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New comment by bryan0 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bryan0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:58:19 +0000

I think this is a reasonable point, but a better comparison might be to nuclear energy. I think the frontier labs sincerely believe that AI can be developed at great benefit to humanity, and they clearly want to lead that push, but they also sincerely believe there is a real catastrophic risk.

New comment by bryan0 in "Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime"

bryan0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:32:18 +0000

> Meanwhile, on the other side of town, five miles away in Old Town, just 23 seconds after San Police Officers in Golden Hill tried stopping the suspected carjacker, a Flock Automated License Plate Reader captured a photo of a red Alfa Romeo driving on the 2200 block of Moore Street.

5 miles in 23 seconds is 782 mph.

New comment by bryan0 in "Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime"

bryan0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:28:43 +0000

> Their tort claim notes that the path the men took to the cigar lounge passed by several other Flock cameras, which could have corroborated their story, as well as the location data on their cell phones.

It seems like if the police actually looked at the Flock data it would have exonerated them?

Thieves are targeting the copper. This phone company is fighting back

bryan0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:23:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5838875/copper-wire-theft-att-lawsuit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403406

Points: 5

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Can poppy seeds make you fail a drug test?

bryan0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popsci.com/health/can-poppy-seeds-cause-positive-drug-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389076

Points: 3

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New comment by bryan0 in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

bryan0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:10:44 +0000

It's more nuanced than this. Peter Scholze said in response to this declaration:

> The goal of mathematical research is human understanding of mathematics, and so mathematics can only thrive in a community of human mathematicians. It is crucial to preserve this communal spirit. [0]

Terence Tao has also talked about the requirement for a mathematical proof: along with generation and formal verification, there is an important step of "proof digestion"

> understanding the essence of a solution, placing it in context with previous literature, summarizing and explaining it effectively, and gaining insights on other related problems and topics [1]

[0]: https://siliconreckoner.substack.com/p/the-leiden-declaratio...

[1]: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116450581967483825

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It

bryan0 — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-solves-erdos-problem-openai-c4029e84

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332080

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bryan0 in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

bryan0 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:01:21 +0000

Cool! If you can point to any examples of those types of workflow configurations I’d be super interested. For example, to have a team of agents review a PR and iterate on it until all requirements are met including UX, security and product functionality goals. If they could “converge” to a solution like workflows seems to be designed for that would be amazing.

New comment by bryan0 in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

bryan0 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:43:25 +0000

Thanks to you and the anthropic team for developing such exciting tools! The blog post seems to position workflows for “breadth”: generating fixes / refactors against large code bases. What about for “depth”: developing specific new features and functionality end-to-end? I’ve struggled to make this work reliably using the current experimental agent teams. Does this replace or augment that functionality?

Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak

bryan0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:06:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/residents-burn-ebola-treatment-center-in-congo-as-anger-grows-over-the-outbreak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231504

Points: 3

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Risks are mounting in the life insurance industry

bryan0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:15:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paid-insurance-company-99000-generate-retirement-income-life-collapsed-rcna331934

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210939

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bryan0 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

bryan0 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:14:41 +0000

> Schmidt offered a similar message to graduates: Their fear is rational, but they have the power to shape how AI develops.

This doesn't sound like being baffled by it. It sounds like they are trying to shake the students and say: "fine boo, but you need do something about it." You can't just wallow and complain about it. I mean you can but it's a path to failure.

I went inside OpenAI's secretive San Francisco headquarters

bryan0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:43:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-san-francisco-headquarters-22259754.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174831

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Brain Can Learn Things When You're Unconscious

bryan0 — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nautil.us/your-brain-can-learn-things-when-youre-unconscious-1280730

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140492

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

bryan0 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:51:35 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7chicago.com/post/top-cop-driver-accused-dui-tracks-missing-laptop-illinois-state-police-trooper-kevin-bradleys-house/19060850/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067184

Points: 447

# Comments: 382

New comment by bryan0 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

bryan0 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:24:08 +0000

I agree, vibe coding does not have quality gate checks at each stage, while agentic engineering does. Dev teams get into trouble when they try build to build without a proper process of design, tests, and reviews. This was true before agentic coding, but it's especially true now. The teams that understand how to leverage agents in this process are the ones that will be most successful.

Under the canopy of drone nets covering Ukraine's frontlines

bryan0 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:22:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/pictures/under-canopy-drone-nets-covering-ukraines-frontlines-2026-04-29

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966360

Points: 4

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8647 Is a Prime Number

bryan0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:43:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.numberempire.com/8647

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955689

Points: 23

# Comments: 6

New comment by bryan0 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

bryan0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:30:03 +0000

Please explain how this tactic relates here. In this case we have the AI companies saying this technology is potentially very harmful, in fact existential. This seems the complete opposite of what big tobacco did.

What I meant by

> People seem unable to make up their mind if AI is very dangerous or is it not.

Is that the article says 2 contradictory things:

1. AI companies are misleading us when they say their tech is dangerous and people should be afraid.

2. AI is currently very dangerous and people should be afraid.

Anecdotally, people on the internet (including HN), seem unable to agree on whether AI is real or overblown "hype".

New comment by bryan0 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

bryan0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:22:24 +0000

One of the points I was trying to make is that the statement:

> trying to coerce people into using your product out of fear

is nonsense.

Everyone agrees that there are legitimate reasons to be fearful of this technology, this is not a fabrication, but we need to figure out how to proceed in a safe and constructive way.

What "coercion" is occurring here? Either you find the technology valuable and you want to pay for it, or you find it not useful (or worse harmful), and you do not want to pay for it.

Maybe another way of putting it, what do you think the frontier AI companies should do in this situation? It seems that being straightforward with the dangers is correct thing to do, and probably being overly cautious is prudent. You could go further and argue they should slow down or stop development, but that is something that the govt should impose, we should not expect or trust the companies to do this themselves. Ironically, in the Anthropic / Pentagon case, we have Anthropic trying to pump the brakes and put up guardrails while the govt wants to go full-steam ahead with autonomous warfare.

The other issue with slowing down / pausing development is it requires an unheard of level of agreement, even with companies in China, or else it will probably not be effective. You could argue this is not even possible at this point.