Hacker News: jwolfe

New comment by jwolfe in "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"

jwolfe — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:40:10 +0000

This is very cool. Unfortunate that it gives the wrong pronunciation when words get split in a line wrap (e.g., 大学 got split between lines and changed to incorrect furigana for me).

New comment by jwolfe in "Gemini 4 Argon"

jwolfe — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:08:27 +0000

The Internet says they have a 27% stake. Where'd you get your number from?

New comment by jwolfe in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

jwolfe — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:45:09 +0000

A whole section of the article is about this. "Can Land Value Tax Be Passed on to Tenants?"

New comment by jwolfe in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"

jwolfe — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:35:46 +0000

This definition of cost is not particularly useful. You want cost per task, not cost per 1m tokens. Artificial Analysis does a good job of this.

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

jwolfe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:44:42 +0000

Yes, the first sentence of the article.

New comment by jwolfe in "MiMo v2.6"

jwolfe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:31:09 +0000

This is true, and it's a good point. I agree that open weight model regulation would either limit the intelligence of open weight models below the frontier or kill them entirely. It would not prevent closed weight Chinese models, but those aren't really tenable in American enterprises unless they strike deals with American cloud providers to deploy them, via products like Bedrock. I unfortunately also have seen no evidence that we can put any sort of guardrails on open weight models whatsoever and so am reluctantly convinced that they should be regulated below the frontier until such a time as someone comes up with a mechanism that is not circumventable.

New comment by jwolfe in "MiMo v2.6"

jwolfe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:17:32 +0000

Please elaborate on what the AI labs are specifically requesting and how that results in slowing down Chinese model progress below the frontier.

New comment by jwolfe in "MiMo v2.6"

jwolfe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:16:41 +0000

That's what pacing the frontier is, and is what the labs are pushing for.

New comment by jwolfe in "MiMo v2.6"

jwolfe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:01:03 +0000

Please explain how putting an upper bound on how good the strongest models can be prevents cheaper less strong models from catching up, rather than enabling it. I do not understand this argument at all.

New comment by jwolfe in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

jwolfe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:57:00 +0000

claude.md predates agents.md.

New comment by jwolfe in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

jwolfe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:55:31 +0000

Every turn means more tokens in ways that are not obvious to most people and lead to tons of unnecessary cache reads.

No harness can batch your agents.md read with the reads the contents of the file tell it to read.

New comment by jwolfe in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

jwolfe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:38:20 +0000

This wastes both tokens and turns. But yes it's probably the best option we have today.

New comment by jwolfe in "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases"

jwolfe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:44:35 +0000

3 of those are already in there.

New comment by jwolfe in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

jwolfe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:18:13 +0000

I can't imagine that they had managed access to the internet but could not figure out how to contact anyone at the company if they wanted to.

New comment by jwolfe in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

jwolfe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:33:28 +0000

That is apparently the existing academic term. It's got a Wikipedia page. But yes, all buzzwords were invented.

New comment by jwolfe in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"

jwolfe — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:51:55 +0000

If bash placed the current directory in your PATH by default, then yes.

New comment by jwolfe in "FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11"

jwolfe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:48:34 +0000

You're in luck: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/design/corou...

New comment by jwolfe in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

jwolfe — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:45:32 +0000

They're referring to Enterprise customers, though should have been clear about it. Enterprise plans on Claude for example no longer include any baseline tokens. It's 100% usage based pricing.

New comment by jwolfe in "Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?"

jwolfe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:49:43 +0000

That's not a very good tldr. The answer claimed in the paper is that the combination of the two is better than either alone.

New comment by jwolfe in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

jwolfe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:04:45 +0000

Fortunately the economics of infinitely copyable software aren't going anywhere. If there is actually a sizable market, it can be served with relatively little cost, compared to hand-producing physical goods. I am not fully convinced there will be such a market, though.