Hacker News: Jimmc414

U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor

Jimmc414 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/10/19/breaking-news/u-s-supreme-court-to-review-1868-federal-ban-on-home-distilling-of-liquor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50161207

Points: 68

# Comments: 110

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Jimmc414 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:29:02 +0000

Generating pelicans on bicycles most likely

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

Jimmc414 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:59:09 +0000

I think it’s a new spin on Brook’s Law. Adding tokens to a project makes it less efficient not more.

Why the Catholic Church Is AI Doom's Most Formidable Foe

Jimmc414 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://thedispatch.com/article/catholic-church-artificial-intelligence-millenarian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006086

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Oversight Has Capacity: Calibrating Agent Guards to a Subjective Fatiguing Human

Jimmc414 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08919

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950671

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Jimmc414 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:22:52 +0000

I wish we had started pacing the frontier back in 2025. There’s no telling how far we would be now.

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Plan mode is dead"

Jimmc414 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:11:29 +0000

I think with Claude Code plan mode has value even if Fable “gets it” off the bat. It’s a chance to explicitly disambiguate intent through AskUserQuestion tool as well as utilizing the option to clear content when plan is approved. The automatic disambiguation step is RLHF’d out of the model even when it’s needed.

Nearly Half of Age of Empires Dev Edge Laid Off

Jimmc414 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/469158/nearly-half-of-age-of-empires-dev-worlds-edge-laid-off/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810345

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Jimmc414 in "NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat"

Jimmc414 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:31:19 +0000

Article:

This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-5977044/fire-amoeba-ext...

NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat

Jimmc414 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/nasa-funded-research-finds-complex-life-defying-record-heat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810090

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)"

Jimmc414 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:59:18 +0000

On the Message Batches API, Opus 5.5 supports up to 300k output tokens with the output-300k-2026-03-24 beta header.

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5-5/overview

New comment by Jimmc414 in "What happened to the drums of radioactive waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean?"

Jimmc414 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:04:48 +0000

"Between 1971 and 1982, more than 200,000 drums of radioactive waste were dumped by several European countries in the Northeast Atlantic, at depths reaching over 4,700 meters . The exact location of these drums and, above all, their potential impacts on the deep-sea environment remained largely unknown until studies conducted in the 1980s"

Inventory:

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE-1776_web.p...

Articles:

https://www.ens.psl.eu/en/node/9080

https://www.sciencealert.com/150000-tons-of-radioactive-wast...

What happened to the drums of radioactive waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean?

Jimmc414 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ens.psl.eu/actualites/que-deviennent-les-futs-de-dechets-radioactifs-immerges-dans-l-atlantique-dans-les

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802557

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback (2014)

Jimmc414 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/nicholas-carlson/untold-story-larry-page-comeback.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796935

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study"

Jimmc414 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:12:07 +0000

Original paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 (paywall)

New Scientist Article:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589739-our-brain-evolv...

https://archive.is/1CFX9

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Jimmc414 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:12:07 +0000

https://archive.is/1CFX9

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-...

Preprint of paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662771v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533

Points: 137

# Comments: 80

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

Jimmc414 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:39:09 +0000

They are all valid front page submissions by the looks of them and they appear to be the first ones submitted. It wouldn’t be hard to do if you cared enough to configure notifications for frontier announcements. If someone were using technology to influence submissions or misuse HN, that would be a concern but I don’t see any evidence of that.

New comment by Jimmc414 in "More Money Than They Ever Imagined–and No Clue How to Spend It"

Jimmc414 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:36:58 +0000

https://archive.is/GA5IF

More Money Than They Ever Imagined–and No Clue How to Spend It

Jimmc414 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:36:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-tech-anthropic-openai-ipo-0a9da59e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697624

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by Jimmc414 in "Former CIA official found with $40M in gold bars reaches tentative plea deal"

Jimmc414 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:29:52 +0000

>The FBI affidavit said Rush had obtained the gold bars from the U.S. government for “work-related expenses.” Rush’s attorney has said the charge against him isn’t related to the gold bars, which she described as “a sensational tidbit.”

$40 million in work related expenses paid in gold bars? Sounds completely legitimate.