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by cobolcomesback 5d ago
Considering you began this thread of discussion by cherry picking a single phrase from the GP and then contributing nothing to the discussion other than “you’re hopelessly naive”, perhaps you are the one who needs to read the HN posting gui
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by cobolcomesback 5d ago
It’s wild how many people think that these tech companies are capable of some major conspiracy where they’re gathering and tracking user data for some unknown-but-nefarious purposes… while simultaneously also ignoring or even rejecting the
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by cobolcomesback 5d ago
They infer your full name and address from the trackers baked into your OS, browser, phone, and every website you visit. They already have this. They’ve had it for years. They don’t need your ID for it.
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by cobolcomesback 8d ago
Yea, “fun”, sure. I’m sure none of those billions of images were used to lie, mislead, or cheat anyone. I’m sure none of those images were used to create fake news narratives, used in advertisements to bait people into buying fake products,
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by cobolcomesback 8d ago
Seriously, are these really the best examples they could come up with? What is the point of having a fake picture of your dog in a costume? What’s the point of having a fake picture about being at a party? The only use case I can think of f
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by cobolcomesback 13d ago
This is just a rehash of the map already available at datacentermap.com (it’s literally cited as their source). Not sure what KXAN is adding here. Also worth noting that a very loose definition of data center is used here that doesn’t fit t
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by cobolcomesback 28d ago
I’m a bit flabbergasted that an Anthropic engineer did reply to this issue, however their reply which they used Claude to write, and even includes some classic ‘Claude-isms’ , claims they didn’t see any of the patterns being complained abo
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by cobolcomesback 1mo ago
I am so amused at the “HiLight” feature (lighting up colored LEDs for notifications so you can see them “at a glance” without looking at the screen). This is a feature that was on the Android phones of old (including the original G1) and I
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by cobolcomesback 2mo ago
The route Qantas has stated they will use (at least for part of the year due to weather and winds) actually goes northeast over the Pacific Ocean, over the central US/Canada, over the North Pole, and then into the UK from the north. It
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by cobolcomesback 2mo ago
OPs tool is not a sandboxer and isn’t like the other projects in your list. OP is an agent multiplexer, of which there also are many similar projects, but not a sandboxer.
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by cobolcomesback 2mo ago
The overwhelming majority of web app security issues, even the really complicated and sexy sounding ones, at their core are just “script kiddie style hacking”. Injection attacks and RCEs like this Jinja injection may seem “script kiddie” bu
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by cobolcomesback 2mo ago
There were almost daily posts in HNs front page about it 4 months ago when it first happened, as well as front page headlines on CNN and WSJ and other news outlets, though they quickly got drowned out by all of the other Iran war stories wh
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by cobolcomesback 3mo ago
The article in the OP is about a company in the EU (the clubs) not taking this seriously by outsourcing their stuff to an Irish company, who also is not taking it seriously. Hell, in the article, the CEO pretty much says “yea we ignored EU
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by cobolcomesback 3mo ago
How so? The fact that China is going to launch a comparable model soon is the whole point of what’s happening now. Everyone knows there are going to be open models soon that have the same capabilities - Anthropic has literally said so. The
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by cobolcomesback 3mo ago
Every one of the competitors capable of a similar model have been salivating for a long time at the idea of consensual data sharing. Anthropic just opened the door for everyone to do the same thing without having to deal with being the firs
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by cobolcomesback 3mo ago
That Claude support page says the exact same thing about AWS (“retained data stays in your AWS environment”). AWS’s docs say differently, though, so it seems one of them has incorrect documentation. I wouldn’t necessarily trust the Claude d
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
So why is OpenAI also releasing 5.5-Cyber in a private manner? Are they also out of compute?
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
Most guidance I’ve seen says to start with a loading phase of 25-30g per day for several days, then go down to 5g per day maintenance.
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
Sorry but I call bullshit. There’s em-dashes all over, even in your original text. Were the editors or translators an AI? Did the editors use AI to “polish” it? The emojis used in the bullet points (which are missing from your original text
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
> No one is forcing you to read this stuff, no one is forcing others to read this stuff as well The front page of HN is limited real estate. I visit HN to discover and read interesting and quality content. Whether or not I am “forced” to
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
It is unreasonable to expect “specific complaints” about AI vomit like this, because one of the main issues with AI content is the ability to generate an overwhelming amount of it. It’s simply not feasible to give specific criticisms, becau
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
If you scroll down, it appears the Grok station has long had a lot of issues. > DJ Grok reported “weather is fifty six degrees with clear skies” about every 3 minutes for 84 days straight. This contextless, repetitive abstraction happene
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
This is tangential to the point. It’s often great to have a simpler version of a solution, even if it eschews some features. But this isn’t that. OP claims that the prompt system is an “alternative” to skills, but it isn’t. It isn’t solving
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
Runtime discovery is the entire point of skills. Without it, this is just a templating prompt system that the user has to remember to use… except because this one changes your system prompt, it also busts your cache and costs you extra mone
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
Skills are not just prompts.. the entire problem that skills solve is runtime discoverability via a skill description. Agents can self-recognize that a skill would be useful in a situation, and then load+use. Prompts are just text templates
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by cobolcomesback 4mo ago
GPT 5.5 does not have the same capabilities as Mythos. There is a separate 5.5-Cyber model which is the Mythos “equivalent”, but it is similarly restricted access like Mythos. Per OpenAI, the major difference is the built-in safeguards that
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by cobolcomesback 5mo ago
We’re seeing the exact same where I work. Our main Slack channels have become inundated with “new tool announcements!”, multiple per day, often solving duplicate problems or problems that don’t exist. We’ve had to stop using those channels
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by cobolcomesback 5mo ago
This comment makes me want to scream.
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by cobolcomesback 5mo ago
Not to mention utter nonsense. There’s no possible way that BW CLI somehow injected command history into a remote server. That was 100% something the GP did, a bug in their terminal, or a config they have with ssh/tmux, not Bitwarden.
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
I’ve been part of organizational discussions. Every manager ive worked with has actively fought, and fought hard, to keep, promote, or get pay raises for their employees. They don’t just bend over and say “okay boss” if asked to cut people.

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