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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 3 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | source

Earlier thread: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638 - Nov 2025 (281 comments)
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jmkni ◴[16 Nov 25 12:56 UTC] No.45944780[source]▶
That whole article felt like "Claude is so good Chinese hackers are using it for espionage" marketing fluff tbh
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ndiddy ◴[16 Nov 25 13:44 UTC] No.45945102[source]▶
Reminds me of how when the Playstation 2 came out, Sony started planting articles about how it was so powerful that the Iraqi government was buying thousands of them to turn into a supercomputer (including unnamed military officials bringing up Sony marketing points). https://www.wnd.com/2000/12/7640/
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1. bongodongobob ◴[16 Nov 25 17:24 UTC] No.45946742[source]▶
But it was that good for the price point. And you could run Linux on it. That was the Beowulf cluster era. Lots of universities were doing that.
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2. duskwuff ◴[16 Nov 25 23:33 UTC] No.45949461[source]▶
You may be mixing up the PS2 and PS3. The PS3 found some marginal use in computing clusters; the PS2 did not.
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3. bongodongobob ◴[16 Nov 25 23:53 UTC] No.45949625[source]▶
A quick google will show you that it was. I remember because I was in college at the time and that's how I learned what a Beowulf cluster was. Maybe PS3 was more successful or more popular, but there were definitely PS2 clusters.