Hacker News: Starlevel004

New comment by Starlevel004 in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:05:25 +0000

An AVIF and a WebM + AV1 is basically identical file-size wise, but you can zoom in on an AVIF so for actual animated images it wins on that front.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:01:06 +0000

I tried using a passkey to log in to something and it gave me an error and I simply didn't care about trying to fix it. So passwords it is for me.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "What is Codemode"

Starlevel004 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:32:12 +0000

I've noticed that code mode seems to cause progressive lobotomisation in Sol 6.1 around subagents. The more it uses it, the worse it gets at giving prompts to subagents:

  URLs, datasourceproxy accesspathonlyallowed anddefault404. Do not set authbasic onprivate ports; perplanPodmannetwork trustedinfrastructure nottenant boundary. Publicroutes internal /tinyauth protected internal, proxyGETemptybody /api/auth/nginx toprivate tinyauth3000; proxy_pass_request_headersoff, CookieonlyTinyauthSession header extracted map name/value actual runtime pattern tinyauth-session-[0-9a-f]{8}, X-Original-URL constructed

This is unedited; it's merging words together and spamming keywords.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

Starlevel004 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:29:33 +0000

For anyone not willing to click through, by "Bahrain" they actually mean Malaysia.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Starlevel004 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:55:04 +0000

I'll consider it if they let me use a subscription with a custom harness, like Codex does. Until then, no thanks.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:19:22 +0000

> OpenAI models used to be the prototype for robotic text, but lately I've been finding them much more natural.

This was the biggest thing I noticed in the 6 models; their conversational prose is dramatically less grating.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:13:51 +0000

Okay, now price cut 6 Sol (and rename it to Terra again).

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:59:55 +0000

Perhaps we should never ever use hashed class names?

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

Starlevel004 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:02:31 +0000

I'm fairly sure it's just luck of the draw if you get put onto a quant'd model or not. I've seen luna xhigh change intelligence fairly drastically on a day to day basis.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"

Starlevel004 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:19:18 +0000

Assembly is honestly very easy to learn, especially ARM assembly, for the basics (even if whole-program assembly is still difficult). In the worst case, you end up learning something interesting.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:54:16 +0000

> On top of my on-going battle with Windows + Firefox + DNS/TLS resolution sometimes stalling for seconds at a time,

Have you tried disabling HTTP/2?

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:32:40 +0000

I think ultimately 90% of the time, Luna XHigh is basically as good as you need, as long as you're willing to step in occasionally before it creates an architectural disaster.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:26:00 +0000

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New comment by Starlevel004 in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:47:27 +0000

> I don't get why everyone reaches for an extraordinary explanation when the ordinary will do: both of these companies have quite a bit of downtime.

And not only that, when one goes down a bunch of API traffic switches over to the other, spiking demand and knocking it down.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:57:59 +0000

Unplug the ethernet cable leading to the outside world, then?

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:51:30 +0000

How did it get banned? Presumably it has a modchip inside which means that getting updates from alternative sources is still viable.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:12:04 +0000

Why does it have like 0.1s animations?

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:38:49 +0000

When the entire post is staccato sentences it's very easy to tell.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:30:33 +0000

It's the staccato sentences

New comment by Starlevel004 in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

Starlevel004 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:43:08 +0000

Megafauna did not have steel skin and could bleed