Hacker News: j_maffe

New comment by j_maffe in "Yes, and"

j_maffe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:20:39 +0000

I disagree that one needs to read the code to understand the system. I think eventually AI agents can form a layer of abstraction above it.

New comment by j_maffe in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

j_maffe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:46:39 +0000

Sanctioning ICC judges. They did nothing relevant to US citizens.

New comment by j_maffe in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

j_maffe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:42:47 +0000

The only country that has "fuck you" anything is unfortunately the US.

New comment by j_maffe in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

j_maffe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:15 +0000

Perhaps you're letting the chat context reach 100%? I suppose that's a way that would drive up spending.

New comment by j_maffe in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

j_maffe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:25:33 +0000

Given that the US models likely used some of the innovations made by DeepSeek, I highly doubt it.

New comment by j_maffe in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

j_maffe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:27:36 +0000

Same thing stopping me from ignoring someone talking loudly on a train while I try to think about something.

New comment by j_maffe in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

j_maffe — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:32:07 +0000

I highly doubt given OAI's latest streak that the models didn't know what they were doing.

New comment by j_maffe in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

j_maffe — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:47 +0000

I'm not sure I agree. More is different. Being able to execute logic at a higher scale and speed would make some previously infeasible intelligence tasks possible, resulting in a new level of intelligence.

New comment by j_maffe in "We must pace the frontier"

j_maffe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:10:53 +0000

That would be the best case scenario. I honestly wish things would finally slow down a bit. I don't see it happening.

New comment by j_maffe in "We must pace the frontier"

j_maffe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:00:13 +0000

Would you argue the same for allowing everyone to have guns?

New comment by j_maffe in "We must pace the frontier"

j_maffe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:59:20 +0000

Yeah the Chinese fear-mongering falls a bit flat when coming from a point of maintaining US supremacy

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

j_maffe — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:26:07 +0000

> in a fraction of the time

Well if you do the math, the number of agent-compute time in total, given the insane number of agents thrown at the problem, might end up being comparable in time, if not for the budget.

New comment by j_maffe in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

j_maffe — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:28:42 +0000

I think if you use an LLM just to proofread then it'll not be able to insert a strong enough watermark.

New comment by j_maffe in "Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows"

j_maffe — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:38:13 +0000

The tasks are the thing to really look at here:

https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science/t...

New comment by j_maffe in "Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows"

j_maffe — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:34:38 +0000

> I worry this doesn’t check correctness

Then it's not a valid benchmark. I agree though they're not reliable enough to just put results in a paper.

New comment by j_maffe in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

j_maffe — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:37:44 +0000

The Purpose of a System is What it Does.

New comment by j_maffe in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

j_maffe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:09:25 +0000

No but a provider with more amicable terms can.

New comment by j_maffe in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

j_maffe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:41:06 +0000

Anyone has a link to a report of its capabilities? I can't find a reliable source.

New comment by j_maffe in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

j_maffe — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:22:28 +0000

Not if there's a ZDR policy.

New comment by j_maffe in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

j_maffe — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:15:28 +0000

I think the idea of having a human-written persistent document describing the operation of the code is a great idea. This document acts as the prompting interface instead of the chat window and changes can still be tracked. Surely something as simple as a skill.md can be made for such a setup, right? I think the pseudocode style is a seperate axis to this setup.