Hacker News: MattRix

New comment by MattRix in "Googlebook"

MattRix — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:25:04 +0000

In my experience, old normies love AI, young normies do not.

New comment by MattRix in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

MattRix — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:11:44 +0000

surely you can see how this is a rare specific situation you encountered and not some actual systemic mcdonald’s problem (there are LOTS of reasons to complain about mcdonald’s but this seems like a strange one)

New comment by MattRix in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"

MattRix — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:29:16 +0000

It’s not that you’re seeing old prices per se, but rather that it’s easier to make two IAP items (one with regular price, one with sale price) than it is to actually change the price of a single IAP. That’s why you see multiple items.

New comment by MattRix in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

MattRix — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:01:11 +0000

When I look at the in app purchase prices on the App Store page, it tells me what they’re for? (1 month vs 1 year). You can usually assume that if you see a different price for the same name item, that it’s a sale price.

New comment by MattRix in "Grok 4.3"

MattRix — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:51:51 +0000

Yes, it’s a significantly less powerful model, that’s why.

New comment by MattRix in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

MattRix — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:48:01 +0000

This stuff has been happening in Apple software since well before the AI coding stuff came along.

New comment by MattRix in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

MattRix — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:47:06 +0000

no thanks

New comment by MattRix in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

MattRix — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:10:13 +0000

Everything I’ve heard about the company tells me they are obsessed about exponential growth. It might seem bad to make a change that loses you 10% of your users, but if those are your least profitable users and the rest of your userbase is growing 200% per month, why does it matter?

New comment by MattRix in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

MattRix — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:22:40 +0000

Not sure why that’s bleak? It’s on top of the regular vacation days you get every year. I don’t know of any other company (at least not here in Canada!) that would give you an entire paid month off.

New comment by MattRix in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

MattRix — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:36:42 +0000

That deal is a win-win for Google. If they develop a better coding model than Anthropic and beat them at coding, then they win. If they don’t, they still win by making a ton of money from Anthropic long term.

New comment by MattRix in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

MattRix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:44:48 +0000

That is literally their point.

New comment by MattRix in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

MattRix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:43:21 +0000

Only if you didn’t read the article…

New comment by MattRix in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

MattRix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0000

How can you say “without bringing in proof” when there is literally proof in the article?

New comment by MattRix in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

MattRix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:41:48 +0000

The problem isn’t that the tasks are impossible to solve, it’s that they’re underspecified and/or impossible to solve consistently (ex. because a test is expecting the solution function to have a specific name that wasn’t specified in the task itself).

So maybe Anthropic runs Mythos through the benchmark 10000 times and takes the highest score, who knows?

New comment by MattRix in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

MattRix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:38:12 +0000

They mention this in the article. This is why private (non public) benchmark tasks that have been made from scratch are necessary.

New comment by MattRix in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

MattRix — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:34:38 +0000

I don’t see why this would happen when the modern models already use MoE, which gives them most of the benefits of having specialized models.

New comment by MattRix in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

MattRix — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:32:07 +0000

The open models of similar scales (ex. the new 1T deepseek model) are a fraction of the cost per token, so I don’t see how that can be the case. Inference is profitable, it’s the training that makes it unprofitable.

New comment by MattRix in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

MattRix — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:41 +0000

Yeah but in a discussion about technology it’s a little silly. It’s like someone complaining about their phone and then finding out they still use a Nokia.

New comment by MattRix in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

MattRix — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:07:08 +0000

Overwatch also has “kill cams”, which basically create an entire alternate game state to show you how the enemy killed you, and they have the “Play of the Game” system that replays the coolest moment of the game at the end. It’s impressive tech.

New comment by MattRix in "Codex for almost everything"

MattRix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:50:47 +0000

Log out and log in again? That usually fixes these kind of issues for me.