Hacker News: flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flipthefrogHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:10:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Grok 4.7"]]>That went into effect a month ago. Claude prose quality has been a disaster at least since Opus 4.7

]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:10:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792711flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792711https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792711<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]>That makes no sense. Watermarking only became a thing in the past month. Claude has been spewing unreadable slop for much longer than that.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:38:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527865flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527865<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]>ChatGpt/Codex is nowhere near the level of sloppy vomit that Claude generates, so that theory doesnt really hold up.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:24:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527632flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527632https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527632<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "The safest job from AI may be writing"]]>Claude writing quality got unbelievably bad with Opus 4.7, with no improvement in Fable. Opus 4.6 was fine. Im starting to see it as a security risk - my brain just can't process its word vomit, so just tell it to go on, implement whatever

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:30:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515643flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515643https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515643<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"]]>You can tell Opus 5 or Fable to route answers through 4.6 for rewrite

]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:19:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399999flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399999<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"]]>Telling Opus 5 or Fable to route answers through Opus 4.6 usually works pretty well. 4.7 really was the version where the writing style became horrible. I also have a Codex subscription in addition to to Claude 20x, that i use mainly for rewrites of Claude doc vonit and explaining Claude's plans

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:11:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378833flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378833https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378833<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes"]]>F80 would have been the perfect autofocus film camera if only it could meter and stop down manual lenses. F100 is just too heavy

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:33:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366858flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366858<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Darktable"]]>Want the best software for editing photos? No thanks, I'd rather use inferior open source solutions. Go Gimp

]]>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:05:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098505flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098505https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098505<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"]]>I have added a skill to make Opus 4.8 use Opus 4 6 to translate its answers into teadable English, sine it had much higher quality prose. Im seriously considering switching from Claude 20x to Codex because I just cant read more of of Opus or Fable's walls of text

]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:16:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915062flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915062https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915062<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"]]>Adobe

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:06:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679190flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679190<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"]]>A lot of bitching about Microsoft here, for something Claude has been doing forever. I have a git hook that rejects any commit containing the line Co-authored by Claude

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 21:32:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990764flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990764<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]>If Frank Sinatra had Ai he woulnt have had to perform any of that slop by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hammerstein and other composers no one cares about

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:51:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937079flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937079<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]>Blender's limited support for the Universal Scene Description format is an immediate showstopper for most medium size to large studios.

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:14:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828594flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828594https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828594<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "More than one hundred years of Film Sizes"]]>There are far less working VistaVision cameras than 70mm. It wasnt used at all, or just for shooting vfx, for 50 years until recently

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:07:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595828flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595828https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595828<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "More than one hundred years of Film Sizes"]]>Stubborn old directors like Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorcese... https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/shot-on-film/

Films are mostly post processed digitally - but some, like Oppenheimer, are color graded the old optical way. While Dune was shot digitally, printed on film, then scanned back in again!

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:01:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595794flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595794https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595794<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"]]>Yeah, i use online LightRoom for checking images in the darkroom actually, but for serious use, the old desktop app is still king. There are alternatives, like the excellent Capture One, but none available on Linux. I could live without Photoshop, but not Lightroom or similar.

]]>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:02:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46484756flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46484756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46484756<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"]]>Would have switched years ago if it wasn't for Adobe. Open source equivalents to Photoshop and Lightroom are NOT viable alternatives

]]>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:49:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481378flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481378<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Blender 5.0"]]>"It has rendered Maya nearly obsolete" Wow, that is great news. I guess its support for Pixar USD is equal to Maya and Houdini then, so all the big studios can finally switch

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:49:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975312flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975312<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"]]>Gimp is NOT a good image editor for someone who uses Photoshop professionally. This idiotic claim keeps coming up, year after year, along with suggestions for opensource replacements for InDesign, Illustrator, LightRoom - there really really arent any valid opensource alternatives to most creative software apart from Blender, and Krita for a linited subset of what Photoshop covers. I would have switched to Linux immediately if it wasnt for Adobe

]]>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:48:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749503flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749503https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749503<![CDATA[New comment by flipthefrog in "Claude Code: An Agentic cleanroom analysis"]]>Light green text on light brown background is pretty ridiculous. I gave up after 30 seconds

]]>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:15:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154136flipthefroghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154136