Hacker News: platinumrad

New comment by platinumrad in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

platinumrad — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:26:33 +0000

Corporations pay API rates.

New comment by platinumrad in "Show HN: Go++, a Go superset with classes, exceptions and more"

platinumrad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:02:16 +0000

Upvoted for sheer insanity. (Multiple inheritance in 2026 is certainly a choice.) This is not the direction I would have expected the Scala/Kotlin/TypeScript of Go to have gone, but I guess that's why the Go++ naming is very appropriate.

New comment by platinumrad in "Extra Big Ass Intelligence"

platinumrad — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:03:31 +0000

You don't read if you think nobody used em dashes frequently before LLMs went mainstream.

New comment by platinumrad in "Pi 1.0"

platinumrad — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:37:54 +0000

The thing I don't like about minimal plugin-based harnesses is that I don't always have the time to figure out which plugins and safe and sensible, and at least one of those is false more often than not when it comes to AI tools. Sorting by popular does not solve the problem.

New comment by platinumrad in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

platinumrad — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:42:56 +0000

Cut from the same "rationalist" cloth.

New comment by platinumrad in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

platinumrad — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:37:30 +0000

GLM 5.2 was used by Hugging Face for defense when they were being hacked by OpenAI because the guardrails on closed models meant they refused to help.

New comment by platinumrad in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

platinumrad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:20:29 +0000

There are very practical reasons to not hire someone who abruptly dips after less than a year on the job that have nothing to do with being punitive.

New comment by platinumrad in "Sonnet 5.5"

platinumrad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:17:13 +0000

The contrast between Anthropic, who seem to be training their models to output ever-increasing numbers of reasoning tokens, and Fireworks's Ember-1, which was explicitly trained to preserve the quality of a model's responses while cutting down on reasoning, is interesting. Claude Code also uses more many tokens per task per model than any other harness in benchmarks.

New comment by platinumrad in "Sonnet 5.5 trumps Fable 5.1 on Artificial Analysis"

platinumrad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:11:20 +0000

This says more about Artificial Analysis than either model.

New comment by platinumrad in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

platinumrad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:53:22 +0000

> However I imagine those that are upset about CEO pay will find this unconvincing. Is there any other way to interpret this?

Judging by your recent comments, you seem to have an axe to grind with people who are "upset about CEO pay" and I don't think it's possible to convince you to look any things from any other angle.

A CEO abruptly resigning is read by the market as a signal. Unless you think this person is ~$6.5B more valuable than any potential replacement, the full quantity of the loss cannot be ascribed to the value he provides as an employee.

New comment by platinumrad in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

platinumrad — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:19:19 +0000

> For those wrongly convicted, I don't want them to get air-conditioning in prison

???

New comment by platinumrad in "Trump orders AI rebrand as "super intelligence""

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:48:11 +0000

A gift to the frontier lab marketing departments before their IPOs.

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:45:04 +0000

Your entire comment history really is just this, huh.

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:25:40 +0000

Your entire recent comeback history is defenses of Anthropic. Do you work for them?

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:58:22 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic are neck and neck: https://www.felonybench.com/

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:27:49 +0000

I don't think either of these companies are great, then, but Anthropic is surely worse. The doom marketing is one of the most unethical things an AI company can be doing.

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:24:46 +0000

The first one terrifies people who really don't need to be. It's deeply unethical.

New comment by platinumrad in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:11:17 +0000

Given that Anthropic models are very verbose and OpenAI models can be very concise, wouldn't a count of expected task completions be a better measurement than raw API costs?

New comment by platinumrad in "Claude Opus 5.5"

platinumrad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:32:45 +0000

The words have the very practical problem of not communicating anything of substance. I guess "we want regulatory capture" didn't have quite the same ring.

New comment by platinumrad in "Xiaomi MiMo v2.6"

platinumrad — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:31:54 +0000

It's a big company, like Microsoft or Google. Some of their products are good and some are bad.