Hacker News: LanceJones

New comment by LanceJones in "Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office"

LanceJones — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:24:05 +0000

1 - 10: How accurately was life at General Magic portrayed in the documentary?

New comment by LanceJones in "Agent-Skills.market"

LanceJones — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:23:58 +0000

What is the evidence that skills files are an effective way to achieve your goals with the latest frontier lab LLMs?

New comment by LanceJones in "Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy"

LanceJones — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:49:39 +0000

Fallen? The founders and about 30 researchers took a $2.7 billion exit from Google in 2024.

New comment by LanceJones in "Do AIs Share a Moral Code? I Prompted Them 78,720 Times to Find Out"

LanceJones — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:30:50 +0000

Neal Agarwal's Absurd Trolley Problems inspired me to go a little less absurd, and also to see how frontier and open weight models would choose in high stake and social stake moral dilemmas.

First I had to create a new set of problems, which I did with my "Trolley Game"... where AI tries to predict your choices based on a handful of warm-up questions (77% accuracy right now). Then I ran 14 models through the full set of 20 dilemmas, 200+ times each, asking them for rationale and predictions about what humans would choose along the way.

Reasoning on; reasoning off. Reversal of choices to test for primacy effect.

Conclusion? We (humans) should be careful about how much control we hand over in terms of tool use in the future... because (1) like humans, AI models don't agree on everything, (2) they are not aligned with us in many ways (depending on your POV, of course), and (3) they "see" us as quite predictable creatures.

Do AIs Share a Moral Code? I Prompted Them 78,720 Times to Find Out

LanceJones — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://trolleygame.com/study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742164

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by LanceJones in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

LanceJones — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:18:32 +0000

So this appears to mean that Hyundai is effectively taking BD's humanoids "off the market" (B2C/B2B markets). And Softbank wants to take a different humanoids stake in OpenAI's plans.

New comment by LanceJones in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

LanceJones — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:23:38 +0000

I always wonder how people can tell. For this particular article, was it the thirty-four occurrences of em dashes with spaces on either side? Something else obvious?

New comment by LanceJones in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

LanceJones — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:22:43 +0000

Five EU countries have now approved, including Belgium, which is interesting considering Brussels (ECC "capital").

Show HN: I used AI to turn 8 years of texts into a love story

LanceJones — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:16:50 +0000

Article URL: https://story-of-us-preview.vercel.app/hacker-news-post

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493250

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by LanceJones in "Ferrari Luce"

LanceJones — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:53:00 +0000

My 2024 Model 3 Performance regularly sees its EPA rated range.

New comment by LanceJones in "Ferrari Luce"

LanceJones — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:25:44 +0000

$1.2M in Canada after provincial and federal luxury sales taxes. For a 5100 pound, sub-300 mile range, mid-performer with 23/24" wheels. All those louvres, ducts, and aerodynamics for a terribly inefficient EV. Disappointing. (edited because i had $1.1M as the final price)

New comment by LanceJones in "Ferrari Luce"

LanceJones — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:21:42 +0000

Just 280+ mile EPA range on a 122 kwH battery. 5100 pounds. 2.5s to 60. Not insane by any standard, ICE or EV.

New comment by LanceJones in "SpaceX S-1"

LanceJones — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:02:10 +0000

The idea that 100s of global pension funds don't do their due diligence when investing 100s of millions or billions of their members' future retirement funds is extremely naive. With sincerity, I hope you can find a way not to be so emotional about what Musk says and be more grounded in what his companies and their employees are doing.

New comment by LanceJones in "Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing"

LanceJones — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:54:06 +0000

Some fair points, but Model Y was the #1 selling SUV in China in Feb and Mar, and 2nd place vehicle was almost half the price.

New comment by LanceJones in "Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing"

LanceJones — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:52:46 +0000

You think $500K was stolen? Hmm, doesn't sound hyperbolic at all...

New comment by LanceJones in "Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing"

LanceJones — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:11:49 +0000

I really used to enjoy Fred's writing on Electrek. But after the Roadster referral debacle, Fred's tune changed and has gotten more negative... so negative now that you cannot find any positive articles about Musk or Tesla (some articles you might classify as 'neutral'). If you look at comment counts, it's clear Fred is playing to the "I hate Musk" crowd now for clicks (comments and clicks have similar outcomes for Google Adsense). Electrek's other articles' comment counts pale in comparison. So the incentive is pretty obvious now. Too bad.

New comment by LanceJones in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

LanceJones — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:09:58 +0000

But also more deaths. It's the delta that's important.

New comment by LanceJones in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

LanceJones — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:30:13 +0000

$200/mth USD for me. Anthropic's oAuth Max20 subscription via their SDK. I've had several 100M+ token days without even a blip.

New comment by LanceJones in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

LanceJones — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:22:15 +0000

There's no need to run local models with OpenClaw. I use Anthropic's oAuth Max20 Plan subscription via their SDK...

New comment by LanceJones in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

LanceJones — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:05:08 +0000

It will have simulated gear changes if that helps at all...