Hacker News: HPMOR

New comment by HPMOR in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

HPMOR — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:13:49 +0000

He created Django, what do you mean he's not an engineer? Also 'low-effort??' his posts are extremely in-depth, clearly very thought through with a significant amount of time and energy. Additionally he does perform multifaceted checks across LLMs in many of his other blog posts.

New comment by HPMOR in "Pre-2022 Books"

HPMOR — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:54:22 +0000

It is more than just books published pre-2022, but I've noticed that it is necessary to buy books __printed__ before 2022. Recently I've noticed aggressive misspellings and misquotations in old books printed in '25/'26. I believe these errors are being introduced because the publisher is using an LLM or some similar tool to correct any prior errors but is introducing more hallucinations. Or perhaps the cause is people caring less than they used to?

New comment by HPMOR in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

HPMOR — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:59:46 +0000

Wow - Google paid a couple billion dollars to bring Noam back. Really impressive by OAI if this reporting is accurate!

New comment by HPMOR in "Building agents without harness engineering"

HPMOR — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:35:34 +0000

Yeah I know some of my team members have invested a lot of time in this. Could definitely be worth chatting with them on what improvements could be made here. We're starting to deprioritize our consumer facing agent harness, in favor of more infrastructure level improvements we are making.

New comment by HPMOR in "Building agents without harness engineering"

HPMOR — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:33:56 +0000

Interesting. We definitely have long-running agents where certain preferences are key. However, some of the preferences are likely going to be shared universally across our customers. Is there some way of triaging this feedback into permanent improvements in agent performance?

New comment by HPMOR in "Building agents without harness engineering"

HPMOR — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:14:14 +0000

I'm curious who the ideal customer of this should be. If we're a startup with our own harness, are we a good fit? What would qualify us or disqualify us from being a good user?

New comment by HPMOR in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

HPMOR — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:57:12 +0000

Holy shit, I cannot believe this is an actual belief people currently hold. We fought a war for this amendment.

New comment by HPMOR in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

HPMOR — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:01:05 +0000

This is like saying - 'I don't understand why anybody would ever buy a pizza from a store. All you have to do is get some flour, water, tomato sauce, cheese, mix the flour and water together, whip the dough, add tomato sauce, put cheese on top of it, cook it for 20 minutes, and then serve it.'

So __much__ value is in the fact things are easy. Money is __not__ the most valuable thing in the world.

New comment by HPMOR in "Getting arrested in Japan"

HPMOR — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:04:16 +0000

Sorry, I think you mean abiding*. But laws are not some moral edicts handed down by god. They can and often are wrong or seriously misguided. Laws can and should be broken if and only if the agent at hand has a thorough understanding of why they are violating the law. Breaking a law and antisocial behavior are not necessarily equivalent.

New comment by HPMOR in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

HPMOR — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:58:23 +0000

No it was Dan Cane. He’s gone on to found a second decacorn called ModMed. Truly one of my role models.

New comment by HPMOR in "Getting arrested in Japan"

HPMOR — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:56:43 +0000

Holy shit this is horrible. It really shows the true cost of having a disciplined public society. People love to hate on SF, and the homelessness. But I think it’s a society that prioritizes individual freedom which allows for both this outcome and the entrepreneurial environment we see.

New comment by HPMOR in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

HPMOR — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:08:55 +0000

One of my mentors created Blackboard. It used to be very very good, but he sold it to private equity, and they immediately fired all of the customer support and developers, 3xd prices overnight leading to the 'blackboard sucks' problem. This gave the opening for Canvas to eventually come on to the scene and dominate.

New comment by HPMOR in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

HPMOR — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:30:18 +0000

I think merging them into either this thread, or the System Card makes the most sense to me.

Stripe Dashboard Down

HPMOR — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:51:45 +0000

Went to Stripe dashboard and got hit with a 'our team is investigating this.' However Stripe status shows no issue. Really seems like companies are doing 'whatever it takes' to keep their SLAs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572006

Points: 2

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New comment by HPMOR in "'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross"

HPMOR — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:58:49 +0000

I asked claude to decipher this and it refused. I asked gemini and it was permissible. Very interesting to see ROT-13 banned via Anthropic as a 'prompt injection' risk.

New comment by HPMOR in "Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)"

HPMOR — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:57:07 +0000

Anecdotes __are__ data. How much weight you ascribe to it as being representative is different. But you cannot disqualify it as 'not data'. It is usually a leading indicator of what could potentially show up in these more robust datasets.

New comment by HPMOR in "[dead]"

HPMOR — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:51:33 +0000

This almost certainly is. I fear that Claude is likely being attacked by foreign (domestic?) adversaries.

New comment by HPMOR in "Claude App Down 3/2/26"

HPMOR — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:52:40 +0000

Wow - glad they updated fast. Feel like incident reports are notorious for not updating fast. Kind of impressed tbh.

Claude App Down 3/2/26

HPMOR — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:49:15 +0000

Claude chat is down for me right now. Won't let me submit any messages, auto logs me out. Are other people experiencing the same? 3:49am PST - 3/2/26

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216795

Points: 18

# Comments: 10

New comment by HPMOR in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

HPMOR — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:53:37 +0000

Such a dipshit administration. I hope California secedes from the union to protect our champions.