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

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:30:39 +0000

He is reinforcing his point by referencing Anthropic’s statements.

Virtually every debater is gloating by that measure.

New comment by paulddraper in "How to earn a billion dollars"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:25:45 +0000

> if the economy is growing at 2.5%, how do you sustain 15% over 5 years?

By growing better than the average?

New comment by paulddraper in "How to earn a billion dollars"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:24:35 +0000

She said you can’t earn it.

Everyday, people grind their own flour.

Then I build a mill, and allow them to use it in exchange for a part of their flour.

Is my wealth not earned?

New comment by paulddraper in "Amazon says its datacenters used about 2.5B gallons of water last year"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:19:22 +0000

1. The discourse is indeed idiotic. Data centers use less water than the (usually agriculture) purposes that land has already been zoned for.

2. “It just gets evaporated” is not a good take either. Fresh versus salt water matter, and their distribution matter a lot too.

New comment by paulddraper in "Everyone is not using AI for everything"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:11:49 +0000

Your 5 year old is going to a heck of a kindergarten.

New comment by paulddraper in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:03:45 +0000

50/50 chance Grok will do it even if you ask it not to.

New comment by paulddraper in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:03:03 +0000

Limiting the output and excluding training data are not the same.

New comment by paulddraper in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:01:21 +0000

Huh?

New comment by paulddraper in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

paulddraper — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:53 +0000

Turns out everyone just says the thing that sounds good.

New comment by paulddraper in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

paulddraper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:12:37 +0000

I guarantee every frontier lab has an unreleased better model, that they are running through paces.

New comment by paulddraper in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

paulddraper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:12:12 +0000

> Meanwhile, HN has anchored on "marketing hype" as the only possible explanation

The Claude.ai web prompt has an undismissable "Claude Fable 5 is current unavailable" notice.

I'm not saying it's 100% a stunt.

But...Anthropic really wants you to know about it.

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

paulddraper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Put the LLM in a jail.

It can't get out.

Not if it's a good jail.

Solved.

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

paulddraper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:01:54 +0000

But what happens when they fix whatever's making it a risk?

New comment by paulddraper in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

paulddraper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:26:26 +0000

Counterpoint: I know it when I see it.

New comment by paulddraper in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

paulddraper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:52:52 +0000

Amen.

I've always said that by only writing ASM can you get any sense of accomplishment from authoring software.

New comment by paulddraper in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

paulddraper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:33:30 +0000

New comment by paulddraper in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

paulddraper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:55:45 +0000

Well no one ever had issues with GitHub.

New comment by paulddraper in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

paulddraper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:28:20 +0000

I tried hosting a homebrew tap, after hosting apt and yum repositories.

That was when I realized Homebrew is much, much harder.

Your server needs to implement the git protocol. You can't just stick it on some server with a CDN in front of it, you need to run and fortify a git server.

Strange choices IMHO.

New comment by paulddraper in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

paulddraper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:26:09 +0000

Please edit the title.

Currently "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

Should be "Claude Desktop spins up a VM with no way of stopping it"

New comment by paulddraper in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

paulddraper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:18:51 +0000

And now we see the picture come together.