Hacker News: plufz

New comment by plufz in "EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services"

plufz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:14:28 +0000

Im sure you are right, but I’m not sure what you mean. I can search for an address fine in search and I get an embedded map that I can click to open Google Maps. How does it work in the US?

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

plufz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:01:03 +0000

Im guessing parent meant more open in this particular case, i.e open weight models vs closed cloud hosted. Obviously china is not an open country.

New comment by plufz in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

plufz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:52:50 +0000

From what we know this far it’s quite easy to be on Apples side in this particular question, right?

New comment by plufz in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

plufz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:07:44 +0000

I think XR would prefer your solution as well. Still I can understand young people’s frustration when we after years and years of knowing about climate change do so little and so few laws of this type are enacted.

But I agree that their strategy is lacking. It would probably be easier to get people in general to support it if it didn’t affect them directly, sadly.

New comment by plufz in "Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs"

plufz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:39:34 +0000

Great. Sounds like a classic start of any post apocalyptic horror movie.

New comment by plufz in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

plufz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:57:57 +0000

What would happen if they mass distilled one of the really large local models like GLM 700b or deepseek 1.6t?

New comment by plufz in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

plufz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:45:28 +0000

Can you explain why you think xenophobia is low? My experience as a swed is that xenophobia and trying to avoid immigration often go hand in hand. You do not have a large Swiss right populist semi racist party like most other European countries have?

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

plufz — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:55:01 +0000

It mounts specified directories into the vm from what I remember

New comment by plufz in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

plufz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:14:36 +0000

Maybe the difference is that just reading Wikipedia only help you part of the way. While an LLM could help you step by step (e2e) producing a functional weapon. And setting a more complex rule where claude tells you some things about this and not other is probably a lot more work for little gain?

But I have no idea. Just guessing here.

New comment by plufz in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

plufz — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:24:33 +0000

I think you should consider the possibility that people who ”don’t mention it” does so because we don’t see the science pointing in that direction.

New comment by plufz in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

plufz — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:23:49 +0000

Thanks a million!

New comment by plufz in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

plufz — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:33:18 +0000

Which exact model are you using? And with which parameters and quant? And on what hardware? Are you using any specific MCPs or other tools to optimize performance like context-mode or dynamic context pruning? I’ve used local models a reasonable amount before but I’m just starting out with opencode. Haven’t had great results yet but really want this to work for simpler tasks. My opencode newly installed is also having iterm on 100% cpu in idle. :/

New comment by plufz in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

plufz — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:08:22 +0000

Yeah Apple is smart enough to know that large conspiracies tend to leak sooner or later. Your solution would absolutely have been my choice if I wanted to slow down old iPhones, and I’m quite sure the leadership at Apple are smarter than me.

New comment by plufz in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

plufz — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:41:04 +0000

But wasn’t that just a setting changing it to default to fn? It was some time since I last used them…

New comment by plufz in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

plufz — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:23:00 +0000

Don’t use those expensive escrow services, much cheaper to keep your own crows!

New comment by plufz in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

plufz — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:45:20 +0000

I used to be mostly at high/xhigh but now at medium I think it actually performs quite well both on results and token usage.

New comment by plufz in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

plufz — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:21:04 +0000

Does gemma work better than qwen3 in your experience?

New comment by plufz in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

plufz — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:14:03 +0000

That I can agree on. The right for children to by energy drinks is something different for me.

New comment by plufz in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

plufz — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:27:19 +0000

You and I have very different ideas of dystopia.

New comment by plufz in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

plufz — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:24:51 +0000

I also have things I want to change in gatekeeper, but that feature is not one of them. Just gut feeling but I would say 110% of all users, would just click ”start” on every unsigned app if it was that easy.