Hacker News: gordonhart

New comment by gordonhart in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

gordonhart — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:15:01 +0000

It's the same old "commoditize your complement" [0] playbook being run in the geopolitical arena.

New comment by gordonhart in "Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)"

gordonhart — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:46:52 +0000

Interesting technique, horrible article. Manages to convey significantly less information than the X thread it mined for ad revenue.

https://xcancel.com/wrathofgnon/status/1250287741247426565

New comment by gordonhart in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

gordonhart — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:53:54 +0000

Autonomously Generating Income (which is why it will never be released to the general public)

New comment by gordonhart in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

gordonhart — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:15:38 +0000

Shazeer is joining OpenAI, adjust your fantasy frontier team draft picks accordingly

New comment by gordonhart in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

gordonhart — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:49:30 +0000

Meta has tons of that, but no frontier contender. Clearly there’s _something_ more to the equation than money

New comment by gordonhart in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

gordonhart — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:14:05 +0000

Amazon owns 15-20% of Anthropic.

New comment by gordonhart in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

gordonhart — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:52:39 +0000

They’re in UEFA because half of the countries in Asia (AFC) and Africa (CAF) wouldn’t play them. Same reason Russia considered leaving UEFA recently.

New comment by gordonhart in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

gordonhart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:04:26 +0000

Amazon is thought to own 15-20% of Anthropic which as a company has a valuation of>$1T. Amazon’s stake is probably closer to $200B

New comment by gordonhart in "Open source AI must win"

gordonhart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:18:00 +0000

Appreciate the long answer. Why is it more likely that Gemini 3 Pro/Flash/Lite are distillations of the same parent model than that they’re different training runs on the same dataset, with minor version bumps being different post-training setups?

New comment by gordonhart in "Open source AI must win"

gordonhart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:39:19 +0000

> it's likely they're distilled from the same source

Any credible references for this? The implication that Anthropic has an even bigger and better model that they haven't released is hard to believe.

New comment by gordonhart in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

gordonhart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:29:14 +0000

> That's why developers have UI/UX and design experts assigned to them.

Not everybody works in big tech.

New comment by gordonhart in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

gordonhart — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:09:49 +0000

I prefer this tone to fake marketing speak. If they’d done a proper job here they’d be accused of having GPT write it. At least this is organic laziness!

New comment by gordonhart in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

gordonhart — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:33:10 +0000

Anthropic is at least a Public Benefit Corporation, and likely the first serious test of how useful that distinction is for a hyperscale company building a product with potentially huge societal downsides.

New comment by gordonhart in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

gordonhart — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:49 +0000

The risk here is severely overblown. Low earth orbit is self-cleaning with atmospheric drag. There’s comparatively little in MEO and even in a catastrophic Kessler syndrome scenario it’s still safe to transit through. Polluting higher orbits is so far beyond our current capabilities that it’s not even worth discussing.

New comment by gordonhart in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

gordonhart — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:12:53 +0000

Are they? I don't see them in the Model Catalog on Bedrock.

New comment by gordonhart in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

gordonhart — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:35:55 +0000

Collect and sell data would be my guess. Without ZDR by default they are in a position to collect a crazy amount of data that I’m sure various buyers would be interested in (not just the big labs).

New comment by gordonhart in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

gordonhart — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:10:19 +0000

Letting the model write your commits is the next step in vibe coding. I haven’t taken it yet either.

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

gordonhart — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:04:24 +0000

For Python backends I've seen good success with just making it company policy that everything is synchronous (normal-colored) and bypassing the developer overhead from async/await. Cooperative multitasking is a pain because, well, it requires cooperation. You can go pretty far by just adding more threads, processes, and replicas before it's worth the overhead.

New comment by gordonhart in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

gordonhart — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:29:28 +0000

> Say F9 is $20M and Starship once it starts launching Starlink is $10M that's 150-300+ launches just to break even.

Assuming they deliver the same payload, sure, but that’s very much not the plan.

New comment by gordonhart in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

gordonhart — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:45:51 +0000

Andrew Ng has been investing in AI startups for almost a decade, I would be very surprised if this rising tide left him behind.