<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: andai</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andai</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:29:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=andai" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once you go back, you'll never go back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:34:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254593</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So there's a new Internet Archive, it's just split across 3,000 AI labs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:32:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254587</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, by the same logic, anything you can do with Unity, you could have just done in assembler hahah. Don't underestimate the power of convenience!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:16:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253665</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've heard a similar story before. Guy tried to get Claude to build a thing, Claude said "nah too hard" for weeks. He finally convinced it to try, it one shotted it in like 30 seconds.<p>My thinking here is that Claude's "self concept" for what is easy and what is hard comes from human training data. Its ideas about what is hard and easy come from humans, and much of that doesn't apply to transformers at all.<p>I also often have the opposite problem, where I'll use AI to compensate for the fact that I can't process a lot of information simultaneously, but they'll treat me like a transformer and give me 17 research projects in response to a single question.<p>They seem to be oblivious to the fact that humans don't have infinite working memory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:08:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253621</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm also not required to purchase a PlayStation.<p>The explainer video said Sony is breaking the law (which one?), so they're suing them to get rid of the platform fee.<p>How does a platform make money without a fee? That's why I invoked Steam and Apple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253603</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it's surprising to me that this is against the law.<p>Is it an EU law, or a Dutch one?<p>Does that mean this also applies to Apple, Steam, etc.?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:58:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252446</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, now I had to ask an LLM to give me examples of what "deictic language" means...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:16:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249109</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.<p><pre><code>  while :; do echo "You can do it!"; done | claude -c
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I had a similar experience a few months ago. Tried to see how much I could replicate an OpenClaw with Claude. Asked it what the weather is. "I don't know, I'm just a programmer." Added "You can do anything, believe in yourself." to the system prompt and suddenly it was able to tell me the weather...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249028</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A set of pleasing qualia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247513</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eating food doesn't count if you didn't grow it yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247508</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are a bit weird with game development at the moment.<p>They can one shot entire games, with relatively minor issues.<p>And obviously asking for small code snippets and integrating them yourself has been well supported for five years.<p>But in Agent mode... not so much. I was asking frontier models to make simple changes to my Pong game (you know like the one from 1972) and it constantly failed to make simple changes or would break something else in the process.<p>The main issue is that they can't see what they're doing. Actually one of the agents tried playing the pong game by screenshotting every frame, and it ran for about 20 minutes before I realized what it was doing, and told it to calm down.<p>It takes about 10 seconds to process an image, so it was running the game at 0.1 frames per second... 600x slower than realtime. The technology is not quite there yet.<p>If your game is something turn-based though, with discrete States and well-defined transitions between them, they can help out a lot more with that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247486</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I spent a little while messing with configurations and I got the PC beep speaker working on Ubuntu again, but it was a horrible sound so I turned it off again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244635</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So a comfy life and a quick death? Sign me right up!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:59:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244602</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm talking about the psychosis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:56:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244566</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "Defending my own brain against enshittification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, the same thing plus excuses and being stuck in a train?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:55:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244554</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When the bubble pops, their customer is the military/government, and the goal is regulation. "Our thing did another impressive hack" helps both of those goals.<p>Not saying it's intentional, but it does move them where they wanna go.</p>
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<p>Just let them keep doing what they're already doing. Rat park.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238978</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We already eat conscious entities for breakfast, we'll probably need to deal with that one for a few decades before "the calculator is sad" makes a dent in the public consciousness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238976</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's this? He wrote on replicators?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238965</link><dc:creator>andai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andai in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not the guy but I relate. You also forgot the narcissism, autism and schizophrenia ;)</p>
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