Hacker News: throwaway67743

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Fedora 43 Upgrade revealed 20 years old Outlook Security Bug"

throwaway67743 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:10:50 +0000

The more pressing question is why plain text authentication, or even a plain text listener was configured to begin with, in 2026 (really, 2016, being generous). STARTTLS is not a valid reason.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Various LLM Smells"

throwaway67743 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:47:01 +0000

Shapes. It's always the give away that GPT has written it. It's obsessed with shapes and seams...

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

throwaway67743 — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:58:17 +0000

Question is, can it understand dates now? Example just now:

"The PO application was filed on 23.2.2026, the day before the custody hearing scheduled for 29.1.2026 had already taken place."

Claude has real problems with dates, I don't understand why.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

throwaway67743 — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:59:07 +0000

That only works if the market is not controlled by basically 3 vendors and if the market isn't also pretty much impossible to break into. The value proposition is tenuous at best, the real value is being produced in other arenas, not this one.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX"

throwaway67743 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:03:47 +0000

Yeah I was using it for legal stuff (a couple of months ago it was actually really good and with a bit of hand holding produced legal documents that judges could not distinguish from an actual lawyer - in a foreign language with a foreign legal system) and on average a single prompt or reply on mobile was ~2% of 5hr Pro usage, vs ~10 on webui. But not only does it now produce garbage, but maybe 5-6 replies and I'm already approaching the limit.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX"

throwaway67743 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:13:16 +0000

Saw this and yet... My usage of Claude has tanked (codex is better), but on the occasions I do use it (mostly for non-code), I blow through the 5hr usage super fast. Specifically on their Android app the accounting was different: same project, same content, same prompts, same output - but on mobile the usage was a fraction of the same query as their web UI. But that has seemingly been addressed recently also :(

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

throwaway67743 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:04:47 +0000

To counter the idiot downvotes, I proffer this as a prime example of Gemini:

  Resolving Final Compilation Conflict: I will remove the redundant `Entry` type declaration to resolve the compilation conflict and finalize the in-memory `StdNetDB` refactor.

    Edit  std.go → Accepted (+0, -1)

      31   type Entry struct {
      32       RouterInfo *router_info.RouterInfo
      33   }
      34 -
      34   func NewStdNetDB(db string) *StdNetDB {
      35       ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
      36       return &StdNetDB{

That and the cli keeps exiting 0, without hinting why... Quality like the "AI Overview" that hijacks an entire page and isn't even relevant to the search terms - uBlock still doing god's work.

It made me realise I was perhaps a bit hard on Claude (but then it did something equally as dumb)

New comment by throwaway67743 in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

throwaway67743 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:55:12 +0000

Or their continued collective inability to predict or manage supply and demand, it happens repeatedly and previous events were very minor in comparison... The other obvious reason is profiteering but pretty much impossible to prove.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

throwaway67743 — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:16:55 +0000

With the apparent competence that built Gemini, I have zero faith in Google building or doing anything that works anymore.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

throwaway67743 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:54:45 +0000

At least if its unavailable Claude Code can't churn through an entire session limit in 30 minutes, looping, produce nothing (but noted it found a whole bunch of problems), and then when asked to just fix what it found, forget and start again. I honestly can't find anything it's good at anymore, even really simple problems a child could solve. Giving Codex a much more complex task, it not only identified it within a couple of minutes, it produced targeted tests and kept iterating unattended until it figured it out without any help, instead of idiot synonyms for thinking...

I can't even send them an angry message because clicking "Get help" does nothing.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

throwaway67743 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:39:03 +0000

My voice is exactly the same as before I started smoking heavily, and I have never had any of the associated problems that most people seem to have (lung capacity, stamina, infections, phlegm etc) - pot luck I guess, like most things

New comment by throwaway67743 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

throwaway67743 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:42:34 +0000

20 years of heavy smoking :)

Although it does seem to affect some people more than others for sure, I guess it depends how and what you're smoking.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

throwaway67743 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:17:09 +0000

Despite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

throwaway67743 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:15:50 +0000

I saw the red flags immediately when I stumbled across them a year ago maybe. I'm really not surprised.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Privacy Setup for Android 16 with GrapheneOS"

throwaway67743 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:37:18 +0000

Yeah but as of the post, that hasn't happened (and it'll probably take some time even if they meet 2027 target) - there are also countless other vendors that I'm sure people would appreciate grapheneOS on (I would, for one).

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Privacy Setup for Android 16 with GrapheneOS"

throwaway67743 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:58:17 +0000

> It’s developed independently, with no ties to Google or any hardware vendor, and it’s the operating system I’ve been recommending (and using on my own devices) for years, both on the phone side and on the tablet side.

Umm, it only runs on Pixels? that is specifically and purposefully tied to Google.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment"

throwaway67743 — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:15:03 +0000

Depending on switch vendor and quality, they can actually increase the voltage output - the spec iirc allows for up to 57V at PSE which an intelligent switch can modulate to overcome limited voltage drop - cheaper switches (desktop etc) just supply all ports 54V (or less, but it should be 54 at source) from the same rail without any modulation

New comment by throwaway67743 in "Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed]"

throwaway67743 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:18:35 +0000

Given Mozilla's continual frittering away of cash, would it not show some constraint to not pay for "cloud" hosted stuff for things that could easily be hosted by Mozilla and probably for less (with a less absurd choice of software) - it's already pretty much game over anyway, as a long time defender of Mozilla it is impossible these days to argue.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "ChatGPT Is Bullshit"

throwaway67743 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:14:08 +0000

I for one, am really glad that we're calling ELIZA "AI" - because real AI is a danger and this is just fine, comparatively.

New comment by throwaway67743 in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

throwaway67743 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:50:03 +0000

I actually gave Kagi a try the other day because Google has reached the point of total uselessness (a day I thought had come and gone, but I was wrong, it continued to decline) - but actually the search results for the same queries are worse, not that the content is worse, but that it returns the better/more appropriate content further down the page, the actual content is pretty much identical. Am I doing it wrong or does the tsunami of crap on the internet just mean search engines are fucked?