Hacker News: JCharante

New comment by JCharante in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

JCharante — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:53:22 +0000

cool but i wish the audio was better

New comment by JCharante in "My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps"

JCharante — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:23:01 +0000

True although I think there’s too much of a correction whenever people bring up Tokyo vs Japan.

I’m grateful to live in Tokyo but if I didn’t live in Tokyo I wouldn’t live in Japan. I’m definitely open to a vacation home in the countryside.

I could see myself living in NYC (Manhattan specifically) but wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the US. Tokyo is big enough that you rarely have to leave and see the rest of the country. I don’t think we have to judge countries by their countrysides.

New comment by JCharante in "OpenJev"

JCharante — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000

it's due to how rewards work during RL no? it needs to try to check off all the boxes to get a max score

New comment by JCharante in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

JCharante — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:04:23 +0000

Ah so that's why we need a lunar base. To uphold S3's 11 9s of availability

New comment by JCharante in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

JCharante — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:04:19 +0000

if I was going to IPO I'd want higher marketshare and openrouter is the most popular way to measure model usage (not saying it's the most accurate b/c it's not)

New comment by JCharante in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

JCharante — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:50:47 +0000

Maybe they (oai) want to pump their marketshare on openrouter lol

New comment by JCharante in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

JCharante — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:41:53 +0000

most mice require more steps per mile of distance

New comment by JCharante in "Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities"

JCharante — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:59:31 +0000

I wouldn't say it's the vast majority if Tokyo/Chiba/Saitama/Yokohama holds like a third of the population. Add in those other cities you mentioned and the majority of the population lives in cities.

New comment by JCharante in "Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities"

JCharante — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:57:51 +0000

just don't live in the countryside then, there's a reason their population is decreasing

New comment by JCharante in "Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models"

JCharante — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:21:31 +0000

I have done my own testing and found that smaller models can beat their larger siblings on fact retrieval from documents. I haven’t investigated it in depth with a large enough dataset but my guess is that larger models overthink it while smaller ones just do it. I would like if they compared this with 5.6 Luna instead.

New comment by JCharante in "I got into YC Startup School by hacking it"

JCharante — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:25:23 +0000

surprised running paxel doesn't disqualify you, the program sounds sus

New comment by JCharante in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

JCharante — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:31 +0000

I wonder what the tipping point is where machines require less energy than humans to accomplish the same tasks.

New comment by JCharante in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

JCharante — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:15:20 +0000

I used to donate blood regularly but now that I'm in Japan they require me to be decently fluent in Japanese to "understand" the risks, despite having done it a bunch of times in other countries (and other medical procedures not requiring Japanese knowledge).

New comment by JCharante in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

JCharante — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:15 +0000

I mean eve frontier is a pretty huge fork from almost scratch, did they backport changes into normal eve?

New comment by JCharante in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

JCharante — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:41:01 +0000

you don't have to arrest everyone, just make the likelyhood of being arrested non-zero to deter people

New comment by JCharante in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

JCharante — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:54:47 +0000

I mean go do it but don't complain about the company adding countermeasures when they don't want you to do it

New comment by JCharante in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

JCharante — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:50:28 +0000

Isn’t this like batch processing offered by oai? Your request gets done within 24 hours at half off

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/batch

New comment by JCharante in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

JCharante — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:32:46 +0000

> Eventually, Juettner made more money from the release of Mister 880 than he had made by counterfeiting

I'm guessing this was before the law where you couldn't benefit from crimes?

New comment by JCharante in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

JCharante — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:17:12 +0000

> Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.

I'm on safari without an adblocker, not sure what sketchy stuff my ASN is up to

New comment by JCharante in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

JCharante — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:52:26 +0000

> Verification not ready, try again.

Japan is trusted enough to leave laptops in but not trusted enough to vote :/