Hacker News: prideout

New comment by prideout in "Genie 4"

prideout — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:44:51 +0000

That all sounds right to me, but apparently they can also be used for simply generating videos, or "unlocking the creation of new interactive experiences"... which both seem like competing goals with everything you just mentioned.

New comment by prideout in "Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)"

prideout — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:01:14 +0000

Is this post popular because of a recent mathematical discovery in this problem space?

New comment by prideout in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

prideout — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:10:35 +0000

I see your point for the bike scenario, but not for choosing a paint colors or touring a city (the other scenario in the ad). The common element that I perceived was that these were all mundane tasks in the physical world.

New comment by prideout in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

prideout — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:57:07 +0000

I find the video strange. Are we meant to empathize with people who get flummoxed by everyday life? "Oh woe is me, I can neither assemble a bike nor ask a friend for help!" Of all the challenges in my life, the tiny mundane ones are the ones that can be most fun; those are the opportunities to laugh at myself, and to revel in small & happy victories. It's the charm of life.

New comment by prideout in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

prideout — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:54:36 +0000

This includes a proof of Barnette's Conjecture, which is one of the graph theory conjectures that I tried attacking with SOTA models a few months ago. I like it because it is easy to understand with a basic knowledge of graph theory. I spent quite a bit of time on it and failed. Their proof looks approachable at first glance.

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Paired-st...

New comment by prideout in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

prideout — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:56:53 +0000

These are amazing but the parent comment is referring to vision comprehension, not generation.

New comment by prideout in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

prideout — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:52:02 +0000

Me too but unfortunately theorem proving seems to be easier than doing laundry.

New comment by prideout in "Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go"

prideout — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:28 +0000

There's also https://github.com/google/filament

New comment by prideout in "The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1"

prideout — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:38:34 +0000

What was the prompt?

New comment by prideout in "Grok 4.6"

prideout — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:59:12 +0000

But aren't today's frontier models already "fully universal"? To use your Turing machine analogy, I think we're past the calculator stage.

New comment by prideout in "Staging patches with Git add -p"

prideout — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:03:23 +0000

Super useful, and easy to do in the VS Code merge pane.

New comment by prideout in "Tensor Is the Might"

prideout — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:56:28 +0000

They were speaking from an implementation perspective.

New comment by prideout in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

prideout — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:00:02 +0000

Ah, I see it as a "reasoning level" in codex after typing /model

New comment by prideout in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

prideout — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:57:53 +0000

Confused about how to access Ultra; I don't see it in on their plans page.

New comment by prideout in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

prideout — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:35:55 +0000

Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.

New comment by prideout in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

prideout — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:17:51 +0000

This is a fascinating mathematical framework, but the post title might be a bit of an overreach. I often wonder if "a theory of deep learning" could exist that could be stated succinctly and that could predict (1) scaling laws and (2) the surprising reliability of gradient descent.

Note that I said "predict" not "describe". It feels like we're still in the era of Kepler, not Newton.

New comment by prideout in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

prideout — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:15:20 +0000

Yes! My first encounter with spreadsheets was SuperCalc for CP/M, and I suppose you would call it a "TUI" nowadays.

New comment by prideout in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

prideout — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:13:16 +0000

What does the "Session Picker" section refer to? Claude Code does not have a session picker, as far as I can tell.

New comment by prideout in "Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions"

prideout — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:32:55 +0000

Neat. Would be nice if I could easily drop the replayer into a slack thread. Maybe a video file would be better for that than an HTML file?

New comment by prideout in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

prideout — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:15:28 +0000

This is not written by a former Google employee, it's written by a former Google user. Confusing title to see on hackernews.