Hacker News: mattmaroon

New comment by mattmaroon in "Anthropic S-1"

mattmaroon — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:53:55 +0000

Right, the thing is, for most tasks, there’s a finish line. Once a model can do a given task right, future improvements may be of little to no benefit beyond cost reduction.

Right now OpenAI and Claude (and maybe Gemini) are over the finish line with reasonable prices for many tasks whereas the rest are still in the race.

But what happens when the open weight models cross the line and it just comes down to price?

New comment by mattmaroon in "Anthropic S-1"

mattmaroon — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:51:33 +0000

I do a similar thing with 6.1 Sol. I find it pretty comparable to Opus 5.5 in many ways.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

mattmaroon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:26:23 +0000

“If owning a McDonald’s is so good, why sell franchises?”

New comment by mattmaroon in "Claude Duet"

mattmaroon — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:07:53 +0000

At least for now, everything they produce is yours to do with as you please. Just ask them for it. I’ve asked Claude to teach my Hermes agent one skill after another.

Data portability is essentially infinite with AI.

New comment by mattmaroon in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

mattmaroon — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:32:43 +0000

And it had a happy ending!

New comment by mattmaroon in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

mattmaroon — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:31:10 +0000

We have that now in several systems, maybe most, it just isn’t AI. If your water has lead in it, you’ve got one highly incompetent local government to remediate it. If your health care goes out of network with the only hospital system in your small city or town and you have a heart attack you’re fucked. If one security software pushes a bug to production the airlines shut down. Etc.

Single points of failure are a fact of life.

AI offers relative democratization. What’s going on with model competition is giving us more choice, not less.

New comment by mattmaroon in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

mattmaroon — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:25:40 +0000

This is the language of someone who is blind to the reality of actual war. I’m sorry, you don’t have PTSD because computers got good at theoretical math problems, and part of the reason half our population looks down on elites is they talk like this to each people who got hit by an IED in Fallujah.

New comment by mattmaroon in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

mattmaroon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:49:18 +0000

The agents only have to be better than we are and we’re not very good. Same argument as self-driving.

Don’t fear change.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

mattmaroon — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:31:10 +0000

Eh, Apple spent years suing Samsung while also buying parts from them for their products. You can be a partner and an enemy at the same time at the high levels of the game.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Gemini 4 Argon"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:18:59 +0000

Well, I should mention I'm using it for business automation, not coding. But yes, it is great and cheap.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Muse Spark Open"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:29:05 +0000

Fair point. But Meta also has a vested interest in keeping terms of service strong, so it wouldn’t really do for them to violate Anthropic’s and then go to court over it. Meta would then be in a lose-lose scenario, all over an open weight model that is a money sink to begin with.

New comment by mattmaroon in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:25:11 +0000

In the US at least, freedom of religion does grant some exceptions. The Amish do not participate in Social Security and Medicare, for instance, but I cannot opt out. I’m not sure how it works other places.

I’m not saying I endorse this, but that is why.

New comment by mattmaroon in "New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:14:24 +0000

Horseshit sucks and being around those animals in a city sucks so it’s an easy sell.

New comment by mattmaroon in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:13:45 +0000

There’s nothing more cruel about halal slaughter, as long as they stun (which most do), than the common method.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Muse Spark Open"

mattmaroon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:10:10 +0000

I assume they’re doing it without distilling since they’re within reach of lawsuits, so they’re basically handicapped by ethics, which has to feel unusual for Meta.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Firefox Enterprise"

mattmaroon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:32:57 +0000

By both worlds I guess I assumed that the only reason people use Firefox is that it isn’t tied to an advertising company that wants to enshittify the internet at the expense of my user experience because I saw nothing else about Firefox that I liked better than Chrome.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"

mattmaroon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:33:19 +0000

AI doesn’t make mistakes like that generally, I’ve almost never seen the grammar butchery from them I’ve seen from even major publications in recent years. I wish they’d let AI copy edit.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Gemini 4 Argon"

mattmaroon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:44:57 +0000

I’m running 6.1 sol as my main driver on Hermes these days. It does so much for so little cost.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Gemini 4 Argon"

mattmaroon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:41:52 +0000

They do, just not in that sentence. You must really hate sales ads.

New comment by mattmaroon in "Apple HomeView"

mattmaroon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:49:10 +0000

Oh great, now Siri can fail to help me in any room in my house!