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New comment by criemen in "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"

criemen — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:25:40 +0000

I'm curious, why would this not turn into an unlimited electricity flatrate? In most parts of the world, consumer electricity is charged by kWh, not as flat payment.

As long as tokens are as energy intense to compute as they are right now, I don't see a flatrate being a viable model.

New comment by criemen in "CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership"

criemen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:27:44 +0000

Is math or theoretical Computer Science not "real science"? Whatever one may think about the process, the results are real and are coming from LLMs.

New comment by criemen in "Tesla Roadster"

criemen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:17:48 +0000

SpaceX Tesla crossover. Not exactly what was on my bingo sheet today.

New comment by criemen in "Jev meets the Trolley Problem"

criemen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:35:08 +0000

It's really funny how the server that Jev pushes from the footbridge onto the tracks in one of the later examples falls on a person, yet all 5 are saved :D Clearly the model coming up with the graphics didn't fully understand the task.

New comment by criemen in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

criemen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:37:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...

Not sure why OP would call it amateurish/botched.

New comment by criemen in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

criemen — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:23:08 +0000

I'd add missing MFA as weakness number three, at minimum. Problem number 4 is that the "password" was leaked, and the company (Pays ApS) didn't figure that out. Problem number 5 - the "password" belonged to a _former_ employee. How was that account not disabled? Problem number 6 - how can a company with two employees get access to this register in the first place? Don't they need to show compliance with some security standard that would be not possible to deliver for such a small company?

If you start thinking more about this, more and more problems pop up.

New comment by criemen in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

criemen — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:36:42 +0000

There is a long interview with Anders Hejlsberg here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywK3XYYJ2o&pp=ygUbYW5kZXJzI... where he talks about that, in short from what he said 1-2 months ago, I doubt that they will change directions.

New comment by criemen in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

criemen — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:09:28 +0000

On the other hand, Francis Halzen reportedly never went down to the South Pole to the facility at all, as probably the only person working on IceCube :D

Vulf: Jackie Evans (6 Songs) [video]

criemen — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cde2NmfKM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984295

Points: 2

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New comment by criemen in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

criemen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:28:09 +0000

Let's see: 1. paper 2. cardboard 3. organic 4. metal 5. residual waste 6. batteries 7. hazardous waste 8. garden waste 9. plastic 10. indoor wood 11. large items (i.e. furniture) 12. glass 13. electronics

All of which is picked up from my apartment buildings backyard.

New comment by criemen in "Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model"

criemen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:54:06 +0000

> all models have search capacities these days

one would hope that they disable websearch and internet access (maybe all tools?) when doing generalization testing?

New comment by criemen in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

criemen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:26:50 +0000

> In addition to things like battery-backed smoke detectors in every bedroom, etc, which need periodic 9V replacements on a schedule.

Just as aside, lithium-battery powered smoke detectors are a godsend. The battery lifespan lasts the recommended life span of the detector, i.e. around 10 years. No battery replacements needed, although you still ought to test them once in a while.

New comment by criemen in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

criemen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:22:00 +0000

Just 5? Lucky you, here (depending on how you count) we're doing 13 fractions.

New comment by criemen in "Vx – One Language, Every Chip"

criemen — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:19:09 +0000

It doesn't even make sense.

> On Apple's unified memory that transfer compiles to almost nothing. It is still written down, because data locality should be provable by reading the source rather than by profiling the binary.

How does profiling the binary play into this? Elsewhere the hypothesis is "it crashes", whereas profiling is about performance.

> Most languages treat the accelerator as infrastructure: you write math, and a large opaque runtime decides how to ship it. Vx treats it as semantics.

What does that mean? Vx doesn't treat the accelerator as infrastructure? Vx doesn't have a large opaque runtime? "You write math, Vx treats it as semantics". I don't understand that.

New comment by criemen in "Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit"

criemen — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:27:52 +0000

If launch costs are assumed to be $0/kg, how does that solve the waste heat problem? Add more mass? What about the maintenance of failing hardware? I'm genuinely curious, I thought basically heat radiation was a hard physical boundary, regardless of launch cost.

New comment by criemen in "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now"

criemen — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:08:28 +0000

That's a bit out of context, no? The preceding sentence is > Even DeepMind, with its exceptional budget, couldn’t build a machine that reliably beat the best human players.

so the contrast here is the budget available, not the quality of the talent, if we accept the premise that DeepMind and the universities have approximately similar level of talent.

New comment by criemen in "GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design"

criemen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:07:26 +0000

Given how flawed the benchmarks are (see for example https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/deepswe/review), not even the mythical 10x developer is gonna get 100% on these benchmarks.

New comment by criemen in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

criemen — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:52:14 +0000

They also have a distinct style/naming convention, see for example `a_list_entry` as type name.

New comment by criemen in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

criemen — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:35:29 +0000

Wikipedia claims they have 6 employees, so they didn't exactly enjoy exponential growth over the years ;)

New comment by criemen in "What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI"

criemen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:22:02 +0000

My kettle (Fellow EKG) has an annoying display bug. With a simple prompt, Astra went and downloaded the firmware, disassembled it, interpreted it and confirmed the bug. It also told me that there's a firmware signature check, so I have unfortunately no way of flashing a fixed firmware myself. I'm not sure I'd be adventurous enough to do that anyways, as I don't know enough about ESP32 microcontrollers to verify what it's doing vs. the chance of bricking my device. Yet,