Hacker News: Rastonbury

New comment by Rastonbury in "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models"

Rastonbury — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:25:00 +0000

This is what monopoly power looks like, when a channel (search, social ads) are controlled by single players

New comment by Rastonbury in "Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death"

Rastonbury — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:31:35 +0000

It's not super far fetched to come to approximation, conservation of energy and all that, the main variability people in energy expenditure comes from activity.

Get population averages of base metabolic rate based on sex/weight/age etc. Get base heart rate. When heart rate increases due to activity,estimate what activity and intensity and use weight to estimate activity expenditure on top of base. A lot of assumptions of course which make these tend to be inaccurate but if the assumptions are right then methodology is not that unsound.

New comment by Rastonbury in "Northflank Breached"

Rastonbury — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:14:59 +0000

I noticed these and have now become blind to these

New comment by Rastonbury in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

Rastonbury — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:53:36 +0000

which is exactly why the AI push and brand harm from the CEO is so baffling, it is in essence an email service based on privacy and trust, what is the point of pushing AI so hard. Wonder if the CEO has some sort of AI psychosis, I prefer products branded on privacy/security to not take the 'move fast and break things' route

New comment by Rastonbury in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

Rastonbury — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:06:56 +0000

There's some debate but it's kinda settled, it's the pinnacle of motorsports so no driver aids, they are moving away from hybrids, realizing road car relevance/parity is no longer the direction

New comment by Rastonbury in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

Rastonbury — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:15:54 +0000

Imo kinda more respectful if the person is clearly deceased, to not remove clothes and attach probes to them

New comment by Rastonbury in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

Rastonbury — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:45:13 +0000

while that is true, a big core of runescape was the grind. I remember what an idiot I felt like after finding the forums spending time picking bananas for 25 gold as a 7 year old. Back then games were simpler and less stuff to compete with longer attention spans

New comment by Rastonbury in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Rastonbury — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:58:42 +0000

Quite probable that OAI at least is building one, given all the posts about bots hammering sites and the agent swarm hacks all about to trying to game search query results

New comment by Rastonbury in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

Rastonbury — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:34:25 +0000

As I understand it they thought there was a chance Nvidia would settle, since the lawyers worked on contingency instead of telling him not to waste his time

New comment by Rastonbury in "Being kicked out of the tech industry"

Rastonbury — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:35:50 +0000

Apart from those throw your CV into AI get guidance on how to make it more relevant to the roles you apply for, tailoring CVs is now table stakes when everyone does it. You don't agree blindly or copy verbatim with the AI but just as critique

New comment by Rastonbury in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

Rastonbury — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:23:56 +0000

I think they are referring to the opportunity cost of time saved on doing things a local model cannot do or fixing it's mistakes against the cost of a subscription

New comment by Rastonbury in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

Rastonbury — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:03:28 +0000

Try this if you have access to Claude Design, go to sites you like, grab the html/css and a few screenshot and ask it to build a project, it makes an almost 1:1 reproduction. place those files into ur frontend project

New comment by Rastonbury in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

Rastonbury — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:39:22 +0000

Really damn, 4.6 was my go to for some topics and more straight forward coding stuff.

Fable was unable to keep track of chronology during 10-15 turn creative writing. compare to coding I reckon less than 100k token context, super surprising

New comment by Rastonbury in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

Rastonbury — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:57:29 +0000

it took up 12gb on mine

New comment by Rastonbury in "The curious case of low-protein diets"

Rastonbury — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:16:40 +0000

not much point if u live to 90 but your muscles have atrophyed and u can barely move about

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...