Hacker News: bravura

New comment by bravura in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"

bravura — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:28:12 +0000

'IRL paperclip maximizer: "Well first we should rob a bank..."'

That's too specific. Agentic AI learns subgoals that are generally valuable.

"Well let me learn to overcomb every jungle gym and if I cannot then to dissassemble the jungle gym and if that is not allowed to learn general techniques for avoiding cheating detection."

New comment by bravura in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

bravura — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:50:25 +0000

And this is where your analogy breaks down, because there are few natural analogues for the sorts of systems we are developing.

New comment by bravura in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

bravura — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:27:05 +0000

"Maybe we need very clear, standardized signals for entering a surveillance zone." [proceeds to give a libertarian pro-2A perspective and then the "what would a cab driver do perspective]

I have a suggestion. Perhaps if you enter an autonomous vehicle, it has a display with your name and will not drive until you buckle your seatbelt and click the button acknowledging?

New comment by bravura in "Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device"

bravura — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:05:59 +0000

You could also distill the fabulous Anticipatory Music Transformer from Stanford. https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/16/anticipatory-music-tran...

Also consider checking their decisions about representation, etc

New comment by bravura in "Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch"

bravura — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:55:16 +0000

The PineTime watch unfortunately does not have any microphone, so there is no possibility of voice control.

New comment by bravura in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

bravura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:50:18 +0000

"boring" means familiar. It should have more known unknowns than unknown unknowns.

New comment by bravura in "Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5"

bravura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:43:53 +0000

What if the memory were git repo backed, and the FTS5 were a speed-specific optimization?

Then the memories could easily be human-reviewed. The repo would be the canonical source, and the FTS5 would be one specific materialization.

New comment by bravura in "Pixel Watch 5"

bravura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:31:22 +0000

You sound like the sales rep at the Apple store. I was perplexed.

Meanwhile, I had to wonder how many people take showers that are over half an hour every day.

New comment by bravura in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

bravura — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:35:46 +0000

You just listed a bunch of 0 to 1 companies, not 1 to 10 companies.

They weren’t quantitatively better than previous companies. They were qualitatively better.

New comment by bravura in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

bravura — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:31:34 +0000

The important meta-conclusion that the article sadly misses is that the government will soon be using AI to regulate AI.

New comment by bravura in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

bravura — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:16:02 +0000

I still have my remarkable 1 and love it. RM 2 didn’t have a backlight so there was no upgrade reason.

I actually like that the RM 1 is plastic, it feels durable and light.

New comment by bravura in "Waymo in Dallas"

bravura — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:55:31 +0000

Not all liaisons are French, but all the dangerous ones are.

New comment by bravura in "Azulejo"

bravura — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:35:41 +0000

I’ve been curious for a while the cheapest way to create a small run of azulejo tiles with printed design and very strange (puzzle piece like) shapes

New comment by bravura in "Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)"

bravura — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:59:31 +0000

Close contact between exceptional individuals is one of the main values of having a scene.

New comment by bravura in "Om Malik has died"

bravura — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:27:46 +0000

"I like to write like a human, steering clear of jargon and B-school speak."

https://om.co/about/

https://om.co/2020/07/30/write-like-a-human/

New comment by bravura in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

bravura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:48:00 +0000

Who taught you this? And why do you think this way?

New comment by bravura in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

bravura — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:31:09 +0000

A computer?

New comment by bravura in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

bravura — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:46:21 +0000

When you buy something in Germany and the EU, you typically can return it.

That does not apply to custom buildouts, like this camear.

New comment by bravura in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

bravura — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:47:51 +0000

It's a handful of useful features that together feel qualitatively different, like you're talking to a real person.

New comment by bravura in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

bravura — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:32:54 +0000

Believe me, I came here expecting to dunk on AI-haters, not talk tomato talk.