Hacker News: jug

New comment by jug in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

jug — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:00:44 +0000

”If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will." — Steve Jobs

New comment by jug in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

jug — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:47:03 +0000

Looks like an ongoing theme and a very poor benchmark. Not at all the claims I expected.

New comment by jug in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jug — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:43:04 +0000

It's also very surprising to me. This whole deal where humans instantly started taking AI answers at face value, as sources standing on their own legs, or delegating their own mind to a third party, not even a human, but an algorithm.

It's like they're just... Fine?

AI became their god over a few months and it's... Fine?

I thought I knew humanity pretty well and I'm rarely surprised at human large scale behavior these days as I'm hitting 50 myself, but this took me by surprise.

New comment by jug in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

jug — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:50:21 +0000

While oldest source of it, note that the 86-DOS v0.1-C binaries are even earlier (and v0.34 has also been found) than this v1.00 source and can be downloaded and used in an emulator. :-)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/the-oldest-known-ver...

New comment by jug in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

jug — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:46:31 +0000

This is a risk although then this is fortunately a model that isn't tied to Chinese hosting. But indeed something to consider if using straight DeepSeek.com.

New comment by jug in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

jug — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:16:21 +0000

I found this thought provoking and just had to see how the new Gemini 3.5 Flash reasoned about this (I find it fun to go meta on modern AI like this), and I'm happy that I did! Also as an opportunity to trial this recent model.

https://g.co/gemini/share/065ffa89698e

New comment by jug in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

jug — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:36:29 +0000

I think that's what the Omniscience Index is for:

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience#aa-omn...

It rewards correct answers and penalizes hallucinations, and finally no reward for refusing to answer.

It's interesting just how poorly some popular Chinese models fare in this regard, like GLM 5.1 or DeepSeek 4 Pro.

Gemini 3.x has truly remarkable knowledge given how it leads in this benchmark despite being (quite a bit) more prone to hallucinate than Claude Opus.

New comment by jug in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

jug — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:22:03 +0000

They have now been released on e.g Hugging Face with model suffixes "-assistant".

New comment by jug in "DeepSeek v4"

jug — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:11:35 +0000

Shouldn't one use e.g a Wolfram Alpha MCP endpoint for math in AI? From what I've seen on even premium non-quantized models, I would never ever trust the innate ability of a LLM to calculate.

New comment by jug in "DeepSeek v4"

jug — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:43:07 +0000

Prices are also expected to drop significantly in H2 as they move to Huawei Ascend 950 super nodes.

Yes, even compared to this low price point.

As before, the headline news with DeepSeek isn't in the benchmarks, but that they're competitive there while being gut churningly cheap for the Western AI industry.

New comment by jug in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

jug — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:58:11 +0000

It's interesting to note here that Anthropic indeed don't use "do not X" in the Opus system prompts. However, "Claude does not X" is very common.

New comment by jug in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

jug — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:52:58 +0000

> it — a crisis not of computer science but of procurement

> a subtype — not in the object-oriented sense of a type that extends another, but in the mathematical sense of a constrained set

A number of em dashes and "not X, but Y" constructs unfortunately, sometimes even right next to each other like the above.

I'm not convinced this work is wholly AI but it has at least the smell of augmentation or assistance, and a sloppy mindset in terms overseeing it. That indicates a lack of investment from the author which I always think is... unfortunate as a reader, to say the least.

New comment by jug in "Claude Design"

jug — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:35:55 +0000

I think there's a parallel here in advertising and what AI has done there. It's clearly used nowadays, a seasoned user can probably spot it straight away even if it gets harder over time. Still, it's deemed "good enough". The savings versus having a team and shooting on location etc. can be enormous. Even before this launch, I see it on the web. It's already happening.

New comment by jug in "EFF is leaving X"

jug — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:20:36 +0000

How is X even still a thing. I left a few years ago and didn’t even think I was early. Baffling how EFF has supported a person like Elon Musk for this long and not went all in on Mastodon. ”The math isn’t working out”? Such a cold message. Is this just about an equation? The last I expected to hear from EFF. Maybe from an influencer, but EFF?

This is an organization with such a clear orientation that they belong at @eff@mastodon.social and neither X nor Facebook to me (where they’re apparently staying). Why not mind your brand and presence and avoid those slop networks where few F/OSS oriented folks are present anyway.

New comment by jug in "Veracrypt project update"

jug — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:07:13 +0000

I went on a Wikipedia dive and discovered this funny bit regarding the court process surrounding Lavabit and FBI's desire of the TLS private keys.

> The contempt of court was caused by Levison providing the keys printed in a tiny (4 point) font, which was deemed "largely illegible" by an FBI motion, which went on to complain that "To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data."

(And to be clear, that's all they ever saw of said keys)

New comment by jug in "Nikon Z9 Aboard the Artemis II Moon Mission at the Last Minute"

jug — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:01:33 +0000

From the article I assume D5 was used simply because it was battle tested and proven, and a an additional Z9 was picked because they fancy the camera and they want to know if it can also be used.

Maybe there's more to it? Otherwise I think personal camera preferences other than radiation performance decides.

Edit: Ah missed the bottom part of it where they mention the Z9 was heavily modified for temp and radiation in cooperation with Nikon.

New comment by jug in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

jug — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:38:32 +0000

I recommend https://issinfo.net/artemis over the surge of vibe coded Artemis II trackers. Seen two others so far and they've all had major inaccuracies either regarding trajectory, current distance, or current mission state. One even said the remaining mission time was over 400 days. They all obviously used Claude Code.

New comment by jug in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

jug — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:03:14 +0000

I agree; LMArena died for me with the Llama 4 debacle. And not only the gamed scores, but seeing with shock and horror the answers people found good. It does test something though: the general "vibe" and how human/friendly and knowledgeable it _seems_ to be.

New comment by jug in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

jug — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:17:43 +0000

Yup, this brings back my academia years in 1998, sitting with KDE 1.0 and Java 1.1. It was mostly Java, then Perl as this fabulous scripting/glue language, teeny bit of C and MIPS Assembler for the low level courses.

We didn't touch a fairly esoteric language called Python much. Because we saw the future. Java and IPv6 was about to change everything.

New comment by jug in "The 49MB web page"

jug — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:02:17 +0000

I was thinking about creating charts of shame for this across some sites. Is there some browser extension that categorizes the data sources and requests like in a pie chart or table? Tracking, ad media, first party site content...? Would be nice with a piled bar chart with piles colorized by data category.

Maybe you'd need one chart for request counts (to make tracking stand out more) and another for amount of transferred data.