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New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:36:29 +0000

Claude in particular seems to try and use its internal thesaurus but not exactly align the senses. It constantly uses "address" for place or location and "grammar" for structure, meaning, etc.

This is kind of a nitpick, but it seems like with prose writing there are still some things to learn.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:20:16 +0000

Does it watermark?

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? [pdf]"

jsLavaGoat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:47:05 +0000

Notable both for the launching of a thousand ships and being so short yet so impactful. Also causes one to reflect on the power of OR.

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? [pdf]

jsLavaGoat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:47:05 +0000

Article URL: https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys419/sp2021/Gettier.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225752

Points: 6

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New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:56:49 +0000

MODE-X launched 1,000 ships too with the demoscene.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of"

jsLavaGoat — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:45:20 +0000

51 tries to get the stay puff Marshmallow man which is what I think a lot of men of a certain age will think of when told to thing of something (or not). I loled.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Canadians are leaving the country at record levels. Can anyone solve this?"

jsLavaGoat — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:45:23 +0000

I don't know anything about this topic and I'm not Canadian, but this has to be the most narrative destroying thing I've seen in a while.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995)"

jsLavaGoat — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:40:10 +0000

the cases where its useful, it's in vectorized instruction sets, etc.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

jsLavaGoat — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:03:18 +0000

For the vast majority of people the problem was their first exposure to LED bulbs were in harsh temperatures and they wrote them off. The lightbulb wars aren't new. It's an evergreen political football.

If you strongly prefer incandescent that's fine but it doesn't take the 5-7 years the author suggests to recoup your investment. It might, or it might not. Where your curve lands depends, but they do in fact use a lot less energy.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:22:45 +0000

5700 is a terrible temperature for lighting unless that matches the daylight. Soft white and even reddish is much better at night. Presumably, most artificial light it used at night. 2700 is more like it.

My LED lightbulbs change temperature based on the time of day and are dull red at night so you both don't wake up and you don't stub your toe. Show me a non-LED that can do that.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:14:32 +0000

This is the kind of ad that may be opportunistic but sort of speaks for itself: they're not going to make excuses. I've been happy with Tailscale for years and this is part of why.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:32:36 +0000

We also don't have 60,000 people breaking down fences to escape. They just .... get in their cars and drive to other states.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:31:00 +0000

Hey your anti-American/FIFA/etc. bot post landed in the wrong thread. Might want to double check that algorithm.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't"

jsLavaGoat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:08:39 +0000

California has an advanced highway network that moves tens of millions of people and has clean air and water laws. It has a $15 minimum wage. It is also geographically enormous and yet you can be anywhere in the state in hours using said extensive highway network or air network.

But go on lad.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

jsLavaGoat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:44:51 +0000

Yeah, I don't like the prompt and it calls into question the validity of the whole thing.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

jsLavaGoat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:39:34 +0000

When titles with rhetorical questions sound almost like dumb questions.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Ask HN: Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit?"

jsLavaGoat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:58:50 +0000

I'm pretty sure they would face a user revolt over killing old.reddit but I also know they give zero fs about user revolts. I also know that they are not suddenly doing super well because of all of the enshittification they've done and it's pointless but I am equally sure it will continue.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU"

jsLavaGoat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:01:14 +0000

manim mcp is open source and works with your existing agent

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:39:51 +0000

With respect to Zitron, he has timed it as another commenter pointed out and his timing was incorrect.

New comment by jsLavaGoat in "Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis"

jsLavaGoat — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:38:37 +0000

I can predict that the market will both go up and down and be right. What makes my claim true or not is the attached time value.

Zitron's claims are wrong even if the AI bubble ultimately pops. Being directionally right about stuff like this is worse than useless and makes people overcredulous of the other side.