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New comment by maplethorpe in "Claude.ai down"

maplethorpe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:49:16 +0000

By now they would have done a sweep with Mythos to remove any existing bugs and protect it from any cybersecurity attacks. So what could realistically bring it down at this point? Internal espionage?

New comment by maplethorpe in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

maplethorpe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:58:02 +0000

Did something change? HN has always been very pro-AI until recently, and now it seems to have swung dramatically the other way. Not one comment even agreeing with me.

New comment by maplethorpe in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

maplethorpe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:27:10 +0000

Didn't they rush to integrate ChatGPT into their OS back in 2024? Reality doesn't seem to align with your description.

New comment by maplethorpe in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

maplethorpe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:57:21 +0000

Altman has made suggestions on how to fix this. I believe his main one is for AI to be subsidised so that it remains free for public use. The public could then use those free tokens to enrich themselves and offset any negative societal impacts.

New comment by maplethorpe in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

maplethorpe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:37:57 +0000

I feel like Altman's PR team is dropping the ball. We somehow need to get the word out that AI tools will benefit all of humanity, not detract from it.

New comment by maplethorpe in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

maplethorpe — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:18:44 +0000

Question: if I disallow all of OpenAI's crawlers, do they detect this and retroactively filter out all of my data from other corpuses, such as CommonCrawl?

The fact is my data exists in corpuses used by OpenAI before I was even aware anyone was scraping it. I'm wondering what can be done about that, if anything.

New comment by maplethorpe in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

maplethorpe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:00:49 +0000

Maybe they're about to open source their weights?

New comment by maplethorpe in "The Importance of Being Idle"

maplethorpe — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:37:56 +0000

If you read the whole fable, the hare lost because he stopped to lie in the grass.

If he had just kept going, he would have won easily. It would have been embarrassing for the tortoise.

New comment by maplethorpe in "The Importance of Being Idle"

maplethorpe — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:15:01 +0000

I feel like right now is the worst time to be idle. Stopping to smell the roses or lie on the grass when you could be spinning up agents and burning tokens means you'll be left in the dust.

New comment by maplethorpe in "'This Is Just Not How the Human Race Should Operate,' Says US Senator"

maplethorpe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:11:59 +0000

It might be hard for people in other countries to fathom, but Americans, by and large, want this.

New comment by maplethorpe in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

maplethorpe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:43:20 +0000

Funny, I made my own model at home and got even higher scores than these. I'm a bit concerned about releasing it, though, so I'm just going to keep it local for now.

New comment by maplethorpe in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

maplethorpe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:23:58 +0000

> Why are corporations allowed to do with impunity what could land even a teenager years in prison? Is there no rule of law anymore?

Those laws are intended to protect corporations. If corporations are the ones doing the scraping, it doesn't make sense for the same laws to affect them.

New comment by maplethorpe in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

maplethorpe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:10:38 +0000

Upcoming midterm elections and lack of public support for the war.

New comment by maplethorpe in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

maplethorpe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:30:20 +0000

Lego has the resources to take on the AI labs infringing their copyright, but they're instead choosing to ignore it. From where I'm standing, it doesn't seem like they care very much.

New comment by maplethorpe in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

maplethorpe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:08:07 +0000

Having AI create music frees us up to do other things with our time.

New comment by maplethorpe in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

maplethorpe — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:54:59 +0000

I'm waiting for Anthropic to realise they can just set a few thousand agents loose to do just that, and monopolize the entire software market overnight. I'm not sure why they haven't done this yet.

New comment by maplethorpe in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

maplethorpe — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:51:31 +0000

I honestly don't know why this guy is hiring Alice and Bob in the first place, instead of just running two agents. He seemed to be saying it's to invest in them as people, but why? What is the end goal? If the end goal is to produce research, then just get the agents to do it.

New comment by maplethorpe in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

maplethorpe — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:14:05 +0000

You need to learn how to practice. Anthony Jones has a video called "how to study better", where he walks you through his process. It's directed at concept artists rather than pixel artists but the same principles apply. I'd suggest watching it.

New comment by maplethorpe in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

maplethorpe — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:39:27 +0000

If Trump wasn't embarrassing for them before I doubt they're embarrassed now.

New comment by maplethorpe in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

maplethorpe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:34:24 +0000

Research.