Hacker News: unsnap_biceps

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals""

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:57:09 +0000

Eh, the article talks about people being banned during checkout and I was hit with this as well. No VPN, zero tokens used, created account, paid for a year plan, immediately banned. I had to issue a charge back and I'm sure I'll be banned again if I try to create a new account with the same credit card, address, email, etc.

I sent many emails trying to get it reversed, but was meet with silence. It's a shame, as I use Claude at work quite happily and would love to use it at home, but they decided something about my location in the midwest, my ISP (fairly large regional ISP), or my email address (gmail account of first.last) was suspicious.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

unsnap_biceps — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:44:41 +0000

How are you actually using the local model? I've played with Qwen 3.8 27b on ollama and the coding harnesses (Claude Code and OpenCode) seem to fail way more often then using the cloud models. And by fail, I mean the edits don't apply cleanly, it goes to add python code, but doesn't indent it properly, or the edit doesn't apply and so it tries again and again and eventually wipes out a different function then it "intended". It just gets really frustrating compared to the relative stability of Claude Cloud.

Microduck

unsnap_biceps — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502019

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

unsnap_biceps — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:50:56 +0000

my point was I'm not using specialized software, I'm using the software shipped with the system. MS Office isn't Apple Software, so holding apple responsible for Microsoft code quality seems counter to your first point.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:53:03 +0000

I live with safari and finder and all my office ware is native (mail.app) or web based (Google Docs). Chat is via slack, but I use the website and not the native app. I've adapted to the quirks and I'd bet that's a lot of the reason why it doesn't feel slow to me. I feel I have plenty of windows open at once but likely less than you do.

Different folks different strokes as they say.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:44:15 +0000

I can beat a gorilla in a fist fight because it's gonna rip my body in half, but lose by disqualification due to rules violations. A posthumous win is still a win.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour"

unsnap_biceps — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:27:37 +0000

scramble is a paid feature on their app.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Berd"

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:17:00 +0000

I will forget about it by Friday.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful"

unsnap_biceps — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:04:26 +0000

I agree with you, but it's one of those things that exist today that can help them out.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful"

unsnap_biceps — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:58:05 +0000

If your delivery is fulfilled by amazon, they'll ask if you want to send a "thanks" to your driver. My understanding is there are bonuses for good levels of "thanks" and so it's worth clicking though and giving them as much thanks as you can to help them out.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise"

unsnap_biceps — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:53:32 +0000

> Others confirm the pattern When reports cluster around one office or officer, the algorithm flags a verified pattern automatically

It just requires enough others to say the same thing for it to be verified.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug"

unsnap_biceps — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:08:38 +0000

I do to find a command that I know I ran that did something but I don't remember exactly how I did it. It's rare, but it's useful to be able to.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

unsnap_biceps — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:47:14 +0000

Tape prices are lower, but the drive cost is very outsized. The cheapest drive on B&H is $13,584.05

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage"

unsnap_biceps — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:49 +0000

when I was poking at the protocol (MQTT plaintext, including the auth) given the esp32 doesn't have a RTC onboard, they would send MQTT packets with the current time and I suspect that they trigger off of those time packets rather then the software time source on the esp32.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage"

unsnap_biceps — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:15:47 +0000

I actually refreshed my petlibro feeders and water fountains with a replacement esphome firmware https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome

Works great and completely local.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "From your doorbell to your home network"

unsnap_biceps — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:58:19 +0000

There's also different levels of smart doorbells. Our doorbell is smart, when it rings, it sends a notification to our phones, but we don't have a camera hooked up to it.

YouTube's AI Detection Kicked Us in the Face

unsnap_biceps — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:50:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Kurz_Gesagt/status/2083191397981561232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216075

Points: 22

# Comments: 3

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

unsnap_biceps — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:20:26 +0000

That's not what double dipping means.

In this case, I presume they're taxed on their continued employment and so they're still paying into the pension they're receiving benefits on? I don't see a problem if that's the case. They contributed to the pension with an agreed payment date and followed the process correctly. I can understand how you feel that it's unfair, but I really don't see a problem unless they stop paying into the pension or stop paying taxes on their continued employment.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:53:47 +0000

Before I gave up on Facebook entirely, I reported an ad that was an explicit blow job and received a similar response and this was before AI was huge. I really don't think they've ever cared.

New comment by unsnap_biceps in "A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months"

unsnap_biceps — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:09:02 +0000

Yes, but what part about that is pretend? Is there a db that doesn't do the right thing and roll back the outer transaction? If so, can you name it?