Hacker News: carbocation

Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables

carbocation — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:16:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/claude-fable-5-and-new-ai-safety

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469127

Points: 3

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New comment by carbocation in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

carbocation — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:13:21 +0000

Was the choice of such a small model driven by a desire for high tok/sec? I ask because an m4 pro 48gb machine can run larger models (if model intelligence is the thing that would make it more useful).

New comment by carbocation in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

carbocation — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:04:58 +0000

Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171

New AQPI C-Band Radar Delivers Impressive Results

carbocation — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/new-aqpi-c-band-radar-delivers-impressive-results/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988837

Points: 2

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New comment by carbocation in "Claude Opus 4.7"

carbocation — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:00:39 +0000

Neat, thank you for explaining!

New comment by carbocation in "Claude Opus 4.7"

carbocation — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:48:32 +0000

Is there a page where I could read more? What's unintuitive at a glance is that Opus 4.7 has a lower success rate than Sonnet 4.6 (90% vs 100%) while having a higher Avg Percentile (87.2% vs 70.9%).

New comment by carbocation in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

carbocation — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:22:47 +0000

The $20 Plus plan still exists, and does not give access to the pro model.

The $200 Pro plan still exists, and does give access to the pro model.

What is new is a $100 Pro plan that does give access to the pro model, with lower usage limits than the $200 Pro plan.

New comment by carbocation in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

carbocation — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:24 +0000

It would be very helpful if the chat logs could (optionally) be retained.

New comment by carbocation in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

carbocation — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:00:50 +0000

The article kind of downplays the most interesting elements. Not an expert, but to my limited understanding:

* I think this is the longest-range use of a ballistic missile in anger, possibly ever?

* This seems to reveal previously-unknown range of Iranian ballistic missiles and, if true, could touch basically all of Europe?

New comment by carbocation in "Waymo Safety Impact"

carbocation — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:44:13 +0000

I think the average is ballpark 1 per 100 million miles, so my guess is that someday they might show this, but they probably want to wait til they have more miles driven.

New comment by carbocation in "Urea prices"

carbocation — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:19:57 +0000

Haber-Bosch process, for the curious.

New comment by carbocation in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

carbocation — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:59:41 +0000

Because many of us think simonw has discerning taste on this topic and like to read what he has to say about it, so we upvote his comments.

New comment by carbocation in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

carbocation — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:39:39 +0000

I agree with this; it feels like the most likely tool to drop its high-level comments in code comments.

New comment by carbocation in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

carbocation — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:10:06 +0000

This model was able to transcribe Bad Bunny lyrics over the sound of the background music, played casually from my speakers. Impressive, to me.

New comment by carbocation in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

carbocation — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:51:37 +0000

300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.

New comment by carbocation in "Dead Internet Theory"

carbocation — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:43:18 +0000

Em-dashes are easy to type on a macos laptop for what it's worth: option-shift-minus.

New comment by carbocation in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

carbocation — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:41:31 +0000

The erdosproblems thread itself contains comments from Terence Tao: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/281

New comment by carbocation in "Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite"

carbocation — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:37:46 +0000

That repo is throwing up a 404 for me.

Question - did you consider tradeoffs between duckdb (or other columnar stores) and SQLite?

New comment by carbocation in "United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure"

carbocation — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:37:40 +0000

The article explicitly says that the aircraft is safe. I don't think this is particularly clickbait-y.

New comment by carbocation in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

carbocation — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:42:39 +0000

> The public database of reported post-vaccination health issues is often misused to sow misinformation.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt