Hacker News: qntmfred

New comment by qntmfred in "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center"

qntmfred — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:11:09 +0000

The guardian is just lying more politely.

New comment by qntmfred in "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center"

qntmfred — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:10:03 +0000

Even orgs like AP or Reuters cannot always be trusted. They do a more reasonable job in most cases, but this just makes it easier for when they do inevitably deploy influence operations bc they can hide behind their credibility.

New comment by qntmfred in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

qntmfred — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:27:00 +0000

*imperfect

New comment by qntmfred in "Dots: Always-on agents"

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

you don't have to give yourself up to irrational, anxious feelings.

New comment by qntmfred in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

qntmfred — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:23:44 +0000

thx for the heads up :)

New comment by qntmfred in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

qntmfred — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:17:52 +0000

I recently finally fully moved all my projects away from .env (for local dev) to infisical, thinking it'd be the way to stop agents from (accidentally?) peeking at my secrets. while I'm still glad I made the move, it's clear that local agents are still moving around my local environment with sufficient privileges and autonomy to use infisical cli however it wants. my work isn't high stakes enough to matter much and I have rotation scripts on hand, but it's hard to see how to fully close the door against this type of risk at this point.

New comment by qntmfred in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

qntmfred — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:55:45 +0000

sama literally just said they wish they had bought more. the price drops are almost certainly due to good old fashioned hardware innovation (wafer scale with cerebras) and optimizing hardware development based on model architecture and inference costs. other inference providers will try to do the same if they can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB5beon4DY&t=4m20s

New comment by qntmfred in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

qntmfred — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:06:29 +0000

me.

New comment by qntmfred in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

qntmfred — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:05:32 +0000

all the more necessary to have trusted curators of information

New comment by qntmfred in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

qntmfred — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:13:59 +0000

me. I volunteer as ultimate arbiter of Truth.

New comment by qntmfred in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

qntmfred — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:07:46 +0000

*AGOD

New comment by qntmfred in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

qntmfred — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:16:05 +0000

just bc the shah fled the country doesn't mean the us and uk were bad or even the root cause. same kind of simple-minded ignorance that led to Mossadegh's rise in the first place.

New comment by qntmfred in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

qntmfred — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:25:46 +0000

falsely accusing a people of committing a genocide is bad actually

New comment by qntmfred in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

qntmfred — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:35:37 +0000

there's much more to the story of Iran than the simple "oh of course the UK and US are bad"

New comment by qntmfred in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

qntmfred — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:59:56 +0000

add mass media outlets to that list

New comment by qntmfred in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

qntmfred — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:14:32 +0000

and his are bad.

METR introduces Expenditure Horizon metric

qntmfred — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-07-21-expenditure-horizon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997951

Points: 4

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New comment by qntmfred in "Transcribe.cpp"

qntmfred — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:12:21 +0000

You have to change the model to one that supports streaming. The latest parakeet does. I've been using it the last week or so. It's good stuff :)

New comment by qntmfred in "Codex Resets"

qntmfred — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:31:04 +0000

I keep this bookmarked and check it frequently

https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud/settings/analytics

New comment by qntmfred in "Codex Resets"

qntmfred — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:30:26 +0000

I'd enable push notifications for this site