Hacker News: internetter

New comment by internetter in "You said no MCP"

internetter — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:20:04 +0000

Yeah I'm not a huge AI bull but I've just never understood why MCP needs to exist when OpenAPI could've just been extended

New comment by internetter in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

internetter — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:21:58 +0000

First, they come for the programmers, and next the mathematicians. Then it will be the biologists, lawyers and doctors. Humanities will stake it out a little bit longer because AI isn’t human, but AI companies would be dammed if they don’t try. Eventually, with advancements in robotics, stabs at increasingly more physical sciences will also be attempted. Eventually, AI will have its hand in the pie of all knowledge work, if it is possible. Not to mention all the roles like tech support and customer service. Once they have gotten as far as they think they can go, they will try to turn up the prices. However, they might struggle to do so as models are becoming a commodity. This is why they are arguing for regulation and stating that only they can tame these beasts.

New comment by internetter in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

internetter — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:37:37 +0000

> Unfortunately, it breaks about 30% of the web.

Only 30?

New comment by internetter in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

internetter — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:21:42 +0000

I was being hyperbolic, but reading the comment back it doesn't really come across that way.

New comment by internetter in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

internetter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:45:18 +0000

the stock is up 150% because if Moderna has indeed cured cancer, the stock is worth many magnitudes more than that. It's presumably based on the probability this report is indeed as promising as it is at face value. If Moderna had announced "we are 100% sure cancer is cured" the stock would've gone up much more

New comment by internetter in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

internetter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:44:39 +0000

where do you draw the line? (I sound like PETA). But it's a valid question. for instance, I have empathy for dolphins, and for elephants. I have empathy for cows, despite eating them. They are more smart than we give them credit for. I have empathy for a bee when I must kill it, and certainly for the broader colony and species. I don't think I have empathy for lice or ticks or mosquitoes, but where on earth is that line, and what does it represent?

New comment by internetter in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

internetter — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:00:55 +0000

Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.

OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662

New comment by internetter in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

internetter — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:51:04 +0000

Nobody in the comments talking about snapchat where like one of the core pillars of what "sets their service apart" is the difficulty of taking a screenshot without notifying the other party

New comment by internetter in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

internetter — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:20:33 +0000

> but there’s a reason 99% of the world’s devs does not follow that workflow.

Is there?

New comment by internetter in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

internetter — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:39:04 +0000

That is essentially your number of followers. Pretty hard to have a system that cannot be gamed. I think followers are probably loosely correlated with tech ecosystem impact in some capacity, but the second there is an incentive to accumulate them, well...

New comment by internetter in "Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]"

internetter — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:55:49 +0000

"all traffic through our systems for collecting human feedback data from contractors evaluating our models ran without blocking biological classifiers"

"totaled around 133M exchanges."

While this wound up being relatively benign, I still find this concerning, amidst numerous sandbox escapes, and previously, unreleased models being accessible via a custom URL. I don't think these companies are giving the responsibility they possess enough weight. How many more issues like this exist?

New comment by internetter in "Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]"

internetter — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:42:51 +0000

Is fable not just mythos with safeguards?

New comment by internetter in "Compression is prediction"

internetter — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:59:48 +0000

common theory. see https://prize.hutter1.net/

New comment by internetter in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

internetter — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:12:11 +0000

also see https://caniuse.com/?search=squircle (though no gradient border)

New comment by internetter in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

internetter — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:29:34 +0000

Millions of households have plug-in solar. The payoff is something like 1.5-5 years. Of course, this should be tens or hundreds of millions, but this isn’t vaporware

New comment by internetter in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"

internetter — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:04:19 +0000

The computer seems to have identified source code to blame though? Unless of course it hallucinated which there’s always a non zero chance of

New comment by internetter in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

internetter — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:32:20 +0000

a sub (level below) domain from a top level domain (.self) would presumably be pavel.self

New comment by internetter in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

internetter — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:41:06 +0000

You're being deliberately obtuse. Canvas has many many features. Wikis and discussion boards and quizzes (with some anticheat) and groups and the list goes on and on. Furthermore, while it was never the flashiest thing, it did it better than many of its predecessors. Yes, an individual class may not use all of these features, and yes canvas has suffered feature creep even over my time as a student and yes canvas is not doing anything technically challenging, but there is enough of it that each school rolling their own everything would be a drastic waste of everybody's time and money.

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

internetter — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:38:33 +0000

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/03/05/cursor-goes...

"Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute"

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

internetter — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:36:47 +0000

I know I'm responding to AI right now, but

> which means figuring out if the company can afford this level of productivity at scale.

If it was actually productive, then the revenue would increase and affordability wouldn't be a question.