Hacker News: derac

New comment by derac in "DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots"

derac — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:09:23 +0000

Largely it is legal, but it's complicated. https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq

New comment by derac in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

derac — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:22:26 +0000

https://youtu.be/FHufjrP0xDI?is=xmFQrXGa1dBHM67I

This is a helpful explanation of what this technology is and looks like. (Munro)

New comment by derac in "MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic"

derac — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:32:52 +0000

I think running them against each other with a rules engine would be more interesting. Count up illegal moves and wins/unfinished games. I think llm grading is too unreliable.

New comment by derac in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

derac — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:14:51 +0000

Is there some consumer protection law around this?

New comment by derac in "Nvidia Cosmos 3"

derac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:36:34 +0000

Look at the table of supported modalities. It can take in input of image/video/text/actions and output image/video/text/actions.

New comment by derac in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

derac — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:39:36 +0000

It is unlimited under the free NVIDIA Developer Program. You're talking about a different sort of acct I think. The dev program acct is 40 rpm unlimited for personal use.

New comment by derac in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

derac — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:36:15 +0000

I recommend nvidia nim for completely free dev access for young people.

New comment by derac in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

derac — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:09:02 +0000

I wasn't trying to be condescending. I was stating my experience talking to people 10-20 years ago, before AI was thought about at all by people outside of tech. It always boiled down to a dualist vs monist ontology argument. I agree there are valid reasons to dislike current generative AI tech though. I agree with a lot of this.

I should say I do think that deeper ontological thing is why people tend to think the tech will always be a novelty or will stagnate soon, etc.

New comment by derac in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

derac — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:41:24 +0000

It's funny, I have the opposite experience of everyone around me hating AI. I'm not aggressively pro-AI around them at all but you aren't allowed to have any positive or nuanced opinion of the tech.

I'm used to it though, I've been excited by the concept of AI since reading about Turing and such as a child 20 years ago. The idea has always been met with negativity, IMO because people want to feel that they have a part of themselves that is beyond nature and has a "special" place in the universe.

According to Google Wikipedia still gets 4 billion pageviews a month. The article seems a bit hyperbolic. There are certainly concerns around the nature of work and the economy, though. There are of course ongoing concerns about global warming. I'm not denying that, but I don't think it's particular to AI tech.

New comment by derac in "Please Use AI"

derac — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:30:03 +0000

Why can't you use technology and communicate with your friends? The same can be said for how people abuse TV, fast food, etc. It's up to you to live with care and attention or not.

On the other hand, tech in general (not just AI) does make an easier and easier path for people to go inward and neglect their community/family/friends. This does suck.

New comment by derac in "Claude Opus 4.8"

derac — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:03:22 +0000

Why is it Rube Goldbergesque? The process doesn't seem arbitrary.

New comment by derac in "Claude Opus 4.8"

derac — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:31:34 +0000

I think Honesty can be evaluated. Does the model push back when it knows the user is wrong? How often does the model hallucinate data vs. say it doesn't know? Provide a prompt with contradictions or other issues and see if the model corrects you.

Here is an article by Anthropic that explains what they do and mean in more detail: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/honesty-elicitation/

New comment by derac in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop"

derac — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:00:28 +0000

Yes, say something. It's worth the awkwardness to potentially save someone's life. Just approach it delicately.

New comment by derac in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

derac — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:41:31 +0000

When 3 came out they mentioned that flash included many improvements that didn't make it into pro (via an hn comment). I imagine this release includes those.

New comment by derac in "Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone"

derac — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:06:26 +0000

I haven't run it, but I looked through the repo. It looks very well thought out, the UI is nice. I appreciate the ethos behind the local/offline design. Cheers.

New comment by derac in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

derac — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:39:24 +0000

This is faster if their marketing is right, it uses significantly less tokens. Gemini 3 flash is very good as well.

New comment by derac in "Claude is a space to think"

derac — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:05:02 +0000

I agree, they seem to be following the Apple playbook. Make a closed off platform and present yourself as morally superior.

New comment by derac in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

derac — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:02:31 +0000

Any chance Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 will ever be an open model?

New comment by derac in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

derac — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:45:11 +0000

Kimi k2.5 is a good choice.

New comment by derac in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

derac — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:40:47 +0000

I really like the agent swarm thing, is it possible to use that functionality with OpenCode or is that a Kimi CLI specific thing? Does the agent need to be aware of the capability?