Hacker News: darrinm

New comment by darrinm in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

darrinm — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:48:54 +0000

Shouldn't the biggest concern be that OpenAI either doesn't know about these breaches or is concealing their knowledge of them? I mean, as of yesterday their primary message on this track is "most aligned model yet".

New comment by darrinm in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

darrinm — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:27:16 +0000

Are they doing this as a means to detect distilling? What kind of encoding would survive that process?

New comment by darrinm in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

darrinm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:48 +0000

A simple prompt that still stumps frontier LLMs most of the time is “create a pinball game”. They’ll put all the right pieces there but then fail to arrange them such that the game is truly playable. They’ll put a wall in the way of the launch chute so the ball can’t be launched. Or the flippers will pivot the wrong way. Or there will be holes such that the ball drops off the bottom without getting within reach of the flippers, etc.

Opus 5 is the first I’ve seen to “one shot” it (in a harness, so it was more than one LLM call).

New comment by darrinm in "Claude Fable 5"

darrinm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:28:08 +0000

Yeah, /model fable also worked for me (despite not being shown on the /model list). Thanks.

New comment by darrinm in "Claude Fable 5"

darrinm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:18:52 +0000

Not supported in Claude Code yet?

New comment by darrinm in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

darrinm — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:51:55 +0000

As a kid I didn’t understand what the 555 timer chip on the Apple II disk controller was doing but I learned the hard way that when you misalign the pins on the drive connector cable and the 555 chip releases its blue smoke you can’t use the drive anymore :(

New comment by darrinm in "Waymo in Portland"

darrinm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:36:42 +0000

They announced back in September that they’re coming to Seattle. https://www.king5.com/article/traffic/traffic-news/autonomou...

New comment by darrinm in "AI coding is gambling"

darrinm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:07:24 +0000

I hear it a lot but this gambling analogy breaks when you look at actual outcomes. If you went to Vegas and after a few pulls on a one-armed bandit could _reliably_ walk away with the jackpot we wouldn’t even call it gambling anymore.

New comment by darrinm in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

darrinm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:46:48 +0000

FWIW many tool calls can be and often are made in one inference cycle.

New comment by darrinm in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

darrinm — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:01:13 +0000

Has anyone tested how generation speed compares to gpt-image-1?

New comment by darrinm in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

darrinm — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:14:44 +0000

Did you try the strict (beta) function calling? https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/function_calling

New comment by darrinm in "Software Rasterizing Hair"

darrinm — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:52:46 +0000

Amazing write up as well as the other implementations and writeups by the same author it links to.

New comment by darrinm in "Diffusion models are real-time game engines"

darrinm — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:30:36 +0000

More relevant is if by _playing_ it they couldn’t tell which is which.

New comment by darrinm in "Diffusion models are real-time game engines"

darrinm — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:34:18 +0000

It confused me that their stated evaluations by humans are comparing video clips rather than evaluating game play.

New comment by darrinm in "Diffusion models are real-time game engines"

darrinm — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:21:00 +0000

So… is it interactive? Playable? Or just generating a video of gameplay?

New comment by darrinm in "Curating my corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor"

darrinm — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:57:20 +0000

Shameless plug for my startup’s freehand web editor https://hatch.one. You don’t have to throw back to hotglue if you want to create your own site visually with tremendous creative freedom.

New comment by darrinm in "Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?"

darrinm — Thu, 02 May 2024 02:51:18 +0000

Hatch (https://hatch.one) has many of the characteristics of HyperCard plus its "projects" are full featured, shareable and remixable (if you want) web pages.

- Easy drag-and-drop interface with a library of images, audio, video, etc.

- Programmable with Visual Scripting for an easy on ramp to adding logic and behaviors.

- Programmable with Javascript if that's what you want to learn.

- HTML "components" if you want to dig into HTML, CSS and all that good stuff.

- A few tutorials to help get started with physics, animation, etc.

- Free.

- Super fun! Ok, I'm highly biased as one of its creators.

New comment by darrinm in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

darrinm — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:23:29 +0000

This article has been such an inspiration for us at Hatch (https://hatch.one/)! We founded the company as “Personal Software” and we’re working hard to lower the barriers for this kind of creation. The opportunity shouldn't be limited to people who know how to code. Several pieces of the puzzle are in place with more in the pipleine. Here's quick video of getting started creating a web app in 60 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQMFFkCHrdo

New comment by darrinm in "Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance"

darrinm — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:19:31 +0000

Love rough.js. Thanks Preet Shihn! I used it to create Sketchy Shapes you can add to Hatch projects. Fun to play with the parameters in realtime: https://hatch.one/@darrin/sketchy-shapes/edit

New comment by darrinm in "Brotli-G: A GPU compression/decompression standard for digital assets"

darrinm — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:18:48 +0000

Benchmarks?