Hacker News: Recursing

New comment by Recursing in "Voxtral 3"

Recursing — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:46:58 +0000

I just asked Claude or codex to do it using uv/uvx and it did it effortlessly and perfectly, I didn't even look at what package(s) it used.

New comment by Recursing in "Cleo (Mathematician)"

Recursing — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:10:56 +0000

As a non-mathematician I'm confused by this Wikipedia article. Isn't it trivial to fabricate arbitrarily hard integrals by starting from a function with known values and differentiating it?

I understand that people enjoyed the prank, but I think the article doesn't make it clear enough that he was just trolling and wasn't actually solving hard mathematical problems

New comment by Recursing in "SvelteKit 3"

Recursing — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:55:59 +0000

In my experience LLMs write better svelte code then React code, as there's fewer footguns (e.g. useEffect is much more brittle in React)

New comment by Recursing in "When did Google get so weird?"

Recursing — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:31:38 +0000

You could ask AI for the best charity to donate to

New comment by Recursing in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

Recursing — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:50:12 +0000

Wow this is just bullying, it's insane that we are letting these people be in charge of the transition

New comment by Recursing in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

Recursing — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:27:06 +0000

> This is a a Deep Blue-Kasparov moment.

I guess this is true in more ways than one. Kasparov famously accused IBM of cheating during the match, by spying on his preparation (edit: though the main cheating accusation was live human intervention during the games, on top of IBM downplaying the heavy human involvement behind the AI, which also mirrors this situation)

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Recursing — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:49:18 +0000

Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506819

Points: 399

# Comments: 121

New comment by Recursing in "Anthropic Claude and API service outages"

Recursing — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:34:11 +0000

I think it's because customers don't seem to mind enough to switch.

I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism, but it's getting harder and harder to justify on technical merits. Sol is just faster, cheaper, and more reliable, and as good as Opus for my use cases

New comment by Recursing in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Recursing — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:48:03 +0000

Haven't noticed any issue, the main limitation is the lack of mobile support on Chrome, but that has always been the case.

I'm so grateful for Firefox on Android

New comment by Recursing in "Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility"

Recursing — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:07:48 +0000

All comments here are written as if Situational Awareness blew up, but it seems like it didn't and is up 80% YTD https://nitter.net/tbpn/status/2083226453509030285

All the stuff that it was forced to sell to Citadel is also up ~10%-30% since the sale

New comment by Recursing in "The session you cannot take with you"

Recursing — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:48:16 +0000

Another comment got downvoted for raising this, but I found it interesting that pangram flags large parts of this blog post as AI generated ( https://www.pangram.com/history/b82cdbf4-bdbc-46ea-8315-bd43... ), while earendil denies it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119957

New comment by Recursing in "Pseudpocalypse"

Recursing — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:10:08 +0000

See the classic Gwern post: https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity

Which quotes Tao on using deliberate disinformation to preserve anonymity.

> …one additional way to gain more anonymity is through deliberate disinformation. For instance, suppose that one reveals 100 independent bits of information about oneself. Ordinarily, this would cost 100 bits of anonymity (assuming that each bit was a priori equally likely to be true or false), by cutting the number of possibilities down by a factor of 2100; but if 5 of these 100 bits (chosen randomly and not revealed in advance) are deliberately falsified, then the number of possibilities increases again by a factor of (100 choose 5) ~ 226, recovering about 26 bits of anonymity.

Intentionally adding writing "tics", scheduling posts to appear between 2am and 6am in your timezone, or pretending to have a different gender/location/age should help a lot in staying pseudonymous for a while longer.

New comment by Recursing in "Claude Science"

Recursing — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:45:35 +0000

Many deb packages are easily repackaged for arch by the community

New comment by Recursing in "Claude Science"

Recursing — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:11:38 +0000

This seems to have unblocked Claude Desktop for Linux ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux )

New comment by Recursing in "Claude Desktop is now available on Linux (in beta)"

Recursing — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:54:28 +0000

https://nitter.net/ClaudeDevs/status/2071988881717871065

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux

https://claude.com/download

Claude Desktop is now available on Linux (in beta)

Recursing — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:54:28 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2071988881717871065

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736495

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Recursing in "Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it"

Recursing — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:11:48 +0000

This is clearly shown in the settings/config (or at least was last time I looked), if people are surprised by this I recommend asking claude code what settings you can tweak

New comment by Recursing in "An oral history of Bank Python (2021)"

Recursing — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:59:24 +0000

Zope was strongly influenced by Smalltalk

> The ZODB is an (almost) transparent python object persistence system, heavily influenced by Smalltalk.

https://zodb.org/en/latest/articles/ZODB-overview.html#compa...

I think Jim Fulton and other authors of Zope originally came from Smalltalk

New comment by Recursing in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

Recursing — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:18:14 +0000

What's the threshold at which you remove scores from the leaderboard? There were several valid >100 scores earlier today (some mentioned in other comments here)

New comment by Recursing in "Deno 2.9"

Recursing — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:49:39 +0000

That node release was to fix security issues...