorevard in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

ancorevard — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:25:40 +0000

True. CCP does not attempt to impose their censorship on other countries, while EU have asked Cloudflare to DNS block their wish list for the entire world.

New comment by ancorevard in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

ancorevard — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:43:23 +0000

"he's technically in the wrong for not abiding to the law"

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

New comment by ancorevard in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

ancorevard — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:51:17 +0000

This one better hurt the Apple employees who still cares:

"On the upside: it’s not that hard anymore to design better than Apple!"

New comment by ancorevard in "X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans"

ancorevard — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:16:15 +0000

You can still opt in today to tag your location in a post, that never changed.

New comment by ancorevard in "X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans"

ancorevard — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:42:46 +0000

This is incorrect.

The old Twitter and its API had "source" field which showed the client app a tweet was sent from.

{ "created_at": "Mon Nov 20 12:34:56 +0000 2023", "id_str": "1726578932412345678", "full_text": "Example tweet", "source": "http://twitter.com/download/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone", ... }

New comment by ancorevard in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

ancorevard — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:24:17 +0000

Rookie mistake. Should have identified as an undocumented immigrant. $0 bill.

New comment by ancorevard in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

ancorevard — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:36:15 +0000

Can't use Anthropic models in Cursor. Completely cost prohibitive compared to gpt-5 and grok models.

Why is this? Does Anthropic have just higher infrastructure costs compared to OpenAI/xAI?

New comment by ancorevard in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

ancorevard — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:23:56 +0000

so since reasoning_effort is not discussed anywhere, I assume you used the default which is "medium"?

New comment by ancorevard in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

ancorevard — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:57:16 +0000

Deep betrayal by Apple.

"privacy is a fundamental human right" - Tim Cook.

New comment by ancorevard in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

ancorevard — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:54:11 +0000

There is a lot of upside of inviting CCP into your home, for instance...

New comment by ancorevard in "SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing"

ancorevard — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:52:12 +0000

Yes, we must demand they stop improving at such a speed.

How dare they have ambition to develop tech advanced enough to go to Mars.

New comment by ancorevard in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

ancorevard — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:56:34 +0000

Will future tech companies bother making their products available in the EU? Will it be worth it, or is just too big of a risk with uncertain outcomes?

New comment by ancorevard in "Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more"

ancorevard — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:30:59 +0000

Microsoft's OpenAI models seems even worse. They run their own "safety" filter.

Using their models in a medical setting is impossible. It refuses to describe scientific photos and will not summarize HCP discussions (texts) that it misinterprets.

New comment by ancorevard in "Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more"

ancorevard — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:40:17 +0000

This is the most important update.

Pricing and speed doesn't matter when your call fails because of "safety".

New comment by ancorevard in "Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio"

ancorevard — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:38:57 +0000

Are there any services like this that exist with an API?

I would like to send a text and then get back a podcast dialog between two people.

New comment by ancorevard in "When RAND made magic in Santa Monica"

ancorevard — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:16:40 +0000

Any books recommendations for this part of history?

New comment by ancorevard in "HumaneAI pin maker selling itself for $1B"

ancorevard — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:07:19 +0000

How did you arrive at 200M? Sounds generous.

New comment by ancorevard in "Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs"

ancorevard — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:44:40 +0000

You should look into types of people are running the various parts of Rippling.