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New comment by olmo23 in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

olmo23 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:50:48 +0000

This is still true in JavaScript and many other modern languages.

Well, it's close in JS: 3 - 3.01 = -0.009999999999999787

New comment by olmo23 in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

olmo23 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:36:00 +0000

navier stokes is not the only example of an open problem in maths that was solved by AI (eg the counterexample to the jacobian)

New comment by olmo23 in "America.gov"

olmo23 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:02:19 +0000

> humans can be held accountable and learn from their mistakes

bad bots can be retrained or shut down far more easily

New comment by olmo23 in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

olmo23 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:22:34 +0000

I'm not sure what that percentage means, but power-cuts in Belgium are extremely rare.

New comment by olmo23 in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

olmo23 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:37:19 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyslop

New comment by olmo23 in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

olmo23 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:35:03 +0000

Where do you live? Ipad kids here need to be explained what files and folders are. They've never even used a mouse.

New comment by olmo23 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

olmo23 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:26:30 +0000

I don't understand this comment. We use AI for prototyping all the time. We write ERP software. Client wants to know how process XYZ could be automated? Send them a prototype UI (sans the three A's) so they can play around with it. Takes 30 minutes.

New comment by olmo23 in "Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'"

olmo23 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:48:34 +0000

If it wanted to: total war using nukes, followed by a nuclear winter. Satellites and drones track and exterminate remaining pockets of anthropic activity.

It doesn't need to have a habitable earth, it just needs atoms.

New comment by olmo23 in "Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'"

olmo23 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:45:25 +0000

I heard the following analogy which made a lot of sense to me: suppose you're playing a chess match against Stockfish. Stockfish will win. Even if I cannot tell you what moves it will play, I can tell you with certainty how it will end.

Similarly, we cannot predict what AI would do.

New comment by olmo23 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

olmo23 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:32:02 +0000

> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from [Buckmaster and Alpöge’s] usage of our products helped improve our models.

Well yeah, if you use the free product they train on your data, ... I thought this was widely understood?

New comment by olmo23 in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

olmo23 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:26:04 +0000

This is because to build a pipe bomb you need difficult to source materials. This is not the case for other types of threats (cyber / bio).

I personally have no need for an LLM which will readily explain how to cut up the genotype of smallpox into small chunks which can pass the screening at the bio-labs, and can be readily assembled into the real thing by a second year lab-student.

New comment by olmo23 in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

olmo23 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:29:45 +0000

In your opinion, do you think ai can make eutorack modules by now? This is what I am waiting for: explain an idea to an ai, and sending the files to jlpcb to receive a complete working module (minus some THC soldering)

New comment by olmo23 in "GPT-6 Astra"

olmo23 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:48:11 +0000

Humans are famously horribly aligned, plenty of examples in history.

New comment by olmo23 in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

olmo23 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:07:46 +0000

For us it's pretty much a standard request from our clients now: that they are able to use their chatbot to interact with the ERP systems.

New comment by olmo23 in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

olmo23 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:59:34 +0000

Perhaps it depends on your previously saved memories, because over here if given the choice it's always reaching for either TypeScript or C.

New comment by olmo23 in "GPT-6 Astra"

olmo23 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:41:21 +0000

I can also recommend this channel to get a sense of where AI is in frontier maths.

https://www.youtube.com/@easy_riders

New comment by olmo23 in "LLMs and self-referentiality"

olmo23 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:23:53 +0000

I would be extremely offended if I heard someone claim they "prompt" me. It's very disrespectful.

New comment by olmo23 in "Fable 5.1 World Modeling"

olmo23 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:13:41 +0000

$33 is expensive? Compared to what?

New comment by olmo23 in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

olmo23 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:05:50 +0000

It made an additional $23 million after the first month.

New comment by olmo23 in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

olmo23 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:57:57 +0000

The premium version of Dwarf Fortress made over $7.2 million in its first month alone.