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This isn't really a typical Ask HN, but since my LinkedIn network doesn't get me there, I thought I'd give HN a shot! Paddle, the merchant of record, used to have quite excellent support (widget in their dashboard) which then turned into workable support by e-mail. Now they have added a layer of AI automation whereby any support e-mail receives an automated AI reply to which you have to reply to escalate to a human. Unfortunately that loop is broken. I never get a human into the loop at all (the

Hi HN, Gabriel here. This is a standalone binaural beat generator, combined with a two-deck local audio player built with the Web Audio API. It includes ten harmonic carrier pairs, seven brainwave-state presets, per-harmonic mixing (so the binaural tones aren't out-of-tune with the music), adjustable beat and carrier frequencies, two oscillator shapes, offline key/BPM analysis, automatic carrier matching, adaptive impulse noise, playlist support, and output recording. The main problem I've had w

Analysis of satellite images of Myanmar shows dozens of alleged scam compounds have appeared in recent months, despite a purported crackdown on the criminal organizations.

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The US government just accused a Chinese AI company of copying an American model, and threatened sanctions over it. Whether or not the claim holds up, it's worth understanding what's actually being alleged, because the word at the center of it, distillation, is about to come up a lot. Here's the plain version. What distillation means Model distillation is training a new model using the outputs of an existing one. Instead of learning purely from raw data, the new model learns by copying how a stronger "teacher" model responds. Done legitimately, it's a normal technique for making smaller, cheaper models. Done against someone else's commercial model without permission, it's a way to clone a lot of that model's behavior on the cheap, and it usually violates the terms of service. That's the core of the accusation: that one company used another company's model as an unpaid teacher. What the White House claims Michael Kratsios, who leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, accused Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based company, of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K3. He alleged Moonshot built a sophisticated internal platform to run large-scale distillation against US models while switching between access methods to avoid detection. The claim didn't stop there. Kratsios also said Moonshot obtained restricted Blackwell-generation Nvidia servers through Thailand, which would sidestep US export controls. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent followed up by putting sanctions and export-control blacklisting on the table. Why some experts are skeptical Here's the part that keeps this from being open-and-shut. Anthropic's Fable model has only been public since July 1, and Kimi K3 shipped on July 16. That's a very short window to distill a 2.8-trillion-parameter model primarily from another model's outputs. Several experts have pointed out that the timeline makes "mostly built by distilling Fable" hard to believe. So the honest framing is that this is a

Microsoft has intervened to stop Windows 11 users with LG monitors from being bombarded with annoying McAfee trial pop-ups. In response to complaints about the LG bloatware, Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, said that LG has agreed to immediately disable the McAfee pop-up from its LG Monitor App Installer, and pledged that Microsoft will "keep […]