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_blk··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
I guess someone did read the post.

Wasn't OpenClaw usage re-allowed after the initial ban?

_blk··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Most people do, yes but in this case you don't want to stop on a sub 2 is the point.
_blk··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
I'm not the expert on the bio but the gel has the advantage of being consumable while running. Try drinking while running. Even at a slower pace it's hard not to spill. If you want the dosage correct you can't spill.
_blk··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Thanks for the write up, I didn't know that.
_blk··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
The issue might not be the wattage bit rather the minimum voltage. (Some?) Macs seems to charge at 15v already, most laptops need 20v
_blk··on Ubuntu 26.04
Glad you like yours. I like (Vanilla) Gnome + PaperWM.

But seriously why would they disabled the middle mouse copy paste buffer by default? Anyways, gnome tweaks to the rescue I guess

_blk··on GPT-5.5
Hehe, and Anthropic on the other tab would display "Curing... Almost done thinking at xhigh"
_blk··on DeepSeek v4
Would be interesting to hook up a much simpler LLM as fact checker to see when errors are introduced.

If I had to place a hidden target it'd probably be around RNGs or publicly exposed services..

_blk··on DeepSeek v4
..you forgot to mention that any technology in China, foreign or domestic, can and will be used for and to the benefit of the -military- party.. But like someone posted: "not perfect" fits the bill.

Check out the Sean Ryan Show with Palmer Luckey on China and military tech.

_blk··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Thanks for sharing all those experiences and tech explanations in how tractor clutches work everyone. Great thread to read. I'm kinda surprised the OP made the HN tops but DIY anything seems to be experiencing a Renaissance. (Not too big a surprise in HN I suppose)
_blk··on Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
What hardware do you run it on? Trying to consider the cost of subscription + API vs new HW..
_blk··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
I'm starstruck. Honestly sad but not surprising since we live in the age where attention is a currency anything will be done to attempt to buy attention.

Just look at how many cool and legit open projects have the star-meter graph in their README.md - so of course people will start measuring against that metric and start gaming it.

I was surprised myself when I suddenly saw a starstruck badge on my profile. I never advertise my projects but I do feel honored when people think that my contributions are useful and stars are an easy way of showing that gratitude. At least I think that's how it was intended. And now someone is breaking that for scraps (or not scraps.)

This is exactly the bs that pushes services to not offer their own logins anymore, now you have to login with FB or GH or $randomFamousSvc instead of the more anonymous "by email" - just happened to me recently when I wanted to use a trial account, but I totally get it - with abuse trust is substituted with control. It's the same everywhere.. even voter ID.

Sorry, that went off track. I guess just don't look at the stars anymore. Wait, no, don't do that, stars are beautiful and so are you if you read all the way to here. Here's a * for you :)

_blk··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
Totally agree with you. What a shame. But when I look at the national debt that seems even more out of reach, I do tend to consider that maybe the stars should wait till we have our s..tuff together here on earth. Privately funded, no issues, go for it at warp speed!
_blk··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
That'd be awesome but it doesn't reflect what I see. Do you have a source for that? What I see is if take a quick break the session loses ~5% right at the start of the next prompt processing. (I'm currently on max 5x)
_blk··on Claude Code Routines
I like not running into the mandatory compaction but I do try to actively keep it under too. From an Anthropic standpoint with the new(ish) 5min cache timeout, it's a great way to get people to burn tokens on reinitializing the cache without having them occupy TPU time.. Esp. the larger the context gets.
_blk··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
Is there any model that practically compares to Sonnet 4.6 in code and vision and runs on home-grade (12G-24G) cards?
_blk··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
From what I understand you shouldn't wait more than 5min between prompts without compacting or clearing or you'll pay for reinitializing the cache. With compaction you still pay but it's less input tokens. (Is compaction itself free?)
_blk··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
The challenge is not if you could do all of it without AI but any of it that you couldn't before.

Not everyone learns at the same pace and not everyone has the same fault tolerance threshold. In my experiencd some people are what I call "Japanese learners" perfecting by watching. They will learn with AI but would never do it themselves out of fear of getting something wrong while they understand most of it, others that I call "western learners" will start right away and "get their hands dirty" without much knowledge and also get it wrong right away. Both are valid learning strategies fitting different personalities.

_blk··on A Python Interpreter Written in Python
Great minds think alike ;)
_blk··on Claude Code Routines
hmm, I just reverted to 2.1.98 and now with /model default has the (1M context) and opus is without (200k) .. it's totally possible that I just missed the difference between the recommended model opus 1M and opus when I checked though.
_blk··on Claude Code Routines
yup, after the token-increase from CC from two weeks ago, I'm now consistently filling the 1M context window that never went above 30-40% a few days ago. Did they turn it off? I used to see the Co-Authored by Opus 4.6 (1M Context Window) in git commits, now the advert line is gone. I never turned it on or off, maybe the defaults changed but /model doesn't show two different context sizes for Opus 4.6

I never asked for a 1M context window, then I got it and it was nice, now it's as if it was gone again .. no biggie but if they had advertised it as a free-trial (which it feels like) I wouldn't have opted in.

Anyways, seems I'm just ranting, I still like Claude, yes but nonetheless it still feels like the game you described above.

_blk··on Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
This is what makes HN great: We get to hear from the people and not (only) the media dept. Thanks for your honesty and openness. I trust OpenAI a lot more when I hear balanced accounts like this.
_blk··on Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
Makes me wonder why solar is not on the list.. I thought all gore said that was gonna solve all energy problems. (Of course not, he's a politician, but I'd have expected to at least see it with some relevant percentage in the African countries) Or could it be that solar is distributed enough to not appear because it's set up directly by/with the consumer rather than the grid producer?
_blk··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
Awesome, I didn't know about the car wash question.

Totally true, also tokens seem to burn through much faster. More parallelism could explain some of it but where I could work on 3-5 projects at once on the max plan a month ago, I can't even get one to completion now on the same Opus model before the 5h session locks me up..

_blk··on You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
So basically the opposite of Windows NTFS and SMB access. Windows is tricky but this is just bad.
_blk··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
I'm all for values not necessarily pro big-corp but if a corporation manages to pull in billions of funding before even showing profits, I'd argue that as a strong win and not a "failed experiment" - it's risk money anyway, even if it fails it was worth the risk or they wouldn't have invested.
_blk··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Getting it is not the hard part. Keeping it in light of an adversarial, litigious contender is.
_blk··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
They likely don't. It's a purely political move not a technical move. With the average length of the French work week, this will take a while to implement anyway. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great thought but I don't think it's more than a short-sighted reaction. Munich unfortunately faltered after a few years.
_blk··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
The whole premise doesn't make much sense (to me) if the app doesn't have an inherent benefit over a website. Don't tell me that all the app first people would rather have a web wrapped app for every website they visit? Seems to be more of a "we can get more metrics out of app users than website users" thing so they intentionally break the mobile website to aggressively push an app. #LinkedIn #Facebook
_blk··on The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep
It's O(1) with a correctness of O(0)
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