Hacker News: xvector

New comment by xvector in "Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation"

xvector — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:39:21 +0000

This is just a case of mass social psychosis. Claude is the same as it has ever been. Just look at historical benchmarks: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...

New comment by xvector in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

xvector — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:14:15 +0000

Look where France is now. Can't afford their own retirement.

New comment by xvector in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

xvector — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:36:12 +0000

This mindset trivializes the immense achievements of "the common man" over the course of millennia.

New comment by xvector in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

xvector — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:34:51 +0000

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New comment by xvector in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

xvector — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:59:13 +0000

Will you eat your words when major vuln disclosures come out 3-4 months from now?

New comment by xvector in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

xvector — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:52:46 +0000

And there's a reason they've achieved precisely zero penetration amongst normies.

A chat app is useless if your friends and family won't use it.

New comment by xvector in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

xvector — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:50:13 +0000

It's an LLM.

New comment by xvector in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

xvector — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:43:46 +0000

Yet more AI slop on HN

New comment by xvector in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

xvector — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:39:59 +0000

The post misunderstands how the permission system works.

Giving access to a file via the Open and Save panel is an explicit declaration of consent.

Because the panel is provided by OS itself, the app doesn't get access to the item until the user has selected a folder or file through that panel.

New comment by xvector in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

xvector — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:47:06 +0000

Just because agents aren't immune to prompt injection doesn't make it so that they aren't fantastically capable

New comment by xvector in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

xvector — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:35:38 +0000

Most big tech companies have access to the model, you can absolutely "validate their claims" or talk to someone that can.

New comment by xvector in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

xvector — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:33:34 +0000

It's really not some conspiracy. I imagine we will see vuln reports soon.

New comment by xvector in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

xvector — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:31:02 +0000

You don't need to believe it. The real story will be if companies allowed to use it, stick with it.

New comment by xvector in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

xvector — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:26:24 +0000

This is because no one bothers to set thinking to high, as it now defaults to medium in CC.

Once you set thinking to high it works just as well as 5.4 even for pretty complex tasks

New comment by xvector in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

xvector — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:42:00 +0000

And the government is attempting "corporate murder" on precisely one of them. Wanna guess which one?

New comment by xvector in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

xvector — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:23:06 +0000

I'm not arguing the merits of such a ban, I'm simply stating a fact - that thinking transcripts likely won't return until such a ban is in place.

New comment by xvector in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

xvector — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:34:57 +0000

No, ultrathink is back and it's the same thing as high effort for the message in which it is included

New comment by xvector in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

xvector — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:27:49 +0000

If distilled models were commercially banned they'd probably be willing to show the thinking again.

New comment by xvector in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

xvector — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:24:39 +0000

It might stick tbh. Their PBC+LTBT structure severely limits the power of shareholders. https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust

New comment by xvector in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

xvector — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:21:53 +0000

People's voluntary dietary choices cause far more suffering and ecological damage than AI, and for much less return or economic output. But you tell people to switch to plant based foods and they lose their shit.