Hacker News: Madmallard

New comment by Madmallard in "Our position on open-weights models"

Madmallard — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:49:50 +0000

Too bad. We'll have to deal with it. There is no way to stop the weaponization of models now.

But more people having access to the potential tools for defensive is the best possible scenario.

Every other scenario is worse off for everyone except for those with enough money to do something about it.

New comment by Madmallard in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

Madmallard — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:43:30 +0000

Not open source

Not interested

New comment by Madmallard in "Our position on open-weights models"

Madmallard — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:50:51 +0000

Boris here. This post does not give us good publicity so I will refrain from commenting. Please wait for another demo thread of a new feature of ours or AI appraisal blog post and I will gladly go into as much detail as I can to give us as much hype as possible!

New comment by Madmallard in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

Madmallard — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:52:15 +0000

How exactly would they even shut off Chinese open weight AI?

New comment by Madmallard in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Madmallard — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:16:46 +0000

Man that's depressing to read someone defending this

New comment by Madmallard in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

Madmallard — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:53:54 +0000

Reddit has been trash for a very long time. But you know it's worse, because you get punished for criticizing AI comments on those subreddits.

New comment by Madmallard in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

Madmallard — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:44:52 +0000

Is the major issue here that 3 degrees Celsius is like an average so all the hot tropics places just become uninhabitable whereas temperature rises are more moderated in higher latitudes?

Also how much faster and higher will that number go with all the data centers? Can't imagine it not just getting worse.

New comment by Madmallard in "Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training"

Madmallard — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:07:55 +0000

It probably should apply. The spirit of HIPAA is the protection of health information.

New comment by Madmallard in "Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training"

Madmallard — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:26:34 +0000

How does this not violate HIPAA?

New comment by Madmallard in "How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?"

Madmallard — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:54:37 +0000

I think the majority of dev work will be gone. We already demonstrated just throwing more compute at it is leading to better and better results. We'll likely have advancements that make it so regular people that ask the right questions and are diligent can do end-to-end app creation and management. I think it's also likely that standardizations for security and account management and compliance will just become skills or other types of automations that the drastically more competent agents of 2027-2028 can simply utilize.

It is seeming less and less unlikely for this to happen.

So many businesses right now online you can simply have Claude Fable copy and implement in an hour. That'll probably scale up as well in the future. I just cloned Piano Marvel earlier today in an hour and added missing features that I really wanted on the site that aren't there.

I think society will be a lot crappier for people that don't already have assets and investments that outpace inflation.

New comment by Madmallard in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

Madmallard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:18:54 +0000

"In fact, all evidence points to the contrary."

Um. No? I'd like to see how you conjured up that one. Because evidence does indeed point exactly to things just being as they are.

"You have objective value being made in the image of a personal God."

Conjecture. Unsubstantiated.

"Denying that leads to a lot of pain, namely nihilistic suffering because it's on you to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" in any endeavor involving your own self-worth."

No? Sounds like you're projecting your own belief here. "If I didn't believe in God, then what purpose is there to anything?" It's very small of a belief.

New comment by Madmallard in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

Madmallard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:13:58 +0000

What? What is rational about faith-based comments?

Literally nothing is rational about that. It's also just flat out off-topic.

New comment by Madmallard in "Grok 4.5"

Madmallard — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:10:41 +0000

Where's Dang?

The amount of rule-breaking comments in this thread is pretty much out of control.

New comment by Madmallard in "Grok 4.5"

Madmallard — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:08:22 +0000

That's pretty funny considering the comments in this thread hahahaha

New comment by Madmallard in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

Madmallard — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:17 +0000

I think and hope we see a lot more of this before the adversarial imperative returns from the company side.

People using Claude Fable to just make replacements for disgustingly enshittified software. We desperately need browser extensions to help make websites less scummy across the board as well.

New comment by Madmallard in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

Madmallard — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:19:29 +0000

Could probably do this with a much older model given that it's something that probably has thousands of github repositories for source code to do so.

New comment by Madmallard in "Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario"

Madmallard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:56:46 +0000

they thrive the people in their own country struggle to survive

not seeing a problem with this is very suspicious

New comment by Madmallard in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

Madmallard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:49:49 +0000

I mean only people with billions of dollars can make competitors to anthropic because of necessary compute costs

that's the barrier to entry

New comment by Madmallard in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

Madmallard — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:05:02 +0000

That sounds nowhere near adequate

New comment by Madmallard in "Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers"

Madmallard — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:51:21 +0000

Unfortunately I'm telling the truth. You guys have a serious quality control problem for both the articles and the incentivized comment sections.

It's all political. Millions of dollars to be on the front page of HN.

It all breaks your post rules way more than my comments do.

But this is low hanging fruit so you go for this.