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Havoc··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
This is false.

eg Gemini enterprise has a note under each chat session explicitly saying it’s not used to improve the models

Havoc··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
I wouldn’t count on that staying that way
Havoc··on Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
Continually amazed by how enthusiastic people are about getting the head bashed
Havoc··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
> I don't understand how postman became the tool that it is today.

You can’t have a unicorn valuation built on a simple offline client.

This is basically standard SV play book - first step is „fix“ it to have a cloud component/account. Then store some of the data in cloud only - say for example for team sharing or a „workspace“. Then make some features paid only. Then ramp up the enshitification till metrics show it’s saturated and users will bear no more

Havoc··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
If even half of that is true then they’re cooked
Havoc··on Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
In short sound logical argument absolutely zero sense of optics or relatability
Havoc··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
Can certainly be framed that way. And the second the returns wobble it will be.
Havoc··on Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
That‘s hn for you. Bubble of engineers smart everyone else stupid & overhead
Havoc··on Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
> But the goal posts will move

On both frontiers and open. And lately the gap has been closing so if anything yeeting Anthropic etc is getting more viable over time

Havoc··on European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative
Neat. This seems like exactly the sort of thing Europe should be pushing
Havoc··on Can’t fish Ethernet? Use “invisible” fiber instead
This also comes in translucent type - basically looks like fishing line so very close to actually invisible. When it's against a wall you can't see it unless you've got a flashlight and are centimeters away.

And it'll carry 10gig just fine.

Good stuff even though it's a bit of a pain to route it along a path that makes sense, has the right bend radius & doesn't get squished by doors etc.

Currently trying to decide whether to do the same for other rooms.

Havoc··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
Isn't oracle already quite top heavy on debt?
Havoc··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Not so long ago everyone was amazed that they could read BASE64.

This is giving singularity is near vibes.

Havoc··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Congrats on your inferior TV viewing experience. Hopefully the viewing angle still works despite the high horse perspective...
Havoc··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Unfortunately those are also a step behind cutting edge.

I’d rather buy a smart TV, never connect it to the internet than trade down on specs

Havoc··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
2026 TCL I just bought seems to work fine without internet
Havoc··on Norway makes shithouses great again
The most shitest shithouse is clearly white and has a orange gremlin in it
Havoc··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
The fact that you point to the latest model as „I’d be fine with that“ proves my point.

If expectations were static you’d be fine with qwen 2.5…but nobody sane says that today.

It’s a moving target thus we need open weights to move

Havoc··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
>everything tagged as 'uncensored' or 'abliterated' will get wiped from huggingface at some point in the future.

Unlikely given how trivial it is to DIY this (I think...haven't myself but from afar it seems within avg hn crowd reach)

Havoc··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
>The nice thing is that current local modes don't go away.

Given pace of advance I'm not convinced this is a winning strategy. The models of today (open or not) are way smarter than those of a year ago.

...so we really do need open models to keep pace, not just be statically competitive at a given point in time

Havoc··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
The bonsai quants are not that awesome. Yeah they're fast and they retain the "27B" but in practice the perform similarly

5GB of bonsai weights end up being similar to 5GB of QAT weights even when one is derived from a 27B and the other from an 8B

Havoc··on First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite
> poem confirmed success:

What a load of horseshit. A model running on a ESP32 running off a questionable powerbank supply with dodgy coding and worse storage reliability can do that.

The only thing anyone cares about is whether the (economic)math works on put AI in space.

Havoc··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
This feels like Cisco paid for the article
Havoc··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
I bet it helps that Factorio attracts exactly the kind of obsessive players that'll leave a digital trail of training data documented in precise detail

Bit like warthunder guys can't help but leak classified info

Havoc··on Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
This is why we need open AI (not OpenAI). Some duopoly deciding what goes on a whim is not acceptable

I can sorta see them suppressing instructions for say bioweapons (that seems fair to me), but this demonstrates that they'll bend for corporate interests.

Havoc··on I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence
>some of the criticism hurts me because it described a company I don't recognize

Haven't really done much research, but this resonates - the vibes on these recent news reports felt very off.

It felt engineered frankly, which makes me quite suspicious in a world where everyone seems to be pushing for encryption backdoors. The one email provider famous for strong encryption suddenly gets a broad PR across entire media landscape?

...zero evidence but the whole thing just feels off AF

Havoc··on Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn
Yeah I sorta get it, but like idk put something like "End child hunger" on it or something...
Havoc··on Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn
How uncreative.

Nothing against porn, but given a platform that's what you pick to blast into the world?

Havoc··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
wow. Naive perhaps but I would have thought that binance and coinbase would have insurance funds equal to the exposure of their hot wallets.

idk to me that just seems intuitively like something you'd need to have to be credible? Cold is a different story...but how can hot not be covered?

Havoc··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
I'll never not cheer for Mistral.

The more countries are in this game the better for us all.

Much like other stuff when there isn't enough competition the consumer gets wrecked

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