Hacker News: g42gregory

New comment by g42gregory in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

g42gregory — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:08:36 +0000

If guarantee could be scaled down, it’s not a guarantee, is it? Expected guarantee, proposed guarantee, something along those lines. I think the point here is that the press has been presenting this as an iron-clad guarantee, while in reality, it’s not a guarantee at all.

New comment by g42gregory in "Claude Seems Down"

g42gregory — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:21:37 +0000

They are busy implementing text watermarks.

New comment by g42gregory in "Having fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLI"

g42gregory — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:47:09 +0000

I use OMP with Matt Pocock skills installed and it works great. Code quality is better and it uses less tokens. I didn't extend it much, but it certainly is very extendable.

New comment by g42gregory in "SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost"

g42gregory — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:58:43 +0000

Wait, first they stopped hiring because AI is going to replace everybody. Now they stopped hiring because AI, which was going to replace everybody, costs too much.

You can’t make this stuff up.

New comment by g42gregory in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

g42gregory — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:45:54 +0000

I may be wrong, but I think this could be traced to the Microsoft's increasing reliance on the outsourced engineering workforce. Regardless of the country it has been outsourced to, the quality of service will suffer, apparently greatly as we now see.

It seems to manifest in many places: AI slop, Github outages, recently Miscoroft sent me an email demanding that I subscribe to 365, in order for MS Office (which I already paid for) to continue to work. I simply moved on to the other, free, provider.

Perhaps, it's time to evaluate the use of the Microsoft products?

New comment by g42gregory in "Zed DeltaDB"

g42gregory — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:12:48 +0000

This looks very promising.

New comment by g42gregory in "Zed DeltaDB"

g42gregory — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:10:49 +0000

Yeah, I saw the same degradation. I will try the terminal threads that a poster below has mentioned. It sounds very interesting.

New comment by g42gregory in "Zed DeltaDB"

g42gregory — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:07:27 +0000

Looks like a great feature/product/functionality. I hope that Zed editor will make it work with LLMs/agents that run in the terminal, not just the Zen Agent itself. Is it even possible? I use OMP.sh agent running in Zed terminal.

New comment by g42gregory in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

g42gregory — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:36:56 +0000

With a very few exceptions, I don’t watch anything made past 2016. Not sure what happened in Hollywood then, but it’s just seems that they are constantly making some sort of public service messages that they need to pay me to watch. Not the other way around. That goes even if I agree with some of the messages.

New comment by g42gregory in "Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies"

g42gregory — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:19:39 +0000

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened the way Anthropic describes it? The frontier labs seemingly trying to outdo each other: See how dangerous my model is? No, my models has been even worse. Quick, ban all Chinese open source!

New comment by g42gregory in "Canadians are leaving the country at record levels. Can anyone solve this?"

g42gregory — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:54:56 +0000

As country getting closer to the Communism, people seem to take notice.

New comment by g42gregory in "Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth"

g42gregory — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:25:28 +0000

When they talk about everybody losing their jobs, that doesn’t bother them one bit. In fact, they seem to be truly happy when they talk about that. But this, Oh No!

New comment by g42gregory in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

g42gregory — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:28:32 +0000

The LLM will write, with proper care, a code that is correct for contribution. However, for the code quality (proper decomposition, etc...), I would not expect frontier models to write anything near that GCC-level coding standards would require.

New comment by g42gregory in "Our position on open-weights models"

g42gregory — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:04:35 +0000

Perhaps, the general public needs to formulate its position on Anthropic models...

New comment by g42gregory in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

g42gregory — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:07:51 +0000

If you are a Mathematician or Theoretical Physicist, you can come up with a theory of why LLMs even work in the first place. And what to do next, after LLMs.

New comment by g42gregory in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

g42gregory — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:37:16 +0000

Open-weights models will be downloaded from China and run on local/corporate-owned AI hardware. You would have to ban Internet access and AI hardware next.

New comment by g42gregory in "Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)"

g42gregory — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:11:28 +0000

Make no mistake: the only reason you are getting the Fable 5 on Max plans is the Chinese competition.

Without it, you would be paying $2,000/month (Sam Altman, circa 2023/24 when he was saying GPT-4 had IQ of 130).

New comment by g42gregory in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

g42gregory — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:05:28 +0000

China’s strategy seems to be serving customers’ needs. Yes, it’s winning, as expected.

And when will we stop equating US Economy with 2 companies?

The actual US Economy will only benefit.

New comment by g42gregory in "Qwen 3.8"

g42gregory — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:27:38 +0000

As I recall, in 2023/24 OpenAI told US Gov that AGI will be achieved in 2026 and we will use this AGI to “dominate” China. Based on this, US Gov cut off China from all AI hardware. It looks like China got the message and this is the response.

Also, a little competition is good for everybody (especially US consumers), no?

New comment by g42gregory in "Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI"

g42gregory — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:38:25 +0000

The current system in healthcare hurts consumers. We certainly do not want the same system in AI.

Frontier AI is a business to be “the smartest guy in the room”. It will always be hyper competitive just because of that.

The fate of any individual frontier company is irrelevant. What matters is AI consumers, and broad accessibility of AI to those consumers. If one of the AI “frontiers” bites the dust, the next one will step right in.