Hacker News: mastercheif

New comment by mastercheif in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

mastercheif — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:09:57 +0000

Not true. Opus and Sonnet 4.6 support 1m context on Bedrock.

New comment by mastercheif in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

mastercheif — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:19:42 +0000

I was keeping mine alive on life support until about two years ago when I updated to the Samsung 5K display.

Loved the extra screen real estate of the 30" ACD and it's a beautifully designed product that I enjoyed having on my desk.

In its last year or two the backlight wear started to result in colors to become uneven. Blues were less vibrant and reds had tint issues.

Was also difficult to justify the power draw, it had a 150w power supply.

New comment by mastercheif in "Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks"

mastercheif — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:46:36 +0000

Okay Gemini

New comment by mastercheif in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

mastercheif — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:55:56 +0000

Back tap is an accessibility feature, not intended for general public use.

New comment by mastercheif in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

mastercheif — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:48:32 +0000

Hi Felix, this looks like an incredible tool. I've been helping non-tech people at my org make agent flows for things like data analysis—this is exactly what they need.

However, I don't see an option for AWS Bedrock API in the sign up form, is it planned to make this available to those using Bedrock API to access Claude models?

New comment by mastercheif in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

mastercheif — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:06:44 +0000

I agree. I think it comes down OpenAI's superior post-training.

ChatGPT is better at:

A) Interpreting what I'm asking it for me needing to provide additional explicit context.

B) Formatting answers in a way that are easily digestible.

New comment by mastercheif in "Björk on nature and technology (2016)"

mastercheif — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:26:10 +0000

Vulnicura VR is incredible. It’s a truly moving experience that wouldn’t work in any other medium.

New comment by mastercheif in "Just let me select text"

mastercheif — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:52:05 +0000

I was worried I was the only one who did this. Glad to know I'm not alone out there.

New comment by mastercheif in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

mastercheif — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:25:17 +0000

You can use Premium with an ad blocker

New comment by mastercheif in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

mastercheif — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:44:27 +0000

Fwiw Samsung is now 7 years OS/Security on flagships and 6 years OS/Security on the entry/mid-level Galaxy A Series.

New comment by mastercheif in "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content"

mastercheif — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:23:29 +0000

Oh so that's why they're terrible and often break with no error messaging or recourse

New comment by mastercheif in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

mastercheif — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 01:18:26 +0000

I kept search off for a long time due to it tanking the quality of the responses from ChatGPT.

I recently added the following to my custom instructions to get the best of both worlds:

# Modes

When the user enters the following strings you should follow the following mode instructions:

1. "xz": Use the web tool as needed when developing your answer.

2. "xx": Exclusively use your own knowledge instead of searching the internet.

By default use mode "xz". The user can switch between modes during a chat session. Stay with the current mode until the user explicitly switches modes.

New comment by mastercheif in "1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]"

mastercheif — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:16:09 +0000

Samsung microLED required professional installation until a year or two ago. It’s essentially a mini-JumboTron made of individual panels. They’ve managed to reduce down to four panels on brackets.

If you want to install your $200,000 143” TV yourself here’s a video: https://youtu.be/oSpX2aZDPng

New comment by mastercheif in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

mastercheif — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:22:55 +0000

GPT-5 Pro is only available on ChatGPT with a ChatGPT Pro subscription.

Supposedly it fires off multiple parallel thinking chains and then essentially debates with itself to net a final answer.

New comment by mastercheif in "OpenAI Progress"

mastercheif — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:07:47 +0000

Not crazy. 4o was a hallucination machine. 4o had better “vibes” and was really good at synthesizing information in useful ways, but GPT-4 Turbo was a bigger model with better world knowledge.

New comment by mastercheif in "GPT-5"

mastercheif — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:27:11 +0000

In my experience, web search often tanks the quality of the output.

I don't know if it's because of context clogging or that the model can't tell what's a high quality source from garbage.

I've defaulted to web search off and turn it on via the tools menu as needed.

New comment by mastercheif in "How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS"

mastercheif — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:40:42 +0000

FYI only one of your videos is displaying in HDR on your homepage, making the others seem dim in comparison.

It’s the Built for simple campus navigation video.

I’d recommend converting it to SDR.

New comment by mastercheif in "The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead"

mastercheif — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:49:28 +0000

You don’t need to pre-wash dishes before they go in the sink, beyond a basic scrapping of the plate into the garbage.

Pre-washing dishes degrades the performance of the dishwasher. This is due to the use of enzymes in modern detergent formulations.

I’ve sent dozens of people the Technology Connections video on this topic to rave reviews: https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

New comment by mastercheif in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

mastercheif — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:04:22 +0000

I should have clarified: Samsung remotes always use IR for power commands.

They use RF/BT for all other commands, as long as the remote is paired to a TV.

Note: When the remote is not paired with a TV it will also send the basic commands over IR.

New comment by mastercheif in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

mastercheif — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:58:18 +0000

This is because the remotes use IR for the power commands. There’s really no getting around it. A small piece of electrical tape over the IR window on the monitor will fix it.