Hacker News: karussell

New comment by karussell in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

karussell — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:25:00 +0000

I have the same problem and I wondered what if the chatty output is a requirement for its (better?) reasoning capabilities?

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

karussell — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:51:15 +0000

Maybe they want you to feel how much better Opus 5 is :)

New comment by karussell in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"

karussell — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:26:31 +0000

I wondered how watermarks are in the interests of the AI companies, but now it is more clear to me as there are two benefits:

first, they can skip them for training and

second, the AI output can be licensed to reduce, or at least detect, that if output is used as training data for other (more open) models.

New comment by karussell in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

karussell — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:24:10 +0000

"great again" comes after them.

New comment by karussell in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

karussell — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:11:21 +0000

Why not sell a fully operational car as a used car and buy a new electric vehicle? Then, when looking into all cars, the fleet will get one more electric vehicle, but at the same time fully operational cars are still used until the end.

New comment by karussell in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

karussell — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:07:09 +0000

I would like to get rid of it in the next few years but all new cars have only touch screen and phone home. Are there "stupid" e-cars too? I don't need much.

New comment by karussell in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

karussell — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:46:58 +0000

Hot does not necessarily mean good solar production. Solar production in winter can be equally good (although days are shorter).

Also the efficiency of panels decreases with higher temperatures.

New comment by karussell in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

karussell — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:50:55 +0000

The problem with digital writing is that you loose spatial orientation because of panning and zooming. At least I think this is the reason why I sometimes prefer pen and paper.

New comment by karussell in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

karussell — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:31:03 +0000

I'm skeptical. How can a one time payment be sustainable when they offer 24/7/365? I'm also unsure how they got such a high valuation with this clear drawback.

New comment by karussell in "Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models"

karussell — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:47:20 +0000

Previous interesting discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937756

New comment by karussell in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

karussell — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:55:23 +0000

Is this issue only about the memory? Wouldn't it be possible to have it expose any information that it currently has like current project information, code, credentials etc?

New comment by karussell in "Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models"

karussell — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:03:11 +0000

The aim is to develop an open, sovereign European ensemble of large language and reasoning models (LLMs/LRMs) and agent-based systems that are powerful, transparent, and deployable on European cloud and edge infrastructures.

GitHub: https://github.com/soofi-project

Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models

karussell — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.soofi.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899521

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by karussell in "Your code is fast – if you're lucky"

karussell — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:16:44 +0000

First important step is the need to make your application faster.

Second step is to actually make it faster.

And I would say 99% of the time you can make applications faster without going down so deep on this low-level (which is still not easy) but sometimes you can only get faster via low-level optimizations.

New comment by karussell in "Your code is fast if you're lucky"

karussell — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:10:50 +0000

Coincidentally a few days ago, also for a sorting algorithm, I stumbled over a situation where replacing the branchless cmov with branching instructions actually made the code 30% faster: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/3380 Or at least the AI explained it this way to me, but I'm unsure if this is correct.

New comment by karussell in "Almost Always Unsigned"

karussell — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:27:55 +0000

As a Java developer I'm a bit sad that we don't have a choice :)

New comment by karussell in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

karussell — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:12:30 +0000

Cut & paste getting more real then!

New comment by karussell in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

karussell — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:05:57 +0000

Of course sick leave has increased in Germany, but the main reason is reporting. Since 2022 in Germany there is a new electronic sick note and doctors report every certificate directly to insurers. Before that short illnesses very often went uncounted.

I find it quite concerning and clickbaity that this reason is also included but comes relative late in the article:

One major reason for the rise in sick leave is better reporting, IGES wrote in its report published in January.

New comment by karussell in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

karussell — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:40:41 +0000

Not useless. It is like the missing printer driver for Linux Desktop. It makes the experience ugly, but this is not the fault of the Linux OSes.

Also the bank should not require apps (instead they can offer hardware key support or desktop apps) and in fact some - at least in Germany - offer a different authentication possibility. Also the app for the German ID is published on fdroid and does not rely on Google services.

New comment by karussell in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

karussell — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:24:05 +0000

Even if these models are so strong that they become a security threat if in the wrong hands this arbitrary and intransparent regulation worries me. Not for the current SOTA model vendors but for the open weight models.

I have always wondered how AI industry is not in a (partial) bubble because open weight models will substantially eat into their revenue (rather sooner than later). But with this ('bro') regulation it seems that an easy strategy could be to regulate this problem away, especially easy to convince everyone that those chines models are truly evil.