Hacker News: MallocVoidstar

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:53:53 +0000

Some are made in China and Japan, most are made in Wales.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-raspberry-pis-are...

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:55:36 +0000

It's useful if you need GPIO but not $350 useful. Nowadays you can get used office mini PCs with a 10th gen Intel and 16GB RAM for like $200 and they'll come with an SSD. No idea why anyone would buy an expensive Pi.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:53:50 +0000

At least get a -C6 if you're trying to replace a Pi with a microcontroller.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Claude Fable 5"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:36:17 +0000

Opus 4.0 and 4.1 are more expensive than Fable.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "LLMs are not the black box you were promised"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:57:11 +0000

AI (assisted?) summary of the March 2025 Anthropic paper https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "MCP is dead?"

MallocVoidstar — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:23:51 +0000

The article is from May 29 2026, they're lying about that update being 'recent' and coming after the article to make themselves look better.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update"

MallocVoidstar — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:12:01 +0000

"As explained by" someone regurgitating the views of the "Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom", an anti-vax, right-wing organization that opposes HIPAA, Medicare, and government involvement in healthcare in general.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:37:41 +0000

> It is entirely possible that any released model access will be heavily guardrailed against hacking attempts

Yes, Anthropic have said they made Opus 4.7 worse at this on purpose.

> It is entirely possible that Mythos is a different architecture or size

It has 5x the token pricing of Opus 4.7, so it's probably larger.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:50:50 +0000

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HItbXhvW4AAMD8W?format=jpg&name=...

All of their repos have been copied and are up for sale. Attackers are TeamPCP, the creators of the Shai-Hulud malware.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

MallocVoidstar — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:40:54 +0000

In addition to people pointing out your LLM got the pricing wrong,

> The pricing and "including thinking tokens" framing position it as a reasoning-capable flash model rather than just a pure speed optimization

Every Gemini model starting with 2.5 has been a reasoning model.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:30:37 +0000

See https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:36:20 +0000

>If we just postulate that the systems have a high error rate, I wonder why they are being adopted.

From the article: "While 30 percent of a platform’s evaluation score depended solely on whether they had a domestic presence in Ontario, the accuracy of medical notes contributed only 4 percent to the total score."

Accuracy wasn't really part of the scoring, Ontario doesn't care about it.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Bun's rewrite in Rust was merged"

MallocVoidstar — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:26:44 +0000

Maybe someday GitHub will find a way to optimize their system so I can actually see the PR and not a unicorn.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "GitHub is sinking"

MallocVoidstar — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:44:31 +0000

The graph in the article is a lie, because GitHub's "historical data" is a lie.

https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=3000

According to it, GitHub had 100% uptime from June to August 1996.

Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:39:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ubi-universal-basic-income-view-changes-2026-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980749

Points: 23

# Comments: 22

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:31:17 +0000

> Pretty shocking to see the lack of basic thought going into writing what is meant to be critical infrastructure

uutils did not start off as "let's make critical infrastructure in Rust", it started off as "coreutils are small and have tests, so we're rewriting them in Rust for fun". As a result there's needed to be a bunch of cleanup work.

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:00:26 +0000

OpenAI does tell the model the current date via API, so it's odd for them not to also tell the model its cutoff

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Opus 4.7 refuses to solve NYT Connections puzzles"

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:00:27 +0000

https://xcancel.com/LechMazur/status/2044970170347622727

Opus 4.7 refuses to solve NYT Connections puzzles

MallocVoidstar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:00:27 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/2044970170347622727

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810510

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by MallocVoidstar in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

MallocVoidstar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:02:43 +0000

Google publicly promises not to do exactly what they did here. Why would this not be a story?