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New comment by creamyhorror in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

creamyhorror — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:40:02 +0000

Background agents only have 5 minutes' cache TTL, but I'm guessing this doesn't help extend it (not that it would be too useful anyway, especially considering the extra burn).

Also, the claim "15-20% of your tokens" seems unclear; of all tokens, or of tokens spent on background agents? Poorly edited AI writing strikes again!

New comment by creamyhorror in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

creamyhorror — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:22:12 +0000

Absolute bad-metaphor-laden slop, in a dramatic writerly voice. These LLMs are trained on too much pretentious writing.

New comment by creamyhorror in "New stealth model: Union Alpha"

creamyhorror — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:04:11 +0000

Yeah, people are guessing it's Sakana AI's Fugu or a similar approach.

New comment by creamyhorror in "Ask HN: What model is new stealth Union Alpha model?"

creamyhorror — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:10 +0000

Quite possibly Sakana AI's Fugu (i.e. an orchestrator-router), since it seems to produce results of extremely varying quality, and doesn't seem to be politically censored.

New comment by creamyhorror in "Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset"

creamyhorror — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:55:00 +0000

The world's heavily about marketing, resources, connections, and signaling, unfortunately. You probably needed to market it in a bigger forum with shinier claims to attract attention (I don't think a paper on Arxiv is enough).

New comment by creamyhorror in "A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards"

creamyhorror — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:31:18 +0000

If anything, I think General ___ is now a means of sounding established and technically advanced (implying "we're already covering everything in this area"). "General Assembly" got some visibility in the 2010s, and I've seen at least one recent YC startup use this naming pattern.

New comment by creamyhorror in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

creamyhorror — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:38:22 +0000

Yep, if someone thinks AWS docs are rough, wait till they try Azure docs!

New comment by creamyhorror in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

creamyhorror — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:23:28 +0000

Master of Time. One of the Masters of the Universe.

New comment by creamyhorror in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

creamyhorror — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:03:35 +0000

It's a real step forward, getting closer to SOTA. It seems to be very epistemically cautious in its reasoning. I hope Deepseek and the other open-weights labs stay in the game and catch up too.

New comment by creamyhorror in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

creamyhorror — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:16:11 +0000

Touche. Honestly, if there's going to be speculative fever in society that you can't suppress, it should be captured for better purposes, such as through your LTSE. Bring access to it to Asia sometime.

New comment by creamyhorror in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

creamyhorror — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:16:49 +0000

> that incredible sense of idealism

The idealism that has been sucked out of the tech industry. It was so (naively) hopeful at one point, and now the arms race and profit-maximization has eroded it all. Your observations really resonate with me.

I'm surprised I hadn't heard of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, it seems like a much healthier direction for the market.

The last astronomers: astrophysicists left questioning the soul of their field

creamyhorror — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:35:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-flood-ai-advances-astrophysicists-are-questioning-soul-their-field

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426024

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New comment by creamyhorror in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

creamyhorror — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:23:53 +0000

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

New comment by creamyhorror in "It is an amazing time for programmers"

creamyhorror — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:58:38 +0000

This is amazing, a true gem. I need to get it set up.

New comment by creamyhorror in "What is a Demand Coop"

creamyhorror — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:08:47 +0000

I'm not sure it's so black and white. Directing capital is powerful, and directing spending is powerful (but probably harder; this is marketing or government). I think it's more that directing spending requires influencing a lot more people than directing capital.

New comment by creamyhorror in "UnDUNE II"

creamyhorror — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:47:34 +0000

Tunes as captivating and evocative as the day I first heard them.

New comment by creamyhorror in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

creamyhorror — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:09:02 +0000

I'm building Subweb.net (not ready yet, it's just a few test feeds without the LLM pipeline turned on yet) to LLM-tag RSS feed items with topic, relevance/interest, location, and translations, and present them as feeds. I'm thinking I could maybe let users specify their preferred custom prompts and ranking params or similar, though the standard prompt is already fine.

I think the open web needs to come back, but in a fair way for everyone, giving readers control over their feeds while also sending traffic and comments back to the original sources. Not quite sure how to do that yet.

New comment by creamyhorror in "SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context"

creamyhorror — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:20:23 +0000

Whether this is real or not, multiple commenters here look like astroturfers - created in the past year (or hours) with very low karma

New comment by creamyhorror in "Where the goblins came from"

creamyhorror — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:23:21 +0000

"Seam" has been stretched by AI from its original legacy-code context to any point in code where something can be plugged in. I actually asked an AI about this a few weeks ago because I was surprised by the consistent, frequent use of "seam".

Frequent words I see from GPT: "shape", "seam", "lane", "gate" (especially as verb), "clean", "honest", "land", "wire", "handoff", "surface" (noun), "(un)bounded", "semantics" (but this one is fair enough), and sometimes "unlock"

It feels like AI really likes to pick the shortest ways to express ideas even if they aren't the most common, which I suppose would make sense if that's actually what's happening.

New comment by creamyhorror in "Where the goblins came from"

creamyhorror — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:12:44 +0000

Goblinmaxxing. Clean.