Hacker News: midnightbobarun

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Eric Schmidt tried to convert Google to Java"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:49:14 +0000

Didn't he get his way in the end? Java becoming the programming language of choice for Android happened when he was CEO.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:49:49 +0000

Super-powerful (if rather pricy) Linux desktop that happens to play games while doing everything else... that man is living my dream :'D

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Do you manage task/todo differently in this AI era?"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:24:13 +0000

The notes app has a search function, so I've never had any difficulty finding what I'm looking for

New comment by midnightbobarun in "The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:09:37 +0000

Very nice, I hope this means increased support for it in open source projects

New comment by midnightbobarun in "New mandatory Gmail, your Android backup storage needs may increase"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:06:37 +0000

I had to look at my phone's backup settings just now, there's not really all that much being backed up but there's some apps that I had no idea were being backed up at all (and I didn't think they made much sense either).

Anyway, for anyone who's using an Android phone, this is probably a good time to check and see what's getting backed up to Google, because some of that stuff is probably not necessary.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Do you manage task/todo differently in this AI era?"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:39:14 +0000

I use the notes app on my phone, the same way I've been doing for years and years... that's probably not an exciting answer, but it's worked for me.

Maybe I could pass it off to an AI and see if I benefit from that somehow, but... eh... the notes app has worked okay.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "AI as Normal Technology- What Will Be Left for Us to Work On?"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:31:17 +0000

Probably anything that's not cost-effective to train AI for or, more likely, anything that's too subjective that AI can't do a good job regardless of how much data it's trained on.

What's "too subjective?" Well, take fashion, for example. Can you teach an AI to design clothes? Of course you can. Can you teach an AI to anticipate what will become trendy for the next year among teenagers? Probably not, just because it's hard to train a model to anticipate fleeting whims. You'd need someone who's really plugged into "the culture" to anticipate future trends, and that's more art than data science.

There's probably other examples I could give, but that's the one that comes to mind most.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "My app just got approved by the App Store"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:19:09 +0000

The UI does look really nice, I think you did a great job with it

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Codex Resets"

midnightbobarun — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:12:33 +0000

I'm kind of impressed how often they manage to do this. Claude Code and Grok Build do resets too, but nowhere near this often. And in an ironic twist for a big company with the infrastructure, Google Antigravity never seems to do resets like this at all (at least that I've noticed). I wonder how much this stuff costs OpenAI to do?

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Ask HN: Do you have any plan for post AGI?"

midnightbobarun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:13:15 +0000

I might travel the world. On foot, if necessary (it will probably be necessary if I have no money).

New comment by midnightbobarun in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

midnightbobarun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:10:58 +0000

I'd say any cheap mouse off Amazon that has a pleasing shape is usually good enough, but I've also never ranked above gold in any competitive PvP shooter, so there's that :')

I'm currently using a wireless ProtoArc mouse. Good shape, can adjust DPI on the fly, hasn't broken even after a year. I think it was like 30 bucks maybe?

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max plans"

midnightbobarun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:39:14 +0000

Just a few requests of Opus on the $20 plan uses up my entire 5 hour limit... I don't even want to know what Fable would do.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Anthropic in early talks with Meta to acquire compute power"

midnightbobarun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:34:05 +0000

I hope it goes through, if only to improve Claude usage limits a bit...

And I don't think there's that many people using Meta Spark (I might be wrong)

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?"

midnightbobarun — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:10:53 +0000

Regarding being "usefully critical": something I've noticed, and it seems to happen more with cheap or "instant" models, is that it will nitpick seemingly minor things. Often it's things that aren't even all that important to the point of the discussion, but it might fixate on it, and low-key argue about it (but in a circular "I'm not saying X but I'm not agreeing with Y" kind of way).

My theory is that sycophancy is just intended to prevent the AI from spiraling into a loop of ineffectually "arguing" or fixating on unimportant details, because it's both kind of annoying when it happens AND it's obvious that the model is spiraling and burning tokens uselessly when it decides to be uselessly critical.

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Show HN: I ported Fallout 1 to the PSP"

midnightbobarun — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:55:14 +0000

I don't have a PSP to try it on, but that honestly looks really impressive. :o

New comment by midnightbobarun in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

midnightbobarun — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:49:02 +0000

Something I've noticed is that local models are giving better answers these days than they did a year or two ago, even if the size (in parameters and in the amount of RAM used) hasn't increased. I'm not familiar enough with the technical side of model training to explain how they're doing this, but I think in another couple of years, models that use up 48 GB will be able to squeeze out even more incredible performance.

Though on the level of something like Sonnet 5... well, maybe not.