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New comment by davidmurdoch in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

davidmurdoch — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:03:45 +0000

I don't even have "Priority" (2.5x speed) in my Pro account, only Standard and Fast (1.5, speed). I actually didn't even know their was a level above Fast till now. I don't imagine non enterprise users will get the "UltraFast" mode option why time soon.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:59:10 +0000

How do you keep your phone out of data leaks?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:44:57 +0000

On paper, this is just standard enterprise API access most social media services offer. Isn't it?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Don't be a meat proxy"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:54:02 +0000

I have this set as my slack bio

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Cyberscript"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:03:41 +0000

What is PL?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

davidmurdoch — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:50:14 +0000

I can do the music part just fine. But listening to two conversations at the same time just means I understand neither of them.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Grok Build is open source"

davidmurdoch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:15:18 +0000

This is not sly.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

davidmurdoch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:14:16 +0000

MFWO has lockscreen logging too, right?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:27:34 +0000

Why not complain?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:49:40 +0000

Because we add humans enjoy variety. I read for entertainment, even technical posts like this one that I have no use for. I often trying to think about what the author may have been thinking when writing, why they introduced concepts in a specific order, what ideas might they have omitted, etc. It's personal and enjoyable. But now, when I detect the familiar writing style of what seems to be a gpt 5 model, that "parasocial" connection dies.

The LLM explained the core concept and features very well. But it was dull and boring to me, as I already have to read this writing style at work pretty much all day every day.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:42:25 +0000

Don't change. The homogenous way LLMs write is just tiresome and boring, like if every movie stared Ryan Reynolds - an actor famous for having no range. Ryan Reynolds is enjoyable to watch on occasion, but I don't want everything I watch to be Ryan Reynolds.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:35:34 +0000

Ah, bummer. Not totally surprising though.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:02:19 +0000

I was riffing off of the meaning from https://noslopgrenade.com/ which made its way around the comments here on HN a few weeks ago.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:46:45 +0000

You think I'm using AI to leave comments like this on HN?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:39:08 +0000

They could just feed an llm a small corpus of past human authored posts from their site, and have the LLM rewrite it in a style matching style, and it would likely turn out pretty great.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Workers Cache"

davidmurdoch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:32:17 +0000

The feature is great. The post itself is a slop grenade.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:45:21 +0000

I don't think "incapable of saying yes" is a thing.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:23:07 +0000

Another great Life Pro Tip is "Never accept 'no' from someone who can't say 'yes'."

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:38:35 +0000

> searching my spreadsheet

What does this mean?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Saying Goodbye to Asm.js"

davidmurdoch — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:50:26 +0000

This isn't a fair comparison. Wasm was severely limited when it was first implemented and it had the advantage of a decade of improvements. Asm.js has had zero improvements in that same time frame.

Had WASM not been adopted we would have SIMD in JS ( probably via asm.js) by now. Because we didn't, JS just cannot compete with WASM in many computationally heavy workflows. We'd also have general purpose JS to Asm.js compilation, with few API restrictions, making writing it much easier.