Hacker News: scrollop

New comment by scrollop in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

scrollop — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:17:09 +0000

Imagine if cutting edge AI companies could decide to using their world best AI to

1) Develop software for linux

2) Provide decent support

New comment by scrollop in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

scrollop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:42:38 +0000

Out of interest - do you trust google reading all your emails? What do you think about privacy?

New comment by scrollop in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

scrollop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:42:03 +0000

I find it odd how so many tech involved people here use gmail - are privacy concerns not a concern for them?

I moved to mailbox.org years ago. Pay a few pounds a year for private email with webtools and drive and don't have google snooping my emails and sending me targeted ads.

New comment by scrollop in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

scrollop — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:32:30 +0000

Agreed - 5% fees is quite high considering the volumes of tokens involved.

New comment by scrollop in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

scrollop — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:31:22 +0000

Though you pay 5% fees? Not worth it for me with the volume of tokens used.

New comment by scrollop in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

scrollop — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:59:42 +0000

Also increased, or we're now aware of, higher rates in long distance runners.

New comment by scrollop in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

scrollop — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:09:13 +0000

You should try hosting it yourself in docker. Absurdly easy to do if you get an llm to do it and it works very, very well.

Hope they don't alter self hosting it.

New comment by scrollop in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

scrollop — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:32:04 +0000

Since it appears that LLMs can't achieve AGI and lose hallucinations, I presume a new company will appear with a new architecture that can - what happens to the current behemoths and their stock prices? Will they jump architectures?

Splendidly interesting times.

New comment by scrollop in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

scrollop — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:35:00 +0000

And larger companies are more able to purchase ads, reducing a breadth of stores and options.

New comment by scrollop in "Apparently Google hates us now"

scrollop — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:01:33 +0000

Thank you

New comment by scrollop in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

scrollop — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:35:31 +0000

You mean Kimi or qwen

New comment by scrollop in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

scrollop — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:23:43 +0000

Except for their strong arm tactics forcing software companies to not be able to sell their games cheaper on other platforms:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2g1md0l23o

New comment by scrollop in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

scrollop — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:10:11 +0000

I'm a GP in the NHS - what is this DDx software that you talk about?

New comment by scrollop in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

scrollop — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:08:08 +0000

Obscene levels of hallucinations, the worst of LLMs, unfortunately.

Deepseek v4 pro 94%

Deepseek v4 flash - 96%

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience?models...

New comment by scrollop in "DeepSeek v4"

scrollop — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:44 +0000

Whatbaoutism at it's finest.

Have a peek at the fredom indx and the press freedom index for China. Guess where they stand?

You know about the chinese internet firewall.

You can't trust any data from the CCP.

And please don't equate the aberration that is the Trump administration with "regular" US administrations (and this is coming from a non US person).

New comment by scrollop in "Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI"

scrollop — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:44:03 +0000

Who are you trying to convince? /r/conservative?

New comment by scrollop in "PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption"

scrollop — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:22:24 +0000

Great OS! Though have some issues with waking from sleep.

New comment by scrollop in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

scrollop — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:14:18 +0000

"With Opus 4.6, extended thinking was a toggle you managed: turn it on for hard stuff, off for quick stuff. If you left it on, every question paid the thinking tax whether it needed to or not. Now, with Opus 4.7, extended thinking becomes adaptive thinking. "

https://claude.com/resources/tutorials/working-with-claude-o...

You want extended thinking? It's not adaptive thinking and opus will turn it on if it thinks it needs to. But it probably won't, according to user reports as tokens are expensive. Except opus 4.7 now uses 35% more and outputs more thinking tokens.

New comment by scrollop in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

scrollop — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:11:35 +0000

Not when you want extended thinking - you select extended thinking and opus decides if you get it with apativenthinking.

https://claude.com/resources/tutorials/working-with-claude-o...

New comment by scrollop in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

scrollop — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:07:42 +0000

That is not what anthropic says-

"Opus 4.7 thinks more at higher effort levels, particularly on later turns in agentic settings. This improves its reliability on hard problems, but it does mean it produces more output tokens. "

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7