Hacker News: adammarples

New comment by adammarples in "Codex for almost everything"

adammarples — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:16:03 +0000

I don't think so, because Anthropic now has your question, the steps it tried, and the solution that finally worked, all in text form, already on their servers thanks to your claude session. Claude usage is itself a goldmine of training data.

New comment by adammarples in "Claude Opus 4.7"

adammarples — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:49:26 +0000

They didn't describe the model, they described (accurately) the behaviour. They are useful descriptors of behaviour.

New comment by adammarples in "Claude Opus 4.7"

adammarples — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:38:52 +0000

Don't forget that you can also write code by hand

New comment by adammarples in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

adammarples — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:38:18 +0000

I thought the article could have been interesting if it cross-referenced with temperature, sadly it was quite basic.

New comment by adammarples in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

adammarples — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:37:34 +0000

No, late february is not the depths of winter, it's the very end of winter

New comment by adammarples in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

adammarples — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:55:27 +0000

they don't fit, because 'yes' was not supposed to be used in the context of 'yes it is a mistake', yea was. Having two words helped stop that ambiguity.

New comment by adammarples in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

adammarples — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:50:13 +0000

This is brand new open source software with like 3 stars on github

New comment by adammarples in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

adammarples — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:53:34 +0000

The UK has positioned itself almost uniquely poorly in Europe. That is why its government bond prices are trading at a premium to the others.

New comment by adammarples in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

adammarples — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:28:08 +0000

Maybe they can now overturn that judgement

New comment by adammarples in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

adammarples — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:23:09 +0000

Agree but arcteryx is from vancouver

New comment by adammarples in "Some Unusual Trees"

adammarples — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:24:28 +0000

You're probably right I'm no expert

New comment by adammarples in "Some Unusual Trees"

adammarples — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:04:08 +0000

Well, no, what we're saying here is that if you use a rigid, hierarchical catergorisation system (cladistics) you can say that there is no such monophyletic grouping as a fish. Ie there is no grouping with a common ancestor that encompasses all the things, and only the things, that we commonly call fish. That system hasn't failed, it's fine, its purpose is to categorise things in terms of evolutionary descent. However, under that system humans are reptiles and trees and fish aren't useful categories. There exist other systems of catergorisation, which are polyphyletic or paraphyletic, which fit better with commonly used language, and we get back fish, trees, non-avian non-mammalian reptiles. Neither of them are wrong, they're just differently used and differently useful. It's like knowing that a tomato is a fruit, but nobody wants it in a fruit salad. People tend to struggle when things exist in multiple naming systems and categories for some reason.

New comment by adammarples in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

adammarples — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:35:02 +0000

It's not a problem at all, you get subsidised to use it

New comment by adammarples in "The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft"

adammarples — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:58:45 +0000

No, they are moving to Linux. Read TFA.

New comment by adammarples in "Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast"

adammarples — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:38:33 +0000

Dates would be nice I got lost

New comment by adammarples in "Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News"

adammarples — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:43:26 +0000

I don't know what trust signals or sparklines are

New comment by adammarples in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

adammarples — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:16:43 +0000

Who else is supposed to aquire and submit the records? If I'm getting free money for five years and all that's required is a fax every five years, I wouldn't consider that particularly burdensome. I have to fill in a timesheet every week.

New comment by adammarples in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

adammarples — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:26:38 +0000

Yes, you can get books. I have hundreds of ebooks on my Kindle with pretty much any other book a moment's download away. Even LLMs can regurgitate 95% of Harry Potter with a single prompt.

New comment by adammarples in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

adammarples — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:04:36 +0000

This isn't a conspiracy... "They" are the EPP, a democratically elected party acting fully in public with their names attached to everything.

New comment by adammarples in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

adammarples — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:56:23 +0000

The only man who has 100% cybersecurity, respect