Hacker News: Hard_Space

New comment by Hard_Space in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

Hard_Space — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:23:54 +0000

Also see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00025 ('Brevity Constraints Reverse Performance Hierarchies in Language Models' March 2026)

New comment by Hard_Space in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

Hard_Space — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:52:35 +0000

Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

Hard_Space — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:23:30 +0000

If you turn on showdead, you'll see OP's explanatory post.

New comment by Hard_Space in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

Hard_Space — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:01:11 +0000

I am not sure why the title got truncated from 'I Created My First AI-assisted Pull Request and I Feel Like a Fraud', which conveys a very different impression, and makes more sense when browsing the comments here.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Firefox ext: Bkmker · Your bookmarks, encrypted and private"

Hard_Space — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:48:35 +0000

How does this improve on Floccus?

New comment by Hard_Space in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"

Hard_Space — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:46:56 +0000

This problem is chronic with GPT[N] dealing with a Windows environment. I have to constantly remind it to prefer the GUI option, though nothing really works. I don't know if agents make use of screenshots the way older automation routines have always done, but increasing use of that kind of data would help LLMs progress beyond CLI-addiction.

New comment by Hard_Space in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

Hard_Space — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:17:18 +0000

I moved all my LAN machines to IoT LTSC 2021 a year ago. Though I don’t regret it, be aware that update delay limits are the same as other Windows OS versions; that useful things like WSL2 will need installing from the app store to get the systemd version, and you’ll need to install the Windows app store from an enthusiast repo on Github; that Windows major version number is a fair way behind, affecting max Docker dated releases and same for many other frameworks; etc. It’s not that I meet a new limit every day, but certainly every few weeks.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

Hard_Space — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:54:50 +0000

I checked it, but at $149 per year for the home server (and don't forget to click in the 'information' button on the 'Lifetime' License Duration option), there seems to be a bit of a premium on that MS styling, considering the functionality in competing F/OSS suites.

Stop Saying "AI"

Hard_Space — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17729

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119711

Points: 5

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New comment by Hard_Space in "Quitting"

Hard_Space — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:52:33 +0000

It's three and a half years since my last cigarette, after decades of smoking. Sometimes I cannot tell if I 'backslid' during that time, because I have had SO MANY dreams about smoking, and feeling regret, in the dream, that I weakened.

But as far as I can tell they are just dreams. But this demonstrates how deeply nicotine addiction was burned into my psyche and my life - that it can even blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

Hard_Space — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:25:00 +0000

Just to say thanks for this extension, and keeping Reddit usable (at least for me).

New comment by Hard_Space in "[dead]"

Hard_Space — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:42:54 +0000

Why the hate on 7zip?

New comment by Hard_Space in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

Hard_Space — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:58:29 +0000

I have considered it, and it is still on the docket. I have a local 3090 dedicated to ML. Would be a fascinating and potentially really useful project, but as a freelancer, it would cost a lot to give it the time it needs.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

Hard_Space — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:46:03 +0000

> you respond in 1-3 sentences" becomes long bulleted lists and multiple paragraphs very quickly

This is why my heart sank this morning. I have spent over a year training 4.0 to just about be helpful enough to get me an extra 1-2 hours a day of productivity. From experimentation, I can see no hope of reproducing that with 5x, and even 5x admits as much to me, when I discussed it with them today:

> Prolixity is a side effect of optimization goals, not billing strategy. Newer models are trained to maximize helpfulness, coverage, and safety, which biases toward explanation, hedging, and context expansion. GPT-4 was less aggressively optimized in those directions, so it felt terser by default.

Share and enjoy!

New comment by Hard_Space in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

Hard_Space — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:42:18 +0000

I use Karabinier to remap keys. Mac OS makes you work hard to enable it the first time, though.

New comment by Hard_Space in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

Hard_Space — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:28:33 +0000

I don't think many would believe, based on what I wrote, that the machine had received no updates since 2023. Perhaps you forgot the closing /s

New comment by Hard_Space in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

Hard_Space — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:58:30 +0000

I am glad at least that Apple has not forced me to update my iPhone 13 and 2023 Macbook, as Windows would have by now. I am hoping to ride this out, and that a later bundled update will remedy the worst complaints. The most alarming thought in TFA, though, was that the iPhone update might have at least a secondary mission of nudging the user to buy a new phone - certainly not an unknown tactic in tech.

New comment by Hard_Space in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

Hard_Space — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:09:11 +0000

Why was this flagged, after so many contributions and so much interest?

New comment by Hard_Space in "Autism should not be treated as a single condition"

Hard_Space — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:02:33 +0000

I would argue that for the average person, therefore, 'spectrum' is an unfortunate choice of analogy, since most people believe that it encompasses every possible color. One should not need specialist knowledge to discuss an issue of this kind in common terms.

New comment by Hard_Space in "The story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site"

Hard_Space — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:29:46 +0000

Without coverage of David Do [0], this is a very incomplete summary, basically minimum-effort rage-bait.

[0] https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2163333/canadian-pha...