Hacker News: quux

New comment by quux in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

quux — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:13:03 +0000

You don't eat it, don't be silly.... you stick the poop up your butt

New comment by quux in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

quux — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:37 +0000

It's not people using stolen cards, it's people feeling shame or regret after making an intentional purchase and using chargebacks to "undo" the purchase

New comment by quux in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:55:46 +0000

It was a bit more Kamban-ish

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:54:42 +0000

2023 came pretty close to your nightmare scenario

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:36:33 +0000

We called it "Continuous Improvement Man" because by the 3rd round of building our camp we had the process really dialed in

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:29:25 +0000

To paraphrase Captain Malcom Reynolds: "My days of not taking Burning Man seriously are definitely coming to a middle."

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:26:26 +0000

The natural tension between chaos and order is one of the things that makes Burning Man so interesting.

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:12:27 +0000

Worth noting: Plants, living or dead, are banned from Burning Man because they turn into moop really easily, but some always end up there anyway

New comment by quux in "Waymo in Portland"

quux — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:46:22 +0000

That's kind of a beautiful vision

New comment by quux in "Google Flow Music"

quux — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:33:00 +0000

My prompt was "give me the most generic playa house beat you can imagine" and I gotta say, it nailed it

New comment by quux in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

quux — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:08:04 +0000

I just bought my brother 6 months of pro so he could use Claude code. How do I request a refund

New comment by quux in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

quux — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:05:20 +0000

It must, if it now outputs more tokens than 4.6's tokenizer for the same input. I think the announcement and model cards provide a little more detail as to what exactly is different

New comment by quux in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

quux — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:14 +0000

If only there were an Open AI company who's mandate, built into the structure of the company, were to make frontier models available to everyone for the good of humanity.

Oh well

New comment by quux in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

quux — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:02:52 +0000

> Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a question which, in words, might have corresponded to this:

TIL Asimov predicted the Ballmer Peak in 1956

New comment by quux in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

quux — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:38:57 +0000

This is a useless benchmark now a days, every model provider trains their models on making good pelicans. Some have even trained every combination of animal/mode of transportation

New comment by quux in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"

quux — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:20:29 +0000

With the exception of a couple of comments that add context like that this might be a dev feature that was unintentionally enabled in a released version of Gas Town, the majority of the rest of this discourse seems to be:

"I've never used Gas Town, but I'm mad that there are people who like something I don't like."

New comment by quux in "Music for Programming"

quux — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:50:47 +0000

Mark Watney sighs deeply

New comment by quux in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

quux — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:53:32 +0000

“Pay them, in the scheme of things it’s a speeding ticket”

New comment by quux in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

quux — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:09:04 +0000

OpenCode does this. Not sure about other tools

New comment by quux in "Show HN: fftool – A Terminal UI for FFmpeg – Shows Command Before It Runs"

quux — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:17:42 +0000

Any screenshots?