<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: alyxya</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alyxya</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:42:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alyxya" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An alternative I've tried is to ask Claude Code to create programming exercises or challenges on some topic and then ask it to check my work after every step while giving feedback. It worked surprisingly well, so this is the right call for CodeCrafters because AI is far more effective and cheaper at creating educational content and being a personal tutor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 09:37:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246233</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I probably have an unfounded assumption that whatever coding agent they make will work really well with their models, better than external harnesses. I don't have a good sense for how all the model + harness combinations compare, nor any good way to compare them myself, but generally believe model companies train their models to work best with their own harness.</p>
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<p>Once they have their own coding agent which they seem to be working towards, I may start predominantly using their models. They seem to be doing all the "right" things, open sourcing models, publishing research, and keeping prices low for everyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:50:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239098</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It could easily be fixed on google's side with a better prompt used for search queries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238886</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also encountered an issue with my credits. I was previously subscribed to the max plan, claimed credits, then downgraded to the pro plan and noticed I lost my credits. I didn't unsubscribe, just downgraded plans as I wasn't using claude enough to justify needing max.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128924</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This could end up becoming a cat-and-mouse game where users programmatically try to turn their non-interactive usage of Claude Code to appear interactive and Anthropic tries to detect and charge that under API pricing. I don't know if there's a proper solution here because there will always be borderline use cases like using Claude Code on a cloud VM, where it would be nicer to interactively do work through sending and receiving messages on a custom frontend rather than SSHing and using the CLI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128843</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Interaction Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In theory I would expect it to do everything the current frontier models are capable of but with the added benefit of real time interactivity for better collaboration. The biggest benefit may be the real time video input so it can take in that input in parallel with producing outputs steered by the input rather than taking in a video or all images at once and then producing a single output for all of that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:45:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101737</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Interaction Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The noteworthy things to me are that the architecture is a transformer that takes in text, image, and audio input and produces text and audio output, all trained together, and it works in near real-time through interleaving inputs and outputs rather than pure generation of the output from a given prompt.<p>> Time-Aligned Micro-Turns. The interaction model works with micro-turns continuously interleaving the processing of 200ms worth of input and generation of 200ms worth of output. Rather than consuming a complete user-turn and generating a complete response, both input and output tokens are treated as streams. Working with 200ms chunks of these streams enables near real-time concurrency of multiple input and output modalities.<p>That's probably the main thing that distinguishes it from the multimodal models from other frontier labs as far as I can tell.</p>
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<p>I dislike the title because it doesn't clearly state it's a layoff. "Building for the future" gave me the impression that it's about some major new initiative with a roadmap outlining plans.</p>
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<p>The blog post was published a couple months ago, and it looks like there hasn't been a follow-up release with the fully trained model. I'm not sure if there's much to take away from an early checkpoint besides the unique architectural choices they made in their model for faster inference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 06:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983872</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Grok 4.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Despite their attrition, this combined with their cursor partnership is likely going to make them competitive in coding agents soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972704</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean I tried sending the pieces of text to Opus that Kelsey was referring to on her blog just to independently check the identification claim. Presumably those pieces of text first appeared on the web when the blog post was published a week ago, so no model should have memorized the exact text yet. My prompt had to specify no web search, otherwise Opus would try to search the web, though it didn't seem like Opus could find that blog post even when it did try to search the web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:18:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969555</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried the four pieces of text with Opus 4.7 (in incognito) and it guessed correctly for two of them, and I made sure to specify no web search and the model seems to have obeyed my instructions with that.<p>Although this is just a single piece of text from a prolific writer, it'll go much further with deanonymizing anyone when combining multiple pieces of text plus other contextual information about the writer that might give away their age range, location, and occupation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969192</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We support 34-qubit CPU and 36-qubit GPU simulators available 24/7 to our users.<p>This one looks like an exact simulator that handles exponential states, so it's far more limited in the number of qubits it can support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:24:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957710</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I'm understanding this correctly, it doesn't simulate any general purpose quantum circuit with 1000 qubits, only ones where there's a more efficient strategy than an exponential state where exact simulation is feasible.</p>
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<p>This is the right partnership to happen. SpaceX has all the compute but is missing the talent for training LLMs, especially on the RL side. Cursor has the talent and RL stack, but doesn't have their own pretrained base model or own their compute. Both will be on a bad trajectory without cooperating because Claude Code and Codex have gained so much momentum already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855731</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the examples you gave are chatbots with web search integrated. Are you sure those chatbots didn't just reference false information it found in web searches? That's fundamentally different than poisoning the training of AI models.<p>> The problem was that the experiment worked too well. Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real.<p>This seems to imply the poisoning affected the web search results, not the actual model itself, because it takes months for data to make it into a trained base model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841406</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems like a wasted effort when AI will primarily learn the majority consensus view and not one-off misinformation. AI tries to learn pattern matching for generalization, so garbage data doesn't make AI learn the wrong patterns, at best just slows down learning the actual patterns. When most compute for training is spent on curated data and RL rather than random web-scraped data, the impact is likely negligible.</p>
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<p>Plenty of people wanted to spend more than $20 but less than $200 for a plan. It's long overdue IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:31:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707638</link><dc:creator>alyxya</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alyxya in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of journalism like any other job where there's an expectation to produce results, where the main objective here is to write an article that lots of people read. It's a topic that catches a lot of people's attention, so in a sense they've succeeded by getting a lot of people to read and talk about it.</p>
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