Hacker News: app13

New comment by app13 in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

app13 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:49:51 +0000

I'm not sure if it's directly related to density, see Japan as a counter example.

New comment by app13 in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

app13 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:01:42 +0000

I was a young sysadmin, so I did not have the insight that I would now on actual system efficacy.

From a systems standpoint, it worked very well. High uptime and really nice thermals.

New comment by app13 in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

app13 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:01:18 +0000

God I hope so. Some of my fondest professional memories were my early Navy days, hacking together PS3's into a big ol cluster

Edit: Reading through the exploit, looks like linux compatability for older (non 13.6) is possible. 13.6 needs a new hypervisor exploit.

New comment by app13 in "GPT-6 Astra"

app13 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:26:13 +0000

Humans do that by inventing algorithms like AlphaGo :)

In a more serious note, I think the person you are responding to meant "new" more in line with "novel".

Take a microfluidic chip, for example. Current AI systems can create new flow cell geometry, but cannot come up with the idea for a microfluidic flow cell itself.

New comment by app13 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

app13 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:57:40 +0000

Last model from Anthropic that I can use as a security researcher. 4.8+ won't even look at my git repos

Granted they contain robot dog malware, but still.

New comment by app13 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

app13 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:20:22 +0000

Whats your setup? I have a single 3090 and am struggling to get it purring

New comment by app13 in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

app13 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:21:09 +0000

I needed to thoroughly test rerankers on my companies rather unique corpus.

Opus and I wrote a parallelized test harness and labeled groundtruth in around 2 hours.

In 2022 that would've likely been all I did for a couple sprints

New comment by app13 in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"

app13 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:16:41 +0000

The CVE process itself is broken. HackerOne and company VDPs are inundated with new reports of varying quality thanks to the advancements (I think) in agentic AI. It's allowed for both an increase in trash-tier low quality AND legitimately high quality reports. Since the same AI's are writing both, its almost impossible to distinguish between the two at a surface level.

In response, companies just aren't responding like they used to. I spoke at a cybersecurity conference In June and the overwhelming "vibe" on the floor and in the talks was that responsible disclosure was dead or dying, and public disclosure is the way forward. The Microsoft and Nightmare Eclipse situation was oft cited.

New comment by app13 in "The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock"

app13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:15:04 +0000

I will be totally honest, it is hard for me to want to engage with content that is clearly written by AI.

New comment by app13 in "What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?"

app13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:20:21 +0000

I participated in research from 2017-2022 that found similar results regarding bio-interactions, generally.

Learned a lot about making microfludic flow cells at least

New comment by app13 in "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"

app13 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:24:25 +0000

Bravo to the Domo CDO, who's fomo won't stop slo-mo no-mo'

New comment by app13 in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

app13 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:10:52 +0000

Routing in agent pipelines is another use. "Does user prompt A make sense with document type A?" If yes, continue, if no, escalate. That sort of thing

New comment by app13 in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

app13 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:47:12 +0000

$25-35/hr for the evening shift it seems. Not starvation wages by any means, but certainly not great (or even good) pay for that area.

New comment by app13 in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

app13 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:15:03 +0000

Most companies are using world model simulations for training nowadays, like Issac Gym or Mujoco, not just video data.

New comment by app13 in "Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video"

app13 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:31:12 +0000

2 million hardware devices sold is not nothing, that is a pretty significant amount of hardware to ship.

New comment by app13 in "Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof"

app13 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:21:30 +0000

Fear not, there is a handy proof we can use here...

New comment by app13 in "AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor"

app13 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:21:15 +0000

They're right. Toward the EOL the PS3 had a big resurgence as THE console of South America and Southeast Asia due to highly available used games, console jailbreaks etc. and of course FIFA.

New comment by app13 in "Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent"

app13 — Tue, 14 May 2024 06:55:08 +0000

If their Go2 video is anything to go by, you should take this video with a grain of salt and expect about 50% of the demos to actually work

New comment by app13 in "Low Cost Robot Arm"

app13 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:56:44 +0000

Omniverse is a simulation platform specifically designed to do things like train/test robotics. It's not a creative engine like UE or Unity.

New comment by app13 in "Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]"

app13 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:57:51 +0000

Significantly higher reach. I use steam every day and didn't know its used for video distribution.