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Re:Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:50PM (#50267536)
If the "don't train on my data" button actually did what they want you to think it does they wouldn't have zero-data retention as an expensive option in the enterprise plan. Fake til' you make it and all that.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:57PM (#49985938)
Wow, FFT faster than O(nlog(n))? I wonder if that will open the floodgates for further improvement or not. I don't understand anything about most of the fields these results touch, but I can say that this in particular is very surprising.
"Tortured phrases" is the name of the phenomena, papers have been written about it since 2021.
Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:13PM (#48910002)
This is the kind of headline I would expect from one of those news that appear as you progress in cookie clicker.
Anthropic has been doing this sort of stuff for a while already. I mean, who remembers when Claude would just consume all your remaining usage if it read anything indicating that Openclaw had been used on your codebase? Because I remember. Two months ago btw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204 Then there was the whole debacle of Fable silently downgrading to other models if it detected wrong think, or worse, outright sabotaging your codebase if you were working on language models lol
Aside from politics/law, it's probably much easier for everyone else to distill from the Chinese model which already distilled Claude/GPT/Gemini. Maybe not as good a result, but you don't need to jump through dozens of hoops.
Windows became ransomware? lmao
If you don't pay for a product, you are a less valuable product than if you'd pay for the product.
Re:NetHack 5.0.0 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:42PM (#47991693)
Nethack4 is the name of a popular fork, they probably wanted to confusing people
The thing the annoys me the most (to use polite language) is that product design went off the window with the AI craze. You could probably ship actual products that actual people would want to use, but instead everyone wants to turn everything into a chatbot, as if chatbots are the pinnacle of user interface, the crabs of software, the purpose, goal, and telos of technology. It drives me nuts.
Re:NetHack 5.0.0 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:02PM (#47989360)
Back when I was on undergrad I sometimes managed to get to the castle, but never very consistently. Opening NAO was one of my go to ways of dealing with spare time but I haven't played the game much since. This is wild tho, never imagined we would get to version 5
Re:The state of Linux music players in 2026 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:20AM (#46778522)
I remember struggling with it in the beginning (it has some quirks in the UI and how you configure folders and what have you) but once I got a hang on it it was pretty good
Fake until you make it
How many millions of dollars did this even cost anyway?