Hacker News: okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=okthrowman283Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:43:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"]]>Maybe true but I’ve never had a worse experience than I have with PayPal, truly an awful company

]]>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:19:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145532okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145532https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145532<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "GPT-5.2"]]>Interesting I’ve noticed the same behavior with Gemini 3.0 but not with Claude, and Gemini 2.5 did not have this behavior. I wonder what tuning is optimising for here.

]]>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:45:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244075okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244075https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244075<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"]]>Wrong

]]>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:23:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626241okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626241<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"]]>It was clearly rhetorical

]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:44:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165779okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165779https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165779<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"]]>The sheer amount of copium in this thread is illuminating, it’s fascinating the lengths people will go to downplaying advancements like this when their egos/livelihoods are threatened - pretty natural though I suppose.

]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:42:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165763okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165763<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust"]]>How does Nova compare to Boa? Regardless it’s great to see new js engines popping up

]]>Fri, 30 May 2025 01:07:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131845okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131845https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131845<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise"]]>To be fair though the author of 2027 has been prescient in his previous predictions

]]>Sun, 04 May 2025 07:39:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885202okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885202<![CDATA[New comment by okthrowman283 in "Exploring model welfare"]]>It’s becoming clear that this issue is going to become one of the most divisive in history.

Apparently a large number of people outright dismiss even the possibility of “machine sentience”. It seems to trigger some pretty visceral reactions.

Never mind the fact we can’t even define sentience/consciousness to begin with. We have no idea why or how it arises - yet we’re very quick to make strong claims about it.

]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:41:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799158okthrowman283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799158