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Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

OpenAI released a feature that lets you tweak ChatGPT output to sound more human and like yourself and correct inaccuracies: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2026/04/open-ai-strikes-ba...

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Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

Whole story up to the context limit. Then it starts dropping stuff. But I didn't want auto dropping or auto summaries like what other tools do. I like to be strategic summarize the correct places when the context gets full. There is a request inspector that shows everything that is sent. I'm experimenting with prompt ordering strategies as well. this is surprisingly complext when you take into account the different model providers. For example local models usually do a different form of prompt caching than for example openai and anthropic

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Some of us prefer to avoid Anthropic/OpenAI

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

I'm not a OpenRouter user, but if i were, i'd move away from it This is what i hate about modern entrepreneurship, everything is always built for a short term plan Family businesses where tradition, trust, values and reputation are kept and transmitted across generations don't exist in tech and it's just sad It's just build fast, milk users, cash out, and move on No loyalty, no pride in the work, and zero respect for the people who actually supported you And actually, it's a defensive move from Stripe, because OpenRouter was quietly becoming the way AI agents pay each other in USDC via x402, and Stripe probably saw this as a threat, specially with OpenAI already moving away from Stripe They'll nerf you, to protect themselves, they'll make you dependent on their merchant system for the jui…

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

The acquisition makes no sense, as most LLM providers only reason not to forbid them right now, is because they were funded by exactly the same VCs as the providers. Go check. Of all the no moats they are the example of no moat . Its seconds switch to another router if even that is tolerated. And lets not even talk, the lack of compliance in an enterprise environment, and as they defer to providers on that... But the acquisition makes a LOT of SENSE, if you realize that as the same VCs sit on Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI and most important OpenRouter. Said VCs have a lot of interest in recovering their money...by pushing one of their companies to buy another one of their own, before LLMs providers financial pressures cut OpenRouter legs. Is this stuff even legal? I will wait for Patrick Boyl…

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

> Reddit/bluesky users seething at anthropic/openai doesn't matter I don't use Reddit or bluesky bud, you're projecting. > Moreover all the complaints you mentioned applies to chinese AI labs as well, with the extra issue that they're beholden to the CCP. And the American labs are beholden to Trump, Hegseth and the department of war. Furthermore, our companies are consistently pursuing regulatory capture (see Dario's latest tweet) so they can establish themselves as a monopoly or duopoly. They've scraped and stolen our data, and now they're trying to pull up the ladder behind them. I'm not naive enough to think that the CCP has my best interests at heart as an American, but I'm also not naive enough to think that Anthropic or OpenAI do either. As long as China keeps releas…

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

Same. I scrolled back up to see if I read the title correctly. It's important to note that it is the best... OpenAI released. Not the best overall.

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Nvidia is guaranteeing OpenAI's financing because, at a high level, people are more willing to lend/invest money with a profitable company than one losing money. And Sam Altman needs a new source of financing because the US government is getting squirrelly about him continuing to raise capital from the Middle East in exchange for technology transfer.

New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

DeepSeek was already pretty cheap compared to OpenAI and else, but now with peak pricing, it's not as straightforward. GPT-4o mini is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, while DeepSeek V4 Flash off-peak is $0.22/$0.66. So still cheaper, but the gap is narrowing. But is it worth it for the end user?..

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Not the person you replied to, but I think a more accurate description of the reasoning we see is proof of effort, not necessarily great insight into how the reasoning is occurring. For the most part, researchers currently describe the intent and motives (in however one may define them for LLMs) as black boxes right now. Even the mechanics of the cognitive process is not well understood. Depending on the model and harness, the thinking will often look like gibberish. I suspect they've invested considerable effort into presenting thinking as a reasonable approximation of what they imagine it to be. Claude and OpenAI have also begun encouraging multi-step problem solving (or the models themselves decide this), and we can see their more accurate responses at the conclusion of each phase. Fin…

What the OpenAI/Hugging Face Hack Tells Us About AI Danger

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Some weeks ago a new official Gemma 4 release was posted that corrected some of the chat template problems. So the official release files on hugging face should be the way to go.

Llama-macOS – Agentic and MCP Native macOS Front End for Llama.cpp

If you have llama.cpp installed, Llama uses it. Otherwise, it installs a prebuilt binary for your Mac. Models you've already installed via llama.cpp show up in the app automatically. You can install any GGUF model from Hugging Face, and Llama also recommends models that fit your Mac's hardware. You can chat with any model in the built-in WebUI, connect other apps (coding agents, chat UIs, editors), or use the API directly. Models load when requested and unload when idle, so they don't take up memory when not in use. > Features - 100% local — Models run on your Mac; no data ever leaves it - Small footprint — 4 MB native macOS app - Zero configuration — models are auto-configured with optimal settings for your Mac - Model recommendations — a built-in list of models your Mac can run, inst…

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Look for improved templates by "froggeric" on Hugging Face. I use Qwen 3.6 a fair amount using his template and it fixes some issues I saw with the upstream versions.

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It's a bit like trying to finish a sentence when you're really stoned... you vaguely remember the preceding couple of words you've said but don't really know how you got there and now you're wandering in the forest trying to stumble on coherency. Well, I suppose it's nearly the opposite of that experience, upon further review. But for some reason, that's where my head jumped.

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

Yes, models can reason and plan, which helps them write more coherently. But when they write the final output, it’s still a single generation. It would be like letting a human make notes and write an outline, but not let them use the backspace once they start typing their response. Presumably you could use the same reasoning trace, run multiple generations, and get different outputs (if the temperature is >0). But now I’m interested in playing more with Cowork or Claude Code/Codex for prose writing to see if the set of tools there affects outputs at all. I guess you might need a more custom “writing” harness.

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

The strategy here is that the same services that Stripe offers for payments have corollaries in the LLM world. Security, user management, perhaps injection attack monitoring, etc. However I think they dearly overpaid for this as the core technology behind Stripe (fraud detection and integration with global banks) is hard to replicate. Even with the features mentioned above I think the technologies behind OpenRouter are vastly easier to replicate, perhaps even trivial now.

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

There is no coherent position in which the watermarking is a perversion of writing but AI writing as a whole is not a worse one.