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New comment by fancy_pantser in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

fancy_pantser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:20:20 +0000

It's looking rather low on reasoning and long-range problems with the approach described. For example, even with 16 agents and compaction, the HLE score is significantly below Anthropic's Mythos. Like you, I can see the release as a net Good Thing, but apples-to-apples for each org's latest models do have Meta holding steady in the middle pack.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

fancy_pantser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:18:54 +0000

let me see Tayne with a hat wobble

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

fancy_pantser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:37:25 +0000

I am not disagreeing with your main point, but want to clarify that SOC2 is not an individual certification that a person achieves.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Even faster asin() was staring right at me"

fancy_pantser — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:48:20 +0000

The compiler can substitute the value how it sees fit. It's like #define, but type-safe and scoped.

Maybe it's folded into expressions, propagated through constant expressions, or used it in contexts that require compile-time constants (template parameters, array sizes, static_assert, other constexpr expressions).

I mean, not in this case of pi/2, where it's more about announcing semantics, but in general those are the purposes and uses.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

fancy_pantser — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:54:19 +0000

It's along the same lines, but an NSL can be challenged in court (the FISC is a secret and lopsided court, alas). Companies like Apple and Google have fought specific orders publicly (and possibly some secretly), and some have won.

NSLs are also narrow in scope: they compel data disclosure, not active technical assistance in building surveillance systems like the Chinese law.

The Chinese laws can compel any citizen anywhere in the world to perform work on supporting state military and intelligence capabilities with no recourse. There have been no cases of companies or individuals fighting those orders.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

fancy_pantser — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:37:23 +0000

It's explicitly illegal in China.

A 2017 national intelligence law compels Chinese companies and individuals to cooperate with state intelligence when asked and without and public notice.

China has no equivalent of the whistleblower protection that enables resignations with public letters explaining why, protests, open letters with many signatures, etc. Whenever you see "Chinese whistleblower" in the news, you're looking at someone who quietly fled the country first and then blew the whistle. Example: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/us/china-nyc-whistleblower-uf...

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

fancy_pantser — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:53:05 +0000

CSS word-break property

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

fancy_pantser — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:59:06 +0000

This is a perfect Tommy Saxondale story.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

fancy_pantser — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:05:44 +0000

have you tried Kagi?

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

fancy_pantser — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:16:25 +0000

Was Georgi ever approached by Meta? I wonder what they offered (I'm glad they didn't succeed, just morbid curiosity).

New comment by fancy_pantser in "My wife calls me, panicked"

fancy_pantser — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:50:53 +0000

...or just ask something only they would know? takes no coordination, works even in a stressful situation, and you can always follow up with more

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?"

fancy_pantser — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:22:12 +0000

This is great advice and will give a good background in programming that mirrors what you would learn in a CS program.

I'd also like to suggest studying the practical side of building software that many university programs don't spend much time on. To help address this gap, John Ousterhout wrote A Philosophy of Software Design. He has retired from teaching, but captured the hard-won lessons in the book.

This type of book offers the perspective I wish I had developed more before working in software teams early on, as it would have made me a more valuable developer right off the bat. Instead, I went deep on architecture patterns and language theory, becoming somewhat insufferable to my peers (who were very tolerant and kind in return!) for the first few years. 20 years later, I can see that I was trying to hammer a CS "peg" into a business-software-shaped hole :)

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

fancy_pantser — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:53:07 +0000

Sure. Someone on /r/LocalLLaMA was seeing 12.5 tokens/s on dual Strix Halo 128GB machines (run you $6-8K total?) with 1.8bits per parameter. It performs far below the unquantized model, so it would not be my personal pick for a one-local-LLM-forever, but it is compelling because it has image and video understanding. You lose those features if you choose, say, gpt-oss-120B.

Also, that's with no context, so it would be slower as it filled (I don't think K2.5 uses the Kimi-Linear KDA attention mechanism, so it's sub-quadratic but not their lowest).

New comment by fancy_pantser in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

fancy_pantser — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:42:24 +0000

Yeah but now Jon Stewart only does one day a week.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash"

fancy_pantser — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:46:07 +0000

It's a fun setup that quickly devolves into the Shakespearian! The plots don't always work, but seeing their reasoning get increasingly complex is interesting.

"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious... and Brutus is an honourable man.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

fancy_pantser — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:09:48 +0000

Zed Editor gives the LLM tools that use the LSP as you'd expect as a normal IDE user, like "go to symbol definition" so it greps a lot less.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "OLED, Not for Me"

fancy_pantser — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:56:28 +0000

I use smaller fonts as well and when I first got an older OLED display with a pixel layout not supported by Windows ClearType, I used BetterClearTypeTuner and later MacType to adjust it. It was leagues better after tweaking a few settings and I'm very happy with text now, even on my AW3425DW, which has an older layout they moved on from in recent generations.

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?"

fancy_pantser — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:24:13 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378

New comment by fancy_pantser in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

fancy_pantser — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:29:55 +0000

my relatives' is always on a sticker under the AP

New comment by fancy_pantser in "I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology"

fancy_pantser — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:04:31 +0000

When OpenAI announced the Triton language, I was worried I'd be confused one day while reading something because of Nvidia's open-source Triton inference server. I made it quite a long time, but it finally happened today! I was so intrigued for the first few pages and then deeply confused.