Hacker News: beering

New comment by beering in "Elevated Errors for Opus 5"

beering — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:19:29 +0000

True, and the pricing plus token efficiency seem to suggest that gpt-5.6 is much more efficient. But hard to know since neither lab publishes that info and it’s a bit of an apples and oranges comparison.

New comment by beering in "Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people"

beering — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:55:06 +0000

Prop up the existing wage-slavery system because anything else would cause people to not have healthcare coverage? It’s shockingly unimaginative.

Anyways, my last Uber driver was playing games on his iPad while driving. Did a good job of hiding it at first.

New comment by beering in "Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people"

beering — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:52:47 +0000

I looked through the report. It’s a bad report but it couldn’t have been done well because of not having apples to apples data. They compare data from very different environments (all CA Waymo vs NYC taxi) and just kind of shrug aside that difference.

New comment by beering in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

beering — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:03:08 +0000

Really awful how the AI labs are skillmaxxing /s

Pelicans aside, we need to remember that benchmarks are the only good quantitative way we have of comparing models. If someone has complaints about “benchmaxxing”, please ask them to contribute a better benchmark! It is valuable work and very appreciated.

New comment by beering in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

beering — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:47:14 +0000

I think the third party only has an estimate for web visitors. Most users are probably on the mobile app?

New comment by beering in ""Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok"

beering — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:41:29 +0000

You’re paying more in total because the overall cost has gone down. This is normal economics when something useful gets cheaper. If you were to use original GPT-4 to do as much, you’d be paying an order of magnitude more.

New comment by beering in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

beering — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:31:44 +0000

You have to consider that the lawsuit was likely extremely stressful and scary.

New comment by beering in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

beering — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:26:52 +0000

A summary of what happened is not a full-throated defense of anyone.

New comment by beering in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

beering — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:33:46 +0000

I think parent’s point is that every false conjecture can cost a lot of time to be spent on futile affirmative proofs. So if we “clean up” a bunch of false conjectures, then more effort can be spent on interesting proofs of the others. (Probably a rather naive view of the value of conjectures but I’m just offering an alternative interpretation of the comment.)

New comment by beering in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

beering — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:29:13 +0000

You really do not want to live in a world where people around you are as dumb as hell. You don’t want your car mechanic, your restaurant chef, your local traffic engineer to be dumb as hell because that only makes your life worse.

Closer to you, you don’t want your customers, your coworkers, your friends, and your neighbors to be dumb as hell. Whatever you may gain by being the smartest one on your block is more than offset by the myriad ways in which dumb people make life worse.

New comment by beering in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

beering — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:15:56 +0000

With such high standards, most HN commenters also do not have intelligence nor creativity. I don’t think we can set the bar that high.

New comment by beering in "Show HN: Be the ChatBOT"

beering — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:04:25 +0000

What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?

New comment by beering in "GPT-5.6"

beering — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Your names are not good because “Fast” is not a descriptor of model size and overlaps with fast/ultrafast inference. And “Plus” collides with the ChatGPT subscription plan. Point being, naming is hard.

New comment by beering in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

beering — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:41:54 +0000

That is the PE playbook - buy ok company, revamp things to make it more efficient and profitable. The main difference seems to be whether the owners sell the revamped company or not.

New comment by beering in "ChatGPT Work"

beering — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:45:31 +0000

because every non-programmer hears “codex” and thinks that it’s for coding only - seems like a large hurdle to adoption. claude has been successful with cowork branding which makes sense.

New comment by beering in "Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's"

beering — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:16:35 +0000

About half of the study participants were non-vegetarian, IIUC. I wonder if they found any correlation after slicing by vegetarianism?

New comment by beering in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

beering — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:54:50 +0000

TFA doesn’t actually state where the bit about shockwave therapy came from and it wasn’t the main point of the article. The concern was about being given useless therapies. The homeopathic analgesic is concerning, at least to me.

I.e. nothing this radiologist said was related to the LLM’s advice.

New comment by beering in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

beering — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:13:58 +0000

The point of Terra is to be cheaper than the best model while being pretty good. Of course it’s inferior in intelligence.

New comment by beering in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

beering — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:33:41 +0000

yeah but it’s trivial to just try it out and compare.

New comment by beering in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

beering — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:30:57 +0000

Soon the bottleneck will be how fast your laptop can grep for a string.