Hacker News: granzymes

New comment by granzymes in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

granzymes — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:10:37 +0000

Power companies are a classic example of a natural monopoly because they require a ton of extremely expensive physical infrastructure to connect every house to the grid that would be wasteful to duplicate for every competitor.

The whole point of airplanes is that they require no physical infrastructure between point A and point B.

You can have competing power companies generating the power if the grid is owned by the state (or a regulated monopoly). Coincidentally, that is a good mental model for airlines because airports are often state-owned or if not are highly regulated.

New comment by granzymes in "Elon Musk's worst enemy in court is Elon Musk"

granzymes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:16:44 +0000

This is a truly incredible exchange.

>Savitt asked Musk if he’d raised any objection to the structure then, when he’d received the documents. Musk said that he didn’t read beyond that first box.

>>Musk: I didn’t read the fine print.. We’re going into the fine print of this document.

>>Savitt: It’s a four-page document.

https://archive.ph/rjkoa

Elon Musk's worst enemy in court is Elon Musk

granzymes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/921022/elon-musk-cross-openai-altman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957292

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI

granzymes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:49:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919494/google-pentagon-classified-ai-deal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936156

Points: 317

# Comments: 283

New comment by granzymes in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

granzymes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:35:10 +0000

Political violence is not acceptable in a democracy.

Full stop, no "but". That's all that needs to be said on this thread.

New comment by granzymes in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

granzymes — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:23:53 +0000

Comes impressively close to GPT 5.4 / Gemini 3.1 Pro / Opus 4.6! Mostly behind OpenAI on coding/agentic benchmarks, behind Google on text reasoning, behind Anthropic on Humanity's Last Exam with tools (surprisingly the only benchmark where Anthropic leads currently).

Meta hasn’t fully caught up, but they came close and I think can solidly claim to be a frontier lab again. I’d call it a 3.5 horse race right now, and hopefully their next model improves. More model competition is good!

Poor Grok 4.2 should probably be dropped from the table.

New comment by granzymes in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

granzymes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:42:29 +0000

You are commenting on the article that contains data that backs that up.

New comment by granzymes in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

granzymes — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:07:32 +0000

The irony of this webpage being terribly optimized for mobile clients…

Nested scrollbars! Horizontal and vertical scroll!

New comment by granzymes in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

granzymes — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:15:38 +0000

They’re pretty upfront in their release post that they took an open source model and improved it with their own coding data. They mention “continued pretraining” (on top of the base model) and RL. Cursor never claimed to have done a full pretraining run.

More to the point, beating Opus 4.6 at coding and coming within striking distance of gpt-5.4 is impressive! The benchmarks outperform raw Kimi K2.5.

It’s particularly impressive given larger labs like Meta are struggling to catch up to OpenAI/Anthropic.

New comment by granzymes in "Composer 2"

granzymes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:46:51 +0000

Beating Opus 4.6 and coming within striking distance of gpt-5.4 is impressive! Particularly given larger labs like Meta are struggling to catch up to OpenAI/Anthropic.

More competition among model vendors is great for developers!

New comment by granzymes in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

granzymes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:22:09 +0000

It is actually not argumentum ad hominem, not least because this author is clearly not a person. It is extremely relevant to substance of this post that it was written by an LLM based on an anonymous Reddit commit (based on "reporting" itself written by Claude).

>If it’s clearly wrong then demonstrate.

Sorry, this does not work in the age of AI. If you don't bother writing your own words, then no one should bother responding to them.

New comment by granzymes in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

granzymes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:49:03 +0000

Has HN really stooped so low that we are upvoting unsourced AI slop? This “article” is sourced to a random Reddit thread and was clearly written by an LLM.

> A Reddit researcher just exposed

>The technical reality hits harder than policy abstractions.

> Here’s where the lobbying gets surgical.

New comment by granzymes in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

granzymes — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:47:21 +0000

I have a bug bash in an hour and fixes that need to go in beforehand. So of course GitHub is down.

New comment by granzymes in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

granzymes — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:24:23 +0000

>Surely if OpenAI had insisted upon the same things that Anthropic had, the government would not have signed this agreement.

Have we been watching the same Trump admin for the last year? That sound exactly like something the government would do: pointlessly throw a fit and end up signing a worse deal after blowing up all political capital.

New comment by granzymes in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

granzymes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:20:41 +0000

Insane! I think this has to be the shortest-lived SOTA for any model so far. Competition is amazing.

New comment by granzymes in "Claude Opus 4.6"

granzymes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:17:26 +0000

It only came out 35 minutes ago and GPT-5.3-codex already took the crown away!

New comment by granzymes in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

granzymes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:12:39 +0000

I think Anthropic rushed out the release before 10am this morning to avoid having to put in comparisons to GPT-5.3-codex!

The new Opus 4.6 scores 65.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, up from 64.7 from GPT-5.2-codex.

GPT-5.3-codex scores 77.3.

Musk wins appeal that restores 2018 Tesla pay deal now worth about $155B

granzymes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musk-wins-appeal-restores-2018-tesla-pay-deal-worth-56-billion-2025-12-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331636

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by granzymes in "GPT-5.2"

granzymes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:59:17 +0000

> It'll be noteworthy to see the cost-per-task on ARC AGI v2.

Already live. gpt-5.2-pro scores a new high of 54.2% with a cost/task of $15.72. The previous best was Gemini 3 Pro (54% with a cost/task of $30.57).

The best bang-for-your-buck is the new xhigh on gpt-5.2, which is 52.9% for $1.90, a big improvement on the previous best in this category which was Opus 4.5 (37.6% for $2.40).

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

New comment by granzymes in "US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee"

granzymes — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:29:37 +0000

I’ve gone through this process before and while it was more work it did not take 30 minutes.

I presented a student ID and was escorted through the security line. My baggage was selected for additional screening and I received a pat down search.

I went through an identical procedure on the return flight, right down to the exact words the TSA agent spoke to me while conducting the pat down.