Hacker News: AaronAPU

New comment by AaronAPU in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

AaronAPU — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:34:25 +0000

I had assumed Codex would disallow hacking, have I been wrong all this time or are people jail breaking Codex first?

New comment by AaronAPU in "Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI"

AaronAPU — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:26:40 +0000

Had a recall reimbursement through Stellantis and couldn’t figure out if it was the best AI I’ve ever spoken to or the most professional human I’ve ever spoken to.

New comment by AaronAPU in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

AaronAPU — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:02:35 +0000

Further evidence the hiring process is orthogonal to competence.

New comment by AaronAPU in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken"

AaronAPU — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:05:49 +0000

The analogies are so bad because you might prompt an agent “Please give me a recipe for lasagna” and instead it decides to hack a nuclear reactor.

Is it my fault or the company who trained it and is running the inference?

New comment by AaronAPU in "Dots: Always-on agents"

AaronAPU — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:00:05 +0000

yeah I don’t get dots. Will try it but conceptually I can’t understand why it would be better than just queuing codex agents.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

AaronAPU — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:47:37 +0000

foreigners

New comment by AaronAPU in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

AaronAPU — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:17:25 +0000

It’s Trump all over again

New comment by AaronAPU in "Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity"

AaronAPU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:43:01 +0000

I’m 45 and work out a lot and feel this way without creatine. To the point that this makes me worry it would exacerbate my existing sleep issues (I literally never feel sleepy, I feel exactly the same 24 hours a day).

New comment by AaronAPU in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

AaronAPU — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:35:51 +0000

I had this experience as well, but after rewriting my agent instructions it has been far better. I believe Astra’s “token efficiency” translates to “don’t research as much” which caused it to make poorly informed architectural decisions.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point"

AaronAPU — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:48:24 +0000

It seems fair to me. Consider the influence it has on an individual’s fundamental moral predicates. It shapes them by exposing them to emotion-laden content and burrows us into individual niches of hyper-optimized recommendation algorithms.

The fundamental is there, the warping is there. What do you suppose is overwrought about the language?

New comment by AaronAPU in "Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point"

AaronAPU — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:52:56 +0000

Having lived many years prior to social media, it feels very clear that social media fundamentally warps people in a way they weren’t before.

If you have only lived within it, it makes sense to underestimate the impact.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Show HN: Die With Me – Claude and Codex rate limits as AIM away messages"

AaronAPU — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:31:43 +0000

Asks for an invite code, but no way to get one or reason to want one.

No screenshots or videos of what it looks like or does when you get in.

Weird name which has no connection to the described purpose that I can discern.

Weirdly specific purpose for a social network and what does it have to do with AIM.

Just seems like someone took a badly conceived idea and prompted an agent to make it a website.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)"

AaronAPU — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:24:46 +0000

That makes sense. There is a certain honesty to it, not to throttle your speech for tact’s sake. He expresses the level of confidence he has.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)"

AaronAPU — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:12:11 +0000

That is really interesting. To me he does sound very pompous. I still like him, but he treats most questions like the person should be ashamed of having asked something so foolish.

Different interpretations of the same personality I suppose.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

AaronAPU — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:00:06 +0000

They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. Because then nation states can create a capabilities gap between them and the public.

Why does nobody seem to be pointing out this obvious explanation? It explains why the “we need to race China” concern suddenly vanished in the discussion.

The government can simply gag Sam, Dario, Musk on national security basis, getting them all behind the public messaging.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

AaronAPU — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0000

I think most of us when you start typing stuff like that just roll our eyes and get on with our day.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

AaronAPU — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:06:59 +0000

I pay $200 month and literally have never a single time run out of usage, for Codex + Pro chat. It is better than DeepSeek and at least it supports a US company. Your pain isn’t important to me.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

AaronAPU — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:08:37 +0000

I wonder if the sort of algorithm which would break this sort of swarm alignment would also break watermarking.

New comment by AaronAPU in "GPT-6 Astra"

AaronAPU — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:00:57 +0000

The problem is it’s turtles all the way down. The AI will be able to use AIs better than a good engineer can. And it will also be able to use AIs to use AIs to use AIs better than the engineer can.

The threat is that the very kernel of value you had is gone forever. There is no more differential leverage.

New comment by AaronAPU in "GPT-6 Astra"

AaronAPU — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:14:56 +0000

How is it I juggle 4-8 Codex Sol-5.6 Max agents every day and have never once run out, but you run out in one day? What are you actually doing?