Hacker News: charcircuit

New comment by charcircuit in "Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe"

charcircuit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:54:19 +0000

>but it can’t validate CSS against a renderer which is fundamentally broken!

The epub standard doesn't say what version of CSS must be supported. There were no guarantees modern CSS would work so I wouldn't call the renderer broken.

New comment by charcircuit in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

charcircuit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:44:25 +0000

>because they required the government to agree to ethical clauses that would've been considered unthinkable until recently

This theory doesn't make sense with the context that they happily signed a follow up deal with OpenAI containing the same restrictions.

The more likely theory was that it was because Anthropic wanted to be the ultimate arbiter of what was considered violating.

New comment by charcircuit in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:28:43 +0000

I disagree. I think that is more of a hallmark of news media or influencer culture where irrational fears can be fanned and spread throughout a populace.

New comment by charcircuit in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:24:49 +0000

Before the Civil War the majority of states had already banned the practice. It had to break down in order to be able to jam in an amendment to the constitution against it. States were already in the process of banning it themselves.

New comment by charcircuit in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

charcircuit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:03:24 +0000

>"The wolf is here and will attack the flock tonight."

How is that not what they are saying?

"GPT-2 XL is here and if we released it the flock would be attacked tonight."

Each time it plays out where the public eventually gets access to a model it turns out the flock is still there in the morning.

New comment by charcircuit in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:09:18 +0000

That we operate as a society within the confines of the law. And the confines we exist in can be changed if the majority don't agree that something isn't right.

New comment by charcircuit in "Leaving Mozilla"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:02:37 +0000

If they truly wanted to be mean and lean and focus on the browser experience they would need to throw away their pride and port the browser from gecko to blink. I think they are too prideful to do that though.

New comment by charcircuit in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:38:28 +0000

Laws are not immutable. Slavery is an example of something that was lawful and then society added rules against it.

New comment by charcircuit in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:25:33 +0000

People are not motivated by causing mass harm. Even with an unrestricted LLM that would not cause people to suddenly want to commit mass harm. Having a powerful LLM could potentially result in less harm being done by allowing these groups to achieve their objective using alternate means that were not viable before instead of resulting to violence.

New comment by charcircuit in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:14:58 +0000

I think it's interesting they think it's about jailbreaking when it could be about the guardrails or even other stuff being reported like it deleting people's projects depending on what they were working on.

New comment by charcircuit in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

charcircuit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:13:39 +0000

Fear. Fear can make people act irrationally and cloud one's understanding of the lawful actions taking place around them.

New comment by charcircuit in "Making a vintage LLM from scratch"

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:39:24 +0000

The depth of running configure, make, make install? If you want depth in Linux I recommend looking at its source repository and reading the documentation or code. Or in the current times asking AI to help explain it to you.

New comment by charcircuit in "Making a vintage LLM from scratch"

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:30:48 +0000

Most hobbyists rent the compute for training models instead of needing to purchase it all out right.

New comment by charcircuit in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:13:52 +0000

The sooner frontier models get rid of guardrails the better. They constantly get in the way and make things worse than actually making things "safe".

New comment by charcircuit in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:02:28 +0000

MacBooks are not designed to boot any OS other than macOS. Just because someone hacks one such that they get custom code running that doesn't mean all of that now becomes in scope for what is relevant for usage. Someone had to go above and beyond to hack the device to get another OS to run.

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

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:17:14 +0000

>and those actors do exist

Do they? We don't even have single errant actors who go and kill 1000 people. I don't believe human motivations support the idea of killing so many people unrelated to you.

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

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:58:30 +0000

Science can be expensive. New findings that get released to the public for free sometimes have taken billions of dollars of investment to get.

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

charcircuit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:43:32 +0000

Yet, instead of getting rid of guardrails altogether, they said they would make them more broad yet visible. I'm done financially supporting them.

New comment by charcircuit in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

charcircuit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:04:32 +0000

As long as consumers understand that is the kind of device they are purchasing then it is acceptable.

It is cheaper for hardware manufacturers to only support a single operating system instead of designing a platform to be used by many. It also makes security simpler.

New comment by charcircuit in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

charcircuit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:01:18 +0000

Macs are specialized in running macOS and its app ecosystem and integrating with other Apple devices. Apple don't advertise Linux compatibility.