Hacker News: dansquizsoft

New comment by dansquizsoft in "GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research"

dansquizsoft — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:48:40 +0000

The overfitting is in the models they release to the public

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:15 +0000

Oh the horror!

New comment by dansquizsoft in "I Returned My iPhone Duo"

dansquizsoft — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:45:16 +0000

If the extremely low odds of buying a defective one, that has full support from Apple to replace it at no cost (like they should), concerns you, then you should play the lottery more often...

New comment by dansquizsoft in "I Returned My iPhone Duo"

dansquizsoft — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:42:42 +0000

I'm keeping mine - its great! Love the short outer screen, the inner screen is nice and large, the titanium build is great, love tent mode and laptop mode. Inner screen is large and its very thin when opened. The speakers are great and the cameras are as well. Idk what other info you need?

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

dansquizsoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:32:53 +0000

She just goes to another school!!

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

dansquizsoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:27:56 +0000

Because Google’s models have been a disappointment for so long (Argon tentatively excluded) that nobody is excited to read a press release from them stating a new one is coming out “soon.” There’s no hype when your product to date (tentatively pre Argon) has been inferior for a “long time.”

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

dansquizsoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:35:08 +0000

Yeah their software support is AMAZING!

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

dansquizsoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:33:59 +0000

2 GB RAM?

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

dansquizsoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:33:11 +0000

Yeah the price was always a bit of a con (even if it was a great product!)

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

dansquizsoft — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:19:44 +0000

And the world has been improved for it ever since. What a waste of screen real-estate these buttons were...

New comment by dansquizsoft in "AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:00:08 +0000

> Graduate students spend 10-20 hours a week grading homework

They do not, lol.

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:56:27 +0000

Yer, LLMs are amazing at pushing the code out, but they are still far from understanding the project's intent within its broader context and constructing its presentation in a universally tasteful manner.

New comment by dansquizsoft in "The iPhone Duo"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:52:24 +0000

If only tech companies focused on developers above all of their other stakeholders, then they could make tens or even hundreds of dollars in profit every year!

New comment by dansquizsoft in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:48:33 +0000

I, too, preferred the internet when it was just text!

New comment by dansquizsoft in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:47:37 +0000

Samsung, lol

New comment by dansquizsoft in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:46:11 +0000

Yeah don't listen to the original commenter, I absolutely love my foldable too.

New comment by dansquizsoft in "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:44:50 +0000

> They made the PC revolution possible

Yeah they were only half a decade late to the PC revolution back in the day...

New comment by dansquizsoft in "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"

dansquizsoft — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:42:49 +0000

> Sure, they use a few more tokens and the results may be slightly less good (but this doesn't really matter because I'm still in the loop so it is easy to correct)

I can't wait to use models that are 'slightly less good' when I am at work instead of something like Fable that lets me focus on the problem at hand as much as possible rather than also spending additional effort correcting for the tool I am using...

New comment by dansquizsoft in "How to run a city builder on 16 MHz"

dansquizsoft — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:04:19 +0000

Sim City 2000 is a very different (and computationally more demanding) game than the original Sim City.

New comment by dansquizsoft in "Security Disclosure"

dansquizsoft — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:09:56 +0000

Ah yep, that would be a different story if that's the case (from reading his original comment I still think he is an employee though)