Hacker News: astrange

New comment by astrange in "The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin"

astrange — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:46:04 +0000

Scraping the internet isn't a copyright violation. Using it for LLM training is much more transformative than Google and Internet Archive, which are legal.

New comment by astrange in "Claude Opus 4.8"

astrange — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:32:09 +0000

They all looked like real CVEs to me.

New comment by astrange in "The user is visibly frustrated"

astrange — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:53:36 +0000

Do you actually have evidence this works and doesn't degrade performance?

New comment by astrange in "The user is visibly frustrated"

astrange — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:49:59 +0000

That's how a base model would work. An assistant model is simulating a human and behaves the same way a human would if you screamed at them.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

New comment by astrange in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

astrange — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:30:58 +0000

The US doesn't.

"Social standing" in this case means if your girlfriend's parents will let you marry her. Not, like, who likes your LinkedIn posts.

New comment by astrange in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

astrange — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:30:13 +0000

> everyone else - namely blue collar and service workers - are doing worse and worse

* better and better

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010

New comment by astrange in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

astrange — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:27:54 +0000

Inequality is not "ever increasing". You should resist the urge to say everything is constantly getting worse just because that makes you look more sympathetic to the poor.

(A worse issue is that inequality decreasing can mean things are getting worse for everyone.)

New comment by astrange in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

astrange — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:25:19 +0000

Depends what you mean by "control". If you don't own a nice house, car, driver etc. but your company just happens to provide it as a perk, then you still have it.

New comment by astrange in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

astrange — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:17:28 +0000

It sounds very AI. Current AIs' ideas of good writing involve weird metaphors, references to sensing things you can't sense, and tricolons.

New comment by astrange in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

astrange — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:08:11 +0000

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...

New comment by astrange in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

astrange — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:03:41 +0000

Gemini the chatbot has a very strange personality that intensely overindexes on your user profile and absolutely loves insane mixed metaphors.

Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying to relate everything back to programming metaphors or what it thinks it knows about the streets in the neighborhood I live in.

New comment by astrange in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

astrange — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:40:42 +0000

Here's a Fields Medalist commenting who doesn't seem to believe that.

https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912

New comment by astrange in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

astrange — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:23:39 +0000

An LLM in a harness with any tools (even a calculator) doesn't just interpolate because it can reach states out of its own distribution.

New comment by astrange in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

astrange — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:44:07 +0000

You can't be as productive as someone in Santa Barbara because they have perfect weather and you don't, so you have SAD.

New comment by astrange in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

astrange — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:34:40 +0000

> Apple has already depreciated vast swathes of 32-bit games that were never updated to support 64-bit x86 or Apple Silicon.

They had literally 15 years of warning about this.

New comment by astrange in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

astrange — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:07:09 +0000

Read about:memory then.

New comment by astrange in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

astrange — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:06:25 +0000

It wasn't an "optimization", it's because aging batteries have unstable voltage and the phone was likely to shut down otherwise.

New comment by astrange in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

astrange — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:53:55 +0000

Memory pressure sort-of means something sort-of doesn't. It's certainly possible that critical pressure could cause audio issues, but it could also be impossible to ever notice.

More importantly you shouldn't be experiencing audio stalls, so complain in the feedback app if you do.

New comment by astrange in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

astrange — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:43:49 +0000

> And this is a company that has the experience and partnerships for producing fabs.

Not even they necessarily have the experience to do it! Intel has a policy called "Copy EXACTLY!" for fab construction where they make every irrelevant detail the same as their last fab, because they don't actually know which of the details matter.

New comment by astrange in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

astrange — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:40:38 +0000

DRAM fabs are their own well-known specialized process which is covered by the DRAM companies. It doesn't make sense to start a competitor for it.