Hacker News: iterateoften

New comment by iterateoften in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"

iterateoften — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:58:36 +0000

Just a question, but on these threads it’s nonstop talk about how dangerous the paper is like using it for one dnd game will give you cancer but we don’t blink twice at cashiers handling it 8hrs a day?

New comment by iterateoften in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

iterateoften — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:13:54 +0000

Going from Bambu to a self printed 3d printer I don't even think counts as the same category of devices. Bambu is concentrated on making a plug and play device that just works.

New comment by iterateoften in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

iterateoften — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:20:13 +0000

People love defending Anthropics shortcomings…

“Mythos isn’t supposed to be that good at security, because actually Anthropic was referring more about running llms than mythos specifically”

“The opus model is worse because they have no compute because they are training mythos. The degraded performance is justified!”

“All the bugs in Claude code is just because the models are so good they are just looping and are shipping fast”

Constantly see people crawl out of the woodwork to defend a trillion dollars company overhyping every press release it gives

New comment by iterateoften in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

iterateoften — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:13:34 +0000

It’s easier to judge an objective output like number of words than subjective like quality.

Same as lines of code, etc.

New comment by iterateoften in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

iterateoften — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:31:17 +0000

focus groups are like the sobriety tests on the side of the road. Its just performance and the conclusion was made before it even started.

New comment by iterateoften in "We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy"

iterateoften — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:12:59 +0000

People did and still do the same with electricity and magnets. Both incredibly useful despite it.

New comment by iterateoften in "Where the goblins came from"

iterateoften — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:08:02 +0000

This is funny because it’s a silly topic, but I think it shows something extremely seriously wrong with llms.

The goblins stand out because it’s obvious. Think of all the other crazy biases latent in every interaction that we don’t notice because it’s not as obvious.

Absolutely terrifying that OpenAI is just tossing around that such subtle training biases were hard enough to contain it had to be added to system prompt.

New comment by iterateoften in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

iterateoften — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:32:42 +0000

The next loop

New comment by iterateoften in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

iterateoften — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:20:15 +0000

Lol, I respect karpathy a lot, but this is such an obvious in your face idea that it is laughable to put someone’s name on it.

What’s next “karpathy investing” where ai in a loop builds a portfolio?

New comment by iterateoften in "Is my blue your blue?"

iterateoften — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:58:37 +0000

Im left delighted to find out something new, but left wanting to know how to use it.

Like if im 75% on the green transition, how do i use this information.

New comment by iterateoften in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

iterateoften — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:24:41 +0000

Yeah seems like nonsense advise. Have a code word that was never recorded? I don’t see how that would tote y anything. Like the point of these systems is they can say stuff you never said convincingly

New comment by iterateoften in "Men Who Stare at Walls"

iterateoften — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:11:48 +0000

Zen meditation for an hour staring at a wall is a marathon that at the end results in a semi-psychedelic state for me.

Exercising and sitting b meditating are two related but seriously different things. Which is why there are many other types of meditation to practice (walking, working, silent, etc) but zen mostly considers sitting and looking at a wall the OG

New comment by iterateoften in "Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology"

iterateoften — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:23:47 +0000

Unless you know exactly why paper trading sims are so hard to backrest in practice, it’s silly to make arguments on why your paper trading sim works.

It’s insanely easy to make a trading algo profitable on historical data.

New comment by iterateoften in "Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels"

iterateoften — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:28:03 +0000

You don’t need for every item. Just low frequency high profit goods

New comment by iterateoften in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

iterateoften — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:24:34 +0000

It’s also that agents and ML reach local maximima unless external feedback is given. So your wiki will reach a state and get stuck there.

New comment by iterateoften in "GPT-5.5"

iterateoften — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:43:22 +0000

Cultural influence is another benefit. China is securing its sphere of influence as well as keeping us ai in check.

New comment by iterateoften in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

iterateoften — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:13:12 +0000

Beware. I had Claude code with opus building boards and using spice simulations. It completely hallucinated the capabilities of the board and made some pretty crazy claims like I had just stumbled onto the secret hardware billion dollar project that every home needed.

None of the boards worked and I had to just do the project in codex. Opus seemed too busy congratulating itself to realize it produced gibberish.

New comment by iterateoften in "Codex for almost everything"

iterateoften — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:07:09 +0000

No it’s because Anthropic can’t message anything to its customers without lying.

New comment by iterateoften in "Claude Opus 4.7"

iterateoften — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:03:50 +0000

It’s the official communication that sucks. It’s one thing for the product to be a black box if you can trust the company. But time and time again Boris lies and gaslights about what’s broken, a bug or intentional.

New comment by iterateoften in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

iterateoften — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:26:29 +0000

The high cost of labor has nothing to do with reusable parts of the washing machine. If it was all standardized, you could do a lot of repairs yourself.