Hacker News: prodigycorp

New comment by prodigycorp in "We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model"

prodigycorp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:05:02 +0000

it was a joke

New comment by prodigycorp in "Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era"

prodigycorp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:54:04 +0000

Ha, reminds me of how anthropic publishes their math papers with meat proxy math professors who were compensated for their "authorship" of the paper.

Essentially gifts for the annointed.

New comment by prodigycorp in "We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model"

prodigycorp — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:50:04 +0000

can you turn this into a decision model

New comment by prodigycorp in "Next.js 16.4"

prodigycorp — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:28:30 +0000

Hard to call it a "unified platform" when a good portion of the developer base is using pages router despite app router being out for a few years now

New comment by prodigycorp in "What should we tell our students?"

prodigycorp — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:01:26 +0000

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New comment by prodigycorp in "What should we tell our students?"

prodigycorp — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:01:26 +0000

You could being playing best jai alai player always knowing where the ball goes. Problem is, nobody cares.

New comment by prodigycorp in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

prodigycorp — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:41:32 +0000

More likely is that frontier labs give huge discounts of EDUs if they consent to allowing training.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Mistral Large 4"

prodigycorp — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:28:49 +0000

Impressive vision benchmarking. If the vision model is truly as good as astra, that would make it best in the world.

Also strong on cyber benchmarks (better than all chinese models), so this is a good defender model.

Lots of people shitting of Mistral for no reason imo. These are pretty good numbers across the board. Definitely good enough to use as a daily driver over other llms, if you have moral qualms with the others. For certain use cases, like cyber security, this may be the go to model.

I like to make fun of europe, but there's lots for mistral to be proud about in this release imo.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

prodigycorp — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:42:32 +0000

I’m typing from my phone and im not going to review the semantics of Anthropic’s storied history of performance issues.

It’s not just ant. There are so many small knobs that providers can claim isn’t nerfing but “load management” or “improving user experience”. One example from OpenAI is reducing juice to reduce time to first token.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:59:28 +0000

Man this was last year and some Claude subreddit drama that I can’t furnish offf the top of my head but maybe one of the historians remember it.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:53:25 +0000

Incorrect.

Anthropic has admitted to nerfing in the past. There have also been inference bugs. On top of that, model performance changes as they move compute to schwaggier providers as well.

Your chart is wrong.

New comment by prodigycorp in "DevDay 2026 Recap"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:00:32 +0000

This could and probably is me projecting, but the enthusiasm was tepid. The Opus 5.5 mog cast a pall on the room.

The stuff that came off as potentially exciting was the ultrafast stuff available only to Pro 500 users.

The reset button stuff was an embarrassment. Everything that was released today, in respect to the hype that the team projected on twitter, was a failure. The internal OpenAI slack is a hell of an echo chamber.

ChatGPT Pro 500

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:26:27 +0000

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896975

Points: 219

# Comments: 269

GPT-6 UltraFast

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/ultrafast-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896907

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by prodigycorp in "GPT 6.1 Sol"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:10:57 +0000

API price cuts were obvious once they made their announcement changing how usage is counted.

These moves all make sense when you take into account the enterprise market.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889873

New comment by prodigycorp in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:42:29 +0000

This is a bad faith article. The feel of a "buggy mess" is different from what the author described. Every OS is going to have bugs. On top of that, I cannot reproduce a lot of these issues. It's clear the OP is using multiple third party utilities to manage things like the menubar. Try turn them off and complaining.

I feel like the author wanted to write a post like one of those about Tahoe (menu bar, corner dragging), but the stuff they wrote about was all very "who cares"?

Golden Gate has reversed many of Tahoe's regressions and further updates will continue to do so.

  > This one just irks me. Show me one oval camera lens anywhere in the world. I'm waiting.

Well, OP, today is the day you learn about anamorphic lenses

New comment by prodigycorp in "Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:07:22 +0000

This is disrespectful to the people of hiroshima who had to walk ankle deep through blood and bone just to find their family

New comment by prodigycorp in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:11:53 +0000

Great course, thanks for sharing, going through your slides and papers right now.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:35:47 +0000

I'm guessing the answer to this is that, despite being much more than what codex provides, claude current thinking summaries are not useful for training a frontier model.

New comment by prodigycorp in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

prodigycorp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:30:04 +0000

btw your comment was immediately marked as flagged/dead. Odd for a high quality comment. I vouched for it.

My main point of disagreement would be that I fundamentally see a different use for a jev sort of model (generalism is applealing), but if you're finetuning, a bert base is not bad.