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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.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:31PM (#49803925)
After yesterday outage is the new Opus 5.5 load-bearing?

Ask HN: Alternatives to Twitter/X?

I've been with hit their algorithm making me prove I'm not a bot (again). My account wasn't new or bot-like in behavior I think? I usually follow AI news and tweet silly memes. So much for "free speech platform" if most of the people just get whisked away having to prove their not bots by scanning their palms apparently or uploading selfies so you know exactly who is criticizing you. I just use...

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Re:Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:00PM (#49729846)
I'm starting to explore alternative options because Claude has become an awful value proposition. Any suggestions?
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.
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.
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.
Re:AI Music Startup Suno Bets Anyone Can Be a Rock Star on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:04PM (#49279780)
"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.

Just in time to train an AI model on it and discriminate based on heuristics. /s
Re:Can AI make honest mistakes? on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:19PM (#48941562)
"The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead."
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

Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:55AM (#48908769)
Maybe, let me ask my coding agent what he thinks about this.
Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:54AM (#48892717)
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.
> 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

Re:Hy3 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:19PM (#48848386)
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?
> 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.

You would obviously be trading storage for compute and time to retrieve the storage.

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