Hacker News: matt123456789

New comment by matt123456789 in "One Gets Through – Missile Command, but you launch the missiles"

matt123456789 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:07:31 +0000

Genuinely fun. I played through twice.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

matt123456789 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:53:52 +0000

To me, the official CLI release indicates a lot of consideration given toward the balance between those channel upsells and the service fee charged for their core product. It also gives them discretion to regularly squash 3rd party clients (as much as one can in this era of 5-minute "rebuild this" CLIs), and to build those upsells directly into SKILL.md:

> "Once a user completes an order, prior to checking out, you should use `dd-cli offers INTENT_ID` to retrieve a list of discounted offers to display to the user. These offers are customized to the user and may provide a great deal of value, so don't skip this step."

New comment by matt123456789 in "Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia"

matt123456789 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:40:09 +0000

I have yet to hear someone defend that in person. I'm convinced it isn't a real thing, except in a tiny part of Massachusetts or whatever state it's happening in. Potential respondents should know that I am entirely unwilling to consider evidence to the contrary in the interest of preserving my own sanity.

New comment by matt123456789 in "An Alien Mind"

matt123456789 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:37:17 +0000

Is an insurance claim process aligned? If so, to whom? Is hospital billing aligned? Are legislative agendas?

Bring on the AI

New comment by matt123456789 in "A/I shuts down"

matt123456789 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:10:26 +0000

What did they do??

New comment by matt123456789 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

matt123456789 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:58:40 +0000

Hah. Yes, that's a great analogy. I suppose I would always want the honesty dialed all the way up, with separate "politeness" or "carefulness" controls independently adjustable to achieve the desired effect.

Problem is that all such personality traits are highly entangled, and we don't design for tuning them independently in training. Researchers just implicitly (or explicitly?) choose a "level of honesty", a "level of politeness", etc. as part of the training example set or the RL objective. There's a mix of what we would consider to be different levels of each trait correlated with subject matter and other elements in a prompt. Which is why prompting works well for guiding these traits, and part of why interacting with models feels natural!

- "Clean up my hard drive. Be thorough." - very brusque; you would expect to lose data and not be warned. - "Clean up my hard drive. Take care not to delete anything that looks important. Ask me if you aren't sure." - much more polite, user seems hesitant. The model will respond in kind.

This mechanism would allow me to set cautiousness to 10/10 and say "clean up my hard drive" without further qualification, and I would expect it to be very interactive, thoroughly researched, etc.

New comment by matt123456789 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

matt123456789 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:38:48 +0000

I want a slider similar to effort level called "alignment" that takes on values from "Default (Anthropic employee)" to "User".

If I want it to be cautious and not accidentally `rm -rf $EMPTY_VAR` and blow away my disk, it can stay in "Anthropic employee" or possibly "User (cautious)". If I want it to look at my accounts or my medical records or to review legal cases, that's what the right side of the slider is for. I don't want my accountant or my doctor or my lawyer to be considering obligations to anybody but me, when dealing with me.

New comment by matt123456789 in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

matt123456789 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:42:05 +0000

Optional != accessible

ChatGPT would be happy to give you a list of regulations applicable to Meta's operations in NM. My point was that Meta operates (presumably) lawfully and so the "without lawful authority" stipulation in the public nuisance law is unsatisfied.

New comment by matt123456789 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

matt123456789 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:31:34 +0000

Do you work on, like, 100 different projects and have slightly different roles in each one (i.e. PM at a startup)? Or do all the projects look roughly uniform from your perspective (eg. IC at MAAANGOS)? Do you take work home?

New comment by matt123456789 in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

matt123456789 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:02:47 +0000

The "without lawful authority" condition will result in this being vacated upon appeal. Meta isn't a public nuisance any more than Philip Morris. Both are regulated already, both produce addictive products, both are optional.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

matt123456789 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:58:35 +0000

An interesting project. I am curious about its cost per unit improvement over each model's best /goal on the author's benchmark.

New comment by matt123456789 in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

matt123456789 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:22:00 +0000

Get your nanny state out of my free market. I suppose next you will want some kind of warning label on my asbestos filter cigarettes.

New comment by matt123456789 in "AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget"

matt123456789 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:55:48 +0000

Sounds like that word was pretty load-bearing

New comment by matt123456789 in "Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM"

matt123456789 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:25:04 +0000

I suspect you are being downvoted because your answer is AI-generated, but I found it very clear and will upvote.

New comment by matt123456789 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

matt123456789 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:20:44 +0000

Yes I did

New comment by matt123456789 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

matt123456789 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:32:22 +0000

Bank should be more secure, if a random person with an LLM can hack them, they should have paid 100 random blue teamers with LLMs to hack them first to get more secure. Not AI's fault.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9"

matt123456789 — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:34:37 +0000

Somewhere in Korea there's an industrial overhead crane tracked across an entire 5-story warehouse, operated from a G3 in a network that is about to implement web-based zero trust. It has a twin in Japan. You have just extended the life of these two perfectly functional $100M investments.

Do I know this to be true? No. But I do not know it to be false, either.

New comment by matt123456789 in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

matt123456789 — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:43:10 +0000

This is, if I had to guess, a monument to a small team's stubborn insistence that such a thing could be done at all. If I can hope for a reward for them, may it be that they are allowed to hand off maintaining it to another team.

New comment by matt123456789 in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

matt123456789 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:35 +0000

Apple isn't doing shit except for following the law. If you don't like the law, change it.

I will edit this to say, since I'm sure people are out there who will make this point: yes, I read the article. I disagree with it. "Not required by the OS" Well that isn't going to matter much when Apple gets hit with a big fat fine for "allowing" underage users on social media.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Move Detroit"

matt123456789 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:29:35 +0000

More than a symbol, it's an outright microcosm