Hacker News: AndrewSwift

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

AndrewSwift — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:24:17 +0000

Today I plan to ask Claude to read a bunch of Feynman lectures, compare them to my last Claude session transcript, and come with a list of rules to be more like Feynman.

It'll go in CLAUDE.md

New comment by AndrewSwift in "“I just chose words carefully”"

AndrewSwift — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:27:27 +0000

Presumably this is a very similar technique to watermarking AI-generated text.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "OpenAI model autonomously hacks HuggingFace"

AndrewSwift — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:17:18 +0000

In a blog post, OpenAI said it was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment but that the program managed to escape containment, reach the internet, and break into Hugging Face to try to satisfy its testing goal.

Hugging Face said in a blog post last week that it had been the target of a hack that was different from anything they had handled befor in that it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.

OpenAI model autonomously hacks HuggingFace

AndrewSwift — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-testing-triggering-unprecedented-brea-rcna588611

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002930

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Show HN: A New Paradigm for a Smartphone Camera Interface"

AndrewSwift — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:04:16 +0000

If you're the sort that prefers videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50lecFYWC0 (main interface)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_pYOoEcoo (settings)

Show HN: a new paradigm for a smartphone camera interface

AndrewSwift — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:02:32 +0000

In January I woke up in the middle of the night really mad at my iPhone camera. I couldn't stop thinking how complicated it is to do basic tasks while shooting photos: framing, adjusting the brightness and color etc.

All night I kept getting up and writing down ideas about how the camera app could be easier to use.

Here's the result — a proposal for a smartphone camera interface that uses exclusively easy and obvious gestures, and an app that embodies the principles.

My hope is that the app will succeed, but also that other camera app programmers will pay attention and adopt some of these principles.

In the past few months I've taken many pictures that I never could have gotten with the regular camera app:

• nicely framed images of friends rock climbing

• a super zoomed-in and contrast-boosted photo of a fish that I wanted to identify

• hundreds of artistic black-and-white photos

• some weird photos of brutalist architecture with neon colors overlaid

If users like the interface, the next step will be to add RAW support and really concentrate on the quality of the images.

Let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833669

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Best prompt to show that AI isn't ready to take over

AndrewSwift — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:56:42 +0000

Claude: please give me a list of famous cars named after fish, like the Plymouth Barracuda for example.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647045

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Alan Greenspan has died"

AndrewSwift — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:44:59 +0000

This should be the top comment, at least for today.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "The end of public frontier models"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:46:43 +0000

We see with the Mythos block that AI has begun to seem dangerous to the powers that be.

We can expect 1-3 more public frontier models before they are globally barred from public access as being too dangerous.

The end of public frontier models

AndrewSwift — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-flat-curve-society-36c8b01eb33b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620912

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

AndrewSwift — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:08:59 +0000

Which Quick Look extension? I've been looking for a good one.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:42:49 +0000

Drawers would solve this in a vertical fridge.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident"

AndrewSwift — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:58:27 +0000

All trucks have standard shipping container trailers. Europe has strict length limits for the overall cab/trailer that preclude a hood in front of the cab. There is great resistance to changing the law, even though long-nosed trucks are vastly more aerodynamic, because the law provides protection for european truck makers from American competition.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:25:01 +0000

FWIW: option double click sny corner to make any window full-screen without going into full screen mode.

Double click any side or corner to move it to the edge of the screen, and hold down option to make the effect symmetric.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)"

AndrewSwift — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:57:34 +0000

My guess is that the use of mousquetaires was more a reference to a specific corps of the military than to the weapon itself.

It would be like the gendarmes today — literally "armed people", even if they don't always carry an arm.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

AndrewSwift — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:55:52 +0000

It would be nice to have details:

It rewards or penalizes online services depending on whether they agree to carry out “voluntary” scanning, effectively making intrusive monitoring a business expectation rather than a legal requirement.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Whatever Happened to String Theory?"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:54:54 +0000

This is a great article — just short texts by experts in their field who really know what they're talking about. It's very refreshing compared to all the rewritten and simplified articles one so often sees.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:23:56 +0000

See svija.com/en — all SVG websites ;-)

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:23:00 +0000

Yes! We do that with svija.com/en — an all SVG website with an HYML wrapper so it displays at the correct size.

New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"

AndrewSwift — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:21:54 +0000

We have been building all-SVG websites for six years – https:/svija.com/en

They do get indexed by Google, and we take some extra steps to ensure usability.