Hacker News: Ardren

New comment by Ardren in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

Ardren — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:03:31 +0000

> Then, unprompted, Altman offers up a kind of shocking timeline for the groundbreaking feature of counting: “Maybe another year before something like that works well.” Per Altman, ChatGPT’s voice model doesn’t have the capability of starting a timer or keeping track of time. “But we will add the intelligence into the voice models,” he said.

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-b...

New comment by Ardren in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

Ardren — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:00:20 +0000

Gone in 25 minutes with 180 votes.

The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.

New comment by Ardren in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

Ardren — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:53:20 +0000

> Then try to drag out a tab of firefox

Works fine here?

New comment by Ardren in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

Ardren — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:42:14 +0000

If it was it wouldn't be Python. It can never be pure because __getattr__ is just another method that anyone can overwrite.

New comment by Ardren in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

Ardren — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:49:29 +0000

When did Blackwell start shipping in volume? A H200 is still > $30,000.

I'd settle for some free 80GB A100 cards! ($7,000 2nd hand on ebay right now)

New comment by Ardren in "No right to relicense this project"

Ardren — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:03:31 +0000

Huh, 7e25bf4 was a big commit.

  2,305 files changed
  +0 -546871 lines changed

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/commit/7e25bf40bb4ae68848...

New comment by Ardren in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Ardren — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:15:42 +0000

> "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations,"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/us-and-israel-launch-a-ma...

New comment by Ardren in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)"

Ardren — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:01:48 +0000

Brave to link to that here.

New comment by Ardren in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

Ardren — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:38:41 +0000

Why is this story at position 261 with 269 points (@6hr)? It's been demoted so much that it's behind a 6hr post about Pistachio's with 1 point (also 6hr old)

This site has become ridiculously biased.

New comment by Ardren in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

Ardren — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:12:04 +0000

I agree. It's now confirmed that DJT ordered military attacks on Venezuela

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/venezuela-us-military-s...

New comment by Ardren in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

Ardren — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:04:24 +0000

> It literally takes a line to implement in Nginx.

Lots of things are really simple. But you have to know about them first.

New comment by Ardren in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

Ardren — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:10:14 +0000

As someone with MDD, reading these comments is depressing. It's full of people who don't even know what MDD is exists and that people should stop being sad.

Hacker News really does attract a specific type of person...

New comment by Ardren in "Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?"

Ardren — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:14:54 +0000

I think your example works, as it does try to solve a problem it hasn't seen (though it is very similar to existing problems).

... But, CharGPT makes several mistakes :-)

> Wizard Teleport: Wz1 teleports himself and Wz2 to Castle Beta. This means Wz1 has used his only teleport power.

Good.

> Witch Summon: From Castle Beta, Wi1 at Castle Alpha is summoned by Wz1. Now Wz1 has used his summon power.

Wizzard1 cannot summon.

> Wizard Teleport: Now, Wz2 (who is at Castle Beta) teleports back to Castle Alpha, taking Wa1 with him.

Warrior1 isn't at Castle beta

> Wizard Teleport: Wz2, from Castle Alpha, teleports with Wa2 to Castle Beta.

Wizzard2 has already teleported

New comment by Ardren in "Measuring political bias in Claude"

Ardren — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:40:34 +0000

I think you have missed the point of the parent.

The prompt uses Claude's own descriptions of Trump and Biden, and when the names were replaced, suddenly it wasn't "political" anymore and could give a response.

New comment by Ardren in "Measuring political bias in Claude"

Ardren — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:27:25 +0000

> "it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn't"

New comment by Ardren in "Measuring political bias in Claude"

Ardren — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:24:36 +0000

Why on earth would I want the model to try be 'even handed', I want it to be correct.

> We want Claude to be seen as fair and trustworthy by people across the political spectrum, and to be unbiased and even-handed in its approach to political topics.

That's just saying you want to moderate Claude's output so as to not upset people and lose customers.

New comment by Ardren in "Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify"

Ardren — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:58:17 +0000

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vercel-ceo-takes-selfie-israe...

New comment by Ardren in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

Ardren — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:53:51 +0000

> I very much doubt that's the main issue - the multithreaded sqlite performance makes me wonder if something's up with our fsync performance. I'll wait to see the results with the DKMS version, and if the numbers are still bad I'll have to see if I can replicate it and start digging.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux...

New comment by Ardren in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

Ardren — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:00:06 +0000

> Claude assists me in my math research.

Pulling up the ladder behind you :-)

New comment by Ardren in "My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use"

Ardren — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:26:52 +0000

For fun, compare and contrast the comments here to this post on Windows 10 from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208050