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New comment by hughw in "Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis"

hughw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:31:47 +0000

came here to say this!

New comment by hughw in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

hughw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:10:51 +0000

I take BND less seriously since I learned they're eager to sell you merch:

https://www.bnd.shop/en

New comment by hughw in "Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI"

hughw — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:32:41 +0000

Not saying you're wrong. But right now I'm trying to craft some skill prose to instruct an agent how to optimize a certain process based on my own heuristics, and it's failing. Maybe I can let a super agent divine the right skill prose, iterating to see what works. It's worth a try.

New comment by hughw in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

hughw — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:17:27 +0000

Chat Here YC26

How OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

hughw — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851120

Points: 5

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New comment by hughw in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

hughw — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:34:33 +0000

When I read "But holography really starts to bite only after..." my LLM-dar goes off. Everything I read up to that point was comprehensible, but man, I have developed a shudder reaction to any language suggesting AI was involved ibn its creation.

New comment by hughw in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

hughw — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:12:12 +0000

I took a cue from this link and created an explainer for a complex new feature I've been building with heavy Claude assistance.

The one shot video was brilliant and polished. It would need minor refinement before presenting to a customer, because it used some of that internal vocabulary Claude makes up to describe parts of a system it's working on.

However: I found the explainer astoundingly useful to me. Now, finally, I understand some of that internal vocabulary Claude's been burying me with. The visuals really helped round out my understanding of what it's been talking about.

New comment by hughw in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

hughw — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:21:23 +0000

If you didn't want it before, you probably never will. It comes with a convenience cost and the risk you may permanently lose access to your iCloud stuff if you lose your password. With the normal level of privacy, Apple is there to help you or your loved ones get access to your stuff. Most people need that much more than they need inviolable privacy.

New comment by hughw in "RSA-896"

hughw — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:01:11 +0000

I don't get your argument. The GPU effectiveness derives from massive parallelism. Has nothing to do with integer vs floating point. You just can't cram 20,000 CPU cores in the same space a GPU puts the same number of SIMTs. You'll never crack it on CPUs.

New comment by hughw in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

hughw — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:57:09 +0000

Yes, we need both.

New comment by hughw in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

hughw — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:33:04 +0000

Seriously a trillion dollar company with zero product management expertise.

New comment by hughw in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

hughw — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:10:17 +0000

Just yesterday I experienced this product weirdness -- oh you're in a chat in this project and I can't do that, you need to open a task.

The product management at Anthropic is pretty... nonexistent?

New comment by hughw in "AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun"

hughw — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:28:48 +0000

Deepseek, Kimi, Qwen.

New comment by hughw in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

hughw — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:13:13 +0000

Also highlights that it ought to be opt-in

New comment by hughw in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

hughw — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:12:17 +0000

Looking forward to my fourteen cents from the future class action lawsuit.

New comment by hughw in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

hughw — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:10:03 +0000

You selected "do not train on my prompts" in your settings, the answer from OpenAI cannot be "While unlikely, we cannot rule out..." ???? What am I missing?

New comment by hughw in "This Month in Ladybird – August 2026"

hughw — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:36:20 +0000

As of a week ago their pre-alpha version was capable of running my extremely heavy JS+ SVG + worker thread + SSE app, a bit slowly I admit but correctly in all major exercises I tried. So, I'm optimistic. They're doing great.

Separately I wonder if the compatibility job is easier now that you can just give the HTML5 spec to Fable and Bob's your uncle.

New comment by hughw in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

hughw — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:08:19 +0000

Now do Austin?

New comment by hughw in "Check if a file was made with Claude"

hughw — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:08:03 +0000

Or just write a 6 line program to remove the metainfo from the file?

New comment by hughw in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

hughw — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:58:13 +0000

It's about to squash a tiny baby pelican