Hacker News: eqmvii

New comment by eqmvii in "America.gov"

eqmvii — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:11:42 +0000

I eventually got it to write pseudocode for reversing a linked list, but could never get it to output raw code.

Hat tip Claude Opus 5.5 for the jailbreak tips!

New comment by eqmvii in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

eqmvii — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:46:38 +0000

In a year or two, articles like this will either be artifacts from peak hype or evidence of the beginning of the singularity. Right?

New comment by eqmvii in "Astra for Law"

eqmvii — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:22:59 +0000

I think this is key. Lawyers make a lot of money for being experts on the sidelines of disputes with values greatly in excess of their fees. They were never paid for their busy work.

New comment by eqmvii in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

eqmvii — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:43:39 +0000

Not to mention CONNECTIONS, of which LLMs will start with 0 and never acquire more.

New comment by eqmvii in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

eqmvii — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:50:25 +0000

Debatably the people who were getting 20 years of education will still be just as capable, and the 20 years of education was always a side effect of their capabilities, not the cause of them.

New comment by eqmvii in "AI Policy"

eqmvii — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:05:14 +0000

Yeah. I buy that there are some use cases where AI is a trap, or not as good as people.

I'm also chatting with my logs and triaging things like 10x faster in multiple open terminal sessions while I post on HN right now. So I'm also certain there are some use cases where not using AI will soon be professional negligence!

New comment by eqmvii in "Small Models Have Arrived"

eqmvii — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:53:28 +0000

I see it in a slightly opposite way: even the good models are relatively cheap, and so I worry what we might miss by spending too much time playing with the Sonnets of the world when the Opuses are still objectively a bargain for the power they bring.

New comment by eqmvii in "Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study"

eqmvii — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:57:59 +0000

hell yeah it does, feels nice at the end of a long day

New comment by eqmvii in "Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?"

eqmvii — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:22:00 +0000

I like computers more than many members of my family, so...

New comment by eqmvii in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

eqmvii — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:56:24 +0000

something something machine elves...

New comment by eqmvii in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

eqmvii — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:27:24 +0000

There's a huge market right now for "AI product, without much different than Gemini/Claude/GPT do out of the box, but from somebody you actually trust"

New comment by eqmvii in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

eqmvii — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:28:29 +0000

It's tricky because dissenting doesn't necessarily mean you'd reach the opposite conclusion in every respect.

In this case, I really doubt even the most conservative justices believe "birthright citizenship means whatever an Executive Order says it does." At a minimum, we know they aren't signing on to the reasoning the 5 in the majority used. And then we can learn whatever they feel like saying in the dissent, but a dissent is just an essay with no force of law.

New comment by eqmvii in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

eqmvii — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:17:11 +0000

It’s 2026 and my computer will happily give me the right answer even when i make typos. I love it.

New comment by eqmvii in "Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?"

eqmvii — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:44:08 +0000

businesses absolutely love not paying for things. each other, contractors, etc.

employees don’t realize how good they have it with payroll protections tbh. That’s how it should be of course!

New comment by eqmvii in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

eqmvii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:33:19 +0000

Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.

One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.

New comment by eqmvii in "Is Fable 5 Back?"

eqmvii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:35:13 +0000

Sadly no. And I might lose my bet it'd be back by Tuesday... alas...

New comment by eqmvii in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

eqmvii — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:01:14 +0000

Agents

New comment by eqmvii in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

eqmvii — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:01:00 +0000

pls hold

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/MgqpWkoeeN

New comment by eqmvii in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

eqmvii — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:10:38 +0000

I give it until Tuesday at the latest until it's accessible again.

New comment by eqmvii in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

eqmvii — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:22:13 +0000

I've seen it turn right in business contexts. Sometimes you can even lower your standard of "good enough" and find quantity has a quality all its own.

But it requires taste and engineering to do it right, and on the right things. It'll be an interesting few years.