<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dannyw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dannyw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:53:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dannyw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, OpenAI admits they silently reroute sensitive requests to different models for user welfare at least: <a href="https://openai.com/index/building-more-helpful-chatgpt-experiences-for-everyone/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/building-more-helpful-chatgpt-exper...</a><p>The implementation was so borked, SamA went back on Reddit and apologised: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1o6jins/updates_for_chatgpt/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1o6jins/updates_fo...</a><p>Model re-routing happens for coding tasks too. For example, in OpenAI support pages used to (at least 1 month ago when I checked) mention that if they automatically use a cheaper -mini to accomplish the task behind the scenes, you’ll be charged -mini prices even if you selected a more expensive model. I just checked again and they’ve removed it, but there’s probably archives.<p>Finally, even if they’re the same weights, you don’t know what quantisation you’re running at. Adaptive quantisation based on load (given workday peaks), or similar techniques, have been happening since the ChatGPT 3.5 days; the techniques are probably more advanced now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:27:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594492</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also their API customers and downstream customers (e.g. Cursor users) would also need similar infra, and probably a decent amount of users would just choose another model that doesn't require ID & an immigration status check.<p>And API is much more profitable (relatively) than subscribers for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:24:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534823</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Internet will find a way to route around censorship. I’ve already started downloading notable open weight models onto my NAS and will distribute via eg BitTorrents if needed. I’m not in the US, and you can’t ban VPNs overnight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:33:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523633</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe, but the world and the internet isn’t just the US.<p>Businesses outside of the US, like the EU, might have significant competitive advantages.</p>
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<p>They are open weight, so you can abliterate: <a href="https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic</a><p>You can finetune and mould it to whatever you want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:01:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523466</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let LLMs help you with coding. Design the game and the mechanics yourself. I can see this being an incredibly empowering tool in the right game developer's hands; but if you come into it with a token-maxxing / AI-maxxing mentality, I doubt you'll make a fun game to play.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518282</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel really bad for Anthropic right now. This should never have happened and seems like another arbitrary use of government power, Friday after market closes.<p>Whatever you feel about Anthropic, good or bad, this is not fair, and this is not good for the industry.</p>
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<p>It seems like this might not have happened if Anthropic didn't institute the cyber blocks as broadly to also cover pure-defensive use cases?<p>Because this wouldn't be considered a jailbreak with any other model; which would just do the request.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:08:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513883</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Can I Buy Your KV Cache?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I'm really not sure what the point of this paper is. Every non-toy environment does prefix caching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510346</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In particular, mental health.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:25:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509065</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just find doubtful that a LLM is going to help, instead of hurt, any state actor that is capable of starting a nuclear weapons problem.</p>
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<p>I meant a strict budget given by my parents (and I could ask for more with justification). One of the valuable lessons I have learned is that there's no spending caps on AWS, but it taught me to set up billing alerts :)</p>
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<p>AWS will likely write off most costs automatically, but if you truly do manage to rack up a $50k bill somehow, you're getting sent to collections and/or their legal team.<p>The terms you signed obligate you to pay your balance. Whether your credit card works or not doesn't negate your legal obligation.</p>
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<p>Honestly, probably not that much electricity. AWS will charge you the hourly price irrespective of your load/power consumption. But instances sitting idle generally don't use that much power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502090</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most modern LLMs (especially frontier ones) are large token hogs because they draft, check, re-draft, the content (whether an output message; or a code diff) sometimes multiple times in the thinking block.<p>When you see a thinking summary like "Now writing the function..."; the raw thinking is actually writing the function in its internal thinking. Occasionally, the summariser misses and you get to see the raw text from models like Opus.<p>You can also try an open weight LLM like Qwen3.6 and see something that probably resembles the shape of frontier model thinking in some loose way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:04:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502069</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obviously the specifics vary by jurisdiction, but usually contracts that are 'necessary' (e.g. grocery store purchases) or beneficial to the minor (e.g. an employment agreement) cannot be voided simply because someone is under 18.<p>The further you go away from this line, e.g. a mortgage, the more likely a court of law would void the contract. As with many things in law, the specifics (if it makes to trial) is case-by-case and "it depends"; with settlement being generally based on a party's estimated chances of succeeding/costs should it go to trial.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:01:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502040</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I couldn't disagree more. I was playing around with AWS when I was probably 14 years old, with a credit card from my parents with consent, and a strict budget and the understanding that if I mess up and overspend, I'm getting disciplined.<p>I learned a lot of stuff about networking, how AWS works (VPCs, IAM, CloudWatch, etc) from trial and error, and hobby projects like personal websites (free tier), hosting a Minecraft server, etc.<p>Being too overprotective can have negative consequences on folks who are responsible. One of the things I love about the technology and internet communities, etc is that you're mostly judged based on how you act and behave; not your age or other visible characteristics.</p>
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<p>I burst out laughing when the agent spawned a subagent to join IRC. So funny.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500624</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I think Fable is really good for debugging tricky bugs.<p>Setting boundaries in your prompt / markdowns helps; for example if I tell it to not use any web browser automation, I have seen Fable respect both the rule and the spirit of it (no weird hacks etc).<p>It does seem to treat some simple debugging tasks as more complicated than it actually is. OP’s post is probably a good example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:18:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499505</link><dc:creator>dannyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dannyw in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, a company choosing to use some terminology doesn’t make it correct nor canonical in any sense; especially when they have a vested interest in not being neutral or credible.<p>If Google starts calling ads “Best Links” that doesn’t make it correct nor canonical; the correct term is still ads.<p>Traditionally, distillation is when you get the actual logits of a model response (not exposed via API for years) and then use that to train a model.</p>
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