Hacker News: Stevvo

New comment by Stevvo in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

Stevvo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:13:55 +0000

Don't be put off by the box asking for your "affiliation". I wrote "None", clicked submit and it took me straight to the Atlas.

New comment by Stevvo in "Working on Economics with Fable 5"

Stevvo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:11:29 +0000

My high-school economics teacher taught us Georgism is the optimal form of taxation. He gave us a bunch of dense math to back up that claim, but I can remember none of it.

New comment by Stevvo in "IBM Bob"

Stevvo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:55:27 +0000

I don't work at IBM but there are many things to admire. e.g. You can take software written 40 years and run on a new IBM system today without even recompiling it thanks to the Machine Interface. Have fun trying to run a 40 year old C++ program.

New comment by Stevvo in "IBM Bob"

Stevvo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:36:15 +0000

Interesting they are renting out agent skills. You can pick up "Java Modernization" at $20 a month for "Specialist workflows to help with modernizing Java applications", or "IBM i" for "Specialist modes, workflows, and skills to work with IBM i applications".

New comment by Stevvo in "Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence"

Stevvo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:55:44 +0000

This is completely useless for video game map blockout. You need collisions for level blockout, which this does not provide. It makes gaussian splats, not geometry.

New comment by Stevvo in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

Stevvo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:55:34 +0000

There is no puzzle in Portal 2 that requires fast reflexes.

New comment by Stevvo in "Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains"

Stevvo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:48:03 +0000

Fantastic as someone looking for an affordable vacation destination.

New comment by Stevvo in "Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac: The future of supercars is combustion engines"

Stevvo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:47:45 +0000

Feel like Ferrari Luce was designed specifically to turn people away from the idea of electric super cars.

New comment by Stevvo in "Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac: The future of supercars is combustion engines"

Stevvo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:46:43 +0000

The manufacturers certainly want the future of supercars to be combustion engines. Combustion engines are their moat; without them, there is little unique about their vehicles. But BMW felt the same about regular gasoline cars & hybrids. That didn't turn out too well for them.

New comment by Stevvo in "Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany"

Stevvo — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:57:22 +0000

Curious how different the safety outcomes will be to the US. A Waymo is safer than an American driver, but so is a European driver. A driver from Norway is even safer than a Waymo.

New comment by Stevvo in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

Stevvo — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:02:15 +0000

Depends how you define fidelity. The mesh resolution in MSFS isn't any higher resolution. Looks about the same.

New comment by Stevvo in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

Stevvo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:26:11 +0000

The benchmarking in the article gives a clear answer to the title question: Python and Javascript. However, the article doesn't just bury the lede, it misses it entirely, getting distracted by outlier results from clojure and j.

DARPA Lift Challenge – Aug 7 – Main Broadcast [video]

Stevvo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:05:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkao-a9egbY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Stevvo in "Western Sahara"

Stevvo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:58:58 +0000

Silly anchoring is forbidden, could be a great sailing destination.

Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Power Inverters [pdf]

Stevvo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/power-inverter-fcc-determination.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093774

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Stevvo in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

Stevvo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:55:39 +0000

Interesting they are still using "Mythos Preview" instead of "Mythos 5"; I had read from others who had access to both that Mythos 5 is less capable.

New comment by Stevvo in "JetZero"

Stevvo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:06 +0000

That's an odd connection to make. The depiction of passengers in Elite Dangerous is limited to some numbers on a UI screen.

New comment by Stevvo in "JetZero"

Stevvo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:56:41 +0000

Hard to imagine it as a passenger aircraft any time soon, but if they manage to get the demonstrator built it looks like it could make a useful aerial refueling tanker.

New comment by Stevvo in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

Stevvo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:17:23 +0000

If you stop and think about the problem it really is quite simple. Just need to build a graph of the game state and then run A* to get to the end.

New comment by Stevvo in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

Stevvo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:15:48 +0000

Why? 30% is passing the first two problems only, which are really very simple.