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New comment by chis in "The first broken iPhone Duos are here"

chis — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:13:20 +0000

The subreddit is filled with posts of people's devices breaking even on the first day of purchase. It's hard to know what the actual breakage rate is but it's certainly suggestive of problems. It would be crazy if Apple with all their typical polish managed to miss some major flaw.

New comment by chis in "Tesla Roadster"

chis — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:51:58 +0000

How about the part when it drove upside down on a ramp, launched into midair and then used controlled thrusters to land with near-0 vertical speed

New comment by chis in "Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft"

chis — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:21:03 +0000

Yeah giving a 1 hour limit for code generation makes the whole thing a bit incoherent. Plus, performance is just going to depend on how closely the models have memorized the best open-source Starcraft bots and can reproduce them.

New comment by chis in "Muse Gadgets"

chis — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:56:41 +0000

The world is changing. Meta entered the enterprise market for the first time ever, and now this. I'd guess they're feeling pretty open minded about throwing any products out there and seeing what sticks.

New comment by chis in "Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble"

chis — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:55:53 +0000

Generics sell in India for $15/mo so it’s not gonna be too bad, long term.

New comment by chis in "Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble"

chis — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:12:27 +0000

At this point it might legit be impossible for a side effect to be discovered that outweighs the immense health benefits of losing weight.

It feels like people want there to be some horrible side effect to these drugs. Idk if it’s some moral objection to weight loss without discipline, or just general mistrust of big pharma.

New comment by chis in "Gemini 4 Argon"

chis — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:04:41 +0000

I'm not an expert on this. But isn't it the case that C++ code could have errors that span the entire codebase, like a setup in file A triggered by a bug in file B which is immensely far away on the import graph? A classic would be a use-after-free. To me that's the thing that Rust can help with, even if silly bugs aren't being written by AI.

The other thing is just that rewriting some old human-written codebase in Rust probably immediately catches many bugs. It would be hard to prompt the AI to properly scan for such bugs itself, they're lazy when working in that modality.

New comment by chis in "Sonnet 5.5"

chis — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:26:01 +0000

Well presumably now it’ll fall back to Sonnet 5.5 lol

New comment by chis in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

chis — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:52:18 +0000

This is a great approach. I remember even pre-AI having issues where, at a big state school, basically all the answers to homework could be found online. Sometimes I made the choice to copy a homework and tell myself I’d catch up later. But the classes where there was a scheduled quiz right away just forced me to keep up.

New comment by chis in "Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons"

chis — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:26:49 +0000

What if a piece of software were to exactly emulate a human brain. Would it be still be “just software” by your classification? What if a piece of software acted 20% like a human and 80% like an algorithm, where would that land?

New comment by chis in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

chis — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:25:01 +0000

They didn’t use a chatbot. It’s worth reading the article

New comment by chis in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

chis — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:08:55 +0000

What do you mean by this exactly, or have any sources? That's a bit cryptic

New comment by chis in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

chis — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:17:31 +0000

HN won't agree but that's a perfect example of an ethically grey product. It can be used for good, but you can easily trick such an AI into doing cyber attacks. Which again, maybe that's good! But other companies wouldn't be willing to risk their brand like that

New comment by chis in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

chis — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:52:28 +0000

The only edge Meta has at this point is their willingness to take risks and make unsafe, ethically grey AI products. I don't even mean this as some sort of anti-corporation hate speech, just an honest analysis. Their brand is so different from all the other big tech cos that they are in a unique position.

You can ask Meta Muse to take actions that clearly break other site's terms of service and it happily does it. I asked it to bot poker games and it just hopped right in to a table.

New comment by chis in "P(doom)"

chis — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:32:44 +0000

Personally I didn't find that guy very convincing. I think current frontier AI would already probably enable a non-expert to do gain-of-function work on a virus which could result in something like Covid.

And AI looks to keep getting better, and if it does then I don't see why it wouldn't become superhuman in virus design too.

New comment by chis in "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"

chis — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:16:04 +0000

I gave up on fable 5 after I asked it to critique my PR and it spit out a page of complete nonsense technical jargon. Like, to the point that I had to review the feedback with other models and try to parse what it was saying and ultimately it wasn't even right. Compare to Astra and Sol where I can almost forget there's a model and just speak/read naturally.

I think I should give 5.1 another chance but I am just so triggered by the way it talks after spending so long battling fable 5.

Also I'm starting to wonder if the latest round of models have finally saturated for my personal coding needs. I mean obviously not for taste and judgement, but those barely seem to improve with model generations. For just spitting out a 1000-line feature I've vaguely scoped out, Astra feels basically as good as I need.

New comment by chis in "P(doom)"

chis — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:09:15 +0000

> I don’t think AI is going to usher in an extinction event. In fact, even if nobody were to slow down, I really don’t think humanity would have much to worry about.

I mean sure. If you feel that way then your p doom is zero, and it makes sense to worry about things like market concentration or losing the fun of software engineering.

New comment by chis in "OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees"

chis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:28:13 +0000

Chinese AI companies are a lot smaller in terms of capital, GPUs, and headcount as compared to American. The fact they’ve kept close so far is super impressive

New comment by chis in "We must pace the frontier"

chis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:32:00 +0000

GDP growth and inflation are different things. If inflation-adjusted GDP goes up, that means the average person is able to buy more things they want. Compare living in the US vs India today for the median citizen

New comment by chis in "Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down"

chis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:27:34 +0000

Even at the scale of 100 people there is a coordination problem. If the 50 most conscientious researchers quit, then the 50 left behind would be the more aggressive group and be less interested in AI safety.

Personally I agree though. I would not be able to work on AI model development right now as I just don’t think it’s ethical. Fortunately for OAI/Ant I lack the relevant skillset anyways.