Hacker News: ComplexSystems

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

ComplexSystems — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:08:55 +0000

If it's unethical, then there is reason to call it out as Tristan is doing. I see no reason to blame the victim.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

ComplexSystems — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:00:08 +0000

It's absolutely related.

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

ComplexSystems — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:29:13 +0000

Ridiculous. Air gap the agents, end this nonsense, and stop hacking unsuspecting websites to hype your product.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

ComplexSystems — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:26:29 +0000

It would be great if open source US AI companies could get going already.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

ComplexSystems — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:31:58 +0000

Their current strategy is "make the product affordable in tiny little bursts here and there." That is not a great way to build a moat.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

ComplexSystems — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:10:16 +0000

The government seems like it's in a rough spot. If they let Mythos out, they seem worried people could use it to mass-hack the internet. China seems to not care so much about this and they're right behind. I don't really know what the answer is.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

ComplexSystems — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:46:06 +0000

So what crime was he guilty of that Meta isn't? "Scraping too unsophisticatedly?"

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

ComplexSystems — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:56:26 +0000

China cleaned house these past few months. Kudos to them.

I would really like to see some open source US companies out there.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them"

ComplexSystems — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:24:16 +0000

It's also "out-brute forcing them." It just never gets tired. If a mathematician picks a research direction and spends a whole week on it and it doesn't pan out, they will likely be annoyed, need a break for a while, etc. This thing just does not ever get tired or discouraged or care; it's just onto the next thing until something ends up working.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms"

ComplexSystems — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:22:04 +0000

It seems like you're arguing with this guy for the sake of argument. If anesthetics "yielded some improvement" in Alzheimer's temporarily then any surgery would get the same effect and we would already know about it. And what is the second point you are trying to make here - that zero surgeries are ever performed annually on Alzheimer's patients for any reason? And of the ones that are, the family wouldn't notice the dramatic cognitive improvement shown in this article, but they noticed it here?

New comment by ComplexSystems in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

ComplexSystems — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:58:14 +0000

It is true. I don't care about having infinite frontier-level intelligence, and I don't care if Fable can one-shot frobnicate a klaxelzorp with a benchmark performance of 97%. I doubt most people do, in fact. I just want something that meets the baseline level of intelligence needed to be a really, really good pair programming agent. It shouldn't have any silly dealbreaker issues involving laziness or hallucinations, it should be smart enough to bounce ideas off of, and it should automate doing tedious boilerplate. And - most of all - I want to be able to afford using it as much as I want. That's what has happened here.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

ComplexSystems — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:55:35 +0000

I think the fear is that the people in charge may be too gung-ho about AI and go do something like this, rather than saying that LLMs will spontaneously develop some kind of data analytics power.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

ComplexSystems — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:56:37 +0000

Fortunately, Claude won't fit in a van!

New comment by ComplexSystems in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

ComplexSystems — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:20:30 +0000

Surprising they didn't clean that from the data before training. It's easy to identify, a simple search->replace gets most of it, and a cheap LLM can identify the edge cases (e.g. avoiding "Claude Shannon" -> "Kimi Shannon" or something).

New comment by ComplexSystems in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

ComplexSystems — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:36:07 +0000

How many tokens would it cost to write some library functions to fill in the gaps?

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Cloudflare Drop"

ComplexSystems — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:19:26 +0000

Who, exactly, should help people host a website?

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Claude Sonnet 5"

ComplexSystems — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:08:25 +0000

So the post-introductory price is set such that Sonnet 5 will cost 100%-135% as much?

New comment by ComplexSystems in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

ComplexSystems — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:41:14 +0000

Sonnet 4.6 is ahead of Opus 4.7? Hm.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

ComplexSystems — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:46:36 +0000

The guy is genuinely worried for his future. I see nothing shameful or narcissistic about that, and I don't think it makes sense for you to wish him any harm.

New comment by ComplexSystems in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

ComplexSystems — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:02:29 +0000

Yes, they certainly should have taken one of the many other jobs that are widely available right now.