Hacker News: Marazan

New comment by Marazan in "Tesla Roadster"

Marazan — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:20:43 +0000

Oh wow, do they have 200 litre tanks capable of generating 10,000 psi?

New comment by Marazan in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

Marazan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:18:47 +0000

They made a self congratulatory blog post about improving the Claude TUI so it didn't flicker anymore.

The secret is their code is shockingly bad but they have unlimited budget to fix it.

New comment by Marazan in "Theranos.world"

Marazan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:23:49 +0000

WeWork fans were incredible.

New comment by Marazan in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

Marazan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:05:23 +0000

Good news if you like paperclips.

New comment by Marazan in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

Marazan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:30:35 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960369

Quake in Flash player from 2009 I think

New comment by Marazan in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

Marazan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:27:28 +0000

Someone had their resolution set to higher than a postage stamp I see.

New comment by Marazan in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

Marazan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:23:52 +0000

Cows smelly. Lots of cows really smelly.

New comment by Marazan in "The evolution of effective altruism"

Marazan — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:57:01 +0000

It's because of the gap in what they say and what they do.

New comment by Marazan in "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now"

Marazan — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:52:25 +0000

> There is nothing that, in principle, makes MTG different from poker or bridge

Only in the most general form they are games with cards and hidden information with a state space that some form of tree search can theoretically play out.

The difference is the size of the search space. In MTG the search space is unimaginably huge. It would make Go's search space look like a spec of hydrogen in the middle of the universe.

It would require completely different techniques to produce a computer good at MtG than one that is good at bridge.

New comment by Marazan in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

Marazan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:34:53 +0000

Elon being crushingly unfunny and being unable to accept that is about 40% of the reason we are in this mess.

New comment by Marazan in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

Marazan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:09:35 +0000

If I have a random number generator and I also have the burning desire to connect the random number generator to the nuclear launch system it is both just a random number generator and also I should be tackled to the ground by serious men with sunglasses in black suits and sent to prison.

New comment by Marazan in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

Marazan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:10:05 +0000

Leading up to the 2024 election people kept pointing to Project 2025 and going - here is a list of bad things the Republicans plan to do once they got power. And other people went: no they won't, this long detailed list of step by step instruction for what the Republicans plan to do once they get power is not actually what they will do so do not pay any attention to it.

Similarily with AI alignment and development all of this is written down, Eliezer Yudkowsky is rally explicit that there needs to be a pivotal event to prevent 'others' from developing superintelligence. The choice is to believe what they say or to tell everyone to ignore it.

New comment by Marazan in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

Marazan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:01:11 +0000

The philosophy under pinning these American AI companies is that Super AGI is inevitable and that they have a moral imperative to invent it and then use it to take over the world to stop an evil orginisation inventing Super AGI and using it to take over the world.

Interpret everything they do in this frame of reference and it makes more sense of their actions.

New comment by Marazan in "An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk"

Marazan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:21:55 +0000

It's supremely depressing that the current direction of AI is headed by either former crypto scammers or true believers who think they have a moral imperative to take over the world.

New comment by Marazan in "One Month Without AI"

Marazan — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:01:38 +0000

Current models love shoving in defaults where correct code would otherwise fall over with an exception.

I dread to think what that means in security conscious code.

New comment by Marazan in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

Marazan — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:57:22 +0000

It's analogous to a paperclip production optimizer optimizing paperclip production.

If only there was some well known example of this that people could draw on for insipiration.

If only....

New comment by Marazan in "The LLMentalist Effect (2023)"

Marazan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:06:47 +0000

An LLM with CoT and hitherto undiscovered ability to avoid context poisoning/pollution would be more precise.

New comment by Marazan in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

Marazan — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:04:44 +0000

assembly is the only choice. The Z80 processor is a twisty collection of registers, none alike. It is pretty much the opposite of what a, for example, C compiler is looking for.

In fact C compilers are _notoriously_ bad at producing code for the Z80.

New comment by Marazan in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

Marazan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:15:22 +0000

I'm not dismissing the tech! I think the tech is cool and useful! It is sci-fi levels incredible in many ways.

But it is also not some mysterious force beyond mortal ken and pretending it is inhibits the useful and safe application of the technology.

New comment by Marazan in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

Marazan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:39:04 +0000

"OpenAI hacked HuggingFace"

that's the headline. When you connect to random number generator to the "Do Things" button you are the one who is responsible. IF you don't like that responsibility then don't connect the generator to the button.