Hacker News: mcast

New comment by mcast in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

mcast — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:27:12 +0000

It's a shame the labs don't open source their models after deprecating them. I get why, but, it's a piece of internet history I hope is preserved.

New comment by mcast in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

mcast — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:54:01 +0000

It seems deeply suspicious that a company benefitting from regulatory capture would artificially stoke fears of AI and propaganda about it.

New comment by mcast in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

mcast — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:50:45 +0000

When you search "us passport" or "tsa precheck" on Google, you constantly see promoted ad results impersonating government sites (ie passportvisarush.com or easegov.com) extracting and selling your PII (social security number, etc) from your application.

I've reported the ads multiple times, but new ones still end up being promoted. I'm sure these companies have mined and sold thousands of SSN/address/DOB info from unsuspecting users.

New comment by mcast in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

mcast — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:15:47 +0000

It’s a trustworthy name for enterprises. Many executives are old enough that IBM was the Google of their time when they started their careers.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Opus 5"

mcast — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:04:40 +0000

Interesting timing to release this on the same day Jensen makes a statement on open source AI.

New comment by mcast in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

mcast — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:38:02 +0000

Google and Amazon both have incredibly large compute deals with frontier labs and GovCloud. They may not want to sour on that cash.

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

mcast — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:22:08 +0000

That ship has sailed, I would wager all the AI labs are ingesting anything human generated, whether that means Hollywood movies, Taylor Swift’s discography, YouTube videos or private GitHub source repos.

The reward for having a competitive edge is exponentially higher than the risk of a lawsuit. Politicians are still old bureaucrats who don’t understand technology.

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

mcast — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:44:23 +0000

TikTok wasn’t open source and able to be run on your own hardware. Banning Alibaba’s models (or even a personal fork of them) running on your machines seems hard to defend in court.

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

mcast — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:27:05 +0000

Is there any SCOTUS precedent for this? It seems like a huge 1A issue for the government to limit self hosted access to a foreign country’s LLM.

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

mcast — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:05:25 +0000

Stripe seems to be doing fairly well as a private company. They continually offer liquidity events for employees to cash out, while also retaining less pressure for hypergrowth from outside activists and investors.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

mcast — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:10:53 +0000

It sounds like Anthropic is dangerously low on compute availability if they’re prioritizing these refusals as their OKRs.

New comment by mcast in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

mcast — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:38:11 +0000

I've been very content moving away from OneDrive/GDrive to a personal NAS setup with Synology/Ugreen. You can access a shared drive/photo drive and use Tailscale to mount your volume from anywhere.

I've also configured encrypted cloud backups to a different geographic region and off-site backups to a friend's NAS (following the 3-2-1 backup rule). It does help having 2.5Gb networking as well, but owning your data is more important in the coming age of sloppy/degrading infrastructure and ransomware attacks.

New comment by mcast in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

mcast — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:49:10 +0000

Lockdown mode is opt-in only though

New comment by mcast in "Goodbye to Sora"

mcast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:28:44 +0000

I guess this is a bullish sign OpenAI has hired a lot of PMs from Google!

New comment by mcast in "Layoffs at Block"

mcast — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:37:35 +0000

>repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust [...] i'd rather take a hard, clear action now [...] than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome

I think this is pretty agreeable, spanning layoffs into a monthly/quarterly "Hunger Games" is very damaging to employee morale.

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools"

mcast — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:13:35 +0000

Using OAuth tokens from Claude Code/Claude.ai in third party tools such as OpenClaw or OpenCode now officially warrants a ToS violation.

https://x.com/robzolkos/status/2024125323755884919?s=46

Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools

mcast — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063384

Points: 9

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New comment by mcast in "Twitter(X) Is Down"

mcast — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:04:22 +0000

Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

mcast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:28:05 +0000

I should note this only happens in Claude Code, not the web UI. Since CC is agentic and spawns subagents on prompts that require a lot of thinking.

It will spend a lot of time grokking the codebase, which would consume more tokens on larger projects.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

mcast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:29:44 +0000

It's known that Anthropic's $20 Pro subscription is a gateway plan to their $100 Max subscription, since you'll easily burn your token rate on a single prompt or two. Meanwhile, I've had ample usage testing out Codex on the basic $20 ChatGPT Plus plan without a problem.

As for Anthropic's $100 Max subscription, it's almost always better to start new sessions for tasks since a long conversation will burn your 5-hour usage limit with just a few prompts (assuming they read many files). It's also best to start planning first with Claude, providing line numbers and exact file paths prior, and drilling down the requirements before you start any implementation.