Hacker News: fritzo

New comment by fritzo in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

fritzo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:42:23 +0000

Sounds reasonable. Is there a good benchmark on which make this decision?

New comment by fritzo in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

fritzo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000

I dunno, seems like Amazon the forest is the real hyperscaler

New comment by fritzo in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

fritzo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:06:26 +0000

Just wait till the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation halts, then you can grow icicles!

New comment by fritzo in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

fritzo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:38:27 +0000

The alternative is 4 years of house arrest, just until the next administration can issue a pardon. There is no sentence between 4 years and capital punishment.

New comment by fritzo in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

fritzo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:14:34 +0000

I doubt you ever understood the solid state physics, semiconductor fabrication processes, supply chain logistics, monetary policy, shipping routes, mining engineering, etc. "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.

New comment by fritzo in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

fritzo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:47:08 +0000

Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question

New comment by fritzo in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

fritzo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:58:41 +0000

By "sizable rock" do you mean large pebble or small boulder?

New comment by fritzo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

fritzo — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:29:12 +0000

What has "artificial" to do with it? Human intelligence is also unauthorized unconscious plagiarism.

New comment by fritzo in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

fritzo — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:47:40 +0000

Dependency bloat and dependency bitrot have made solutions less permanent, have increased the maintenance burden. My ancient projects with zero dependencies still stand. But projects I built on shifting dependencies are rotting and cracking.

New comment by fritzo in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fritzo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:58:51 +0000

Looks to me like a mob of humans, angry they've been deceived by ambiguous communications, product nerfing, surprisingly low usage limits, and an appallingly sycophantic overconfident coding agent

New comment by fritzo in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fritzo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:50:27 +0000

ln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md

There's your one line change.

New comment by fritzo in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

fritzo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:18:06 +0000

If it's a poor location for photovoltaics, it's exactly as a poor for photosynthesis

New comment by fritzo in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

fritzo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:35:25 +0000

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

New comment by fritzo in "A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging"

fritzo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:34:04 +0000

I've also seen a glue-less paper binding trick where two pieces of paper are finely crimped together with some high pressure tool in alternating v^v^v^ patterns, actually making tiny tears in the paper. Does anyone know what kind of tool does that?

New comment by fritzo in "Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3"

fritzo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:57:55 +0000

ELI5 what is a harness?

EDIT from https://arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_3_Technical_Report.pdf:

> We seek to fight two forms of overfitting that would muddy public sensefinding:

> Task-specific overfitting. This includes any agent that is created with knowledge of public ARC-AGI-3 environments, subsequently being evaluated on the same environments. It could be either directly trained on these environments, or using a harness that is handcrafted or specifically configured by someone with knowledge of the public environments.

New comment by fritzo in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

fritzo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:50:40 +0000

Sounds like her first thought was, "I'm talking to a manic guy, and I can use him to make money"

New comment by fritzo in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"

fritzo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:42:29 +0000

Wait, is 474 a number or a proper noun?

New comment by fritzo in "So where are all the AI apps?"

fritzo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:35:09 +0000

They're private, that's the beauty. Code is so cheap now, we can ween ourselves off massive dependency chains.

200 years ago text was much more expensive, and more people memorized sayings and poems and quotations. Now text is cheap, and we rarely quote.

New comment by fritzo in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

fritzo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:53:03 +0000

Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.

New comment by fritzo in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

fritzo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:42:01 +0000

The same could be asked about people. The answer is social intelligence.