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throwaway2027··on Posting Pictures of Your Palm Will Get Your Biometric Data Leaked (2014)
But Twitter/X desperately wants me to download their app to then make me scan my palm. I'm still locked out for some reason and I'm not a bot. It has been a week and no response from their support.
throwaway2027··on Claude Opus 5.5
After yesterday outage is the new Opus 5.5 load-bearing?
throwaway2027··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
I'm starting to explore alternative options because Claude has become an awful value proposition. Any suggestions?
throwaway2027··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
This is why I'm hesitant to buy Google AI again. I don't want to risk some npm install compromising my Google account which also happens to do AI coding.
throwaway2027··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
I think this is a move to get people off the subscription and move to API. The weekly usage is still awful altough it seems they're trying to fix it but I'm not hopeful.
throwaway2027··on Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark
I wonder if these benchmarks swap words, meaning and more because you might as well be benchmaxxing for specific words. I notice a lot of recurring just structural sentences coming back in smaller LLM models where they're fit for a specific task which is fine because most of the work we do is repetitive and there are patterns to learn but they should be word agnostic which I wonder if LLM can really fix.
throwaway2027··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnQ8CD3v4g

Person of Interest (2011)

throwaway2027··on AI Music Startup Suno Bets Anyone Can Be a Rock Star
"An update to our downloads policy and Terms of Service"

https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos

https://suno.com/terms-september-2026

tl;dr They will watermark songs you generate and remove older models and restrict paying customers to max 20/60 song downloads a month.

throwaway2027··on SIMD for Collision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIfqfC1i7U
throwaway2027··on Can AI make honest mistakes?
"The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead."
throwaway2027··on Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
Obligatory https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
throwaway2027··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
That's quite slow I'm getting 8-12 t/s on a 13 year old CPU. (Speed varies by context size and other settings who knows)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354801

throwaway2027··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Maybe, let me ask my coding agent what he thinks about this.
throwaway2027··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
You should assume by default for any AI agent that it will read anything. Even if you manually allow/deny and "restrict" it to a subdirectory I would still hold that assumption. Claude reads your ~/.bash_history too so when you ran something it can use that same command.
throwaway2027··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
> Statement of AI use. The proof in this note is entirely due to GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra and the writeup with Codex (with GPT 5.6 Sol).

Quick! Someone (a human) copyright and patent it. /s

throwaway2027··on Hy3
Quite interesting to see them and Meta and others release before OpenAI supposedly is to release GPT 5.6 today, would it be better to release it before or after? Calm before the storm type of thing?
throwaway2027··on PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)
> While I believe they would delete a user's games, I don't know if they would actually willingly give up holding on to customer data.

So basically you get worst of both worlds, great.

throwaway2027··on Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction
You would obviously be trading storage for compute and time to retrieve the storage.
throwaway2027··on Fable 5 Is Downgraded
I'm not saying you're wrong but based on? Vibes?
throwaway2027··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
I loved Nano Banana Pro. Are there local alternatives yet? I heard about Qwen Image, Klein and recently Krea, any suggestions?
throwaway2027··on GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump
Why would it matter? It was of benefit to someone I assume and even if the code is AI generated I think in most cases the results were positive so in theory next AI training runs should be able to learn from those generated results altough that might require work in how training is done or more aggressive filtering. It's literally free RLHF training.
throwaway2027··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Claude Code does it the same way (which doesn't excuse it obviously) but still.

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

throwaway2027··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
I'm perfectly capable of programming without internet or AI but I would admit it would take longer and in the modern world we live in it's often not economical to do so. After programming for over 20 years you start to get in that flow automatically at least you used to do so. I don't know if people starting out to program will be able to, but most experienced developers will feel this way I assume.
throwaway2027··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Is it that time again?
throwaway2027··on Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
Well at least you didn't submit an ID and selfie yet so you could make a new account right, the future is bright.
throwaway2027··on Claude Fable 5
E-mail from Anthropic Team:

Hello,

We're writing to inform you about some updates to our Privacy Policy.

These changes only affect consumer accounts (Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans). If you use Claude Team, Claude Enterprise, the Claude Platform, or other services under our Commercial Terms or other agreements, then these changes don't apply to you. What's changing?

Claude can do more than ever — taking on bigger tasks and connecting with the apps you use. We've updated our Privacy Policy to be clearer about the data we collect and how we use it. We encourage you to read the updated Privacy Policy in full, but we’ve set out a summary of the key changes below:

1. Multi-step tasks and connected apps. As Claude takes on more multi-step tasks and works with third-party apps and services, we've explained the data this involves — including how data can flow to and from third parties when you connect a service or have Claude do tasks on your behalf.

2. Verification data. As part of our measures to keep our services safe and secure we may ask you to verify your age or identity, and we've described what we collect and how.

3. Study participation. If you take part in Anthropic studies, surveys, or interviews, we've explained the information we collect.

4. Additional information about our data practices. We’ve provided more detail about how we communicate with you and promote our services, including providing tailored recommendations about our services that may be of interest to you. We've also clarified the circumstances under which we may receive or provide data to third parties, and the legal bases we rely on when processing your data.

While our products have evolved, our commitments haven't: We don’t sell your data, Claude remains ad-free, and you can control whether your chats and coding sessions are used to train and improve Anthropic’s AI models. Learn more

For detailed information about these changes:

    Review the updated Privacy Policy
    Visit our Privacy Center for more information about our practices
- The Anthropic Team
throwaway2027··on Claude Fable 5
Will try it when my limit resets.
throwaway2027··on X: Inauthentic Behaviors
I received this e-mail today and coincidentally some of my posts finally got some engagement and I guess you just get flagged as a bot by the bot system, welcome to the new internet. So much for open algorithm, it doesn't help you here.

X

Hello {username},

Your account, {username}, was reported and has been suspended for violating the X Rules.

Specifically, for:

Violating our rules against inauthentic behaviors.

You may not use our services to engage in inauthentic activity that undermines the integrity of X.

Note that if you attempt to evade a suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team.

You can also pursue alternative forms of redress, including out-of-court dispute settlement or judicial redress. Learn more here.

If you have an active X Premium subscription, it will not be automatically canceled by X. To cancel your X Premium subscription, follow these instructions.

throwaway2027··on A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Glad to see other people realizing this. I've been running Gemma 26B-A4B Q4 on a 2012 Xeon with 16GB to 24GB of RAM in a container. It's getting around 8 to 12 tokens per second. Obviously it's not comparable to huge contexts and running it on a GPU and the image decoder in llama.cpp is super slow compared to a GPU but for some small automation tasks and general trivia questions it's decent. The speed is just enough to not have to wait for it to finish so you can read along.

Here's my setup. You may want to figure out what the best optimizations are for your specific CPU like AVX2 because mine didn't have most of them. I did try MTP briefly but I wasn't getting performance improvements. You could play around with the batch sizes for cache or context or go even lower for Q2 and don't overcommit on threads either, but I would suggest either defaults or trying out llama-bench. This isn't by any means the best I assume but it worked decently for me and I sometimes swap out Gemma for Qwen. You could also lower q8_0 to q4_0 for more context but it could hurt quality some say, altough I have noticed it too on some models.

# Building

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_NATIVE=ON -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS -DGGML_OPENMP=ON

# Running

export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=4

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4

OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=4 OMP_NUM_THREADS=4 \

llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server -hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 --min-p 0.00 --jinja --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q8_0 --threads 4 --threads-batch 4 --ctx-size 8192 -n 8192 --batch-size 2048 --ubatch-size 512 --no-mmap --mlock --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":false}' --no-mmproj -np 1 -fa 1

throwaway2027··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
AI for me but not for thee.
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