Hacker News: ianhawes

New comment by ianhawes in "Claude: System Prompts"

ianhawes — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:41:15 +0000

Multiple reasons probably:

1. Less context window to work with.

2. Things were "different" in the early days. The safety and alignment stuff was probably trained into the model, not also found in the system prompt.

3. Safety and alignment meant something different 3 years ago. Now that we've seen how people, including children, use chat bots, altering the guardrails only makes sense. Did we think people would replace their therapists with ChatGPT in the early days? No. Do we know now that they will? Yes.

New comment by ianhawes in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

ianhawes — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:08:49 +0000

I won't comment on accuracy, but in internal benchmarks, Mistral OCR is significantly faster than comparable APIs.

New comment by ianhawes in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

ianhawes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:50:25 +0000

It's impossible to tell. Are they behind who? And on what?

It depends on who you ask. And everything is a vibe because all of this is new and things move fast. A week is a month in AI-land. A month; a year. A year? A decade.

On coding? I still like Fable better than Sol. But they're close enough that it probably is a vibe thing. Fable writes long commit messages, Sol writes commit messages like a college student in an elective computer class.

For API use, I'd say the Responses API that OpenAI architected is superior to Claude's Messages API. But again, I'm basing that off my vibes

Claude Design creates marketing imagery very effectively. GPT Image is the best imagegen model as ranked by users. Anthropic doesn't even have an imagegen model.

Anthropic definitely has compute scaling issues. OpenAI seems to have a pez dispenser that they click and out pops a GPU.

Anthropic's messaging is that they're building AI with guardrails but they've been banning people's accounts nonstop and their customer support is a lobotomized AI chatbot.

OpenAI has first mover advantage and to people not in tech, ChatGPT is synonymous with AI. But they also seem super sinister, like Uber circa 2015.

Or maybe I'm just suffering from AI psychosis. I have to go, my usage meter is about to reset.

New comment by ianhawes in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ianhawes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:54:36 +0000

Came here to ask basically this. We use 3.1 Pro internally and it's great.

New comment by ianhawes in "Ollama: All Aboard Open Models"

ianhawes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:57:57 +0000

I wasn't aware of the politics behind Ollama but I have noticed the lack of variety in quant versions, the lag between availability on Ollama, and their push to get you to use their cloud versions.

I'm going to uninstall Ollama.

New comment by ianhawes in "Claude Sonnet 5"

ianhawes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:27:25 +0000

Okay I don’t care about “eventually”, I want Fable now.

New comment by ianhawes in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

ianhawes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:37:25 +0000

Imagine saying Gemini is so far behind when Llama has unreleased max models from last year that are currently beat by quantized Qwen2.5 models.

New comment by ianhawes in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

ianhawes — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:09:10 +0000

You've just described what already has to occur for PERM, you have to post on the respective State Workforce Agency website.

New comment by ianhawes in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

ianhawes — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:07:07 +0000

They still do the tiny print in a Sunday newspaper, they just also now are supposed to post on LinkedIn and the website (aka normal hiring process).

New comment by ianhawes in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ianhawes — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:10:10 +0000

What made you switch from E-3 to H-1B?

New comment by ianhawes in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ianhawes — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:06:46 +0000

If they've complied with the DOL regulations and requirements, what makes you think they're violating the law?

New comment by ianhawes in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ianhawes — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:37:01 +0000

I want to hire who I want to hire. Don't tell me who I "should" hire, that is just another form of DEI.

New comment by ianhawes in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

ianhawes — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:11:04 +0000

> Meta is the sole reason PHP is still alive.

This could not be more wrong. Meta is still using PHP AFAIK but I'm not sure it's modern. They created the Hack programming language ~10 years ago but it doesn't look like it's been updated in several years. Most of the improvements they touted were included in PHP 7 years ago.

New comment by ianhawes in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

ianhawes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:32:05 +0000

Nothing happens when I click `Scan`.

New comment by ianhawes in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

ianhawes — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:22:20 +0000

AutoRune and SCAR! Though, I never cared much for Delphi.

New comment by ianhawes in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

ianhawes — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:13:34 +0000

> The Claude Agent SDK is a collection of tools that helps developers build powerful agents on top of Claude Code.

https://claude.com/blog/building-agents-with-the-claude-agen...

From September 29, 2025

New comment by ianhawes in "Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models"

ianhawes — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:25:32 +0000

Please add Chandra by Datalab

New comment by ianhawes in "We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project"

ianhawes — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:16:00 +0000

Did you incorporate as a C corp or LLC?

New comment by ianhawes in "Benchmarking the Most Reliable Document Parsing API"

ianhawes — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:30:52 +0000

I just tested a non-English document and it rendered English text. Does your model not support anything other than English?

New comment by ianhawes in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

ianhawes — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:53:33 +0000

Imagine laying off one of the most genuine, friendly developer evangelists of all time.