Hacker News: CuriouslyC

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

CuriouslyC — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:46:27 +0000

Instagram is trash. Stop wasting your time.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale"

CuriouslyC — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:37:20 +0000

As a Krea2 local model enjoyer, your challenge is that on the $20 GPT plan you get a fairly good amount of Codex use and image gen. If I used Krea, it would be because I fine tuned/built a workflow on top of it to do something GPT image couldn't/wouldn't do. Maybe there's a market for the cheapest "good enough" bulk image gen model (spam? idk what the applications would be), but personally I'd say you should focus on workflow add-ons/one click fine tuning/etc that design companies can use to create assets with their custom "look" since the GPT-Image look will become blase from overuse.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Gemini 4 Argon"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:08:48 +0000

The delta isn't really slower, we're just unlocking capability bundles in batches. The capabilities bundles you care about might have mostly been unlocked already, and just need refinement, which is coming slower than the initial capabilities came, but don't discount the breadth of advances being made across all possible tasks.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Gemini 4 Argon"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:02:45 +0000

Beyond SVG, these things have been RL'd on 3d reconstruction (which carries over), and I expect given the public reaction to recent frontier advancements in 3d capabilities that this will get allocated a larger share of the post training budget in the future.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:05:05 +0000

Counterpoint, lots of people learn to navigate the areas where they spend their time by following GPS directions repeatedly, and can drive regular routes without them (though they're still useful for routing around unknown traffic issues).

New comment by CuriouslyC in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

CuriouslyC — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:58:09 +0000

The ironic thing is the head chefs of restaurants do almost no cooking. They order around the sous chef, who orders around the kitchen staff, while being focused on the big picture.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions"

CuriouslyC — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:38:43 +0000

First, just check out the comments on any "I'm tired of reading slop" submission to refute your first point, the circle jerk is real.

Second, while I sympathize with not wanting to be inundated with low effort PRs, putting a ban on AI assisted contributions in response is myopic virtue signalling.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:17:43 +0000

I don't choose TS/JS for new projects anymore unless they're browser based. If you need to be in JS land for whatever reason, deploy with Node but do local package management/testing with Bun, because it's way faster for those and you can migrate off without too much pain if it ever becomes problematic.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

CuriouslyC — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:15:28 +0000

D1 is a very different product. D1 is designed to be tenant sharded for any real workloads.

If they bought Neon that'd be a coup.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

CuriouslyC — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:15:47 +0000

It got a video before it hit HN

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

CuriouslyC — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:33:45 +0000

That benchmark agrees with my point, GPT-4o scored an 80% on it. Even if you could construct a much harder legal bench that could resolve smarter models, the bottleneck is getting the absolute top legal experts in the world to give feedback, so progress would be slow compared to stuff like math and coding where you can programmatically generate scenarios and validate/score performance.

These models are spikey as hell, they can gain incredible capabilities but that doesn't make them godlike minds, it's more like a scaled up version of rain man.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:56:30 +0000

It's hard to say for sure, I think we can at least confidently assert that games are going to be more challenging than other forms of creative expression like Books, Music, Art, etc because people's tolerance for derivative games is lower than their tolerance for derivative movies/music.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:24:03 +0000

AAA game studios are dying, consoles are dying, the bear is sick and vulnerable.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:22:25 +0000

Take a look at what's happening with CDs/DVDs. People are sick of not owning their software, and they want a secondary market.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:19:34 +0000

Agents' ability to disassemble and reverse engineer is amazing, the scary thing to think about is what does it mean to sell software in a world where the only moat is brand/marketing?

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:15:17 +0000

You misunderstand me, AI solves the "making" part, but not the "fun" part, which is 100% you.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:50:24 +0000

I don't think AI will ever really solve "making a fun game" because:

1. Games are highly complex systems, so for example adding a fun mechanic from one game to another game can actually make that game less fun, and AI has no way to know, you just have to playtest it.

2. Games are evergreen (people still play and love the original Zelda/Mario/Tetris) and social (you want to share your love of game XYZ with others), so there's literally no reason for anyone to play a purely derivative game, when you can just play the original.

Eventually AI will be able to make perfect assets and all the other stuff AROUND making a fun game, but the game design will always be a human thing. At best, AI will come up with a bunch of game design experiments that a human will need to playtest and provide feedback on.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "What is Codemode"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:24:17 +0000

In terms of token and attention efficiency, lisp's syntax is actually not quite optimal. Ironically, something like xml where you can munge the delimiters together with the tag as a single token for common cases (e.g. '' and '' vs '(' 'xyz' ')') is better.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "What is Codemode"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:14:36 +0000

A little nit here, bash isn't the most elegant language, but shell languages have a very nice feature that makes them easier for Agents to write: they're executed left to right, in the same order the tokens are generated. Python/Javascript can execute out of token order (e.g. foo(bar(baz(bak(bat))))), which is more error prone. Additionally, shell is very terse and designed for duct-taping things together.

I think something like nushell is probably a better direction than trying to use python/javascript as a shell.

New comment by CuriouslyC in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

CuriouslyC — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:08:11 +0000

My argument is that if you were to compare "analyze XYZ geopolitical situation" or "explain the ramifications of XYZ law" from Opus 3.5, 4.5 and 5.5, the difference would be marginal, at least for 4.5 - 5.5. Almost all the crazy capabilities newer models have is from RLVR variants, whereas capabilities driven by RLHF are inching along.