Hacker News: ph4rsikal

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation"

ph4rsikal — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:58:05 +0000

Maybe the engineer makes 90K, but there are still thousands in social contributions. Can be up to 15K.

Show HN: Jamming with Jev and Claude on TidalCycles

ph4rsikal — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:48:35 +0000

Article URL: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/jamming-with-jev-and-claude-on-tidalcycles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963621

Points: 1

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New comment by ph4rsikal in "Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason"

ph4rsikal — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:33:42 +0000

An LLM is just a brain in a vat. Our brains would also not reason in such a condition. Given the right framework that can do miraculous things. I am not saying that these systems are conscious, but they are able to abstract their context in a way allowing them to understand their own limitations.

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/31255/adaptability-as-e...

Infinitrance Live Stream [video]

ph4rsikal — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:24:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eu62AJrwlA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930099

Points: 1

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New comment by ph4rsikal in "If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?"

ph4rsikal — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:22:18 +0000

Humans are also ethnically homogenic animals.

Schelling Points and the Secret Society of Agents

ph4rsikal — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:04:30 +0000

Article URL: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/ai-agents-schelling-point-dsewiki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795096

Points: 3

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New comment by ph4rsikal in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

ph4rsikal — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:16:36 +0000

Makes much more sense described in this way.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Mistral raises €3B"

ph4rsikal — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:50:45 +0000

Mistral's annual revenue (700M) is what Anthropic generates in 3 days. It will be extremely difficult to build new models with these numbers.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

ph4rsikal — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:55:42 +0000

Arianspace launches from French Guiana while a French commune is not really close to the actual continent of Europe.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

ph4rsikal — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:18:55 +0000

It is indeed a huge success but it also underlines how far ahead the rest of the world is.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow"

ph4rsikal — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:25:13 +0000

Claude used to be 10x more efficient. I think there are no barriers of entry between one coding agent and the other. Therefore, I expect them to reverse as soon as people switch. At least this is what I will do.

Wax On, Weights Off: Knowledge Distillation Explained

ph4rsikal — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:47:13 +0000

Article URL: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/knowledge-distillation-attacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986357

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by ph4rsikal in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

ph4rsikal — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:34:04 +0000

The blue line (200K context) is lower than the red line (300K context). Indicating that it's cheaper to run blue rather than red over longer cycles.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Qwen 3.8"

ph4rsikal — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:04:24 +0000

> Qwen 3.7 Pro is just unusable. wastes too much time, goes off track, useless stuck loops, cannot debug at all. D

Anthropic should not have bugged their knowledge distillation attacks.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Google Search lets creators know more about their reach"

ph4rsikal — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:27:06 +0000

Hope they move away from the engagement model. I prefer blogs over reddit/insta/tiktok in search results.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "ChatGPT Work"

ph4rsikal — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:59:42 +0000

ChatGPT Codex launches, and it's the worst of both worlds. Who would have thought?

A Self-Improving Code World Model Agent

ph4rsikal — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:44:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/a-self-improving-code-world-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802188

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ph4rsikal in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

ph4rsikal — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:46:52 +0000

The on-ramp in crypto is incredibly well built out. But then, once you are in the fake money world, you will notice that the off-ramp doesn't exist.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "What happened to nerds?"

ph4rsikal — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:16:10 +0000

You only say that because you benefit from it.

New comment by ph4rsikal in "What happened to nerds?"

ph4rsikal — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:20:23 +0000

For tenure-track positions—the pipeline for future faculty—white men have gone from 49 percent in 2014 to 27 percent in 2024 (in the humanities, they’ve gone from 39 percent to 21 percent).

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/