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New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:26:27 +0000

Here is Yuji Tachikawa from Japan (Mathematical Physics, String Theory, QFT) on recent progress in his own work using Fable 5 :

"I've been trying out Claude Fable recently, and last night, on a whim, I showed it my research notes about a collaborative project that's seen no progress in the past six months or so and asked for its thoughts. To my surprise, it made a non-trivial observation and essentially solved it."

"I was also surprised that it was using sympy to automatically write code and verify his own predictions."

"Fable probably seems like it properly understands string theory and has intuition too—that's my impression"

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:14:10 +0000

It’s curious how they solve unsolved math problems without reasoning. Maybe I have a different definition of reasoning than you.

DNA signatures preserved in the 1978 sample collection of the Shroud of Turin

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:39:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-60684-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881545

Points: 7

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New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Grok 4.5"

alchemist1e9 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:55:38 +0000

I’d be curious to hear more about your dev setup and what tips you have for other aspiring vibe app coders.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:27:29 +0000

This should help with better utilizing a heterogenous collection of inference hardware.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:46:31 +0000

And how is it driving human extinction? It’s lifted humans out of endless poverty and bringing a coming age of abundance, what world are you living in?

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:15:42 +0000

Capitalism is the single greatest force for improvement in the human condition. Money is the foundation of capitalism.

If you went to school and believe what you write then you went to terrible schools.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:55:18 +0000

what was your original comment? I’m pretty sure it was a lot more critical sounding.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:47:21 +0000

Nah this is definitely bad type of envy you can look at the full discussion and additional comments from the user.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:56:43 +0000

EDIT: comment was under incorrect parent. my error. moved it to correct location.

EDIT2: Actually it’s more interesting. The commenters seem have changed their wording away from what I was criticizing.

Original observation: Try to purge envy from your heart. It’s a poison.

There was originally a lot of dark envy in this thread but interestingly it’s been revised out to be more subtle.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:27:11 +0000

Could be but then it means like 98% is pornography I guess, because it’s every row, so if random a bad sign!

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:31:22 +0000

Why is the text field in dataset preview table populated with pornographic labels?

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:22:04 +0000

Cypherpunks will be proud once there is a version of this cryptocurrency funded to providers receiving the cryptocurrency.

Or maybe there is? or a version where only those funding have access to the results.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:36:25 +0000

I was also thinking about the prices and what problems they were being used for to motivate the investment.

It then occurred to me that loaded Mac Studios and DGX Stations have some comparability in CAPEX scale. Here are some other prices for example:

> The VT278 started at $6,795 [$23,700].”

> This was sold as the DECmate III+ for $5145 [$15,400] alongside the standard III.

> The VAXmate finally hit the market in September 1986 starting at $4045 [$12,100].

> For the back end DEC announced a turn-key MicroVAX II system with 5MB of RAM, Ethernet, 16 ports and a 30-seat ALL-IN-1 plus WPS wordprocessing starting at $81,160 [$243,000].

Pope Leo Compares AI Threat to Biblical 'Tower of Babel'

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:01:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-c5e1af6c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265488

Points: 4

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New comment by alchemist1e9 in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:30:50 +0000

> PostmarketOS is amazing on supported arm chromebooks.

Any tips on best models that are abundantly available used on the cheap and work well?

> I have a few that I throw in a bag for beach/jungle holidays - they are literal e-waste, something liberating about carrying a laptop that's worth significantly less than a decent family meal.

I definitely do this with a few Thinkpad 11e I have laying around from a failed project 4 years ago.

However I’d really like to switch to e-waste as what you describe would be very liberating. An e-waste Linux device with encrypted disk that you just wifi tether to phone and works fine for use old school types. I wonder how cheap they can go? How easy to flash? etc

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:36:29 +0000

It’s a great example and I have recently been thinking a lot that AI assistance maybe enable rapid porting progress and bringing life to recycled devices for 3rd world situations.

Linux can be trimmed way down and with an efficient stack on top can make many devices extremely useable.

Here is a related comment on user software side I made recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alchemist1e9#4800737...

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:32:58 +0000

Well we will have to agree to disagree because my understanding of what has been generally the case is that the LLMs might vibe-coding spam, that’s true, but the interesting difference is generally speaking their “suggestions” are very reasonable and represent in hindsight useful changes that make the commands more useful for everyone, humans included.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:48:10 +0000

I don’t remember exactly the specific examples off the top of my head (some are definitely ffmpeg commands) but I do know that when LLMs keep hallucinating command line flags that don’t exist for that specific command their “suggestion” is actually very reasonable and so many developers are adding support to their tools for common hallucinations.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:25:55 +0000

It’s also likely that agents would also be better if they didn’t deal with json vomit either. I’m optimistic that agent frameworks will eventually come full circle and realize concise teletype linear CLIs aka old school UNIX is actually very effective and efficient for agents as well as humans!