Hacker News: HPMOR

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

# Comments: 0

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.

New comment by HPMOR in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

HPMOR — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:42:11 +0000

Google makes over $1bn/day. $68mm is literally an hour's worth of revenue to them - so yes pennies.

New comment by HPMOR in "Claude Opus 4.6"

HPMOR — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:31:13 +0000

No - because the AI will be super human. No human even at $1mm a year would be competitive with a $100k/yr corresponding AI subscription.

See people get confused. They think you can charge __less__ for software because it's automation. The truth is you can charge MORE, because it's high quality and consistent, once the output is good. Software is worth MORE than a corresponding human, not less.

New comment by HPMOR in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

HPMOR — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:15:47 +0000

Yeah SF is 10x every other place in earth. People that think things are comparable have never lived here.

New comment by HPMOR in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

HPMOR — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:55:56 +0000

Why is this being hidden off of the main HN pages? There are clearly enough points for it to be significantly up weighted. I don’t understand the censorship.

New comment by HPMOR in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

HPMOR — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:11:46 +0000

I think this is an open question still and very interesting. Ilya discussed this on the Dwarkesh podcast. But the capabilities of LLMs is clearly exponential and perhaps super exponential. We went from something that could string together incoherent text in 2022 to general models helping people like Terrance Tao and Scott Aaronson write new research papers. LLMs also beat IMO and the ICPC. We have entered the John Henry era for intellectual tasks...

New comment by HPMOR in "Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address"

HPMOR — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:22:12 +0000

Why is this the case? I don't understand, can somebody explain the logic to me here?

New comment by HPMOR in "As 'Dorian Gray' ages, its relevance only grows"

HPMOR — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:47:38 +0000

There’s a line in the book I quite liked: “All the interesting people disappear to San Francisco.” Was incredible to me that even back then, SF was known for its homosexual culture. Lord Henry was remarking on where Basil likely had disappeared, so the insinuation was that Basil felt more at home in SF.

New comment by HPMOR in "California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations"

HPMOR — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:26 +0000

So when will they be available for commercial rides? Can't wait to waymo from SF to Berkeley!