Hacker News: aabhay

New comment by aabhay in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

aabhay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:07:00 +0000

Only ten day interval? I felt Astra got nerfed within a week

New comment by aabhay in "Dots: Always-on agents"

aabhay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:23:43 +0000

100% agree. Every model and launch feel like huge leaps then huge nerfs to the point it doesn’t feel like we’re going anywhere. Especially this year in particular for coding.

However, it is the case that other industries like 3d graphics and so forth have experienced a frontier shift so perhaps there’s still some advancement

New comment by aabhay in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

aabhay — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:25:09 +0000

Don’t know why this is down voted. Jensen Huang has literally made this comment on stage when asked critical questions.

His company has been public longer than you’ve been solvent.

New comment by aabhay in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

aabhay — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:22:19 +0000

Um, how is that not impressive

New comment by aabhay in "Plan mode is dead"

aabhay — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:22:48 +0000

The quote is so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies in it

New comment by aabhay in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

aabhay — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:13:18 +0000

I’ve had this happen to me several time over the past weeks and it’s gone from quaint to humorous to farcical to outright “is-the-world-gaslighting-me” insane.

Just today I was reading Stanley Druckenmiller’s op ed in WSJ. This dude is like 80 and has made billions of dollars, and he got Claude to write his op ed???

Unbelievable. And the tells are so obvious, yet people still love the Claude-like quips and odd grammatical choices that read like halfway asshole halfway mid-sentence confusion.

New comment by aabhay in "ElevenLabs Music v2.5"

aabhay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:24:14 +0000

Note that ElevenLabs claims the right to train on any data you upload to the service, such as editing a song you made etc.

> (d) License to Your Content and NILV. You hereby grant to ElevenLabs a license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, make available, communicate to the public, publicly perform, display, and use your Uploaded Music and Input (including your name, image, likeness, voice rights and other indicia of your persona that may be embodied in your Uploaded Music or Input (collectively, “NILV”)) and your Output, in each case, to provide the Services (including the trust and safety features therein), to promote and improve the Services, and to develop and improve our other services and products. Such license shall be…

New comment by aabhay in "ElevenLabs Music v2.5"

aabhay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:20:06 +0000

This probably corresponds to compute. ElevenLabs can burn compute for now, Suno can’t.

New comment by aabhay in "ElevenLabs Music v2.5"

aabhay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:19:00 +0000

The music shows the post before legal got to put their hands on it lmao..

New comment by aabhay in "OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof"

aabhay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:48:24 +0000

Formalizing proofs in Lean has gotten dramatically easier since the formalizations available in 2005. And Lean’s mathlib has done most of the underlying work so that you have its axioms and necessary lemmas baked in. You can think in terms of standard abstractions that look very much like the exact notation in the undergrad textbook.

That said, I am not in any way trying to discount how incredible of an achievement it is to formalize a millennium prize winning algorithm in Lean. I mean just look at the code that OpenAI published. It’s like an encyclopedia of different fluid dynamics concepts.

New comment by aabhay in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

aabhay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:40:28 +0000

Cross shard transactions are “coming soon”. So, this is just like having multiple postgres clusters.

New comment by aabhay in "GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning"

aabhay — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:33:38 +0000

If the agent is able to “decide” when a loop should occur vs when an output token is produced, that effectively moves the CoT inside the architecture. While that’s not what is happening here, it’s clearly a plausible way we could see CoT disappear.

New comment by aabhay in "GPT-6 Astra"

aabhay — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:26:49 +0000

This is with the caveat that OpenAI uses their own harness for this:

> On ARC-AGI-3, GPT-6 Astra was run with our responses API harness , which changes two settings to better match real-world performance. The changes do not specifically target ARC-AGI-3.

New comment by aabhay in "Bhartrhari's Paradox"

aabhay — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:50:28 +0000

> There are some things that are unnameable

Like what?

Oh wait…

New comment by aabhay in "Fable and the end of the free lunch"

aabhay — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:05:52 +0000

This concept of a free lunch was never true. In a competitive dynamic, speed and performance were always worth optimizing, comparing, and improving.

One of the primary reasons for this is that computers operate in a vast range of orders of magnitude. There’s several orders of magnitude between cache local cpu operation and dram, then several to disk, then several to network, then several to globally durable guarantees. When your code has literally thirteen orders of magnitude to optimize under, there’s never a free lunch. You always need to understand your stuff.

New comment by aabhay in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

aabhay — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:57:58 +0000

In general, Claude family models write absolutely terrible comments, docs, and prose. It’s basically the number 1 thing that caused everyone on my team to migrate away from Anthropic models completely.

New comment by aabhay in "Cursor Origin"

aabhay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:35:03 +0000

With the Grok code incident in recent memory I have zero interest in trusting our company’s crown jewels with this service.

Agents are here. Just self host and let the agents help cover your ass in network config, HA, whatever.

New comment by aabhay in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"

aabhay — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:44:18 +0000

A few years in between releases with a sane versioning system seems fine to me. If you don’t want new features don’t build with that new toolchain.

It’s not javascript where you need to support all possible browsers.

New comment by aabhay in "How to ship a database every day"

aabhay — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:22:59 +0000

Everything but self hosted, is it?

New comment by aabhay in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"

aabhay — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:17:56 +0000

Genuinely curious what these constant changes are. In fact I don’t feel they’re moving fast enough to give us improvements to core.