Hacker News: mlazos

New comment by mlazos in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

mlazos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:01:10 +0000

The idea of them purposefully wasting my time by having the model act dumber and me having to argue with it without knowing if it’s the prompt or the model was just such an idiotic product decision I can’t believe they shipped that without getting any feedback from users first.

New comment by mlazos in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

mlazos — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:56:42 +0000

Ah, the ever present “nothing to see here” take. What this government is doing is worse than it’s ever been. At least before when you had your grant it wouldn’t be randomly cancelled at any time.

New comment by mlazos in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

mlazos — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:41:16 +0000

I believe them to some degree but this trend of posting stuff when it can’t be verified actually needs to end. I’m so tired of this bs marketing.

New comment by mlazos in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

mlazos — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:25:47 +0000

Oh weird, everything must be fine then, I still see snow sometimes even!

New comment by mlazos in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

mlazos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:45:24 +0000

I think one day later the guy got his refund? You all need to chill I feel like. HN is a bubble sometimes

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...

New comment by mlazos in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

mlazos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:17:26 +0000

By the letter of the law the guy fixing his car should be prosecuted, but like nobody is going to know and it’s not going to happen. In this case it’s pretty obvious the law was broken.

New comment by mlazos in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

mlazos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:26:13 +0000

Look! A guy built 95% of slack in 2 weeks! Very skeptical of that btw, but also an organization that justifies every single team by exactly how much $ value they’re generating sounds like hell. How would you ever innovate or try out new ideas? It’s important to quantify what impact your team is generating but there are some cases (e.g. UX) which are really hard to quantify in $ but are still very important for the product

New comment by mlazos in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

mlazos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:01:24 +0000

Idk I think they kind of do, tackling climate change is a good idea and at this point I’m ready to lie if it will make ppl do something

New comment by mlazos in "CC leak: skills are better than I thought"

mlazos — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:17:52 +0000

Honestly people spoke like this before, just on LinkedIn. Now that ai trained on it we have LinkedIn.. everywhere. Welcome to hell.

New comment by mlazos in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

mlazos — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:59:44 +0000

I read the tests, it also is really really good to have Claude verify that removing the changes in question break the tests. This brings the quality way way up for me.

New comment by mlazos in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

mlazos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:16:15 +0000

Randomness does not imply the uniform distribution

New comment by mlazos in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

mlazos — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:24:00 +0000

Bro nothing is verifiable, you have to make a call in the end or you can just sit here and be like “oh but what about the speck of sand on the body, GOTCHA”. I used to be like you trying to poke holes in every little thing, but 1 it’s annoying to everyone and 2 you have to eventually take a stance other than “every stance is wrong” your mystical perfectly evidenced war crime is never going to exist, congrats! What do you think actually happened here? The article cites plenty of evidence, eyewitness testimony, make the call. The IDF themselves said they killed them. It’s a family, what do you think justifies that?

New comment by mlazos in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

mlazos — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:04:16 +0000

Seen this on repeat lately - there will be some war crime that the IDF commits, soldiers or Israeli citizens celebrate it themselves in a TikTok or in Israeli media, then the US media will argue that it didn’t happen or “there’s some information missing”. It’s actually kind of nuts.

Yes driving fast means - execution.

New comment by mlazos in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

mlazos — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:36:47 +0000

Maybe I’m getting old but I couldn’t tell if this was a joke or not. I think they should explain a little more like what these products actually do?

New comment by mlazos in "Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict"

mlazos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:21:33 +0000

That’s 100% insider trading. If you use material non-public (including confidential) information to perform the trade it’s illegal. Paying someone to provide confidential info is still insider trading. Paying someone to observe planes (public information) is not insider trading. Researching using publicly available information (even though you don’t share your research) is not insider trading. The key point is the channel from which you receive the information.

New comment by mlazos in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

mlazos — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:09:22 +0000

This is the absolute biggest grift of the century by the groq team. They never shared actual TCO, and I remember a Seminalaysis article about the power consumption being actually insane - this makes sense because they scale the number of chips to fit a single model when they have no dram. They have good inference latency but there was no way the economics were going to work out. Meanwhile Nvidia with every advantage in the world decides they’re worth 20B? It actually doesn’t make sense at all. The only scenarios the groq system would be worth it is in the exact throughput-optimized scenarios Nvidia already thrives in.

New comment by mlazos in "The End of Tesla?"

mlazos — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:34:36 +0000

If the neo-nazis celebrate it as a Nazi salute, I don’t think it really matters what others think. In addition to that, seeing it with my own eyes is all the confirmation I need.

On his intelligence SpaceX and Tesla were/are revolutionary companies, but seeing him buy twitter and then send the DOGE five things email makes me feel like maybe it was more of a right place right time sort of thing and not management prowess. I’ll give him credit for hiring the right people which is a skill but other than that his blunders are just too difficult to ignore.

New comment by mlazos in "The hype is the product"

mlazos — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:18:42 +0000

It’s because capitalism assumes a free market with competition. If you allow monopolies to thrive, you will not get those benefits. It’s just that some of these types of markets have different dynamics due to their structure. E.g. natural monopolies where the barrier to entry is huge up front costs. Interestingly the AI startup ecosystem is raising enough money to surpass the barrier of needing a ton of data to train AI.

New comment by mlazos in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

mlazos — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:34:25 +0000

Yeah where they have every inch of SF mapped, and then still have human interventions. We were promised no more human drivers like 5-7 years ago at this point.

New comment by mlazos in "FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

mlazos — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:50:18 +0000

It supports e5m2 and e4m3 right in the doc linked.