<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: putlake</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=putlake</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:44:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=putlake" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the hackers can finally confirm or deny whether Ray Epps was FBI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:51:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811444</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone can sue anybody. HF for sure was in a strong position after what happened. OAI gave them a lot of GPT credits under a sort of partnership agreement to mollify them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704305</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astra does a concerning amount of work with no chain of thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-do-a-concerning-amount-with-no-chain-of-thought">https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-do-a-concerning-amount-with-no-chain-of-thought</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661662">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661662</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:01:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-do-a-concerning-amount-with-no-chain-of-thought</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From TFA:
Yoti is an independently audited age verification provider for SOC2 compliance. Your selfie, document images, and any personal data are deleted by Yoti as soon as your age is checked. Anthropic never sees your ID or image; we receive only a pass/fail result and do not process or store any personal data from the verification.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660863</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "GPT-6 Astra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS.<p>Not on Azure? If so, that's a big deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555767</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "ChatGPT outage – Resolved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550903</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your data is leaking to OpenRouter, how many companies would be OK with that? So I doubt OpenRouter are peeking inside the workloads that flow through their proxy. However, they do publish "Top Models by Task" ranking[1] so maybe you have a point.<p>[1] <a href="https://openrouter.ai/rankings#task-spend" rel="nofollow">https://openrouter.ai/rankings#task-spend</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:16:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324295</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not only going to be "connection maker". If and when robotics advance to a point where the LLMs are embodied, they can run experiments in the physical world and find new knowledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:32:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313041</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Why are all the amounts values negative?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it not dangerous to ignore text based on its color? For this particular case it might work but looks like you have a generic service that is supposed to work with any bank statement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:58:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218521</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Apple is getting this wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used a Macbook at work for 5 years without signing into any iCloud account ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165008</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it was when the LLM asked me a question at the end of its response. It felt like something other than a machine. Until then the pattern was me asking a question and ChatGPT giving me an answer, with or without hallucination. When it asked me a follow-up question it felt like talking to a being with agency. An entity that has thoughts or ideas or questions of its own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:47:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418781</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That gets billed as extra usage apparently:<p>/model claude-opus-4-6[1M]<p><pre><code>  ⎿  Set model to Opus 4.6 (1M context) · Billed as extra usage</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248514</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is probably related to which eye is more dominant for you. I've never skateboarded, but if I imagine myself doing it, it would also be facing left. And it's because my right eye is dominant and I would like that to be facing forward.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:31:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200578</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "DeepSeek v4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By "completely Nvidia-free" do you mean Nvidia wasn't used for training nor inference? Because if it's only inference, we know that Opus already can run on TPUs. Not to mention Gemini.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892055</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for the link. I tried to opt out. They sent me this email:<p>Equifax Workforce Solutions (provider of The Work Number) has received your employee request communication, but additional information described below is required to fulfill this request.<p>We will be following up with a secure email to obtain the below requested documents:<p>Proof of Identity:<p>Provide a copy of one of the following (must include current/legal name):<p>- Driver's License (must be current)
- Paystubs (must be dated within 60 days)
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- Paystub
- W-2 or 1099 Form (most current year)
- Utility Bill (phone, water, gas, electric, trash or sewer, etc.)
- Housing Rental Agreement or Mortgage document - your name must be listed on the document<p>For Identity Theft Block Requests, along with Proof of Identity and Proof of Address (if applicable), please provide your identity theft report and designation of items to be blocked:<p>- Identity Theft Report (police report, FTC Identity Theft Report, Police report, or United States Postal Inspection Service)<p>For Human Trafficking Victim Block Requests ONLY, along with Proof of Identity and Proof of Address (if applicable), please provide victim determination documentation (as described below), and designation of items to be blocked.<p>Victim Determination Documentation:<p>Provide a copy of one of the following victim determination documentation confirming that you were a victim of human trafficking, such as:<p>- Determinations made by federal, state, tribal, or local governments, government agencies, or law enforcement
- Determinations by non-governmental entities or task forces authorized by a governmental agency to make such a determination
- Self-attestation signed or certified by such governmental agency or non-governmental entity
- Determination by court in a case where a central issue is whether you are a victim of human trafficking. (Court documents can be made up of several documents from the court case that together show that the court accepted as true or finding no genuine dispute that you were a victim of human trafficking.)<p>We will be following up with a secure email to obtain the requested documents.<p>Data Investigation Team
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:46:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656764</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Honda is killing its EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mining isn't the only bottleneck with rare earths. There also the processing, which is an industry China has monopolized through sustained investments over decades. They have also improved processing efficiency through investments in technology. It's going to take a while for anyone else to catch up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418149</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My dad still uses PageMaker to publish his print magazine. He's been using this program since 1987, starting with a Macintosh and then later moving to Windows in the late 1990s. RIP Paul Brainerd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:57:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278580</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not P/E. That's Price to Sales. P/E is price to earnings ratio. Earnings is profit. Since neither of these companies is profitable, they don't have a P/E ratio today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:56:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189039</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Appreciate the transparency. Curious: What percentage of legal process on your users' accounts are subject to a gag order?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155116</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by putlake in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neat! One feature I'd love to see is to follow/block users. Like this Chrome extension: <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-followblock/dkbnpfgpgljemihbcdmadffanebbjacc" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-followblock/dkbn...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:29:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088462</link><dc:creator>putlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088462</guid></item></channel></rss>