Hacker News: puttycat

New comment by puttycat in "Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes"

puttycat — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:35:30 +0000

I don't understand how this is different from BPE tokenization.

Co-Linguistics: AI-Augmented Theory Construction in Linguistics

puttycat — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:18:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37635

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947400

Points: 2

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New comment by puttycat in "Strutt's Powered Wheelchair Is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons)"

puttycat — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:38:08 +0000

I can't stand the word "incumbent" anymore. I have only ever seen it in election contexts.

Now that Claude is using it as a fancy shortcut to "current", it's everywhere. I even hear people who would never think to use this word say it in face to face conversations.

New comment by puttycat in "Claude Opus 5.5"

puttycat — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:20:37 +0000

> Because Opus 5.5 is comparable to Claude Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, we’re deploying it with safeguards similar to those on Claude Fable 5.1

According to their ToS, conversations flagged by the guardrails when using Fable are stored longer for moderation. That included Fable's guardrail for AI research. Moderation can mean a human looking at your conversation.

Does that mean that I can no longer trust Opus with not snitching my AI research to Anthropic either?

New comment by puttycat in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

puttycat — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:29:45 +0000

Yes. And in combination it completely rules out the suggestion that the Netherlands attack is some kind of local activist protest. (The France attack resulted in several grave injuries and could have just as easily resulted in dozens of deaths.)

New comment by puttycat in "Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods"

puttycat — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:57:00 +0000

Quite appalling to open a "journalistic" report by ridiculising the people you report on:

> Not since Socrates complained that the written word might make people lazy about remembering things has there been such an outpouring of angst against a new technology in the world of academia.

New comment by puttycat in "GPT-6 Astra"

puttycat — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:41:23 +0000

Intelligence is actually correlated with the ability to simplify complicated things. Occam's razor. Compression as comprehension.

The Mechanical Neural Network

puttycat — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mechnet.de/en/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541763

Points: 1

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New comment by puttycat in "Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine"

puttycat — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:39 +0000

This is really impressive. Can you say a bit about the underlying process? I'm guessing this is post-training qantization? Isn't PTQ also resource-intensive? (Ie might not work on any machine)

New comment by puttycat in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

puttycat — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:59:58 +0000

Not sure that's correct. You're replacing a simple visual recognition problem with something similar to the halting problem (but maybe less fatalistic, depending on the formalism you're working against ie DOM vs js).

New comment by puttycat in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

puttycat — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:32:17 +0000

Opus 5's language is just terrible

New comment by puttycat in "Discovery Loop"

puttycat — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:49:39 +0000

What's the business model of these startups?

New comment by puttycat in "Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran"

puttycat — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:59:40 +0000

> he brought these attacks with his war

I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.

New comment by puttycat in "Clifford Sosin on X: "Maybe Intelligence Ain't All That" / X"

puttycat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:23:06 +0000

> Video models can certainly predict what stirring cream into coffee does.

Not sure that physicists and professional animators would agree.

New comment by puttycat in "Clifford Sosin on X: "Maybe Intelligence Ain't All That" / X"

puttycat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:11:23 +0000

https://xcancel.com/i/article/2078594661359194500

New comment by puttycat in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

puttycat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:08:52 +0000

As mentioned in other comments, what you call the past has been known for at least 30-40 years to be soon obsolete. They had enough time to prepare to this.

New comment by puttycat in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

puttycat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:07:10 +0000

It is very much so supported by facts, see sister comment.

New comment by puttycat in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

puttycat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:07:01 +0000

This. Add to the list: consuming huge amounts of meat while depriving themselves of AC "for the planet".

New comment by puttycat in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

puttycat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:04:44 +0000

There are still hardly any, Paris, July '26.

New comment by puttycat in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

puttycat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:02:50 +0000

The thing is that both sides have a point. European countries (notably France) have known for at least 30 years that this was coming, but was ideologically insisting not to install proper AC or even ventilation in public spaces and transport. This does not contradict the wider angle about Americans ignoring climate change.