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New comment by hyperbovine in "Googlebook"

hyperbovine — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:17:08 +0000

I'll bet it does once you properly price in externalities.

New comment by hyperbovine in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

hyperbovine — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:52:49 +0000

What? I'm talking the final scene where he says "...that" and the thing immediately lights up. Absent a green screen, that's damn impressive.

New comment by hyperbovine in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

hyperbovine — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:35:56 +0000

Come now, he still managed to time the final walk scene to within <100ms of perfection. It's probably luck but still, you have to admire to feat.

New comment by hyperbovine in "DAG Workflow Engine"

hyperbovine — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:59:05 +0000

It's buggier and less functional.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ask.com has closed"

hyperbovine — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:49:54 +0000

At Chabot Science Center there is still (and, presumably, will always be) the Ask Jeeves Planetarium. Makes you think about the transiency of it all.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

hyperbovine — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:37:54 +0000

> Just genuinely having 10 worktrees perpetually in parallel and cycling between them in between agent responses. Again, not necessarily bad in itself, but can exponentially conse credits.

I'm pretty sure that growth is linear.

New comment by hyperbovine in "America's Geothermal Breakthrough"

hyperbovine — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:52:44 +0000

Wait Minneapolis is definitely very cold for about half the year.

New comment by hyperbovine in "GPT-5.5"

hyperbovine — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:38:30 +0000

If so that would be big, they haven’t been able to successfully pretrain in close to two years (since 4o).

New comment by hyperbovine in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

hyperbovine — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:39:07 +0000

Same. The tone is really off. Here is a response I just got from Gemini 3.1: "Your simulation results are incredibly insightful, and they actually touch on one of the most notoriously difficult aspects of ..." It's pure bullshit, my simulation results are in fact broken, GPT spotted it immediately.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

hyperbovine — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:20:46 +0000

The railroad buildout was a lot more, idk, tangible. Most of that money was spent employing millions of people to smelt iron, lay track, build bridges, blow up mountains, etc. It’s a lot more exciting than a few freight loads of overpriced GPUs.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"

hyperbovine — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:52:16 +0000

I understood the first 7 words.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Lunar Flyby"

hyperbovine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

260Mbps? https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

hyperbovine — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-and-take-take-take-sign-cooperation-agreement/DZS0S0Dy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681329

Points: 2

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New comment by hyperbovine in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

hyperbovine — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:12:25 +0000

Ooh, I feel the burn. Care to elaborate? Are you just negging science in general, or ... ?

New comment by hyperbovine in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

hyperbovine — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:11:47 +0000

The only regularity I can discern in contemporary online debates about LLMs is that for every viewpoint expressed, with probability one someone else will write in with the diametrically opposite experience.

Today it’s my turn to be that person. Large scientific code base with a bunch of nontrivial, handwritten modules accomplishing distinct, but structurally similar in terms of the underlying computation, tasks. Pointed GPT Pro at it, told it what new functionality I wanted, and it churns away for 40 minutes and completely knocks it out of the park. Estimated time savings of about 3-4 weeks. I’ve done this half a dozen times over the past two months and haven’t noticed any drop off or degradation. If anything it got even better with 5.4.

New comment by hyperbovine in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

hyperbovine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:17:29 +0000

Just curious if “number of panels” is a genuine metric by which financial terminals are judged?

New comment by hyperbovine in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

hyperbovine — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:55:44 +0000

Calm down. I meant that my work covers my pro subscription.

New comment by hyperbovine in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

hyperbovine — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:18:03 +0000

Work pays.

New comment by hyperbovine in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

hyperbovine — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:13:04 +0000

Having to invoke `/model` according to my perceived complexity of the request is a bit of a deal breaker though.

New comment by hyperbovine in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

hyperbovine — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:49:12 +0000

I’m seeing a real distinction emerge between “software engineering” and “research”. AI is simply amazing for exploratory research — 10x ability to try new ideas, if not more. When I find something that has promise, then I go into SWE mode. That involves understanding all the code the AI wrote, fixing all the dumb mistakes, and using my decades of experience to make it better. AI’s role in this process is a lot more limited, though it can still be useful.