Hacker News: Hawkenfall

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Claude Fable 5"

Hawkenfall — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:36:20 +0000

> To release the model both safely and quickly, we’ve tuned these safeguards conservatively—they’ll sometimes catch harmless requests, though they trigger, on average, in less than 5% of sessions.

While I appreciate being conservative, ~5% at the scale Anthropic is operating at is too massive a number. Speaking from my own experience, the actual number is higher than that as well (working on pretty benign tasks such as porting an old open source game into a different language). Opus 4.8 itself even identifies the gaurd's false-positives when its sub-agents are being blocked.

New comment by Hawkenfall in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

Hawkenfall — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:42:07 +0000

Not sure how you came to draw this conclusion, as there's lots of data out there showing droves of Computer Science graduates here in the states unable to land jobs.

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

Hawkenfall — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:29:03 +0000

Cruise was actually just about to return to market after the October incident [1]. We had reached efficacy on all (much harder) internal safety benchmarks showing the car had significantly improved.

GM pulled the rug on us a day or two before announcing. The current Cruise CEO wasn't aware at all either. I have my own conspiracies of why GM did this, but GM also has a long history of fumbling the ball.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/nhtsa-robotaxi-cru...

[2] https://www.theautopian.com/here-are-five-times-gm-developed...!

New comment by Hawkenfall in "$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres"

Hawkenfall — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:56:50 +0000

It's just a hosted Postgres database, you could run this locally with Docker for example: https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance"

Hawkenfall — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:27:23 +0000

You can do this with https://openrouter.ai/

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Google will keep cookies and skip opt-out option in Chrome"

Hawkenfall — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:22:17 +0000

Nope, this caters to shareholders

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution"

Hawkenfall — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:18:30 +0000

I've only done paper trading so far, but yes it was profitable.

I've learned a lot by building it, so for me the effort has been worth it.

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution"

Hawkenfall — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:42:17 +0000

I've built (now improving) a fully automated real-time ML stock trader in Rust. It's hosted on-prem via 6 Raspberry Pis using Kubernetes.

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong"

Hawkenfall — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:14:52 +0000

I spy a paradoxical comment

New comment by Hawkenfall in "CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history"

Hawkenfall — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 03:08:48 +0000

How was this quantified? If there are numbers to demonstrate it's the most secure compared to previous years, why not show them? Qualitative statements with no foundation only draw speculation.

New comment by Hawkenfall in "Benchmarking deep learning activation functions on MNIST [OC]"

Hawkenfall — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:59:56 +0000

A more in-depth paper about this found the Swish activation often outperformed other functions: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05941