Hacker News: 542458

New comment by 542458 in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

542458 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:45:01 +0000

I was under the impression that they went after HF to try to get the answers to the benchmark questions. Is there something that contradicts that?

New comment by 542458 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

542458 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:07:53 +0000

Kimi K3 was an interesting model only a month ago, and now we're looking at the same performance for 1/20th of the price. Wild how fast this is advancing.

New comment by 542458 in "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI"

542458 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:19:10 +0000

I am also skeptical this is true. I made few typical exam essay questions and inserted the requisite clause about adding nonsense about Madagascar, and then had chatGPT answer the questions. In almost every case the output included a little executive summary at the bottom below the essay content, clearly calling out the nonsense it had added. I could believe a few students missing this, but over 90% of the class?

New comment by 542458 in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

542458 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:10:52 +0000

Surprisingly, Coriolis at extreme ranges (like 5000 feet) can be relevant enough to be corrected for, but how much and in what direction depends which way you're shooting and where on the planet you are. There's a fun calculator here: https://codingace.net/physics/coriolis_effect_shooting.html

New comment by 542458 in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

542458 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:30 +0000

I'm not a deep-in-the-weeds expert, but if I had to put together an "obvious long rifle mistakes in fiction" article, it’d probably be:

* People pumping shotguns after every round, or unnecessarily cycling the bolt after every round

* Wrong action type for the gun

* Wrong shotgun ammo for the context

* Wrong safety type for the gun (most long guns have safeties, but they are operated in a variety of ways)

* Magazine vs clip vs chamber vs tube

* Shotgun impacts launching people across rooms, or unrealistic recoil (both too high and too low) for the weapon type

New comment by 542458 in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

542458 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:46:10 +0000

Enterprise customers don’t get those plans, at the enterprise level you have to pay by the API rate… so people don’t have limited use, but you’re also not getting the heavily discounted rate the “normal” plans are at.

New comment by 542458 in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

542458 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:59:44 +0000

I’d disagree wrt “modify”. There are all sorts of tools for modifying LLM weights (ie to remove refusals, remove layers or experts, merge models, finetune, and more) and a quick glance at huggingface or civit will show those in very active use.

I don’t think the hardware requirements are relevant. If a research lab publishes the code their particle collider runs under the GPL, that doesn’t make it not OSS even though they’re the only ones on the planet with the hardware to run it.

New comment by 542458 in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

542458 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:20:20 +0000

I feel like I have a different $20 plan than everyone else. I have no problem hitting my 5 hour and weekly limits. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great deal compared to API pricing, but it’s a far cry from “unlimited”.

New comment by 542458 in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

542458 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:25:02 +0000

> There needs to be a time when you are completely undisturbed and disconnected. If you are disturbed by work you will think about work while you answer and maybe even after that. That's not good.

IMO this is not a universal truth - I’m sure some people need that level of disconnection, but I don't find I'm one of them. I generally like my job, and don't find that forcing myself to disconnect does me any particular mental good. But other people report needing that separation, and that's fine! I don't think there needs to be a one-size-fits-all answer here.

I do agree with your bus factor argument though.

New comment by 542458 in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

542458 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:31:57 +0000

I think my POV on this is a bit different than what others are expressing… I don’t mind answering the occasional email while on vacation, but I view it as a fair trade - as long as the company doesn’t mind me handling the occasional personal obligation during work hours I don’t mind handling the occasional work obligation during personal hours. If the company wants to be strict about clock in/out hours or taking PTO for every 30 minute errand or the work trends in a way that routinely exceeds 40 hours per week total then I’ll stop doing work “off the clock”, but so long as they’re willing to be reasonable I’m willing to be reasonable.

New comment by 542458 in "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI"

542458 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:16:33 +0000

It's 100 lines of unobfuscated js. If you're worried just read it.

New comment by 542458 in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

542458 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:15:14 +0000

> writhing knife

Minor/pedantic, but it’s “riving knife”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riving_knife

New comment by 542458 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

542458 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:24:13 +0000

Is there anything to read on how the economics of an orbital datacenter make any sense? Because I don't really see how blasting a server into space solves any of the typical issues associated with datacentres beyond easier access to solar.

New comment by 542458 in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

542458 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:25:26 +0000

That’s how I use it. I might be working on two or three features at a time (iterating, iterating, iterating…), but they’re all scoped and of user value; I don’t feel that I’m just off chasing rabbits.

But I’m also one of those people for whom the “fun” was always solving human problems rather than solving computer problems. I can see how if you are in the latter category AI has already sucked out a lot of joy and how rapidly project switching could be the least-unfun option.

New comment by 542458 in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

542458 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:16:05 +0000

A library with a bunch of different providers doesn’t solve the payment/billing problem (which is one of the main openrouter benefits). IMO being able to buy credits and not have them locked to one provider is worth the 5% to me.

New comment by 542458 in "The dead economy theory"

542458 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:01:29 +0000

From your Wikipedia link:

> Demands: […] Government to ensure at least 50% profit over their overall cost of production.

They demanded 50% guaranteed annual RoR on all farming activities? That’s a wild demand.

New comment by 542458 in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

542458 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:14:12 +0000

They're different sizes, it's in the description and it's also described under "More info" > "Capacity (cl)". I'm not seeing the "What is the capacity..." button you mentioned.

New comment by 542458 in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

542458 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:19 +0000

I love that even something as well-trodden as a kettle design can still be refined further. My main skepticism is whether this works well when the kettle isn't close to full - the image of it pouring implies a nearly-full kettle, but does the angle become awkward when it's closer to empty? Hard to know without actually holding one.

New comment by 542458 in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

542458 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:19:32 +0000

While web accessibility is important and something we should be investing in, I do feel that the vendors of accessibility tools are somewhat to blame here in how friggin difficult it is to actually make something accessible. Quirks and features are wildly inconsistent across tools, and feature uptake is much slower than it should be. For example, creating an accessible dialog shouldn’t be a multi-page essay to explain, it should just be “use the

New comment by 542458 in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

542458 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:55:51 +0000

It looks like in iMessage for business, the phone’s user’s outbound messages show as dark grey (as opposed to normal iMessage and SMS/RCS which show outbound messages as blue and green respectively). I assume this is supposed to communicate that you’re talking to a different sort of entity, not a normal person on a phone.

Personally I don’t see why you’d care. My business isn’t trying to pretend to be a normal person using a phone, so why would it matter?

https://www.apple.com/ios/business-chat/