Hacker News: daemonologist

New comment by daemonologist in "Old.reddit.com Gone"

daemonologist — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:44:51 +0000

You have to be logged in and, if I understand correctly, if you don't log in to old.reddit for six months (retroactive) they take it away.

New comment by daemonologist in "New iPad mini"

daemonologist — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:03:05 +0000

It's the top image on the product page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/

I would assume, however, that they didn't "fake" it - that they instead chose a filming position and lens such that camera was obscured behind the edge of the device (the edge facing the viewer is the far side from the camera). Bit of trickery for sure though.

New comment by daemonologist in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

daemonologist — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:24:08 +0000

The amazing part of DeepSeek's caching is that the TTL is (although not guaranteed) like 8-24 hours. Makes a big difference to how much time I can spend reviewing code, when most everyone else offers maybe 1 hour (for subscribers - often minutes for API users).

New comment by daemonologist in "Tesla Roadster"

daemonologist — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:12:11 +0000

The flying-on-RCS-in-gravity reminds me of those old videos of exoatmospheric kill vehicle tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0

Patently absurd, of course, but amazing too.

New comment by daemonologist in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

daemonologist — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:22:02 +0000

Yes, although the original patent expired in 2017 so it's a little less clear-cut nowadays. They do have hundreds of patents and bought up basically all non-Chinese competitors though.

Regular old trade secrecy is also a big factor I think. I look for interesting new EPD papers on scholar.google from time to time, and they tend to be about stuff an undergrad would think of in the first twenty minutes, which suggests to me that everyone is trying to keep their tech very much under wraps.

New comment by daemonologist in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

daemonologist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:57:23 +0000

For pure reading of text it provides minimal benefit (color highlighting and cover art, mostly) while costing contrast ratio and dollars. Especially since some devices (e.g. Kobo Libra) are now offered only with a color display, I can see why someone would call it a gimmick. I personally view the reflectivity of eink as the entire point and thus have no interest in it.

That said, of course if you want to view color content on an EPD then it is quite necessary and not a gimmick at all.

New comment by daemonologist in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

daemonologist — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:04:40 +0000

Dermatologists (at least, the mundane sort you come across in a suburban office park) are another matter entirely. I assume it comes from doing a lot of elective work for wealthy people who are concerned with their appearance rather than their health. The PCP is more surprising to me.

New comment by daemonologist in "Gemini 4 Argon"

daemonologist — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:32:04 +0000

The Opus 5.5 implementation is noticeably slow on my machine as well (Firefox, Fedora, Gnome Wayland, AMD 6800U).

New comment by daemonologist in "AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities"

daemonologist — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:20:52 +0000

They proved it is possible, by doing it themselves. Whether anyone is actually hiding in the wild is unknown.

New comment by daemonologist in "AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities"

daemonologist — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:19:51 +0000

This kind of possibility was the subject of some discussion on r/localllama the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wxvt41/my_qwen...

(in that case it seems likely to just be an overfit to the training environment, imo)

New comment by daemonologist in "Muse Wonder"

daemonologist — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:26:11 +0000

Muse Glimmer, Muse Spark, Muse Wonder?

What's next, Sun Shine?

New comment by daemonologist in "The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI"

daemonologist — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:27:01 +0000

No, the directive is that all AI should now be called super intelligence (SI), and this stems from a single decision from the president rather than being an ongoing political debate. (AI was of course political before, but this terminology seems to have come out of nowhere.)

Why, I don't know. The OP's "purity test" theory is a possibility.

New comment by daemonologist in "Theranos.world"

daemonologist — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:48:39 +0000

there's even an extend api key in there (invalid though, would've been cool if it did something special)

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

daemonologist — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:28:41 +0000

I don't know what that Arianespace figure is referring to (perhaps just the commercial satellite market, or the portion of it they expect to capture?) but there were 317 successful launches to orbit in 2025. Last April there were six in 24 hours: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...

Three launches from one company is unusual though.

New comment by daemonologist in "Sonnet 5.5"

daemonologist — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:17:59 +0000

For personal use I simply need less than $20 of tokens, even at API rates. If they (Anthropic or OpenAI) offered a $5/month plan that gave you ~$50 of credit I would probably sign up.

New comment by daemonologist in "Sonnet 5.5"

daemonologist — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:15:03 +0000

Personally, it takes me longer to write the specifications than it takes the model to implement them (and it takes me much longer to review the resulting code, although maybe that makes me old-fashioned). Consequently I do not have enough tasks to run more than one agent at a time.

New comment by daemonologist in "The Rise of Audio AR"

daemonologist — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:40:16 +0000

(2024)

New comment by daemonologist in "Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia"

daemonologist — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:24:50 +0000

Yeah, I'm thinking the nigh-unreadable AI-speak we get these days makes a lot more sense if this is what they're training on. Or maybe the author has translated the prompts from another language?

New comment by daemonologist in "The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi"

daemonologist — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:56:02 +0000

My reaction precisely when I first heard the specs for this thing. Espressif works in mysterious ways.

New comment by daemonologist in "Meta VR Glasses"

daemonologist — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:54:11 +0000

2412 x 2288 per eye (and horizontal FoV is around 70 degrees). Not sure it's really enough for monitor replacement, but certainly an upgrade over Xreal's offerings.