<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: esperent</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esperent</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:22:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esperent" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would make this useful to me is integrating it into the tools I use. That's Pi, but I would say if you set it up for Claude Code or Codex that would get you more initial users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318614</link><dc:creator>esperent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "Health benefits of Tai Chi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A growing body of carefully conducted research is building a compelling case for tai chi<p>... And yet this article doesn't link a single one. This is just a marketing post, nothing interesting here. I'd expect better from a university.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:56:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317863</link><dc:creator>esperent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The basic idea here looks interesting and is easy to understand but what I'm not understanding is why it's a standalone app. Is this supposed to replace e.g. Claude desktop? Or can it plug in to other systems like Claude Code, Codex, Pi?<p>I don't think I'd want to use it as a standalone app but I would certainly be interested in it as a plugin.</p>
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<p>That's always going to be a trade off with anything like this so I guess it's better to think of it as an alternative to compaction.<p>Another use case that comes to mind is that sometimes I'll include some detail early in a conversation and I mean it as incidentals information but the AI fixates on it. If I could selectively edit that out rather than start a whole new conversation it would be worth the cache miss.</p>
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<p>I got some amazing photos through a set of eclipse viewing glasses on my Vivo x300 pro. If I'd been a bit more organized and set up a stand and taped the glasses onto the phone I think I could have taken a video of the whole thing in incredible quality. But I just held the glasses in front of the lens and it worked.<p>What I found though was that I had to use the pro mode (which I use for basically everything anyway, to avoid exactly the kind of issues this article is talking about).<p>I did try on normal photo mode and I think what was happening was that as soon as I covered one lens with the glasses it switched to another.</p>
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<p>Wired.com is such a trash publication. Everything has to be presented in such a breathless, hyperbolic, drawn out way. All the articles pretend to be long form, in depth, but if you actual read them there's nothing except hyperbole and the actual information could have been one paragraph and a bullet list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49258747</link><dc:creator>esperent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49258747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49258747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "I was accused of using AI in my dissertation but I wrote it all myself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It seems to be most common with Aspie writing<p>That's quite a claim, do you have any proof of this?</p>
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<p>I'm sure someone other company will make exactly those glaces, obvious and stylish recording devices.<p>In the meantime, it's quite telling that Meta is choosing <i>not</i> to.<p>They want recording to be constant, impossible to detect, and normalized. That's why the camera light is so subtle and easy to cover. The more constant surveillance is normalized, the more they have data about every single facet of our lives to sell to advertises.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:36:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246073</link><dc:creator>esperent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "Switching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always set thinking to high for the main session or subagents doing audits, medium for everything else.<p>I think xhigh or max has a place if I'm doing something genuinely complex. But in general use it's slow and I have the impression the highest often gives worse results - over-thought, over-engineered. High or medium might give better results for less complex tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241537</link><dc:creator>esperent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "Switching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> My codex sessions now easily drain a subscription within 24 hours.<p>I have the same problem. But I think that codex subscription limits have dropped a lot recently. They were doing a promotion through April/May of 2x usage which is when I started using it. A $200 weekly limit lasted me 5 days easily.<p>GPT 5.6 has increased usage a bit but I think it's not that much compared to 5.5. My guess is that there's usage limit shenanigans going on as well.<p>I do agree it has a tendency to go beyond scope of you're not careful but I find if I'm leaving it run overnight, calling the plan a "PRD contract" and a looping message reminding it not to go out of scope reduces that to manageable levels.<p>But yeah... A $200 plan that burns through it's weekly limit in a day, sometimes in 12 hours, is not sustainable. It seems Qwen / Kimi latest are at least equal to GPT 5.5 so as soon as someone else is offering those with a decent rate or subscription, I'm bouncing.</p>
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<p>Can you give an an example of what you mean, because I'm not understanding how that's possible in HTML, even without accessibility.</p>
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<p>- two lines for the button (one of which is just the closing tag)<p>- one line for an svg icon<p>- four lines for the tooltip.</p>
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<p>Microsoft web apps are sluggish on my i7 with 64gb of RAM. But it's not performance issues, I think. It's networking, they have some crazy interconnected backend spread across about 20 systems and everything you do is going to need to wait for all of those to talk with each other. Switching HTML to canvas isn't gonna fix it.</p>
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<p>As with so many experiments, the study itself is clear and testing something valid, but when it gets shared somewhere like reddit/HN/Facebook etc. everyone takes the broadest possible, unintended reading.<p>- study: we tested <i>specifically</i> healthy young adults and found melatonin may have a negative effect <i>on this cohort</i>. We make <i>zero claims</i> about any other cohort.<p>- every lay person reading the study, of any age: scientists just proved melatonin makes me dumb in the morning! Oh no!</p>
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<p>> You can board up a helluva lot more stuff in a week than in two days<p>TFA says they might be able to predict one extra day ahead (three days instead of two). No prediction system will ever give you a week's notice on a typhoon.</p>
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<p>How does predicting a typhoon prevent billions in damage?<p>It could save thousands of lives because people can be evacuated if you can predict a few hours or a day further ahead, or the path more accurately. You can save some damage by moving ships and vehicles.<p>But you can't evacuate buildings or infrastructure.</p>
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<p>This is like getting angry at cookie banners instead of all the companies tracking and selling your data.<p>You're complaining about the symptom (needing to have these checks) not the cause (if they don't, 99% of their traffic will be bots, the site will slow to a crawl and be unusable anyway).<p>In any case, I saw the dumb anime girl for about 2s then the site loaded. Not a big deal.</p>
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<p>> looks performative<p>That's one of those phrases you can use to dismiss opposing viewpoints without actually engaging with them.</p>
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<p>For some value of "work out" anywhere between "<i>human utopia that spreads across the stars</i>" to "<i>we destroy everything in a ball of nuclear fire and only microbes survive</i>", yes, it will. The universe will keep on going either way.</p>
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<p>It would be my reaction if we're discussing a blog post from OpenAI, yes. I would be looking at it extremely critically, wondering what they're misrepresenting to make it look cheaper, easier, and why they're trying to make it look like only their model could possibly do this.<p>Look at their recent claims about their model "escaping" - there was literally a Guardian article calling them out for being hyperbolic! Again, it wasn't that they lied, their marketing department is too savvy for that. They just present it in way that's, well, marketing.<p>As for the actual result, I'll look for secondary posts by actual mathematicians and draw my conclusions there, not from this marketing blog post about results from a secret model.</p>
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