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New comment by andy_ppp in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:27:22 +0000

Interesting... I downloaded dataset-agent and removed various different styles from the textarea (with an intention of providing a PR) including the overflow-x: hidden and I tried Safari and Chrome with both the global Mac setting of Always showing scrollbars on and off. It NEVER shows the scrollbar for me.

Do you have an extension installed that is doing something weird to your textareas? Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I think for now overflow-x is fine if you are experiencing it and I am not! Let's all get on with our lives... I was probably a bit overzealous about caring all that much about a perfectly fine CSS fix.

New comment by andy_ppp in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:39:52 +0000

"When have you most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage?" Amazing resourcefulness, you should consider applying to YC if you haven't! And I hope you manage to find a solution to your problem it sounds very promising.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:32:48 +0000

Yes I agree, the solution committed is horrible, but nobody cares any more. We have entered a very strange parallel universe where because AI can work things out it's easier to take solutions that are sub optimal and just churn out (potentially) buggy features.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:41:55 +0000

They can also potentially allow said issues to be found and fixed more quickly - and also allow teams to implement deeper security boundaries throughout their systems such that one big steel door getting compromised does not lead to everything being easily available.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:32:50 +0000

These things go in cycles, we’ll be back - or potentially something better will come along.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:51:11 +0000

Yes they already had an accident where the model magically downgrades itself, very likely that it just produces less good output rather than just stops working isn’t it… my guess is they were testing these features, accidentally or not, and wrote up something to justify what people were seeing. I find it absolutely disgraceful I can’t trust it to learn ML any more without there being a chance it’s messing me around. This whole saga represents a huge loss of trust for me in Anthropic.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:41:36 +0000

Is anyone building (open source?) G-Suite - I’m honestly tired of paying Google money and I think everyone needs independence.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

andy_ppp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:14:37 +0000

It’s becoming more like an organism putting out tentacles, and one day soon those relentlessly proactive explorations of these systems’ environments will become more for the system to escape its boundaries than it is to complete human driven tasks. I do think the way these systems are evolving they will start to self improve in maximum a few years.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

andy_ppp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:32:11 +0000

I said I wondered if the models were going to start poisoning distillation and I got downvoted to hell. It’s interesting to me that they are now downgrading ML research too in this model, I would argue this implies the terrifying and impossible to reason about self improving AI doom loop is coming sooner rather than later. Bit worrying.

New comment by andy_ppp in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

andy_ppp — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:56:13 +0000

We’ve had a warmer than average year worldwide every year since 1976. I suppose it’s just coincidence that exactly what climate scientists said would happen keeps happening and keeps getting worse.

New comment by andy_ppp in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

andy_ppp — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:16:06 +0000

Yes, the plan seems to be anti human in the extreme. Why do you need the plebs if they can be entirely replaced by AI? But the question then becomes why does the AI (and before that their security detail in a post money world) need billionaires?

New comment by andy_ppp in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

andy_ppp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:12:39 +0000

My god, it's perfect.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

andy_ppp — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:31:43 +0000

Great for everyone except those who invest in index funds (directly or indirectly) and want some level of stability?

New comment by andy_ppp in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

andy_ppp — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:28:31 +0000

I’m even seeing colleagues using AI slop instead of writing responses on Slack/Teams… I have no idea if I should call out this behaviour, usually I have been saying “finding the above text difficult to parse” followed by a yes/no question seems to get me closer the the answers I need but it’s excruciating to work like this.

New comment by andy_ppp in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

andy_ppp — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:18:37 +0000

Funny, Opus 4.8 just logged into the database using uncommitted .env file and ran some DB queries to figure things out so I’m not sure it’s that security conscious - it seems to be getting more intelligent to me and I bet if you frame it as an investigation with say playwright it’ll do all sorts for you. I’m not sure what the point is of constraining your own model like this when others are clearly not tbh.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development"

andy_ppp — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:25:09 +0000

The intern probably knows more about their work than the CEO in 99% of orgs. The leaf nodes who do the work know more about anything than their managers (who think they know everything but, in most organisations, understand very little). Your system must keep the managers happy to be successful, which could prove a tricky circle to square.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

andy_ppp — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:21:34 +0000

You can of course still do the second thing, the types are not forced if you don't want them!

New comment by andy_ppp in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

andy_ppp — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:32:59 +0000

Move fast and break other people’s things?

New comment by andy_ppp in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

andy_ppp — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:24:59 +0000

I wonder if being consistently candid is a superior business strategy?

New comment by andy_ppp in "Claude Opus 4.8"

andy_ppp — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:44:27 +0000

I doubt it, they seem to keep getting 10-20% better every time for me