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New comment by frankfrank13 in "Claude Fable 5"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:51:03 +0000

This makes it an instant non-starter for probably 95% of organizations. A lot of people are about to get in trouble for using it before realizing this.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Claude Fable 5"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:49:58 +0000

Not a lot of discussion on this, but there is no way to turn off data retention for this model. IME this is the first time Anthropic has released a model without allowing you to opt out.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What I've learned about the trombone"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:45:11 +0000

I guess, but the sequence of positions 6->5->4->3->2-1 maps to valves

- 1+3 (6)

- 2+3 (5)

- 1+2 (4)

- 1 (3)

- 2 (2)

- open (1)

All I mean to say, sliding a little bit at a time up the slide is easy to map to "short slide higher pitch" in a way that valves don't

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What I've learned about the trombone"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:35:16 +0000

I loved playing trombone in school. It's such a simple mechanism, it invites a lot of curiousity, and this piece captures that well. Instruments like piano, violin, and guitar are very visual, essentially wysiwyg. Instruments like saxophones, clarinets, flutes, take a long to mentally map and reason through (this combination of keys achieves note X). Trumpets, and other 3 valve instruments map exactly to trombone positions! Eg. no-valves = 1st position, 1st valve is 3rd position, 1+2 is 4th position. But visually you don't see this, and it doesn't invite the curiousity. Trombone super unique in that you get a little wysiwyg, but you have to square that with embouchure. But learning trombone, and then mapping that knowledge to a euphonium, trumpet, tuba, etc, gives you a knowledge about that instrument (eg ok if note X is 1st valve, and note X+1 is 1+2, then i know adding 2-to-1 adds a half step, because position 3 is a half step from position 4).

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:15:31 +0000

Hilarious, "Designed for serviceability" is one of the headline features about 3/4 down

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-lapt...

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:13:26 +0000

Oh thank god it has a co-pilot button

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What color is your function? (2015)"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:57:10 +0000

My first ever EM showed me this piece ~10 years ago, and I still think about it a lot. One pattern I've adopted is to keep as much code to be synchronous as possible. On larger teams, especially when the slop-cannon is really going, I can at least depend on codeowners to tag me if someone tries to convert something to async (eg. adding a DB call somewhere), because they chain of things that need to be converted to async is so long. Then I can jump in and say "this entire chain of code is sync, if you want a DB call, do it somewhere else"

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Ferrari Luce"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:03:07 +0000

I could see this being true, except that other high end electrics (Porsche, Audi) have not sold well. So the theory would be:

> people want either $30,000 electric cars (Tesla), $100,000 electric cars (Tesla), or $500,000 electric cars (Ferrari)

I do think Ferrari is trying to expand their audience with the Luce, but not to Dubai housewives. Ferrari's are for Ferrari collectors. There exists the guy with a few already, who daily drives a Tesla. Probably hundreds of those guys! This is for them (IMO).

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:39:47 +0000

I interviewed at a startup, really early stage, who claimed to be on track for $100k ARR. We all know "ARR" is bullshit, but I didn't suspect the ~$10k monthly to be bullshit. It turns out this was $10k pre-discount, and this product was ~FREE for YC companies, who made up ~100% of this companies customer base. So revenue was $0, or very close to it.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Googlebook"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:13:24 +0000

> Intelligence is the new spec.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED how bad google is at copywriting, and it clearly not mattering.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

this makes me so scared to work on OOS. If people saw every random draft PR, branch, design doc I ever made, no doubt the community would be furious

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:12:14 +0000

Disneyland cast member says "world between worlds" == Disney will retcon the new trilogy. The rest is AI slop.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "I am worried about Bun"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:08:32 +0000

TLDR;

> Claude Code appears to be enshittifying. So now I have to worry that Bun could enshittify too

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Cursor Camp"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:05:06 +0000

brother how many times are you gonna comment that

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

frankfrank13 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:46:50 +0000

This is one of those ideas I think makes perfect sense, but requires so much operational change for the entire stack, that it would be very difficult to scale:

- Convincing labs to run distributed, burst-y inference

- Convincing people to run their Mac all day, hoping to make a little profit

- Convincing users to trust a distributed network of un-trusted devices

I had a similar idea, pre-AI, just for compute in general. But solving even 1 of those 3 (swap AI lab for managed-compute-type-company, eg Supabase, Vercel) is nearly impossible.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

frankfrank13 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:40:06 +0000

looks cool! i read `faction-identity.md`, i feel like if you come up with a little more lore, a name may come to you

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:51:49 +0000

I have not read this book. I've been avoiding it for a while for the dumbest possible reason, which is that I only associate this book with SWE's.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:58:35 +0000

An ARK ETF is a smell to me. Besides, based on their holdings, i would never invest. 18% of the fund is SpaceX

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:30:18 +0000

> These are starting points only: customers are responsible for reviewing, modifying, and finalizing their own materials. Draft templates are not the same as “pre-filled evidence.”

Yeah, ok. BRB to start a bank where I template everyone a billion dollars, its up to you to be honest with how much money you have.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:18:33 +0000

I can understand two 20 year olds committing fraud. I can't understand a team of engineers PRE-PUBLISHING A TRUST REPORT before a single field has been filled out. This is worse than fraud, its poor craftsmanship.