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Re:Ask HN: What happens when "everyone" codes? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:44AM (#50353422)
Same as for surgeons.

Do you mean when people buy robots that can be loaded with an unrestricted model that permits it to perform surgery at home? I could envision people trying to bring back dangerous old methods of anesthesia such as Henbane given it can be found in abundance.

Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:04PM (#50346103)
[delayed]
Addendum: It's not just me. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4IR5wit-YE

I've learned some of the incantations to get it to find things without being blocked (as often) but I am paying for the product and in my opinion the product has been rendered incomplete and unreliable. I am not going to play games with them or have to hire the NCC Group to find the bugs that Claude is perfectly capable of finding.
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:17AM (#50324536)
One can also monitor for it in nftables. This is from my raw table:

    grep CVE /etc/nftables.nft
    # Options CVE
    iifname "eth0" ip daddr $ADDR4 meta l4proto tcp ip hdrlength gt 5 counter log prefix "CVE-2026-98432: " level debug
Once confident nothing legit would be blocked by dropping the packets one can change "log prefix "CVE-2026-98432: " level debug" to "drop" if on an unpatched kernel.

$ADDR4 in my case in my internet facing interface.

actively cultivating a set of alternatives

Absolutely. I have been [cyber]'d so many times even Claude jokes about it now. Claude is great but it's operators are making it unreliable for me. I have moved one of my projects elsewhere and will move the remainder tomorrow as a stop gap until I get the right hardware set up to run abliterated local models for some percentage of my needs. Their message has been received loud and clear.

Re:Claude 20x is now Ultra without the 5-hour limit on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:19PM (#50311399)
And the account must be verified which I am still waiting on despite having made payments to them for several months. Its not the same verification system as the government-ID-plus-selfie KYC flow run through Persona but just a verification that a person has been making payments.

If ones goes to Usage and still see "Current session" then they have not verified the account and the 5 hour window limit is still in place despite going from 20x to 10x.

The US needs to stop allowing this kind of thing to happen

Agreed. I have no idea how to stop it. People push for legislation and then there is always some loophole that quietly appears.

That's the scam, man. The managed funds are the marks in the room.

You won't get any arguments from me. I have chased many 401k grifters and hawkers off corporate property. I'm just saying people may not realize that upwards of 30% to 40% of their portfolio may be impacted by a crash and maybe there is something they can do proactively (or not, I am no expert on this). It's just something to investigate, I think.

they deserve bankruptcy.

Indeed they may, but they will be taking a lot of people's 401k's with them. Does anyone here have a 401k and have they analyzed the portfolio to verify none of the assets are related to the AI companies? In some cases it will not be obvious.

If one owns a standard cap-weighted S&P 500 index fund or a default target-date fund in their 401k then about 30% to 40% of every dollar contributed goes directly to the dominant tech giants driving AI.

I am not a financial expert and this is not financial advice.

Re:Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:58PM (#50298584)
Is it just me, or has Opus suddenly turned dumb as rocks

What I've seen is that if I let Opus 5.5 run for too many turns (not sure how to quantify that) it starts exhibiting signs of human dementia. It will forget it told me to run something and will then accuse me of misconfiguring something that it literally gave me a script to run that configures something. It also forgets the instructions in my project and has to go back and read them and apologizes for forgetting the instructions. Between this increasing context rot and the excessive shock collars applied to defensive security coding it's rare that I can even use Opus 5.5. For the past few weeks I have had to use Opus 4.8 and even that now has a sub-set of the shock collars applied [cyber] which forces me to start a new session. This has led me to researching the Abliterated 70B/120B (uncensored) models and required hardware.

So dumb as rocks? I am not seeing that, but the context rot is getting worse for me personally. I don't know if it makes a difference, I am on the pro 20x plan. Maybe people on enterprise plans do not see this which I assume is most of the people here using Claude.

Are all the captured IP's distributed weekly to the assorted blocklists such as FireHOL [1]?

[1] - https://iplists.firehol.org/

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