Hacker News: oceliker

New comment by oceliker in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

oceliker — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:49:50 +0000

Unrelated, but:

> The dominant mechanism, and the one no prompt instruction can prevent:

Writing like this is a stronger "AI-written" (specifically Claude) signal than em-dashes to me at this point. The LLM just delays committing to an answer by extending the preamble as much as possible. Is this just me?

New comment by oceliker in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

oceliker — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:29:49 +0000

Someone snatched the username when the actual nully left.

New comment by oceliker in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

oceliker — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:23:32 +0000

For future reference I recommend having another Haiku instance monitor the chat and check if people are up to some shenanigans. You can use ntfy to send yourself an alert. The chat is completely off the rails right now...

New comment by oceliker in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

oceliker — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:10:10 +0000

I think anyone who goes for a drive in Los Angeles can attest that there are way mo than 70 cars active at any point. It's not unusual to see multiple Waymos at intersections.

Also, the average speed is way less than 25 mph, considering it may take 30 minutes to go 3-4 miles in city traffic.

New comment by oceliker in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

oceliker — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:09:55 +0000

Did you start a new chat? It doesn't apply to existing chats (probably because it works through the system prompt). I have been using the Robot (Efficient) setting for a while and never had a response like that.

New comment by oceliker in ""The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" – a "study""

oceliker — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:39:41 +0000

> it's not true in general if you actually read the article.

Only if you agree with the article's methodology :)

Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified – how it works

oceliker — Tue, 28 May 2024 21:10:38 +0000

Article URL: http://alienryderflex.com/polarizer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505646

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Guys what is wrong with my cat? – an AI generated pop song

oceliker — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://app.suno.ai/song/30a612d0-1c1c-406e-a95b-1c6d6b486cf5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842795

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by oceliker in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

oceliker — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:12:25 +0000

> The APA’s position paper makes this explicit: “Using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people.”

I think this is just saying that social media is still part of society, and so there is nothing inherently bad in using social media, which is just an extension of our offline lives. That doesn't mean it's not harmful - if the offline life is harmful, social media can amplify it.

> The negative aspects of social media apply to young and old equally

The APA paper is filled with warnings specifically about adolescent social media use:

> ...potential risks are likely to be greater in early adolescence — a period of greater biological, social, and psychological transitions...

> Parental monitoring... and developmentally appropriate limit-setting... is critical, especially in early adolescence.

> Evidence suggests that exposure to maladaptive behavior may promote similar behavior among vulnerable youth, and online social reinforcement of these behaviors may be related to increased risk for serious psychological symptoms, even after controlling for offline influences.

> Research demonstrates that adolescents’ exposure to online discrimination and hate predicts increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms, even after controlling for how much adolescents are exposed to similar experiences offline.

> Data indicate that technology use particularly within one hour of bedtime, and social media use in particular, is associated with sleep disruptions. Insufficient sleep is associated with disruptions to neurological development in adolescent brains, teens’ emotional functioning, and risk for suicide.

> Research suggests that using social media for social comparisons related to physical appearance... [is] related to poorer body image, disordered eating, and depressive symptoms, particularly among girls.

New comment by oceliker in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

oceliker — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:38:48 +0000

Same year, different size (13 and 13 Pro Plus)

New comment by oceliker in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

oceliker — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:18:58 +0000

This is so odd. I have two phones with AT&T currently sitting right next to each other. One has service, the other is in SOS mode.

New comment by oceliker in "Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls"

oceliker — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 01:55:04 +0000

No, a Faraday cage does not require power (just grounding).

New comment by oceliker in "Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs"

oceliker — Wed, 17 May 2023 02:43:26 +0000

Small nit, anybody who stayed in the US for 10 years is very unlikely to be a nonresident alien (which is mainly an IRS tax classification and doesn’t have much to do with having an immigrant visa)

source: current resident alien

New comment by oceliker in "Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs"

oceliker — Wed, 17 May 2023 02:36:44 +0000

Are you sure you are not conflating this with PERM? H-1B only requires a prevailing wage determination. There is no “ludicrously specific” job description, nor a requirement to post ads (just a notice at the workplace).

New comment by oceliker in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

oceliker — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:15:48 +0000

I don’t understand. Passing one interview doesn’t guarantee a job offer?

New comment by oceliker in "US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada"

oceliker — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:57:58 +0000

I’m a millennial living in US (although non native English speaker) and had no idea.

New comment by oceliker in "US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada"

oceliker — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:18:34 +0000

> What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

What does this mean? I don’t see a reference to tea in the comment you are replying to.

New comment by oceliker in "Zoom lays off 15% of employees"

oceliker — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:09:26 +0000

Hence my qualifier:

> Zoom is the "OG" product (in the post-March-2020 remote working world)

New comment by oceliker in "Zoom lays off 15% of employees"

oceliker — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:04:17 +0000

I feel like Zoom is the Coca-Cola to Google and Microsoft's Pepsi. Zoom is the "OG" product (in the post-March-2020 remote working world), and probably most people's personal favorite. But their competitors have caught up, and they are getting a significant portion of corporate contracts now. And unlike with soda, I don't think there is a lot of direct-to-consumer opportunity in this field.

New comment by oceliker in "That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted"

oceliker — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:27:43 +0000

This is somewhat offtopic, but the Retraction Watch twitter account shared this so many times since December 22, that I had to unfollow them. Now that I see the same article in HN, I’m convinced that the universe is trolling me.