Hacker News: bob778

New comment by bob778 in "Anthropic Claude and API service outages"

bob778 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:14:32 +0000

It wasn’t night for all of Asia or Europe?

New comment by bob778 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

bob778 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:06:06 +0000

Sure but the robots that extend our capabilities often start by replicating our current capabilities, even if those are as simple as folding clothes. It provides a baseline for the next generation of robots that can do more.

New comment by bob778 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

bob778 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:54:16 +0000

Is there evidence of any state-sponsored bots at all? It seems like this has become an accepted fact but I don’t see any data indicating it’s actually real.

New comment by bob778 in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

bob778 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:11:53 +0000

This is the key though: it’s not just supposed subsidies, because the Chinese companies are fundamentally just faster and more efficient

New comment by bob778 in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

bob778 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:25:19 +0000

I’m convinced this is a joke by Ives cause there’s no way he’d approve that description without checking it had 90 degrees

New comment by bob778 in "Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years"

bob778 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:28:44 +0000

Off topic, but how do you operate without email? Is it not essential for many government services and utilities where you are?

(Here, it is technically optional for utilities but is an additional $10/month to have your electricity bill posted to you instead of emailed. The tax office requires email as does my bank though - I just checked.)

New comment by bob778 in "Fable 5 Is Back"

bob778 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:53:18 +0000

Batch can take up to 24 hours (and often does) and may never complete if it gets cancelled so it’d be hard to build a user workflow around unless you kick off planning on Friday and come back Monday

New comment by bob778 in "JSON-LD explained for personal websites"

bob778 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:15:20 +0000

Outlook and iCloud support a subset (like tickets and reservations) too

New comment by bob778 in "From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone"

bob778 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:03:15 +0000

For $0.70/call, why don’t you take the offer? Surely that’s extremely profitable for you?

New comment by bob778 in "Project Fetch: Phase Two"

bob778 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:04:49 +0000

> Preliminary trials with Claude Mythos Preview showed that it would not provide an apples-to-apples comparison with other models because of how we had set up the experiment and how the model was served.

What does this mean? My guess is they couldn’t co-locate Mythos close enough to reduce latency?

(I’m assuming this experiment pre-dates the export controls)

New comment by bob778 in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

bob778 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:05:58 +0000

> assuming my income scaled with my output

The problem is that hasn’t been the case for 50 years

New comment by bob778 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

bob778 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:35:16 +0000

Mistral (French) for one but several governments have sponsored projects too

New comment by bob778 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bob778 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:46:06 +0000

The Chinese labs would only go dark if they believe they’ve surpassed the American labs, otherwise what benefit is there to them to refrain from sharing the models? Better to have all of their allies able to use the same models by making them public

New comment by bob778 in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

bob778 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:07:16 +0000

30g? That seems like a lot - isn’t the standard dose 5g?

Did you build up incrementally and find that to be the best?

New comment by bob778 in "Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale"

bob778 — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:46:35 +0000

How does this compare to Automation Anywhere? They’ve been in the RPA market a long time but did a hard pivot to AI.

New comment by bob778 in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

bob778 — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:45:32 +0000

ABBYY has a specific module for dot matrix printouts so I’m surprised it was a struggle for them but every document is different

New comment by bob778 in "Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147"

bob778 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:28:02 +0000

It’s, by definition, not a war crime. Military brass bands are eligible targets as are unarmed naval ships.

New comment by bob778 in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bob778 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:16:50 +0000

$200k is more for FedRAMP or PROTECTED+, but I think you’d be able to create a “compliance” addon for $20k quite successfully.

New comment by bob778 in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

bob778 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:51:18 +0000

Which ones are a good example of how things could be?

New comment by bob778 in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

bob778 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:21:34 +0000

OneDrive supports automatic syncing of photos from iOS to the Mac.