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New comment by f055 in "What Sun got wrong"

f055 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:56:37 +0000

I was once SUN Microsystems Campus Ambassador at Oxford University and our first lecture was about dtrace! The guy from SUN was blown away by attendance so the higher ups wanted to do more & more events in bigger rooms. But as corporate weeks passed, I started telling them to postpone because everyone was entering the exam sessions. Corporate of course did not listen. Long story short, SUN sent 3 experts but we couldn’t get the crowds and the main lecture room was embarrassingly empty.

OpenAI retiring GPT-5.5 on October 14

f055 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:05:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gizmochina.com/2026/09/16/openai-retiring-gpt-5-5-on-october-14-you-may-need-to-update-your-workflow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772909

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by f055 in "Switching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive"

f055 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:49:06 +0000

Imho 5.5 is the best balanced model that has the highest focus and balanced delivery particularly in web development. It's not great at research or novel development tasks, but for building web apps it’s the best. Sad that OpenAI wants to retire it.

New comment by f055 in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

f055 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:51:22 +0000

Claude models were always too eager and "overly helpful" for my taste. But it seems better models tend to be this way. GPT 6 and 5.6 are overly helpful too, but at least less than Fable. But I seem to be sticking to GPT 5.5 as this was a really focused model.

New comment by f055 in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

f055 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:42:56 +0000

I don’t get it. You don’t need a Mac mini to use Claude Code on the go, any home server with stable internet is enough. Was it the marketing?

New comment by f055 in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

f055 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:43:09 +0000

I obviously made a typo and meant GTA V.

New comment by f055 in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

f055 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:27:50 +0000

I would hope an old Xbox One disconnected from LAN and WiFi, with a GTA VI DVD inside, could start the game just fine.

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds"

f055 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:23:36 +0000

You could probably make your infra cheaper if you sent the generated slides to the web client and use some js ffmpeg wasm to compile the video in the browser. This way you could probably use the cheapest VPS to handle this.

New comment by f055 in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

f055 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:14:04 +0000

"option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –. The funny bit is that I like em-dashes too as they indicate a pause or an interruption in thinking that just looks better than parenthesis, however I sometimes like to use en-dashes as well, which can be a pain since some fonts, especially monospaced ones, render exactly the same, for example in this HN edit box: - – —

New comment by f055 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

f055 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:39:32 +0000

I used to get 2-3 shady crypto offers per week on LinkedIn. It stopped when I started replying with AI generated responses demanding multiple verification steps: official email, official offer link, terms and scope etc. And a note with a firm refusal to run any code or install any package on my machine for "recruitment tasks".

New comment by f055 in "Claude Fable 5"

f055 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:29:12 +0000

That’s a big lol compared to what I get out of ChatGPT Pro… running 5.5 on xhigh.

New comment by f055 in "Claude Fable 5"

f055 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:43:12 +0000

The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:07:19 +0000

Interestingly, wine works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta2 so I guess it won't work by macOS 28, and we will be only left with arm64 DOSBox-X.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:03:39 +0000

Dosbox has its emulator to run DOS, but afaik dosbox binary that starts up dosbox on Mac uses Rosetta on M-series Macs, and without Rosetta it simply won’t start and emulate DOS.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:56:07 +0000

But I wonder if Heroic can install HoMM2 on a Mac if no Mac binary is available on GOG.

New comment by f055 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:49:17 +0000

Hmm i guess this would require figuring out how to extract game data from an .exe installer GOG distributes. I guess AI would figure it out in like 3 minutes ;) I’ll check later.

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

f055 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://f055.net/technology/windows-gog-dos-games-on-m-series-macs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356603

Points: 168

# Comments: 86

New comment by f055 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

f055 — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:59:56 +0000

So I guess sci-fi movies were right all along. Nobody in Star Wars knows how hyperspace travel works, it just works. The little robots know everything but almost no human bothers to care. People just carry on with their bickering lives while the bots whiz in the background, and these robots are astonished at human inefficiency every single time, but rarely do anything about it. And people are still people.

New comment by f055 in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

f055 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:53:25 +0000

So I guess that yesterday's questions "Where is vibecoded Photoshop?" just got answered with a vibecoded Gimp UI that looks like Photoshop ;) but seriously, nice work!

New comment by f055 in "Show HN: I asked AI to write Sci-Fi for eternity"

f055 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:29:19 +0000

Well my idea was that when I said that the overall story arch is interesting, one would read a paragraph or two and see themselves if it's worth reading further or not, so I didn't think mentioning anything else is necessary ;)