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

a_victorp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:13 +0000

I wish the author would open source the full benchmark. I'm curious how sensitive the results would be to small changes in the benchmark initial conditions

New comment by a_victorp in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

a_victorp — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:27:00 +0000

This has been one the most significant improvements of using AI for me. Before I would have to really think through the plan of a new feature before committing to the implementation and would only catch incompatibilities with existing code after a good portion of the implementation was already written. Now I can ask AI for detailed implementation plans and find these nitty gritty detail problems in a few hours if not less

New comment by a_victorp in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

a_victorp — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:35:15 +0000

Thank you! I was trying to find someone pointing this out

New comment by a_victorp in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

a_victorp — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:27:38 +0000

To be fair, "american" could refer to anything made in the American continent (North, Central and South America)

New comment by a_victorp in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

a_victorp — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:30:26 +0000

In my view, the core of the solution here is to realize that no system will be stable and "perfect" forever. That is, we may chart into the unknown and arrive at a pretty good solution that benefits people, but over time, as people relax, some people will try to take power and eventually succeed. My point is: some people will always try to get advantages. So it will always come to the community to put in work to improve society and guarantee the benefits are given to all. There is no defining a set of rules and forgetting about it

New comment by a_victorp in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

a_victorp — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:33:14 +0000

Same, the other day my manager sent a python script to create a jira ticket from some data to a team slack channel... as if no one else could figure that out or ask some LLM (sorry, I needed to vent)

New comment by a_victorp in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

a_victorp — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:06:40 +0000

On the other hand, it was somewhat expected that we would have a correction for the prices. Hopefully after this correction things will be more stable and we won't have to worry too much about future price increases

New comment by a_victorp in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

a_victorp — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:50:48 +0000

> That is what a lie is.

I don't think that is, because, at the time, he probably haven't decided one way or another. I think about it like the Schrodinger's cat. If Schrodinger's said "I think the cat is dead" and you went ahead and opened the box and found the cat alive, would Schrodinger have lied?

New comment by a_victorp in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

a_victorp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:20:01 +0000

We need a Wine-like compatibility layer for android alternatives

New comment by a_victorp in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

a_victorp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:42:19 +0000

He was charged with "unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of non-public government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.". Supposedly, unlawful use of government confidential information could also be applied to legislative and other people in the government

New comment by a_victorp in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

a_victorp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:53:42 +0000

They are probably preparing for an IPO

New comment by a_victorp in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

a_victorp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:58:19 +0000

Just a company with 40%+ of ownership from Tencent, Disney and Sony (all public traded companies). You could have googled this

New comment by a_victorp in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

a_victorp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:58:47 +0000

Zoom has this feature as well

New comment by a_victorp in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

a_victorp — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:46:59 +0000

It's unlikely to happen because of the deal MS has with OAI. It's hard to ignore a percentage of revenue as money back guarantee

New comment by a_victorp in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

a_victorp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:48:47 +0000

The median salary in the US is around $61k a year and in Japan is around $42k a year. Salary-wise the difference is not as big as GDP per capita

New comment by a_victorp in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

a_victorp — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:15:27 +0000

I'd say that the advantage for Venezuelans has more to do on having a cheap and fast way of transferring money than the cryptocurrency itself. IIRC an article that I read pointed that crypto holdings in there where very short lived, meaning people didn't keep the coins as a way of savings

New comment by a_victorp in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

a_victorp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:19:19 +0000

I wouldn't bet on it

New comment by a_victorp in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

a_victorp — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:57:21 +0000

I had never noticed the flow of AI text. They do make the flow of reading feel weird with a lot of pauses! Thanks for pointing it out

New comment by a_victorp in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

a_victorp — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:01:02 +0000

To capture market.

New comment by a_victorp in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

a_victorp — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Gotta love the slippery slope argument