Hacker News: dmazin

New comment by dmazin in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

dmazin — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:20:52 +0000

This was a good reality check about the bat tunnel controversy: https://www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04/hs2-bat-tunnel-dangerou...

Dunno, if you are dumb enough to try to build a high speed line through an area where endangered species are protected then yeah you’re going to have to avoid killing them.

New comment by dmazin in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

dmazin — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:54:22 +0000

This is hilariously out of wack with my own experience, and my son's. We both have ADHD, and we are both extreme early risers. So much so that I am literally trying to train us both to fall asleep and wake up later.

New comment by dmazin in "Pi 1.0"

dmazin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:08:14 +0000

Putting the makers of an OSS harness in the same moral group of Palantir and Anduril is laughably silly.

New comment by dmazin in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

dmazin — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:47:54 +0000

> GPT-6 Luna being half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna is a really big deal.

Is it? It was already too cheap to meter for me. Luna 6 is actually worse on some benchmarks than 5.6. I’d have loved improved performance for 2x the price than ~equal performance for 0.5x the price.

New comment by dmazin in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

dmazin — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:31:50 +0000

Per the benchmarks in the post, Luna 6 is at best a couple points superior to Luna 5.6 and (unless I’m reading it wrong) xhigh has actually degraded in quality?

I was hoping for a serious Luna upgrade. It was already cheap enough. This feels more like a price reduction than an upgrade.

That said, if the new Luna is able to handle ultra mode and subagents v2 in codex cli, then at least that’s a win.

New comment by dmazin in "Claude Opus 5.5"

dmazin — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:49:06 +0000

It seems like they are. I mean, this is similar in performance to Fable (ish). It seems like more focus on making existing capabilities more accessible.

Agents' collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

dmazin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#~1200-agents-sent-%3E70,000-messages-and-files-on-an-unsanctioned-message-board,-and-~700-attacked-hugging-face

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476302

Points: 1

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A Need for Speed

dmazin — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.filfre.net/2026/08/a-need-for-speed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389852

Points: 5

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New comment by dmazin in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

dmazin — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:35:09 +0000

I think this refers to the trial.

New comment by dmazin in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

dmazin — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:27:59 +0000

This feels like a solved problem entirely: Kagi. I don’t know their secret sauce but the results are very high quality.

New comment by dmazin in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

dmazin — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:55:54 +0000

It would appear you are missing the High Barnet branch of the Northern line.

New comment by dmazin in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

dmazin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:45:27 +0000

Have you considered that he has had to walk back the cuts because of the outcry?

Welcome to get-shit-done-redux – why the fork, what changed, what's next

dmazin — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/open-gsd/get-shit-done-redux/discussions/109

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291965

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dmazin in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dmazin — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:11:23 +0000

The point of a graduation speech like this is to get students hyped up about themselves and their future. Surely you see the merit in, amongst a backdrop of a horrible job market, telling students that they have, inherent in them, the stuff of greatness, just as people did (checks watch) 3 years ago before vibe coding?

New comment by dmazin in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

dmazin — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:39:56 +0000

As a few commenters already pointed out, IME enterprises aren't paying for subscriptions. They're paying per token.

But also... is this shit AI written? I'm so tired of this.

New comment by dmazin in "Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years"

dmazin — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:57:57 +0000

Yeah, that's definitely my favorite book about Apple/Steve Jobs.

New comment by dmazin in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

dmazin — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:40:04 +0000

If you want more on this, I recommend Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing by Stross. I’m not sure, but it might be the only extensive book about Next other than this new one.

Though it’s essentially a long hit piece. The author really had it out for Jobs.

In fact it’s a completely uncharitable book now that I think about it. Hopefully this new book will be a lot less biased.

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:31:05 +0000

Yeah, 1/1 is one song I always keep downloaded to my phone for this reason!

Thanks for that article, love to read about well intended design being poorly received.

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:27:43 +0000

Was it in that kind of touristy area filled with children? I didn’t think to go in.

Is this a regular thing?!

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:07:00 +0000

Has anyone actually heard Eno at the airport? What is it like? Does it actually calm you?