Hacker News: apetresc

New comment by apetresc in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

apetresc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:52:45 +0000

How does that contradict the price increase? iPads still have RAM, yeah? If anything, not increasing the prices on iPads would undermine Macbook marketshare, would it not?

New comment by apetresc in "Apple WWDC 2026"

apetresc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:44:19 +0000

Your first Apple keynote, huh?

New comment by apetresc in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

apetresc — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:39 +0000

One of your favourite “real characters”? Do you just mean… people? Or does this mean something else I’m missing?

New comment by apetresc in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

apetresc — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:51:10 +0000

An em-dash is just Alt-(regular-dash) on most well-configured compose key configurations, it's not any harder.

New comment by apetresc in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

apetresc — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:43:28 +0000

Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!

New comment by apetresc in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

apetresc — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:34:40 +0000

This is my main question as well. Either stock or with some sort of separate hinge kit, that would completely seal the deal for me.

New comment by apetresc in "Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution"

apetresc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:48:55 +0000

I can’t believe I’m nitpicking this on HN of all places, but the Taurus-Miltank thing is just fan headcanon based on nothing more than the analogy with real-life animals. While it’s true that Tauros is a male-only species and Miltank is female-only, they have separate Pokédex numbers and were introduced in different generations.

They can breed (because they’re in the same egg group) but the offspring can only ever be a Miltank. The only way to breed a Tauros is via ditto, same as with any other male-only species.

New comment by apetresc in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

apetresc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:56:21 +0000

For days? Someone spent days trying to convince Claude to do something?

New comment by apetresc in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

apetresc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:41:30 +0000

I've long maintained that the real indicator that AGI is imminent is that public availability stops being a thing. If you truly believed you had a superhuman, godlike mind in your thrall, renting it out for $20/month would be the last thing you would choose to do with it.

New comment by apetresc in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

apetresc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:21:08 +0000

I don't think OP was making a value judgment or anything. It's just weird to say you won't consider Codeberg because you need reliability when Codeberg's uptime is at 100% and Github's is at 90%.

New comment by apetresc in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

apetresc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:42:33 +0000

Windows is not public infrastructure. If the government's reliance on it has reached the level of "national importance", then that's the problem that needs to be addressed, not Windows' ownership.

Public infrastructure should be built on open-source, period.

New comment by apetresc in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

apetresc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:25:06 +0000

Compared to getting them nothing, yes. But the OP's point is that this doesn't prevent the child from mentally comparing themselves to peers that have a smartphone, and viewing their Tin Can as a "restriction" imposed by their parents.

Which it is. I don't understand the need to wink-wink-nudge-nudge pretend it's anything else by the others in this thread. Just own it, restrictions aren't bad by default.

New comment by apetresc in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

apetresc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:05:11 +0000

Well then clearly you haven't taken a look at https://status.claude.com.

New comment by apetresc in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

apetresc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:41:10 +0000

If this was an Apple TV app, I think it would be the default mode in my household.

New comment by apetresc in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

apetresc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:27:42 +0000

Improves outputs relative to what? Compared to previous contexts of 1M, it improves outputs by allowing them to exist (because previously you couldn't exceed 200K). Compared to contexts of <200K, it degrades outputs rather than improves them, but that's what you'd expect from longer contexts. It's still better than compaction, which was previously the alternative.

New comment by apetresc in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

apetresc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:24:28 +0000

I don't think they're claiming "no degradation at scale", are they? They still report a 91.9->78.3 drop. That's just a better drop than everyone else (is the claim).

New comment by apetresc in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

apetresc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:16:48 +0000

Those sorts of volume discounts are what you do when you're trying to incentivize more consumption. Anthropic already has more demand then they're logistically able to serve, at the moment (look at their uptime chart, it's barely even 1 9 of reliability). For them, 1 user consuming 5 units of compute is less attractive than 5 users consuming 1 unit.

They would probably implement _diminishing_-value pricing if pure pricing efficiency was their only concern.

Claude Scheduled Tasks caught in infinite loop after Daylight Savings Time

apetresc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/pqpgkf52p3tg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309597

Points: 4

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New comment by apetresc in "GPT-5.4"

apetresc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:24:08 +0000

Diametrically opposite to tokens beyond 200K being literally free? As in, you only pay for the first 200K tokens and the remaining 800K cost $0.00?

I don't think that's a fair reading of the original post at all, obviously what they meant by "no cost" was "no increase in the cost".

New comment by apetresc in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

apetresc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:42:23 +0000

What percentage of the overall code was written primarily by agents?