Hacker News: mnicky

New comment by mnicky in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

mnicky — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:37:20 +0000

So in summary, your statement is that you’ve “come around to trusting” this “pathological liar”?

New comment by mnicky in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

mnicky — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:11:49 +0000

> If AI companies have any sort of sense in them, they'd be well-advised to consider relocating to Europe.

Too late now. They wouldn't be allowed to relocate in the name of national security.

New comment by mnicky in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

mnicky — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:09:46 +0000

Coding with sufficiently precise plan takes almost all real work from the implementator, doesn't it? So it's not a fair comparison...

New comment by mnicky in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

mnicky — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:06:31 +0000

> no one actually knows Claude's cost of inference

There were some rumors stating that their margin is around 70%. So they could go much cheaper probably, talking inference only. The other thing is R&D cost...

New comment by mnicky in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

mnicky — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:45:26 +0000

I think there's another point of view - let's consider each model as an investment. It is now sufficient that each model earns more than it cost to develop. And this generally holds (I heard that GPT-4.5 was a notable exception).

New comment by mnicky in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

mnicky — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:17:19 +0000

> writing is how you learn to think.

There's also reading. A lot of reading can substitute some writing.

EDIT: Actually, I'd say that at first you need to do a lot of reading and _then_ writing can help your thinking as well.

New comment by mnicky in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

mnicky — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:20:25 +0000

It’s the same here. Inference alone is profitable. It’s the R&D cost of making a new model that drives up expenses.

New comment by mnicky in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

mnicky — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:47:05 +0000

It's simple I think - over time the price will go down. According to some analyses the price for equal intelligence declined 10-1000x per year, depending on the domain.

It probably won't be the same again but I still think we can bet on radically cheaper Mythos level intelligence in the future.

New comment by mnicky in "Siri AI"

mnicky — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:35:50 +0000

I recommend mapy.com (mobile app and web app too when on computer) - they mostly use OSM data and rendering of map tiles is great. Also offline maps etc.

New comment by mnicky in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

mnicky — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:13:17 +0000

I believe it's the opposite :) All major indices (S&P500, MSCI, FTSE...) use free-float adjustments. And recently also NASDAQ - they've changed to cap of 3x the value of free-floating shares.

New comment by mnicky in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

mnicky — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:51:08 +0000

Good thing is that index funds don't hold stocks at market capitalization but only at free float value. So a company whose shares are mostly held by founders, employees, and strategic investors gets a weight well below its headline valuation.

Overview and Comments on Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI

mnicky — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RZeg98Tdrq47vbjva/rtmh-pope-leo-s-magnifica-humanitas-on-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284611

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mnicky in "SpaceX S-1"

mnicky — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:17:19 +0000

Time to invest in some value-stocks index funds then :)

New comment by mnicky in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

mnicky — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:43:52 +0000

E.g. because they are behind on research and so must compensate with size to achieve similar level of intelligence. At least this is what I heard.

For intelligence/size only OpenAI and Anthropic are the frontier. Google has more compute so it can compensate for that with size of the models...

New comment by mnicky in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

mnicky — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:25:47 +0000

And not only startups...

New comment by mnicky in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

mnicky — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:19:18 +0000

Hmm, today's pass rate raised to 73% - interesting, are they AB-testing some new model? This is too high for Opus 4.7.

New comment by mnicky in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

mnicky — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:55:59 +0000

> Zoom also won't let you join with browser on Firefox.

FF works for me.

New comment by mnicky in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

mnicky — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:36:35 +0000

In the Dwarkesh's podcast Dylan Patel from SemiAnalysis said that Google can currently afford to have larger models than competitors, because of access to much more compute, TPUs etc.

That could explain the token usage difference because larger models usually use less tokens per the same unit of intelligence.

New comment by mnicky in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

mnicky — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:11:35 +0000

Yeah. I really like the main idea behind GDPR, which is that data containing PII is the property of the person it describes, not of the companies that process the data to provide services.

This means that I, as the owner of my data, can refuse to provide it for some use cases, request its deletion, etc. It’s my data after all.

New comment by mnicky in "AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

mnicky — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:23:07 +0000

Wasn't it this one?

Article: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14805