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New comment by Rudybega in "Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP"

Rudybega — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:51:58 +0000

It's more that it demonstrates that it's possible at all. We now know that the floor isn't an exponent of 2, which makes pursuing further improvements way more valuable.

New comment by Rudybega in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

Rudybega — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:00:01 +0000

This is only true if they can't saturate token production with a model that does less superfluous things. Given that they can (they're hilariously compute strained), having a model that solves tasks more quickly adds way more perceived value to users.

New comment by Rudybega in "Codex Micro"

Rudybega — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:49:49 +0000

This feels like a missed opportunity for an OpenAI Nintendo Power Glove collab. Smh.

New comment by Rudybega in "I think I have LLM burnout"

Rudybega — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:58:20 +0000

This seems hilariously, extremely revisionist.

Hell, the Opus 4.5 moment was only last November, and that was when agentic coding and most coding CLI tools became truly first class options. That's a wild paradigm shift. Hell, GPT-5 wasn't even out (that's August of last year). Most people were using 4o. Their current offerings are wildly better for coding than 4o was.

New comment by Rudybega in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

Rudybega — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:46:48 +0000

That's precisely what's going to happen.

New comment by Rudybega in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

Rudybega — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:00:14 +0000

I mean, it makes a lot of sense if the current administration operates in bad faith. I'll leave discerning that to you.

New comment by Rudybega in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Rudybega — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:21 +0000

There's a huge exclusion.

The 2026 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) allows qualifying U.S. expats to exclude up to $132,900 of foreign-earned income from their U.S. federal income taxes. Married couples can exclude up to $265,800 if both spouses work abroad and each meets the eligibility requirements.

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

Rudybega — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:16:17 +0000

I mean, if you take HN commenters to have the thoughtfulness and foresight of children, then the word kind of works.

New comment by Rudybega in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Rudybega — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:11:26 +0000

I mean, if we're assuming they're just willing to lie and violate their own TOS then how could you ever be comfortable with them regardless of this 30 day period (or really any online service)? This seems like a bit of a silly take.

New comment by Rudybega in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

Rudybega — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:20:15 +0000

That's the nature of abstraction. Everything you create on a computer is built on a towering stack of black boxes.

New comment by Rudybega in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

Rudybega — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:57:21 +0000

Anthropic and the military had a contract. The military wanted to change the terms of that contract. Anthropic said no, which is their clearly defined contractual right. They got labeled a supply chain risk. How is this anything other than a shakedown? Does contract law mean anything to this administration?

New comment by Rudybega in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

Rudybega — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:51:58 +0000

You don't actually believe in the core tenets of the USA if you think that the government should have or should exercise unchecked, abusive power.

New comment by Rudybega in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

Rudybega — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:16:23 +0000

Then the government should end their contract with Anthropic. The terms of the contract were clear.

Designating them a supply chain risk is unprecedented authoritarian strong-arming.

New comment by Rudybega in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

Rudybega — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:32:58 +0000

Well yeah, they're running a small, outdated, older model. That's not really the point. This approach can be used for better, larger, newer models.

New comment by Rudybega in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

Rudybega — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:53:28 +0000

If only there were some way to test it, like swapping the two nouns in the sentence. Alas.

New comment by Rudybega in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

Rudybega — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:35:53 +0000

If a passenger says to you, "go around this car by using that private driveway", are they driving the car?

New comment by Rudybega in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

Rudybega — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:51:30 +0000

There aren't remote "drivers" in the Philippines, that's not how Fleet Response works. You can see how it works here if you're curious: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response but the TLDR is that they give the Waymo driver options in confusing situations (things like, you can go use this driveway on the side to pass this blocked traffic).

New comment by Rudybega in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

Rudybega — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:50:39 +0000

MMLU performance caps out around 90% because there are tons of errors in the actual test set. There's a pretty solid post on it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/163x2wc/philip_...

As far as I can tell for AIME, pretty much every frontier model gets 100% https://llm-stats.com/benchmarks/aime-2025

New comment by Rudybega in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

Rudybega — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:55:04 +0000

I mean, Waymo gives a lot of examples of the situations, in their blog post about Fleet Response where they detail this, released May 21, 2024. They're very explicit that the Waymo Driver autonomous system is in control the entire time.

This isn't something new.

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response

New comment by Rudybega in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

Rudybega — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:15:29 +0000

TinyCC can't compile a modern linux kernel. It doesn't support a ton of the extensions they use. That Rust compiler similarly can't do it.