Hacker News: lobochrome

New comment by lobochrome in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

lobochrome — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:33:40 +0000

Same for me - I mostly ask stuff in English but sometimes add specific terms or names in Japanese as needed. My Japanese is intermediate, but it will often switch immediately and reply only and entirely in Japanese. I'm pretty sure they have a system prompt with hairline triggers for foreign languages BECAUSE of the overrepresentation of English in the training corpora.

New comment by lobochrome in "DeepSeek v4"

lobochrome — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:30:02 +0000

Why they so angry?

New comment by lobochrome in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

lobochrome — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:17:56 +0000

How did PRISM affect civilian life?

New comment by lobochrome in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

lobochrome — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:28:56 +0000

It is ! I’m “solving” it with an app called bartender. It’s hacked and sometimes doesn’t work but was the only way I could manage this problem…

Apple software sucks so bad!

New comment by lobochrome in "Flighty Airports"

lobochrome — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:24:32 +0000

(except United)

New comment by lobochrome in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

lobochrome — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:26:42 +0000

So you want OpenAI to create “laws”?

I for one do not want ai labs to designate what is legally ok to do.

I much prefer the demos to take care of that.

New comment by lobochrome in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

lobochrome — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:28:50 +0000

Or it was just a botched git op

New comment by lobochrome in "xAI joins SpaceX"

lobochrome — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:21:05 +0000

The Howard Hughes of our time. Soon enough he will start pissing in milk jugs.

New comment by lobochrome in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

lobochrome — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:03:53 +0000

This rule wasn't enforced anyway...

I travel a lot - and never take out any liquids. Have nail clippers and scissors in my carry-on.

Once I even had an opinel pocket knife in my laptop bag for a couple of months.

Travelled through Tokyo, Taipei, SFO, DEN, PHX, LAX, BOS, JFK, FRA, AMS, MUC, LHR - nobody noticed.

I seriously had forgotten it was there, so I don't do that now, but still...

Also, no large water bottles or similar. Unless on domestic flights in Japan, where this is totally fine.

IDK - security theater. But if it helps.

New comment by lobochrome in "GPT Image 1.5"

lobochrome — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:34:20 +0000

Stupid Cisco Umbrella is blocking you

New comment by lobochrome in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

lobochrome — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:57:29 +0000

KPIism is the death knell of modern society. In the 90s and 2000s this mantra of "measure and improve" took hold like a virus. It is in all instances I observe a rats race where everybody just starts to look for the cheat-codes instead of "doing-the-right-thing".

Arguably America is the pinnacle of this right now, where (many) politicians and (many) business leaders now feel justified do whatever's legal just to score points. I would argue this type of thinking was birthed in the UK though under Thatcher who as a first step removed the general trust in (civil servants in her case) your fellow human beings. Blair then came up to replace that trust with KPIs.

We need to get back to a world where we trust people to do the right thing - without measuring their success in short-term KPIs.

New comment by lobochrome in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

lobochrome — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:21:42 +0000

Kagi.com

New comment by lobochrome in "Designing agentic loops"

lobochrome — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:02:05 +0000

Is there a way to let the agents share their agents.md? Claude code looks at Claude.md and I have yet to find a way to unify the agent handbook.

New comment by lobochrome in "NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace"

lobochrome — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:58:01 +0000

I’ve driven past that house a million times and always thought to look it up - and always immediately forgot again.

Now you reminded me and I know the backstory

New comment by lobochrome in "Download responsibly"

lobochrome — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:58:19 +0000

Really?? Which countries allow copyright infringement by individuals?

New comment by lobochrome in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

lobochrome — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:49:40 +0000

“The quip about 98% correct should be a red flag for anyone familiar with spreadsheets”

I disagree. Receiving a spreadsheet from a junior means I need to check it. If this gives me infinite additional juniors I’m good.

It’s this popular pattern of HN comments - expect AI to behave deterministically correct - while the whole world operates on stochastically correct all the time…

New comment by lobochrome in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

lobochrome — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:49:01 +0000

In the end - action matters. Somebody didn’t put the bolts back in.

Yes - zooming out it important and ultimately where actionable remediation can be applied - but blame is due where blame is due: somebody fucked up at work and it almost brought down a plane.

New comment by lobochrome in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

lobochrome — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:54:25 +0000

So - the gruber shadowban has been lifted eh?

New comment by lobochrome in "2025 Iberia Blackout Report [pdf]"

lobochrome — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:11:45 +0000

The inverter would melt presumably.

New comment by lobochrome in "Reverse engineering Claude Code (April 2025)"

lobochrome — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:42:53 +0000

I see this behavior all the time. When it can’t read a file using its read tool - it escalates up to try with bash. Often it tries to search the entire file system “find / …”