Hacker News: m12k

New comment by m12k in "Patrick Stewart has died"

m12k — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:28:06 +0000

I think “tea, Earl Grey, hot” also qualifies him as the first prompt engineer

New comment by m12k in "Voxtral 3"

m12k — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:10:25 +0000

When it comes to Teams, it doesn’t need to be a plugin - plenty of good transcribers/notetakers simply join like another participant.

New comment by m12k in "UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules"

m12k — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:14:45 +0000

This shows that ESG needs updating. Investing in arms manufacturers is no longer just code for "support the bombing of brown people to enrich the MIC", it can also mean "ensure sovereignty and defend democracies against a hostile, desperate dictator" - treating the two as equivalent, and both as immoral, is outdated.

New comment by m12k in "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai"

m12k — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:58:40 +0000

See also this discussion about this in the sci-fi series The Expanse, where a planet has bi-chiral organisms (able to use both versions of these molecules): https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/i4e187/a_small_...

New comment by m12k in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

m12k — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:14:12 +0000

This comes only a few days after a data breach was reported at the Technical University of Denmark [1], exposing the personal records of current and past students, faculty and staff. That included their CPR numbers (government id at the central person registry), that could for example be used to look up their official place of residence. All in all, it seems likely that someone just got the table they needed to join on the first breach.

[1] https://www.dtu.dk/english/newsarchive/2026/10/cyberattack-o...

New comment by m12k in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

m12k — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:53:58 +0000

Anyone know how PipePipe compares to SmartTube? I recently got a Google TV, and I’m looking for the best alternative YouTube viewer.

New comment by m12k in "Yes, Claude can do nine loops"

m12k — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:52:22 +0000

> Even when a goal is simple and well-defined, sometimes it’s going to look much less achievable to experts than it actually is

I think it’s a compelling idea, that even if AI never achieves superintelligence, there might still be enormous value in their ability to relentlessly pursue a solution for much “longer” (relatively speaking) than a human. Even if they never let us pick the highest hanging fruit, if they instead let us pick every single low hanging fruit, that’s still a massive win.

New comment by m12k in "English: A vs. An"

m12k — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:18:46 +0000

Right on the money!

New comment by m12k in "OpenJev"

m12k — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:56:24 +0000

This site proves to me that the better you are at the things that matter most in your niche, the more you can get away with not even trying in other areas.

New comment by m12k in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

m12k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:02:01 +0000

They’re telling you the year where the new OS will be stable enough that it’s a good idea to upgrade (joke’s on them, I still haven’t “upgraded” to Tahoe…)

New comment by m12k in "We must pace the frontier"

m12k — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:32:26 +0000

To be honest, I think we're incredibly lucky to be advancing AI this far already, while the world still has so many non-digitized systems and manual processes. I imagine that in e.g. 50 years, the world will be so connected that it can basically be "conquered" from the internet. I'd much rather have AI burst onto the scene we have today.

New comment by m12k in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

m12k — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:45:55 +0000

I've heard it described as "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle"

New comment by m12k in "US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'"

m12k — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:39:39 +0000

Who would have thought we’d see the U.S. start imitating Russia in more and more ways like this?

New comment by m12k in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

m12k — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:16:34 +0000

I haven't used Kimi K3 or GLM 5.3, but boy am I glad they exist! Every time an open weights model is released a bit closer to the frontier models, that's another level of performance that we, the users, can't lose access to no matter if the frontier labs jack up prices out of our reach, or the US administration decides to put a full export block in place on AI.

New comment by m12k in "Xanadu was waiting for agents"

m12k — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:05:24 +0000

The madman and the genius are similar in that they disagree with the world at large/prevailing wisdom. Where they differ is that the madman loses the fight while the genius (eventually) wins.

New comment by m12k in "Muse Spark 1.3"

m12k — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:35:06 +0000

It's my impression that it's common in western culture, where text is read left to right, and timelines are visualized as going from left to right, to also animate things going from left to right, since westerners thus have an instinct that "right = forward", so it "feels right" (familiar). I wonder to which degree this is reflected in the training data? And if you'd be more likely to get left-facing pelicans if you prompted it in Hebrew, Arabic or another right-to-left language?

New comment by m12k in "Microduck"

m12k — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:09:39 +0000

Wherever the capital is (so yes, America)

New comment by m12k in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

m12k — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:48:19 +0000

Stripe has a lot of money, but not a lot of AI-buzzword compliance. OpenRouter is highly AI-buzzword compliant, but doesn't have a lot of money. It's a match made in heaven

New comment by m12k in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

m12k — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:23:38 +0000

I'm wondering if some of Opus' chain of thought patterns have bled into its "human readable text output" circuitry. E.g. some of them that I stumbled on, "the bug is in the lock, not the query" reads like some of the shorthands it might use in its own chain of thought.

New comment by m12k in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

m12k — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:06:36 +0000

Throwing unread AI output at others is the new version of “sitting on your phone, oblivious to those spending time with you”. Every new consumer technology comes with a new way of being rude.