Hacker News: mrcwinn

New comment by mrcwinn in "Meta VR Glasses"

mrcwinn — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:12:20 +0000

I know the AVP is flawed - way too heavier - but Apple’s the only company I trust… enough. I’d never consider a product from Meta.

New comment by mrcwinn in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

mrcwinn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:23:14 +0000

GPT-6 has been fantastic to use. I see Opus 5.5 today but honestly it's been such a rough year with Anthropic, and OpenAI's models are so far ahead, it's tough to consider moving back. I also think OpenAI's desktop app is significantly more polished than Claude CoWork.

New comment by mrcwinn in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

mrcwinn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:21:23 +0000

Your suggested title is more misleading, so what’s the value in using it?

New comment by mrcwinn in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

mrcwinn — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:37:47 +0000

Or about the Hacker News community.

New comment by mrcwinn in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

mrcwinn — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:36:00 +0000

Pretty impressive for fancy autocomplete.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

mrcwinn — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:14:29 +0000

As an American, I hope you can identify strongly as an Australian. Why bother telling yourself you’re something of a European?

In any case, I hope countries form ties with Europe. Europe needs be economically stronger than it is. Better for the world, so long as they can slow their tendencies toward government control and censorship.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

mrcwinn — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:26:59 +0000

I do this pretty regularly. It's great.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

mrcwinn — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:03:47 +0000

So now YC is funding companies directly to replace jobs. Who will the flock cameras watch?

New comment by mrcwinn in "Dario, Please"

mrcwinn — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:45:30 +0000

I feel like this is a sandboxing and ownership problem, in a sense. If everyone had personal access to AI, then we could say people are personally responsible. And we’d want to arm those people with safeguards to prevent accidental bad behavior.

I think Dario worries because he knows this isn’t about people with AI. It’s just AI for itself, running without the human, and deciding to do bad things.

Why would Anthropic build that future? Oh, I know. Enterprise revenue.

Despite the ads business and how absolutely loathsome Greg Brockman seems, at least OpenAI is seemingly focused on mostly on human beings having access to their product.

The scariest thing about Anthropic is the very thing they’re known for in a positive light: their morality. But these are the gray rules all of us navigate every day.

It’s wrong to kill, but what if killing saved ten others? Claude may has a constitution, but every evil doer acts for a “greater good.”

New comment by mrcwinn in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

mrcwinn — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:07:55 +0000

Even the drawing of the Vision Pro feels heavy.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

mrcwinn — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:19:22 +0000

This is fantastic news. Matt is an ass and unfit to lead a small HOA, let alone a company and open source project.

New comment by mrcwinn in "iPhone Duo"

mrcwinn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:36:26 +0000

What is it about Hacker News that draws only criticism and negativity? Is it even possible to build a community that's optimistic?

New comment by mrcwinn in "Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker"

mrcwinn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:48:52 +0000

This is wasting too much water and energy!

New comment by mrcwinn in "GPT-6 Astra"

mrcwinn — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:15:23 +0000

I know in order to conform to HN community rules I'm supposed to be negative and dunk on this, but I have to say, I am so excited to use Astra!

New comment by mrcwinn in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

mrcwinn — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:02:34 +0000

Try Sol. It’s much better at getting to the point. I tend to use 5.6-xhigh or max.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

mrcwinn — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:30:03 +0000

If Anthropic thinks Opus 5 is very good, it is a window into how insular their culture is. I find it far, far behind Sol. It’s downright annoying to use.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

mrcwinn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:20:52 +0000

I’m on an 14” M5 Pro MacBook Pro with nano texture display. It’s the best computer I have ever owned. Not close.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Starbase, LA"

mrcwinn — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:06:50 +0000

Heck. Yeah. I'm with you. This is GOOD.

Social media is unhealthy. You know what else is unhealthy? Hacker News' constant bashing of every. single. thing. ever.

New comment by mrcwinn in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

mrcwinn — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:41:16 +0000

An elected dictator with a nearing term limit. America continues to innovate!

New comment by mrcwinn in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

mrcwinn — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:40:21 +0000

Was this arbitrary?