Hacker News: crocowhile

Aphantasia and LLMs Or: Which Human Are We Talking About?

crocowhile — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://giorgio.gilest.ro/on-aphantasia-and-llms-or-which-human-are-we-talking-about/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863012

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New comment by crocowhile in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

crocowhile — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:56:18 +0000

Because hiring less while getting more done increases margins. Your company is not for profit so doesnt care about margins. Others do.

New comment by crocowhile in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

crocowhile — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:36:52 +0000

Those people still exist? I only know one guy who is still fighting those windmills

New comment by crocowhile in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

crocowhile — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:45:02 +0000

The hacker philosophy did not even start with computers, it started with rail models and lock picking. Read a book every now and then.

And please don't fall in the trap that capitalism created things. Science and engineering creates things. Capitalism makes them more accessible, at a price that is often heavily confounded by externalities.

New comment by crocowhile in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

crocowhile — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:41:34 +0000

Frankly this is a very easy choice. Unless you need to make images, Claude wins over chatgpt on every realm. For writing and coding there is no match. It's one of those times where you can do the right thing and get the better product.

I was one of the early paying adopter of chatgpt but when Claude came around I switched and never looked back. I've been on the max plan for a while.

New comment by crocowhile in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

crocowhile — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:54:02 +0000

Being a hacker used to be an extremely political and ideological movement. Then capitalism came along and bought the term. It's about time we take that word back where it belongs.

New comment by crocowhile in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

crocowhile — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:25:09 +0000

Changed many laptops in the past 20 years. I have run Linux on dell XPS, Asus zensomething, now hp dragonfly. No problem.

New comment by crocowhile in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

crocowhile — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:15:24 +0000

I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest.

New comment by crocowhile in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

crocowhile — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:26:34 +0000

I got a Gemini API key once. I was overcharged £350, took me ages to find a way to file a complain, and at the end they refunded me only the google charges and not the VAT.

Never again, thanks.

New comment by crocowhile in "Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI"

crocowhile — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:21:42 +0000

In a landscape where every week we have a different leading model, these systems are really useful for the power users because they keep the interface and models constant and allow to switch easily using API via openrouter or naga. I have been using openwebui which is under active development but I'll give this a try.

New comment by crocowhile in "Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance"

crocowhile — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:32:50 +0000

So what? Not everything has to be about humans.

New comment by crocowhile in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

crocowhile — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:22:09 +0000

It has worked in the UK. The then government had decided to unilaterally exclude some "hostile" media from the room and all the others walked out in protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/political-j...

New comment by crocowhile in "Microsoft became incompetent in IT"

crocowhile — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:14:17 +0000

The problem is that my kids want to play on online servers and for as much as they are learning to hate Microsoft, they still love Minecraft. I don't think loopholes can help with that, can they?

New comment by crocowhile in "You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT"

crocowhile — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:02:42 +0000

Just going through that myself. My son's Microsoft account was hacked, we contactes customer service and all they did was acknowledge the account was compromised, close it indefinitely asking us to buy the game again, and locked my account as the family manager. Fortunately I am a Linux guy and the last Microsoft thing I've touched was windows xp some 20 years ago. But imagine thinking this is acceptable?!

I guess they still suffer from monopoly syndrome. The EU should get them again.

New comment by crocowhile in "Microsoft became incompetent in IT"

crocowhile — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:39:10 +0000

It gets much worse than this if you think about what they decided to do with Minecraft. They obliged millions of kids - literally, kids - to have a microsoft account to play a game that has nothing to do with any other microsoft products. They apply sub-standard and child-unfriendly security measures and when armies of kids get hacked (mostly phished) every day the only thing they do is to close down their account and FORCE them to buy the game again.

I still have to understand whether it's incompetence or a business model.

New comment by crocowhile in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

crocowhile — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:39:37 +0000

The conclusions are pushed and hyperbolic exactly to get this type of reaction from the public, at best conflating control with function (we solved sleep) while the sleep phenotype itself is basically non-existing.

Proper rebuttals will come up in due time on the appropriate channels. all the colleagues I talked to are as pissed off as I am about this way of doing science.

New comment by crocowhile in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

crocowhile — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:12:39 +0000

It is an awful paper and I am a very expert in this area. This is science, alas.

New comment by crocowhile in "Claude Code Router"

crocowhile — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:13:30 +0000

I tried quite a few of them, including the cheap / free models but the only one that was really working was claude. The others were hanging whenever the model needed a confirmation for action. Mind you, this was some time ago.

New comment by crocowhile in "Claude Code Router"

crocowhile — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This is what got me started with claude-code. I gave it a try using openrouter API and got a bill of $40 for 2-3 hours of work. At that point, subscription to the Anthropic plan became a no-brainer

New comment by crocowhile in "Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation"

crocowhile — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:09:06 +0000

There is also a social issue that has to do with accountability. If you claim your model is the best and then it turns out you overfitted the benchmarks and it's actually 68th, your reputation should suffer considerably for cheating. If it does not, we have a deeper problem than the benchmarks.