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New comment by aqua_coder in "Identity verification on Claude"

aqua_coder — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:49:10 +0000

This might seem unrelated but on one of my free accounts. I tried to make Claude do some historical fact checking on the inter-war period of the USSR. The point isn't if it is true or not, but it felt like it would help quite a lot to see what the sources Claude finds says about the both sides of the picture and I was curious at some point.

Funnily enough, a day after this my account got banned under the pretext that I was a child using Claude and that I would need to verify my account. The age verifier said that it doesn't store my photos or anything. It gets cheeky though and indirectly it says it doesn't store what I upload but sends it to third parties that do store and sell it. Its like saying I won't steal your money, but I will give it to the thief right over there for free. Now the flagging might be entirely coincidental, but I just exported my chats and just never went on with the intention to re verify my account (since it is a free one basically and there is no incentive for me to do so). Weirdly enough, I started to see my past chat history that I exported to check and see if there is any correlation between how I talked and if there might have been some instances in which the system might attribute said message as what a young person would say. Though from the looks of it, it didn't give any of that sort of vibe.

New comment by aqua_coder in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

aqua_coder — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:53:47 +0000

Not everyone have fast enough networks, there are places where people find it lucky to download something that is more than 2 GiBs without finding it to fail suddenly.

New comment by aqua_coder in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

aqua_coder — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:49:54 +0000

I live in one of those countries, and while renewable electricity helped to cushion the concern for house electricity, most of the logistics (that being the supply chain for basic commodities) are transported by oil (specifically diesel). Which further increases inflation for import dependent countries. Meaning even for those states (except those that don't import oil to move cars in the country) it will regardless cause an economic crisis.

One state is considered to be fully 'renewable' if the means of transport (excluding Airplanes since I can't find a suitable alternative ) for land is done via electric cars

New comment by aqua_coder in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

aqua_coder — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:07:26 +0000

My experience with working with AI agents is that they can be verbose and do things that are too over complicated by default. Unless directed explicitly. Which may be the reason for this discrepancy.

New comment by aqua_coder in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

aqua_coder — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:10:57 +0000

what the hell are you talking about ?

New comment by aqua_coder in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

aqua_coder — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:01:27 +0000

There is a notable difference between say, calculating long division through a calculator compared to prompting an AI to calculate the derivative of a simple continuous function. one requires _understanding_ of the function, while the other just skips the understanding and returns the required derivative. One is just a means to skip labor intensive and repetitive actions, while the other is meant to skip the entire point of _why_ you are even calculating in the first place. What is the point of dividing two numbers if you don't even understand the reason behind it ?

New comment by aqua_coder in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

aqua_coder — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:36:01 +0000

I am not knowledgeable on how transformer works but, what if, us humans just do the same thing in our minds as well ? What if our feeling of "understanding" is merely just the emotional response to a pattern matching as you just said?