Hacker News: catoc

New comment by catoc in "Mistral raises €3B"

catoc — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:30:06 +0000

With how they’re currently being used we might as well call them bendmarks.

Every newly released model is paraded as SOTA showing peak or near peak performance on cherry-picked bendmarks the model was either fine-tuned on, or tested under specific conditions optimal for that model.

New comment by catoc in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

catoc — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:58:22 +0000

> Liquid Glass has been refined significantly

I’ll take significantly removed.

What’s there to refine - Liquid Glass is the single most pointless, wasteful, accessibility destroying ‘feature’ I have ever seen

New comment by catoc in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

catoc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:20:04 +0000

Wish they would sand off liquid glass

New comment by catoc in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

catoc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:51:46 +0000

I wish they would stop with the new-iPhone-every-year nonsense and refocus on quality, fix some bugs… but yeah, not gonna happen

New comment by catoc in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

catoc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:29:35 +0000

According to the EU this will protect us from ”hostile states, and powerful criminal groups and terrorists”

Because said criminals will politely follow the law and use the broken, backdoor-ed encryption? Instead of the widely available opensourced true encryption? Of course not.

The true goal is mass surveillance - not protection from

New comment by catoc in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

catoc — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:35:00 +0000

If corporate wants they can still accept/trust a machine with partially disabled SIP on the MDM

New comment by catoc in "Small Models Have Arrived"

catoc — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:27:46 +0000

Maybe a future LLM after that could approach the problem by first simulating a human brain, then learning from the ‘human’ gameplay.

Just kidding of course

New comment by catoc in "FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer"

catoc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:51:19 +0000

No, this is for metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, not what he had

New comment by catoc in "Don't Wordle"

catoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:14:06 +0000

I had to deny hundreds of tracking “partners” wanting to place cookies - without a ‘reject all’ option - before I could even access the website…

So Don’t Access Don’t Wordle

New comment by catoc in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

catoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:22:16 +0000

It wasn’t about Europe but about the conflation.

New comment by catoc in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

catoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:49:03 +0000

> European dining is the worst

Europe has 40+ countries with what, a million, restaurants… let’s conflate them all! Horrible! The whole continent! 1 star (and not a Michelin one)!

New comment by catoc in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

catoc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:42:30 +0000

Yes, as in 100% :-(

New comment by catoc in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

catoc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:02:52 +0000

The readme and 100% of the code - according to that readme - was also AI.

If you came up with the design of the parser for the decompiled graphs, then I’m glad to still be impressed.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool project… and I was actually impressed and excited

New comment by catoc in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

catoc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:48:49 +0000

This is so cool - very impressive!

Read the whole ReadMe to understand how you pulled this off.

Halfway through, I shiver, wait a minute I recognize this writing style…

I would have so preferred to remain impressed and excited by what a fellow human came up with - sometimes I really hate what AI is taking from us

New comment by catoc in "Ultraviolet Bird Photography"

catoc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:38:30 +0000

Briljant! And there’s more fun to be had in the scientific community:

Will Great Tits become Little Tits? https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00040.x

Size matters: competition between male and female great tit offspring https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29314002/

And even outside ornithology:

The mammogram that cried Wolfe https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe068244

To pee or not to pee https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17895334/

New comment by catoc in "Mojo 1.0"

catoc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:21:15 +0000

Pointless? If compiled mojo is faster, more memory-safe, and more hardware independent, that doesn’t seem pointless at all to me.

(And now in the age of LLMs, the barriers to get started with a new programming language are lower than ever)

New comment by catoc in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

catoc — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:53:15 +0000

Personally I would never trust a coding agent or agent harness from Meta.

I agree with their open-source model approach, but actually trusting Meta… to protect my privacy and my data… when it’s running on my personal hardware…

Not . In . A . Million . Years - that ship has sailed

New comment by catoc in "Classic Amiga titles, free to download"

catoc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:35:06 +0000

I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus.

(So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)

New comment by catoc in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

catoc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:33:33 +0000

That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?

New comment by catoc in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

catoc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:01:18 +0000

Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?