Hacker News: nightshift1

New comment by nightshift1 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

nightshift1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:35:39 +0000

The whole page reads like it was vibe-written by an AI. If I'd built something as disruptive as this claims to be, I'd have spent at least fifteen minutes writing the announcement myself. Every time I see 'we' in an announcement like this, I picture one guy alone in his basement.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Monitors for Work"

nightshift1 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:30:45 +0000

I think that providing modern monitors that make sense is probably the easiest way to please employees. No matter how excellent the salary is, if they are stuck working on old, small, blurry, faded screens, they'll be unhappy. It also gives a bad impression of the company as a whole. I did L1 tech support a long time ago, and people were overwhelmingly happy to see me coming to replace their old CRTs with LCDs.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

nightshift1 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:04:13 +0000

The slide at 14:06 say:

By june 11: Highly persistent experimental, internal-only model begins training.

I am not sure what that means. Are they preserving notes/memories and context between runs?

New comment by nightshift1 in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

nightshift1 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:13:23 +0000

Maybe they are doing it on purpose to demonstrate what it looks like when untrustworthy parties have access to frontier llm and that its development should be regulated to protect all of us. /tinfoil

New comment by nightshift1 in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

nightshift1 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:49:14 +0000

It ought to be extremely easy now to use LLMs to transpile cobol and do the necessary reverse engineering to migrate off mainframes and aix servers. I think IBM will lose many customers.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

nightshift1 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:51:48 +0000

but are you willing to spend the time or tokens to build it again for yourself ?

New comment by nightshift1 in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

nightshift1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:33:54 +0000

The Orville is excellent. I am a fan. Here is another show/episode that is very similar and relevant here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

New comment by nightshift1 in "Analysis of Opus 5's 'Contrition'"

nightshift1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:27:50 +0000

Interesting. I will try some of of those instructions but I don't mind much about the tics.

My actual complaint: end-of-turn summaries that are undecipherable unless you watched the session closely. Both Opus and Fable regularly ends hours of work with status updates phrased in crystal clear terms like:

  "**V2** debug-helper gate (R4d) | Medium-risk | Gate on `?debug=1` URL param at 3 fixture sites — **not** a localStorage flag (`browser_page` clears it every test). 284 debug-API calls ride the fixture, so R4d goes last+alone"

New comment by nightshift1 in "What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?"

nightshift1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:27:05 +0000

I think it is because the plans are crazy expensive. when you pay 200-300$/month for an online subscription, its normal to want to extract as much value as possible.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

nightshift1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:05:59 +0000

This project is impressive but I wonder if those efforts would not have been better spent on an open platform that actually respects its users and that is less likely to kill the whole project on a whim. It seems like building a house on someone's else property.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Identity verification on Claude"

nightshift1 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:00:09 +0000

When i tried to upgrade from 5x to 20x a few months ago, they froze my account until i sent them a full 3d scan of my face and a photo of my id. The only way i could deny was to cancel my account. So this is nothing new for them.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

nightshift1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:26:42 +0000

All i can see is a giant single point of failure called the Global Transaction Router.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

nightshift1 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:31:39 +0000

Interesting submission on that topic : How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343

New comment by nightshift1 in "Transformers Are Inherently Succinct"

nightshift1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:40 +0000

i noticed that with 4.7. i tried to add instructions in claude.md to unpack meaning when communicating to me but it did not work.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

nightshift1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:58:31 +0000

or find another job

New comment by nightshift1 in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

nightshift1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:31:04 +0000

Good idea, but only if the article can't be edited during that week. What's worth preserving is the version the audience actually read. Articles routinely get ninja-edited after publication, sometimes repeatedly. Changelogs should be mandatory but they're useless if we can't keep them honest.

New comment by nightshift1 in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

nightshift1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:44:10 +0000

They did. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-...

New comment by nightshift1 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

nightshift1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:18:58 +0000

I noticed the same thing. Every Claude release thread is full of comments saying that it's terrible and why they switched to Codex. And vice versa for Codex release threads. At least its not as bad as /r/localllama that is 90% bots now.

New comment by nightshift1 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

nightshift1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:42:49 +0000

This rewrite of GNU coreutils to rust comes to mind https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

New comment by nightshift1 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

nightshift1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:59:38 +0000

Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677