Hacker News: faitswulff

New comment by faitswulff in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

faitswulff — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:38:37 +0000

Anthropic's position is that thinking tokens aren't actually faithful to the internal logic that the LLM is using, which may be one reason why they started to exclude them:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say...

New comment by faitswulff in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

faitswulff — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:56:40 +0000

Does LM Studio have an equivalent to the ollama launch command? i.e. `ollama launch claude --model qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4`

New comment by faitswulff in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

faitswulff — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:21:30 +0000

If you’re interested in Chinese characters, there’s https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan

New comment by faitswulff in "The MacBook Neo"

faitswulff — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:03:07 +0000

There are multiple videos out there of reviewers running multiple “Pro” apps at the same time on the Neo. It’s an impressive machine.

New comment by faitswulff in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

faitswulff — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:19:59 +0000

Someone actually did fuzz the claude c compiler:

https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html

New comment by faitswulff in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

faitswulff — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:37:02 +0000

I have used it from China, actually. Not big enough to be blocked.

New comment by faitswulff in "Pebble Round 2"

faitswulff — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:20:23 +0000

The Pebble Time 2 has a heart rate monitor

New comment by faitswulff in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

faitswulff — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:45:30 +0000

While we're on the topic, our school-issued Chromebooks allow unfettered access to YouTube. Yes, some of it is educational, but the kids can just click on the next video until they get what they want. Very convenient for you, Google Ads.

New comment by faitswulff in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

faitswulff — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:07:40 +0000

Ah, I think I get it. Are you saying that regardless of BYD’s continued existence, China will still have 1/3 of the world’s manufacturing capacity?

New comment by faitswulff in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

faitswulff — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:58:27 +0000

> They’ll nationalize and inflate away any institutional debt or wipe it out

This is just the reverse, actually, China isn’t afraid to go so far as to jail CEOs. There is no such thing as too big to fail in China, and all the Chinese domestic companies know it. The bailout playbook is a western thing.

New comment by faitswulff in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

faitswulff — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:42:28 +0000

> I was always hunting for Pokémon with better abilities, better type coverage, analyzing synergy between moves… If you’ve ever played a mainline Pokémon game before, you must know how utterly unnecessary this is. Twenty years ago, I would have just powered through on Blastoise or Typhlosion alone.

I definitely beat the first Pokemon games with a level 100 Charizard. I even defeated gyms that were strong against fire types, often KO'ing Pokemon in one hit. The text would say "It's not very effective..." and then the opponent's health bar would drop to zero. So yeah, these games are easy enough that a 10yo can get by with twinking out a single pokemon. Makes the blog post even funnier

New comment by faitswulff in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

faitswulff — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:37:41 +0000

I haven't used it in anger myself, but if you know Elixir and Phoenix you might like Gleam, which compiles to Javascript.

New comment by faitswulff in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

faitswulff — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:10:11 +0000

They're definitely investing in the chips as well. It's an ecosystem play.

New comment by faitswulff in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

faitswulff — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:38:17 +0000

You see similar levels of hypocrisy leveled at the capacity for Chinese EVs to surveil consumers, but not at Tesla, when we know that Tesla employees had access to sex tapes of their customers in their cars. As long as it’s western capital or western police doing the surveillance, it must be permissible, right? /s

We should be clamping down on all surveillance, and this is not a problem that has a technological solution. Quite the reverse, actually.

New comment by faitswulff in "In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs"

faitswulff — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:14:59 +0000

Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!

New comment by faitswulff in "OpenAI Progress"

faitswulff — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:58:49 +0000

What you're saying isn't necessarily mutually exclusive to what gp said.

GPT-2 was the most impressive leap in terms of whatever LLMs pass off as cognitive abilities, but GPT 3.5 to 4 was actually the point at which it became a useful tool (I'm assuming to programmers in particular).

GPT-2: Really convincing stochastic parrot

GPT-4: Can one-shot ffmpeg commands

New comment by faitswulff in "Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment"

faitswulff — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:25:37 +0000

> Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts.

Ah. That answers my question about how you ventilate the apartment for fresh air: it's thoroughly perforated.

New comment by faitswulff in "Introducing tmux-rs"

faitswulff — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:22:35 +0000

You’re probably being downvoted because the author ended up not using c2rust.

New comment by faitswulff in "How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming"

faitswulff — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:35:54 +0000

You are correct:

> ...each of the 117 drones launched had its own pilot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ld7ppre9vo

New comment by faitswulff in "Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python"

faitswulff — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:20:03 +0000

> Rust projects are easier to hack on and contribute to.

This was actually the subject of a study at the University of Waterloo:

> We find that despite concerns about ease of use, first-time contributors to Rust projects are about 70 times less likely to introduce vulnerabilities than first-time contributors to C++ projects.

https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/gradingcurve-secdev23.pdf