Hacker News: ceroxylon

New comment by ceroxylon in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

ceroxylon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:31:29 +0000

This is like the alerts in new cars that remind you to check for other passengers when you exit... helpful, but a worrying sign of the times.

New comment by ceroxylon in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

ceroxylon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:28:13 +0000

Anthropic appears to have found a path to profitability: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/17/anthropic...

New comment by ceroxylon in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

ceroxylon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:35:16 +0000

Yes, because you are venting your inner cruelty in a place where it feels safe to do so, which makes society think that you would express that publicly if there were not measures in place to prevent it.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

ceroxylon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:30:11 +0000

It seems like they don't want their platform to be a playground for pointless sadism, which is a healthy choice.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

ceroxylon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:26:19 +0000

May I ask what the point of being cruel to a language model is?

New comment by ceroxylon in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

ceroxylon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:21:46 +0000

There are people who think it is hilarious to 'torture' LLMs, so this move is understandable. Worst case, it gets them to stop wasting their time, best case, LLMs have some form of consciousness that we don't understand and this is the correct moral move (I understand this is controversial and unproven).

(It seems like those people have found this comment, hopefully they introspect at some point)

New comment by ceroxylon in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

ceroxylon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:04:58 +0000

Think about the target audience, this technology is being pushed on people with money that don't have the depth of insight that you do.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

ceroxylon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:03:40 +0000

Perhaps they are preparing for a switch to usage-based pricing for everything at some point and are thinking of ways to burn tokens? Not to be conspiratorial but many companies think like that, and tokens = money at this point.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Mistral Large 4"

ceroxylon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:49:16 +0000

Anthropic is profitable: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/17/anthropic...

New comment by ceroxylon in "The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists"

ceroxylon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:07:19 +0000

Targeting the disease-spreading species is the point, there are 3,500+ species and only a handful of them cause widespread suffering in humans, and the predators of those are generalists and would survive on other insects.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

ceroxylon — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:18:47 +0000

Wow, that is a wild read, thank you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

New comment by ceroxylon in "Gemini 4 Argon"

ceroxylon — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:55:01 +0000

Alphabet also has nearly infinite money to pour into this endeavor from their advertising enterprise, so much so that AI/LLMs could all fall apart and they would be happy to go back to selling mid-roll campaigns on youtube videos.

New comment by ceroxylon in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

ceroxylon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:08:28 +0000

I will tell my story: I found a huge accounting error that allowed for several employees to embezzle funds. I disclosed it to the main stakeholders and some people went to jail. The accounting team still refused to acknowledge that the mistake was theirs, so I left on principle.

A few weeks later, I was talking to an old colleague and they revealed that the story that came from stakeholders was that the accounting team found the error, and I left in disgrace (despite that not being my department?).

So if you find an embarrassing mistake and you do not control the narrative, you have to proceed very carefully.

New comment by ceroxylon in "America.gov"

ceroxylon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:43:08 +0000

I suppose we need a prisonmaxxing benchmark... how likely is a model's output going to get you incarcerated?

New comment by ceroxylon in "America.gov"

ceroxylon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:41:17 +0000

I wanted to be snarky, but it responded to my risky question about corporate mergers with some genuinely helpful advice on how to file complaints with the FTC. Not bad!

New comment by ceroxylon in "Sonnet 5.5"

ceroxylon — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:09:12 +0000

This is a community and it is an inside joke at this point, it wouldn't be a proper model release without Simon's pelicans.

I find it useful (as well as a fun art project).

New comment by ceroxylon in "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot"

ceroxylon — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:34:58 +0000

If you own a network and the servers, you can DPI every single packet and see literally every bit of information. All of the text to the "forum" that they created must have been in -outbound- packets to their compromised package manager, by definition. If they can't properly analyze network traffic, they should not be running 'sandboxes'.

Anything beyond baseline would be observable- silence, malformed packets, too much egress, unusually large packets, etc

New comment by ceroxylon in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

ceroxylon — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:56:38 +0000

I disagree, I think it adds context that the political climate of the time was more complicated and involved than the original point. It was a place where you couldn't farm and were under constant attack, during that time.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

ceroxylon — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:54:54 +0000

That's why I added the context about European settlers, it was the States that were drawing the lines and they labeled it "no man's land", look into the history of Beaver County.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

ceroxylon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:20:36 +0000

Not sure if it is working for others, but if I point it at any of my domains I get "The model provider rejected the request".