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New comment by lokimedes in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lokimedes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:32:56 +0000

Goodbye customers.

Machina Mirabilis

lokimedes — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelhla.com/blog/machina-mirabilis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627294

Points: 3

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New comment by lokimedes in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

lokimedes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:12:58 +0000

I know it’s easy to sit at home being indignant at the internet, but how on earth does an ISP with 10M subscribers and the most expensive infrastructure in the solar system ever come out to be worth $300B? They even have to routinely replenish their “cell towers” as their orbits decay.

Any mid-sized country would have multiple cellphone and Internet providers with larger customer bases and less upkeep.

New comment by lokimedes in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

lokimedes — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:30:34 +0000

I just submitted my first Claude authored application to Github and noticed this. I actually like it, although anthropomorphizing my coding tools seems a bit weird, it also provides a transparent way for others to weigh the quality of the code. It didn’t even strike me as relevant to hide it, so I’d not exactly call it lazy, rather ask why bother pretending in first place?

New comment by lokimedes in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

lokimedes — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:21:21 +0000

Even Alex Karp openly recommends European countries to roll their own alternatives. If anyone in Europe insists on Palantir it’s by their own volition.

The hard work is integration and data workflows, that is hard work regardless of the chosen “exploitation interface”.

New comment by lokimedes in "Human Organ Atlas"

lokimedes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:34:19 +0000

If only they decided to accompany each sample with a full DNA sequence of the donor.

New comment by lokimedes in "Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage"

lokimedes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:30:10 +0000

All I want is an API for my AI, you can ask me for my public key, if you want my human identity verified. The collateral damage of this bot hunting is the emergence of personal AIs. Do we really want that? It feels regressive. (I see the hypocrisy here, we are fighting the scrapers that feed the LLMs that runs our personal agents)

New comment by lokimedes in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

lokimedes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:35:09 +0000

If only it didn’t - I’d much prefer the UI of a few versions back.

New comment by lokimedes in "I put my whole life into a single database"

lokimedes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:32:39 +0000

Taking “Know thyself” to a whole new level. I’d love to have these stats on me, if it could be done by inference, rather than conscious effort.

New comment by lokimedes in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

lokimedes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:11:33 +0000

As a Mac user, ironically, it seems like the Mac design team only uses iPhones or worse, not Macs themselves. I think we are at a stage where the “design rules the world” dominate rather than the full product experience. And there seems to be zero vision left in these products as well.

New comment by lokimedes in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

lokimedes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:47:44 +0000

Why are most recent US foreign actions taken during the weekend, when the markets are closed?

New comment by lokimedes in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

lokimedes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:55:21 +0000

I completely agree, as you may infer from my comment. The second multivariate models are relevant we effectively trade explainability for discrimination power. If your decision tree/model needs to be large enough to warrant SGD or similar optimization techniques, it is pretty much a fantasy to ever analyze it formally.

My second job after physics was AI for defense, and boy is the dream of explainable AI alive there.

Honesty anyone who “needs” AI to be understandable by dissection, suffers from control issues :)

New comment by lokimedes in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

lokimedes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:49:03 +0000

Again, said as someone out of the fray, let’s hope it self-corrects. Physics is a very community driven field, and the young must try new things, and be allowed to, it is part of progress. It is when the seniors surrender the standard of quality they carry, we have trouble. And here, indeed, particle physics can be uniquely vulnerable - given the complexity and economics of the research, it is hard to falsify claims made with new methods if the established researchers cave too easily.

New comment by lokimedes in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

lokimedes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:10:13 +0000

If you sum up experimental physics into one heuristic it is “avoid fooling yourself with assumptions” - I left physics over a decade ago, but I feel confident that physicists still work hard to understand what they observe and don’t let LLMs have all the fun. If there’s one field of science where the scientists are legitimately allowed to go all the way back to basics, it’s elementary particle physics.

New comment by lokimedes in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

lokimedes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:20:44 +0000

When I worked at CERN around 2010, Boosted Decision Trees were the most popular classifier, exactly due to the (potential for) explainability along with its power of expression. We had a cultural aversion for neural networks back then, especially if the model was used in physics analysis directly. Times have changed…

New comment by lokimedes in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

lokimedes — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:54:04 +0000

Marcus is pretty random.

New comment by lokimedes in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

lokimedes — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:46:02 +0000

Actually I love the — ever since my first Mac, I have enjoyed the finer characters of typography. It’s much easier to access on a Mac keyboard. Not saying the proliferation of AI has that as a signature, like the weird phrasing, but at least allow for the few mammals who likes to indulge.

Knockd – Port-Knock Server

lokimedes — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:51:35 +0000

Article URL: https://linux.die.net/man/1/knockd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070351

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lokimedes in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

lokimedes — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:11:38 +0000

> Are these people human?

Yes, more so than everyone else who act like any animal. I can’t help to think of the “human test” in Dune, when we use our minds to override our instinctive urges, it is human behavior.

New comment by lokimedes in "AI-First Company Memos"

lokimedes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:24:49 +0000

The trap for many companies is that as everyone automate with AI, their competitive advantage erodes, as they prove that a few centralized models can run the businesses.

What are the trenches in businesses in 2030, purely ownership over physical assets and energy?