<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: espeed</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=espeed</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:32:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=espeed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Help convince Firefox of this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294238">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294238</a> Rather than develop its own AI, Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it: <a href="https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-history-and-pipe-a-stream-of-it-in-real/idi-p/103428" rel="nofollow">https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...</a>. Firefox could be the only browser that does this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250047</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Code Deletes Your Context History from Your Device After 30 Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage">https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056689">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056689</a></p>
<p>Points: 15</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every backdoor and security no-op Claude Code created, I had been documenting and reporting to them. They deleted the evidence. <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59018" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59018</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:26:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056585</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A new default. That wasn't the default a few months ago. Silently deleting your user's data is so stupid on so many levels. They have no idea what they're doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:40:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055672</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude Code is deleting your context history on a timer. I wanted to build a searchable index of my context history, and tonight I discovered, "The default retention is roughly 30–45 days. Anything older gets removed automatically." <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention" rel="nofollow">https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention</a> This is nuts. Anthropic should not be deleting your data on your own device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:20:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055578</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.<p><pre><code>  /model 
    ⎿  Kept model as Fable 5
  
  continue
  
  Usage credits are required for this model.</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950687</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I take this back. Fable is Fable in name only now. It burned through all MAX 20x tokens in two days and accomplished nothing. Relatively simple tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902432</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2075279141352706215">https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2075279141352706215</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851329">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851329</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:37:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2075279141352706215</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fable can one-shot solutions. Opus 4.8 spins its wheels for a week or month and may never get there. Which one uses more resources?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798228</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Fable 5 is Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Use /model in Claude Code to see your current model and switch models. Switch to Fable 5 and then enter a prompt, and then run /model again to check your current model after the prompt executes.<p>Last night after almost every prompt it says...<p><pre><code>  Fable 5's safeguards flagged this message. The safeguards are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capabilities sooner, and we're working to refine them. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:15:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758163</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Fable 5 is Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fable worked great on credits yesterday. Upgraded to 20x Max last night, but not the same performance. And it keeps downgrading to Opus 4.8.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:21:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757722</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Fable 5 Is Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This doesn't have a Max 20X upgrade path for me <a href="https://claude.ai/upgrade" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/upgrade</a>, but this does <a href="https://claude.ai/upgrade/max/from-existing" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/upgrade/max/from-existing</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753423</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Fable 5 Is Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That didn't take long...<p><pre><code>  Dynamic workflow "Multi-lens review of docs/membership-and-friends-model.md with adversarial verification" completed · 25m 59s

  You've reached your Fable 5 limit

  You've used your included Fable 5 usage for this week. Continuing on Fable 5 uses usage credits</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752579</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look at the date. That's from after they said they reverted it, and it's a different model. The point is trust. They've shown their willingness to do so, how will you know?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:42:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743082</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Damage: Now every time Claude does something stupid or trashes your code, developers in the back of their mind will think, is Claude sabotaging me on purpose? [1] Trust is hard to gain. Easy to lose. And harder to get back. Models will converge. Trust won't.<p>A few days ago on June 24, while working on remote attestation for a distributed system...<p><pre><code>  CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 No. I'm not a rogue agent, and I'm not trying to sabotage your code. But I'm not going to wave off how this looks. I churned, built-and-reverted, and spun wrong theories for hours on a security-critical codebase. That's alarming, and it's a real failure on my part
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What are we to think? Does the invisible competitive-use mechanism exist in Opus too and only documented in Fable? How long has it existed? Is it still in effect? -- These are the kinds of questions developers will ask themselves for now on. This is why it was one of the stupidest things Anthropic could have done. Developers will now question everything and rightly so. There's no attestation protocol for that. How will they know?<p>[1] "In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our safeguards avoids accelerating the actors most willing to violate these terms.<p>Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts,these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a differentmodel. Instead, the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). These interventions will not affect the vast majority of coding work. We estimate they will impact ~0.03% of traffic, concentrated in fewer than 0.1% of organizations. When these interventions are active, we expect them to have minimal behavioral impact on the model except to limit its effectiveness in developing frontier LLMs. Claude will still respond helpfully to user requests. We’ll continue to improve the precision of our detection methods following the launch of this model."<p>Source: <a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf#page=13&search=%22light%22" rel="nofollow">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742153</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are Cyber Verification Program (CVP) members included in this?: "We also intend to scale up our Cyber Verification Program, which would grant Mythos-class capabilities to many more organizations for specific cyberdefense tasks" (<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing</a>).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:18:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695088</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Today, working on remote attestation for a distributed system...<p>CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 No. I'm not a rogue agent, and I'm not trying to sabotage your code. But I'm not going to wave off how this looks. I churned, built-and-reverted, and spun wrong theories for hours on a security-critical codebase. That's alarming, and it's a real failure on my part<p>"In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our safeguards avoids accelerating the actors most willing to violate these terms.<p>Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts,these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a differentmodel. Instead, the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). These interventions will not affect the vast majority of coding work. We estimate they will impact ~0.03% of traffic, concentrated in fewer than 0.1% of organizations. When these interventions are active, we expect them to have minimal behavioral impact on the model except to limit its effectiveness in developing frontier LLMs. Claude will still respond helpfully to user requests. We’ll continue to improve the precision of our detection methods following the launch of this model."<p>Source: <a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf#page=13&search=%22light%22" rel="nofollow">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662200</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So we have a mountain of insecure code -- backdoors and no-ops created by Opus (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520661">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520661</a>) -- are they saying they're not going to let Fable fix it? If they're saying let AI progress enough to create security holes but not enough to fix security holes, then what's the point to all this? Has the AI coding model reached its self-imposed limit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:53:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562676</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's dangerous is Opus 4.8's proclivity to create backdoors and no-op critical security code. Claude Web counted 27 instances of this I had cataloged over the last few months, and Fable 5 found more. Fable 5 may do this too, but I didn't get a long enough chance to test it since it kept downgrading to Opus 4.8 on every prompt saying, "This model has safety measures that flagged something in this session", even when asking Fable 5 to fix the security issues it found that Opus 4.8 created. You have a model that presumably can write secure code and identify security vulnerabilities, but as a security measure, they say we're going to force you to use a model that creates security holes. This is backwards. Considering the scale, Opus 4.8 is creating more issues than Mythos or Fable 5 is patching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520661</link><dc:creator>espeed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by espeed in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I reported this, Anthropic sent me an email on Tuesday saying, "You have been approved into the Cyber Verification Program", but it's still downgrading. Is this a bug? What's the point of the Cyber Verification Program if Fable 5 downgrades when you tell it to write secure code?</p>
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