<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: XorNot</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=XorNot</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:16:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=XorNot" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by XorNot in "Tesla Roadster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As opposed to just exploding from the high pressure tanks of gas onboard due to an otherwise survivable fender bender?</p>
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<p>Okay but he also hasn't cured cancer, hasn't delivered full self driving, and this car is not useful as a car in anyway.<p>Any sign of the tens of thousands of Optimus robots?</p>
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<p>It'll be fine. You voted for strong labor protections, universal healthcare and a welfare system right?</p>
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<p>Seriously I don't get what everyone else is doing where they say things are getting worse somehow.<p>There's days I no longer need to sit at my computer: Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy and I can just go out with my family instead.</p>
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<p>How timely, I just now pointed Claude at my work laptops MIPI driver and told it to figure it out.</p>
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<p>I said "in an hour" to mean, the time it takes to identify the issue.<p>That fairly obviously doesn't turn into "bugs per hour" to verify, but if you find 10 candidates in an hour and then get reproducers of them out over the next few days, they are real bugs.<p>Like sure, "not properly reviewing" could be a thing but if I'm looking at a hard crash on my console, that's not behavior as designed.</p>
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<p>Okay for feature work but the amount of bugs I can find with Claude in hour, with deterministic reproducers is staggering.</p>
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<p>Claude's code review is a lot less interesting then getting Claude to reproduce the bugs it claims to find in code review, which has had an absurdly high hit rate for me.<p>The biggest problem I see with how a bunch of people use these tools is they go to them as an oracle, rather then letting them be plugged into and interactive with problem.<p>And it's in that later context that Claude is amazing: it can run tests and setup scenarios which would take days or get stuck in some weird problem loop. And then you can just say "okay, walk me through this problem" and see it yourself right there.</p>
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<p>I won't call it common sense, but humans with highly limited technology lived and reproduced to build sophisticated civilizations in almost every biome on the planet.<p>Our biology is immensely adaptable, so anyone declaring you absolutely need some finely decided very specific thing in order to be "be healthy" should be treated skeptically.<p>With regards to protein specifically: your body doesn't trade in proteins as inputs, it trades in amino acids which cracked off the protein chains you eat. Everything else is just trying to keep the crowd of gut bacteria from making you feel uncomfortable.</p>
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<p>One habit I've really noticed I have to break myself of with Claude is the temptation to say "maybe later" when I have an idea. There's never a reason to do that: if something might work, I can leave Claude in a tmux window to check the details I think should exist and then just...go do something else.</p>
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<p>I mean thats not why I have Claude decompile things. I have it so it because my software should work exactly how I want it to.</p>
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<p>I just do a lot of DIY construction. Being able to lift even 100kg safely would be a game changer.<p>The trades would benefit enormously from such a thing.</p>
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<p>As a former AI skeptic I get it and still get it.<p>But now other people's code is just a starting point for me forking an app to do exactly what I want it to - it's inspiration because code is cheap.<p>Of course for larger projects we will still need solid components underlying them, but what you're really talking about is just maturity - it's very easy to produce a lot of output now but you can't replace actual history or having more then exactly 1 maintainer.</p>
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<p>It's because tmux makes session resumption easy. Although for K8S it makes no real sense, for Claude it does.<p>Of course with all the running around with AI programming, it would be nice if we could task sometime to making remote desktop not suck on Linux.</p>
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<p>But why should process of discovering mathematical insights be any less attainable to AI models?<p>The concern is being raised without evidence, because the evidence points to the gap simply being frontier models have just started to be able to get a raw proof out. Why, given existing progress, should we expect them to be unable to distill insights from those proofs?<p>Certainly this even more likely doesn't matter at all for applications: if I can send a radio signal further because my AIs design it a certain way, that's an unambiguous result. Which is really the next step here: turn a proof into a "mechanical" application.</p>
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<p>That seems short sighted though. A few years ago models couldn't do this at all, I'm not sure there's any evidence to suggest exploring and refining results is outside their capabilities or will remain so.<p>OAI obviously have a fiscal incentive here, but to presume a year from now we won't see improvements and more succinct work on the results coming from models?</p>
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<p>This relies on the idea that AIs will only ever do the thing they just did, and nothing more.<p>It's the same argument which is invariably wrong yet comes up over and over again.<p>There's no real reason to think AIs solving lots of problems will stop further work on alternative paths - certainly a machine which never tires and can be trained on its own solutions is going to continue to improve.<p>There's precedent for this: just look at any overconfident post regarding what China will clearly never be able to do, despite decades of steady if frequently flawed progress.<p>There's no persuasive argument being presented as to why machine mathematical research should have a limit beyond hardware capabilities.</p>
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<p>Okay but who cares? Results are results.<p>If the proofs work thennwe can put them to work doing more things.<p>It is not particularly important that Einstein discovered relativity, just that it was discovered (Maxwell was very close).</p>
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<p>Okay but like, why?<p>If you're actually doing the thing who cares how achieve it.<p>The problem isn't when people do things, it's when they spend all their time coming up with the game and then stop playing, which makes it just a form of procrastinating yet far too common.</p>
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<p>GTK3 has nice, conventional looking interfaces. Developing for it always felt insane, but the advent of AI has completely removed the friction so I've had Claude build me quite a few apps using it because I like the look and it's easy to navigate.</p>
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