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ngiyabonga

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    Comment #43920753

    Just pasted the whole thing into the system prompt for Qwen 3 30B-A3B. It then: - responded very thoroughly about Tianmen square - ditto about Uyghur genocide - “knows” DJT is the …

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    Tell HN: Snap may be adding contacts without permission

    Wife just had this happen to her. Seems it started around June 22. Has 5 people she hasn't added herself as new friends. (No mischief, one of them is her father's girlfriend daught…

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    Comment #40502871

    Hi Andrej! First, thank you for your teaching, it has helped me a lot, didn't think I'd ever have the chance to say thank you, but here you are and I hope this gets to you! Questio…

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    Show HN: Threaddr.com – serverless E2EE communications platform

    Hi HN, I wasn't feeling ready to post my work on HN yet, but with the recent increase in stories about LE attacking free speech [1], I'm starting to tell myself there's no time lik…

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    Ask HN: Did OpenAI just retrain GPT from scratch?

    The announcement[1] from a couple of days ago makes note of increased context length from 4k to 16k for GPT-3.5-turbo and to 32k (from 8k?) for GPT-4. From my limited understanding…

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    Comment #35429021

    Is this even legal? I remember Elon had a gag order from the SEC about market manipulating tweets. Changing Twitter's logo isn't technically a tweet I guess?

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    Comment #35387218

    This is my experience as well, and not just for coding, but quite a few "knowledge-worker" type tasks I've been experimenting with: summarisation, translation, copywriting, idea ge…

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    Comment #35374966

    I find these two concepts [1, 2] at odds with each other. Not a critique on the author - on the contrary, empathy: I felt the same when applying to YC (did not make a batch). On on…

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    Comment #34979742

    Thank you. You got me down quite the rabbit hole. Exploring having a server I control act as Wireguard server and have a VPS act as a client to proxy requests from the outside worl…

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    Ask HN: How to protect users from Cloudflare and server from users?

    I'm building a privacy centric React app that does all the work client side, using a server only for the static files required for the app to run. I don't want to expose users to C…