Hacker News: davesque

New comment by davesque in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

davesque — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:42:08 +0000

Honestly, this is a larger portion than I would have expected.

New comment by davesque in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

davesque — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:41:00 +0000

I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but I've definitely had Claude refuse to work on sessions that were touched by other models. Some kind of integrity check failure. Resetting the session back to the point before I used the other model fixed the problem.

New comment by davesque in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

davesque — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:09:11 +0000

It feels telling that it reads like university course guidelines.

New comment by davesque in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

davesque — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:02:58 +0000

So then the Rust maintainers are going to give you an F on your report card?

New comment by davesque in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

davesque — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:58:24 +0000

> The more fundamental bottleneck is not even the frontier models, it's the datacenters.

Is it even though? Quantization and speculative decoding are improving the local AI story by leaps and bounds every month.

New comment by davesque in "Googlebook"

davesque — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:23:04 +0000

What I would buy: a local AI focused laptop with a built-in, powerful TPU. And it would have to open its hardware interface so that I could actually do what I wanted to do with it.

New comment by davesque in "Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text"

davesque — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:57:19 +0000

One question jumps out at me: just because a string of text happens to be a good compressed representation (in the autoencoder) of a model's internal activation, does that necessarily mean the text explains that activation in the context of the model? I want to take a look at what they released a bit more closely. Maybe there's a way that they answer this question?

Pretty neat work either way.

New comment by davesque in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

davesque — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:26:51 +0000

Yeah AI is the perfect scapegoat for layoffs recently to soften the impact on stock price and investor confidence. Coinbase is obviously doing layoffs because they are strongly tethered to a stock market that is rattled by political conflict and economic uncertainty.

New comment by davesque in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

davesque — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:48:24 +0000

Stockton Rush trusted his submarine with his own life.

New comment by davesque in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

davesque — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:41:57 +0000

DS9 is also great. I don't go through it as often but it's definitely in rotation.

New comment by davesque in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

davesque — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:28:14 +0000

There are two shows I still watch from start to finish every few years: The X-Files and Star Trek: TNG

New comment by davesque in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

davesque — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:17:28 +0000

Wow I've never disagreed harder with an HN comment in my entire life. Counting Crows were a single band that got some radio time in the early 90s. Calling them the big megastars during '96-'99 makes you sound like you weren't alive then. That statement just sounds so utterly ridiculous to me. It's like a narrow-minded European claiming that everyone in the US just eats nothing but hot dogs. Timeless albums from that era:

- Odeley (Beck '96)

- Aenima (Tool '96)

- OK Computer (Radiohead '97)

- Homogenic (Bjork '97)

- This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about (Modest Mouse '96)

- Stankonia (Outkast '99)

- Kid A (Radiohead '00; began recording in Jan '99)

You were just rage baiting, right? The late 90s were an absolutely legendary time in popular music history.

Edit: Yes, agree with commenter who mentioned Underworld. Didn't mention it because it seemed more niche. But I adore Underworld.

New comment by davesque in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

davesque — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:17:19 +0000

I think the disallowing usage part was a great idea. I'd rather that Claude works well without getting DDOS'd. But merely mentioning OpenClaw causing session termination and extra charges? That's censorship. Also pretending not to know what OpenClaw is.

It's all just very weird and creepy.

New comment by davesque in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

davesque — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:44:22 +0000

A lot of the comments here are reacting to the censorship aspect, which is obviously an important point. But the more interesting subtext to me is that I feel like this gives insight into the situation within the company. I'm assuming they wouldn't do something like this unless the recent load issues (mostly driven by OpenClaw usage) were seen as an existential threat. So I'm guessing that's how the leadership views their current situation. Between OpenClaw and their (probably inaccurate) capacity planning, they simply can't onboard any more consumer users. In other words, things are going to get worse before they get better. Anthropic has taken drastic measures because their service is about to implode.

The irony of course is that the way they've gone about reacting to this has damaged their brand so badly at the trust level that the public view of their company has completely flipped. They also seem strangely oblivious to this side of things.

Their approach has also been bizarrely chaotic. Banning then restoring OpenClaw usage. Removing Claude Code from the Pro plan, then re-enabling it and claiming it was an A/B test. Honestly my read is that Dario has a weak leadership style within the company where he either doesn't give enough specific guidance to his reports or overreaches with reactionary instructions.

New comment by davesque in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

davesque — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:27:31 +0000

Something discussed in the article, but absent in the diagnosis of the final paragraph: the unique phenomenon of Donald Trump in American life. To half the country (including me), he's the worst leader in the country's history. Even if a person has faith in humanity, they may still feel like they are swimming against the man's personal tide of anger and bad judgement. Things might be great if it weren't for the disastrous tariff policy and Iran war, which have needlessly crippled the economy. As long as a person like him is in charge, it feels like we're always taking two steps forward and twenty steps back, and for no good reason. To the other half, Trump rode in atop a wave of grievance, so even to those who like him, he's sold them the notion that their society is on the brink of collapse (because Democrats, leftists, etc.). Overall, the sum effect of his presence has been to shift the entire national culture (and even the world's culture) towards knee-jerk rage and resentment, in accord with his behavior and personality.

New comment by davesque in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

davesque — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:52:38 +0000

> Even in the 90s boulder was largely empty

Uh, no it wasn't? I was living there and continued living there for the next 30 years. It always felt about as dense to me as it did back then.

New comment by davesque in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

davesque — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:47:53 +0000

This wasn't some kind of mansion. It was a 1300 square foot house. I guess I'm aiming too high then while making 4x his salary? And people have been whining about this same problem for decades so nothing to be done about it?

New comment by davesque in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

davesque — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:09:13 +0000

Then why did houses used to be affordable even in those dense regions with high paying jobs? People act as though housing has always been prohibitively expensive in city centers but it hasn't. My dad bought a house in Boulder, CO of all places easily in the 90s. And of course he made a killing off of it because the housing market went completely insane over the next two decades. I now make more money than he ever did and can't even dream of buying the same house.

New comment by davesque in "Claude Opus 4.7"

davesque — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:17:44 +0000

So then why expect that you're making the world safer by limiting the capability that your vendor locked customers have access to while attackers will go find the best de-censored model that works for them, wherever they can find it?

New comment by davesque in "Claude Opus 4.7"

davesque — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:45:04 +0000

> We stated that we would keep Claude Mythos Preview’s release limited and test new cyber safeguards on less capable models first. Opus 4.7 is the first such model: its cyber capabilities are not as advanced as those of Mythos Preview (indeed, during its training we experimented with efforts to differentially reduce these capabilities). We are releasing Opus 4.7 with safeguards that automatically detect and block requests that indicate prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses.

It feels like this is a losing strategy. Claude should be developing secure software and also properly advising on how to do so. The goals of censoring cyber security knowledge and also enabling the development of secure software are fundamentally in conflict. Also, unless all AI vendors take this approach, it's not going to have much of an effect in the world in general. Seems pretty naive of them to see this as a viable strategy. I think they're going to have to give up on this eventually.