Hacker News: SturgeonsLaw

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

SturgeonsLaw — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:27:50 +0000

Netbird has a self hosted option

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:32:07 +0000

Anthropic runs a biology wetlab (while denying biology to consumers of even their publicly available models, let alone their inhouse ones that only they can access) so I'd expect AI to generate practical and lucrative products soon.

Cure for aging? What do you reckon that'd be worth?

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

SturgeonsLaw — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:53:49 +0000

Meanwhile our noble side only slaughters foreigners, so you see that makes us the good guys

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:41:08 +0000

> You get rich by working hard

Come on now

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

SturgeonsLaw — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:40:10 +0000

Almost 800 horsepower is anemic? That's the same territory as a Porsche 911 Turbo S

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:18:09 +0000

The DseWiki incident showed that OpenAI seems to ask its agents time-limited questions on geography-bounded statistics, tasks like finding the average wage of teachers in Wisconsin (made up example), so medical stats in an Australian state does seem to be in the same category of question.

That said, it would be utterly unsurprising to learn that this was a misconfiguration in the website and it was serving stuff that it shouldn't have.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

SturgeonsLaw — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:05:32 +0000

Thanks, I'll have a read

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

SturgeonsLaw — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:40:14 +0000

Agreed! I've always been interested in the field of mathematics, only to be let down by my lack of ability to comprehend it. I can usually follow an article up until the point that it starts using formulae.

I love this approachable prose.

If anyone is aware of any other "mathematics for people who don't know mathematics" resources I'd greatly appreciate any links.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Giving up on smart rings"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:31:55 +0000

We're all in our own filter bubble my friend, there is no the news any more

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "We must pace the frontier"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:11:35 +0000

I too am using GLM-5.3-flash in Pi and I've yet to encounter a scenario it couldn't handle. And the pricing is just incredible, I've handed it a previously unseen codebase, asked it to analyse it and build a new feature, came back after it had done so and the API cost was a fraction of a cent. It's $0.5/1M output tokens on OpenRouter.

If I really need to, I can escalate a task to Opus at $25/1M, and the results are good, but not 5000% as good.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:06:20 +0000

Yeah, I've worked in risk management and if a company said "what we're doing has a 10% chance of killing lots of people" it'd get shut down so fast it'd make your head spin

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "After Work, We'll Have Each Other"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:56:32 +0000

I've been awake through enough history classes to know what happens when people get pushed too far

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "'Global reckoning for big tech': Australia to force opt-out of social algs"

SturgeonsLaw — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:24:41 +0000

It probably won't, too many people just go down the default path with any app, however as an individual it would be nice to have a way to curate my feed

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer"

SturgeonsLaw — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:26:10 +0000

I justify it to myself by saying that even if I'm arguing with a bot, I want to have a counterargument posted for the benefit of the people who are reading the comments

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost"

SturgeonsLaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:39:38 +0000

I've been very impressed with GLM 5.3 Flash's performance even without considering cost, but once you factor that in, it's incomparable. Not surprised to see its position on the chart.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:02:52 +0000

You know what they say, what goes up must continue to go up forever

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

SturgeonsLaw — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:56:10 +0000

The problem with outsourcing your gorilla marketing is that it can cost big bananas with a hard to quantify return

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "You have to beat the models at something"

SturgeonsLaw — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:24:34 +0000

A lot of engineers are gonna hate this, but the domain that LLMs will have the hardest time dominating is people skills

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

SturgeonsLaw — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:35:03 +0000

Depends what counts as "introduced", the Patriot Act was based on the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act written by Joe Biden.

This is something Biden was proud of, and confirmed in his own words many times

https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/user-clip-joe-b...

The surveillance state has bipartisan support.

New comment by SturgeonsLaw in "Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help"

SturgeonsLaw — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:10:22 +0000

I use Qwen/Claude for coding and Gemini/Gemma to draft text intended for a human. To me that feels like each model playing to their strengths.