Hacker News: victor106

New comment by victor106 in "Claude Fable 5"

victor106 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:21:15 +0000

> A new data retention policy Finally, we’re making a change to the way we handle business customer data for Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models with similar or higher capability levels. We will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models, on both first- and third-party surfaces. We won’t use this data to train new Claude models, or for any non-safety-related purpose, and we’ve instituted new privacy protections including logging all human access to the data and ensuring its deletion after 30 days in almost all cases ...

Very interesting. I am not sure this will comply with organizational policies and standards protocols (HIPPA etc.,)

New comment by victor106 in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

victor106 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:05:45 +0000

I have an application that has

/Frontend /API /ETL /DatabaseScripts

Whats the best way to organize this so Claude Code can work efficiently?

New comment by victor106 in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

victor106 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:59:21 +0000

> We don’t yet know if colonoscopies are better than other methods of screening

My Gastroentrologist told me just recently that the stool test (Cologuard) is very accurate but must be repeated every 3 years as opposed to getting a Colonoscopy which should be repeated every 7 to 10 years

New comment by victor106 in "Google changes its search box"

victor106 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:49:41 +0000

>I could see a future where Google populates a footer on results with the website logos of the sources.

ChatGPT/Claude does this today. I barely click or care for the source when they already have me the info I wanted.

My speculation is all information worth anything is going to be behind some kind of wall.

New comment by victor106 in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

victor106 — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:03:53 +0000

What would you suggest as a complimentary resource to this?

New comment by victor106 in "Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget"

victor106 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:43:39 +0000

Why doesn’t GCP provide a way to say “shut down all my services if my cap is reached”?

New comment by victor106 in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

victor106 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:14:44 +0000

> Chrome have fortunately recently released a "extension side panel" mode, and since only DOM changes can be easily identified, using the chrome extension side panel would be virtually un-detectable however this is far less intuitive to use and requires the user to perform some action to open the sidepanel every time they want to use the extension.

As an end user I could not find an option to open the side panel

New comment by victor106 in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

victor106 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:25:35 +0000

> In 2026, the POTUS, his family and friends are looting the treasury with brazen acts of fraud.

Proof?

New comment by victor106 in "Anthropic Subprocessor Changes"

victor106 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:34:05 +0000

When you host a solid model on terrible infrastructure, the infrastructure wins

New comment by victor106 in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

victor106 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:58:37 +0000

I was hopeful for M$FT after they seemed to be ahead in AI compared to other large software co.

Since then they have largely lost the AI race (you can argue they were never in it as they never had a SOTA model and are piggy backing off OpenAI).

Now I read that Win11 is based on React, even a junior developer can tell you that running React natively on any platform will always suck.

New comment by victor106 in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

victor106 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:19:08 +0000

One of my clients is planning on moving from Okta to Entra primarily to save $$$.

Is this a bad move? What should I tell them?

New comment by victor106 in "Java is fast, code might not be"

victor106 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:29:34 +0000

this is great, so practical!!!

any other resources like this?

New comment by victor106 in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

victor106 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:28:50 +0000

We tried them as well and they did worse than a foundational LLM model which is saying something.

New comment by victor106 in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

victor106 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:19 +0000

> cutting out menial decisions such as customer service

This is cited so often. We tried it at a large scale with some of the best engineering talent but unfortunately the humans on the other side preferred speaking to and interacting with a human by a wide margin.

We are still trying with the latest AI models but humans are still doing better at serving other humans.

In one of our studies, we observed by a large margin that our customers would hang up immediately on knowing that they are interacting with an AI system.

I have heard this from others as well.

New comment by victor106 in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

victor106 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:54:29 +0000

this reads like it was written by an LLM

PBM GPO

victor106 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://hntrbrk.com/pbmgpo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220590

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by victor106 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

victor106 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:18:38 +0000

> Amodei repeatedly predicted mass unemployment within 6 months due to AI. Without being bothered about it at all.

What do you suppose he should do if that’s what he thinks is going to happen?

And how do you know he’s not bothered by it at all?

New comment by victor106 in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

victor106 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:54:14 +0000

I asked ChatGPT which product this could be and it came up with

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/selepu/dreampilot-ai-gu...

Claude could not tell which one

New comment by victor106 in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

victor106 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:58:14 +0000

> I mean, part of this is just math. If a government spends more, it’s literally injecting money into the economy, so of course you get more jobs and growth in the short term.

Thats not necessarily true. During Bill Clinton's presidency he cut the deficits and the debt and yet the economy saw very strong job growth.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-und...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presi...

New comment by victor106 in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

victor106 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:43:33 +0000

For someone in Software what is a good way to learn the fundamentals of this?