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New comment by jw1224 in "Fable 5 is Back"

jw1224 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:05:17 +0000

> When Claude Fable 5 declines a request, the Messages API returns stop_reason: "refusal" as a successful HTTP 200 response, not an error

This is precisely what comes to mind when I think “successful”.

New comment by jw1224 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

jw1224 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:09:42 +0000

Not OP, but I generally agree. Models are powerful enough now to reliably instruct other models. They don’t need fancy tools or IDEs, just the command line.

With deterministic workflows, type-safe languages and test suites, agentic loops pretty much “can’t fail”. They will continue until the types resolve, the tests pass, and the project requirements are deterministically met.

By that point it’s literally just a case of typing a prompt in to a text field, and waiting.

New comment by jw1224 in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

jw1224 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:54:34 +0000

Skills already are "just asking the model". Unless you'd prefer to type out the same instructions every single time?

Skills are literally just Markdown documents that get loaded into context when the /skill-name is invoked.

New comment by jw1224 in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

jw1224 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:59:29 +0000

MLX is Apple’s own machine learning framework, designed for Apple Silicon: https://opensource.apple.com/projects/mlx/

New comment by jw1224 in "LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks"

jw1224 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:15:20 +0000

> “To stave off some obvious comments:

> yoUr'E PRoMPTiNg IT WRoNg!

> Am I though?”

Yes. You’re complaining that Gemini “shits the bed”, despite using 2.5 Flash (not Pro), without search or reasoning.

It’s a fact that some models are smarter than others. This is a task that requires reasoning so the article is hard to take seriously when the author uses a model optimised for speed (not intelligence), and doesn’t even turn reasoning on (nor suggest they’re even aware of it being a feature).

I asked the exact prompt to ChatGPT 5 Thinking and got an excellent answer with cited sources, all of which appears to be accurate.

New comment by jw1224 in "Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus"

jw1224 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:32:31 +0000

The “full Tailwind experience” is already freely available. What “lost opportunities for deep integration” is a frontend CSS framework missing?

Tailwind Plus (the commercial product) is like buying an off-the-shelf template. It’s just a collection of themes and pre-built components — useful for devs who want to get started quickly on a project, but it’s cookie-cutter and can easily be replicated by anyone with Tailwind itself.

New comment by jw1224 in "Exploring Coroutines in PHP"

jw1224 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:41:03 +0000

Associative arrays are iterable internally without needing an interface or key tracking. You can just foreach them.

> Let me guess.

This just proves my point, you call this a “hot mess” whilst completely misunderstanding what it’s even used for.

The Iterator interface isn’t even used in the comment you first replied to.

New comment by jw1224 in "Exploring Coroutines in PHP"

jw1224 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:46:02 +0000

I don’t think you understand the purpose of PHP’s Iterator interface.

New comment by jw1224 in "Exploring Coroutines in PHP"

jw1224 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:40:25 +0000

I’m not sure I follow, what exactly is your complaint? The Iterator interface is described as:

> Interface for external iterators or objects that can be iterated themselves internally

Note “external iterators or objects”. The Iterator interface is not exactly everyday PHP, it’s a specialist utility for making classes iterable so they can be accessed like arrays. Most developers will rarely use it directly, and it’s not being used in the parent comment’s example either.

Iterating over something requires knowing where you are in the sequence, so of course you would need to implement a method to get the current position of the iteration.

New comment by jw1224 in "Exploring Coroutines in PHP"

jw1224 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:09:22 +0000

PHP doesn’t force keys... You can omit the key and simply write `foreach($items as $value)`

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping

jw1224 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:11:58 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3AZay43688

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495154

Points: 129

# Comments: 29

New comment by jw1224 in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

jw1224 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:12:38 +0000

You can buy phenol-free thermal paper, it’s about 20% more expensive where I live but much safer for you, and the quality is just as good.

New comment by jw1224 in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

jw1224 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:11:42 +0000

Great first article, and very interesting to see someone else using a receipt printer for bite-sized task management!

I have a variety of automations running which print actionable tasks to my receipt printer via a Raspberry Pi. It’s nice having a real-life ticket I can take hold of.

One thing to be aware of if you’re handling receipts frequently: make sure to buy phenol-free thermal paper. Phenol is toxic and some types of it are banned in certain countries.

New comment by jw1224 in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

jw1224 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:59:14 +0000

Well if that hypothetical situation ever happens, you can just switch to Linux then.

New comment by jw1224 in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

jw1224 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:42:46 +0000

If that’s the one reason, have you considered just… not using the AI features?

New comment by jw1224 in "Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways"

jw1224 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:26:45 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. I peaked at 137wpm[0] and I’m not ashamed to say I love typing long sentences. I type fast enough that my thoughts normally can’t keep up with my fingers, but when I plan a sentence out in my head, the satisfaction I get from watching my inner monologue transmogrify into words onscreen is palpable. It’s a rush. And I totally get it. Great article!

[0] https://data.typeracer.com/pit/profile?user=mavis_b

New comment by jw1224 in "You share a house with Einstein, Hawking and Tao"

jw1224 — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:00:59 +0000

> If we […] tried to use these systems to solve the kinds of problems we need Einsteins, Hawkings and Taos for, then we would be in for one miserable disappointment after another

We can literally watch Terence Tao himself vibe coding formal proofs using Claude and o4. He doesn’t seem too disappointed.

https://youtu.be/zZr54G7ec7A?si=GpRZK5W1LDvWyBBw

New comment by jw1224 in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

jw1224 — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:14:51 +0000

This is some excellent trivia. Thanks!

New comment by jw1224 in "Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service"

jw1224 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:07:57 +0000

Do you not think the AI output looks far more polished and print-ready? Canny edges have a lot of noise and don't look at all clean for coloring book purposes.

New comment by jw1224 in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

jw1224 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:20:23 +0000

Are you sure about that? It correctly solves the puzzle.

Each step (though a little confusing to parse) does make sense in context.