Hacker News: Rastonbury

New comment by Rastonbury in "Claude Opus 4.7"

Rastonbury — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:27:00 +0000

What is your use case? I read comments like this and it's totally opposite of my experience, I have both CC Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.4 and Codex is much more thorough and checks before it starts making changes maybe even to a fault but I accept it because getting Opus to redo work because it messes up and jumps in the first attempt is a massive waste of time, all tasks and spec are atomic and granularly spec'd, I'd say 30% of the time I regret when I decide to use Opus for 'simpler' and work

New comment by Rastonbury in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

Rastonbury — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:09:51 +0000

That's the thing, when that level comes we will never know it's here. The only thing we'll have as evidence is the company who has it will always have a "public" model that is just slightly ahead of all competitors to keep market share while takeoff happens internally until they make big bang moves to lock in monopoly level/too big to fail/government protection to ensure utter victory.

New comment by Rastonbury in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

Rastonbury — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:25:17 +0000

Based on reading only I think a usable but a step below probably somewhat behind Sonnet. I also did read that some people successfully requested refunds late last year when their models shit the bed due to bugs so if they cut limits hard maybe you can try that

New comment by Rastonbury in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

Rastonbury — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:51:56 +0000

So Anthropic bundled CC with Claude.ai cuz OAI bundled chatgpt with Codex, now OAI is unbundling, IPO must be around the corner. Writing is also on the wall for CC usage based subscriptions now that main competitor effectively got rid of it. How are the Chinese models looking?

New comment by Rastonbury in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

Rastonbury — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:16:28 +0000

On the surface it seems like it would be a good idea for all these users who were suspended to do a mass arbitration like what happened to Uber to get them to start taking it seriously, this comes up like monthly people getting account pulled up from under them and impacting business. Maybe there a legal differences or something https://www.mbelr.org/mass-arbitration-how-ubers-own-alterna...

New comment by Rastonbury in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

Rastonbury — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:24:04 +0000

I thought npm started requiring hardware keys for publish, or may have been new accounts only

New comment by Rastonbury in "ARC-AGI-3"

Rastonbury — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:18:42 +0000

it's ok it took me a few tried to realise I had the option to click instead of just wasd

New comment by Rastonbury in "ARC-AGI-3"

Rastonbury — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:12:28 +0000

Dogs are just pattern matching based on their training set which is evolution /s

New comment by Rastonbury in "ARC-AGI-3"

Rastonbury — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:44:50 +0000

Assistance of other humans? You do realise we're talking about an intelligence test right, at that point what are you even testing for. I'm sure you've taken exams where you couldn't bring your own notes, use Google or get help from someone, even though real life doesn't have those constraints

New comment by Rastonbury in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

Rastonbury — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:18:32 +0000

Why must models be analogous to humans using tools? Or to take the analogy route further wouldn't it be better if humans had calculators built into their brains, provided they are determisitic and reduce latency

New comment by Rastonbury in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

Rastonbury — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:44:26 +0000

I get the feeling that the founders will not bend and invest for long term and not quarterly, as a non ex-stripe at least judging by their patience to IPO

New comment by Rastonbury in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

Rastonbury — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:35:08 +0000

Anyone who's seen an enterprise deal close or dealt with enterprise customer requests will know this, the build vs buy calculus has always been there yet companies still buy. Until you can get AI to the point where it equivalent to a 20 person engineering team, people are not going to build their own Snowflake, Salesforce, Slack or ATS. Maybe that day is 3 years away but when that happens the world will be very different

New comment by Rastonbury in "OpenAI Has Murdered Orion"

Rastonbury — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:43:10 +0000

I recently browsed r/chatgptcomplaints expecting to see You're absolutely right type memes and similar but it was all farewell posts to o4 and people showing each other how to set up o4 using the API

New comment by Rastonbury in "Lena by qntm (2021)"

Rastonbury — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:39:00 +0000

Same person who wrote SCP Antimemetics Division which is great too

New comment by Rastonbury in "Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)"

Rastonbury — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:29:30 +0000

That comment throws all econ 101 in the wrong way. A land owners decision to build a golf course over solar farm is a decision based on competing land uses which are demand/supply for land and the potential services you could provide on that land. Which is why you don't often see solar farms or farms or power plants in the middle of cities...

New comment by Rastonbury in "Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena"

Rastonbury — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:02:01 +0000

negative benchmark isn't it? no sane lab is going to realease PR that states our newest model is best at lying, if anything the reverse may occur, if this catches on, they will make their model play werewolf badly and claim "alignment improvements, our model no longer lies as much in werewolf" but it lies more often in other domains

New comment by Rastonbury in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

Rastonbury — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:10:27 +0000

I'm reminded of how blacksmiths use instant coffee to stain damascus steel, at least the ones on YouTube

New comment by Rastonbury in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

Rastonbury — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:59:39 +0000

would be interesting to see what scores it's get when it is actually degraded via the status page, it gets degraded pretty often, so there's at least something to compare or to know at what point Anthropic declares degradation

New comment by Rastonbury in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

Rastonbury — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:44:18 +0000

I'm not sure what the point is wrt ASML, they made good bets, they won their monopoly, their shareholders who funded the bets get to enjoy monopoly pricing. If they start cutting R&D and lose their crown, yes it's shame I guess but that's all there is. To expect a company to sell their goods cheaply when they are the only ones in the world who can them is asking for too much. It's great that they and their investors took the punt on EUV all those years ago, we probably would not have the chips we have today and all the economic benefits around it

New comment by Rastonbury in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

Rastonbury — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:10:27 +0000

This was quick, it was never about the money, who needs Truth Social and Twitter when you have tiktok. Best of luck America