Hacker News: ceroxylon

New comment by ceroxylon in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

ceroxylon — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:33:23 +0000

Funnily enough, people attributing "smart sounding" quotes to Aristotle has been a headache for historians for as long as Aristotle's writing has been around. The more things change...

New comment by ceroxylon in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

ceroxylon — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:35:31 +0000

So glad to see that you are still involved and have your inspiring enthusiasm! Meeting you was a huge inflection point in my journey with ML/AI.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

ceroxylon — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:36:48 +0000

As well as the existing intelligence being swayed by emotions, hormones, circadian rhythms, stress, peer pressure, propaganda, and survival instincts.

New comment by ceroxylon in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

ceroxylon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:03:46 +0000

Very true, it is difficult to even find an opening for the training to start the process, the schools are limited and have short enrollment windows that are fiercely competitive (at least in California).

New comment by ceroxylon in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

ceroxylon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:57:11 +0000

Climate migration as an individual is not a viable solution to the problem we face, regardless of the method of travel.

New comment by ceroxylon in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

ceroxylon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:23:24 +0000

No offense, but using air travel to avoid climate impacts is a bit ironic and part of the reason we’re in this mess.

No need to fix the root cause, I’ll just fly somewhere cold during the summer /s

New comment by ceroxylon in "Qwen 3.8"

ceroxylon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:19:03 +0000

To the downvoters: this was a genuine, good faith question.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Qwen 3.8"

ceroxylon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:18:15 +0000

Does HuggingFace not have trusted partner verification? Or is it that even with that verification the content of the messages is still blocked because they are attack commands?

New comment by ceroxylon in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

ceroxylon — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:36:29 +0000

Anthropic (and probably OpenAI) can technically flag anything for 'safety' and view it, I'm not trying to imply that they are doing it arbitrarily, but they do have a way to do it within the ToS as far as I understand (happy to be proven wrong).

New comment by ceroxylon in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

ceroxylon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Fable in Cowork can get stuck in loops, I've had a single prompt use 83% of a session quota on a single prompt before I realized something was amiss.

Its explanation: "the wasted tokens came from re-rendering the document to verify layout after a page-orientation bug."

New comment by ceroxylon in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

ceroxylon — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:51:43 +0000

Happy that research time is being put towards this, however a fuel use decrease of ~0.75% is a bit underwhelming for this particular endeavor, even when consumer cars/vans are 10% of CO2 emissions.

New comment by ceroxylon in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

ceroxylon — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:42:03 +0000

I resonate with that feeling, but on the other hand the humans reading the output will receive a pretty big boost in inspiration; new answers usually prompt new questions.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

ceroxylon — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:45:29 +0000

I don't mind the subtle ML integrations that they have put in the photos app: plant ID, recognizing faces, removing background, OCR text search (even for handwriting!), etc.

New comment by ceroxylon in "GPT-5.6"

ceroxylon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:08:11 +0000

I partially agree, but in this case it kinda illustrates that it may not be worth using Terra on any reasoning level below high; those are some awful penguins on bikes.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Free the Icons"

ceroxylon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:11:57 +0000

>Apple didn’t just mess with their own icons. They also dictated the shape of every third-party app icon

We will never know if this was AI generated or not, but I have started to flinch at this sentence structure.

New comment by ceroxylon in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

ceroxylon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:09:13 +0000

My first thought was the people capturing encrypted data in the hopes that quantum computing can crack it in the foreseeable future.

New comment by ceroxylon in "Claude Tag"

ceroxylon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:04:53 +0000

Hopefully there is some sort of version history implemented or planned like they have in Cowork[0]... this sounds great until a co-worker hijacks your Claude session with a worse idea and derails it from what you were intending.

[0] "Editing this message will create a new conversation branch. You can switch between branches using the arrow navigation buttons."

New comment by ceroxylon in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

ceroxylon — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:51:05 +0000

There are no photos of Merer, they were actually extraterrestrial /s

New comment by ceroxylon in "Openrouter Fusion API"

ceroxylon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:53:59 +0000

I made a rough version of this in 2024[0], interesting to see that the idea is still around. I had the ability to set "quality thresholds", but it didn't seem to matter, the frontier models pretty much always agreed with each other and scored the answer highly, I should revisit it since it is a whole different ballgame than it was 2 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/Ceroxylon/konsensis

New comment by ceroxylon in "Claude Fable 5"

ceroxylon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:03:20 +0000

Yay, max level actually put one of the legs behind the frame!