Hacker News: danjc

New comment by danjc in "GPT‑Live"

danjc — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:04:44 +0000

It would be great if we could have AI that wasn't trying to emulate a human. When it expresses emotion, we should see that as a bug that needs to be fixed.

New comment by danjc in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

danjc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:21:37 +0000

Even if they could practically restrict access to US citizens only, I would expect them not to - it would be hard to regain that once lost and they need a global market for growth.

New comment by danjc in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

danjc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:38 +0000

As much as it's true that a novice will generally use AI to build a sloppy mess, I've also had success unsloppifying through some careful prompting.

New comment by danjc in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

danjc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:13 +0000

It's not just annoying, it's tiring

New comment by danjc in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

danjc — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:26:33 +0000

Plot twist: Apple PR team created this video to make claims that they slow older devices seem less credible.

New comment by danjc in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

danjc — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:12:23 +0000

A browser plugin that scores webpage content based on how likely it is to have been AI-generated would be quite useful.

Browser vendors can't build this.

LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code

danjc — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/katanalarp/status/2029928471632224486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284998

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by danjc in "Don't trust AI agents"

danjc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:28:22 +0000

I've been waiting for someone to say this. An agent will generally produce far more code than technically necessary for the task. It's a kind of over engineering which makes it increasingly harder to wrap your head around the codebase.

New comment by danjc in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

danjc — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:51:51 +0000

The issue is provenance. We need cameras and phones to digitally sign photos so we can easily verify an unadulterated image.

You also want to be able chain signing so that for example a news reporter could take a photo, then the news outlet could attest its authenticity by adding their signature on top.

Same principle could be applied to video and text.

New comment by danjc in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

danjc — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:18:55 +0000

I'd it's processed in 2 seconds, why not just process it immediately in memory?

New comment by danjc in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

danjc — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:43:47 +0000

It's all jit context

New comment by danjc in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

danjc — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:23:25 +0000

It looks like true 0-temperature (i.e. determinism) will happen. Here's some good context: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

New comment by danjc in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

danjc — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:47:10 +0000

You can just call yourself a reasoning model now

New comment by danjc in "OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable"

danjc — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:06:22 +0000

This is written by someone who has no idea how transformers actually work

New comment by danjc in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

danjc — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:25:12 +0000

I think you've nailed it there. OpenAI are at a point where the risk of continuing to hedge on mcp outweighs the risk of mcp calls doing damage.

New comment by danjc in "The staff ate it later"

danjc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:50:27 +0000

Once you notice characters aren't eating, you'll never not see it again.

Related, where they're drinking coffee from a disposable cup, you can almost always tell it's empty by how they handle it.

New comment by danjc in "The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report"

danjc — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:55:04 +0000

This is true for all crime.

New comment by danjc in "GPT-5"

danjc — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:33:59 +0000

> describe gpt 5 in one word

> incremental

New comment by danjc in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

danjc — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:22:18 +0000

What's missing here is tool use.

For example, if the llm had a compile tool it would likely have been able to correct syntax errors.

Similarly, visual errors may also have been caught if it were able to run the program and capture screens.

New comment by danjc in "Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool"

danjc — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:53:37 +0000

So, basically the same as Adobe with PDF