Hacker News: redox99

New comment by redox99 in "EFF is leaving X"

redox99 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:36:16 +0000

Also if you tweet a link to the content instead of tweeting the actual content, you get penalized by the algorithm.

They do this in almost every tweet.

New comment by redox99 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

redox99 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:25:33 +0000

> If it slightly beats or even matches Opus 4.6

It doesn't though

New comment by redox99 in "Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters"

redox99 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:52:39 +0000

Besides claiming opus and gemini flash share 99% of style being suspicious, the point that you are wasting money on the expensive model is non sensical. You pay primarily for the intelligence, not the writing style.

Is this article AI slop?

New comment by redox99 in "Veracrypt project update"

redox99 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:48:53 +0000

That's kind of crazy. Why doesn't Microsoft revoke such certs such that you can't sign new software with it?

New comment by redox99 in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

redox99 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:20:24 +0000

Reddit turned way more into an echo chamber over time. The moderators and the downvote system destroyed the site. The shift from free speech, libertarian and anarchist ideology into heavily left leaning definitely didn't help.

New comment by redox99 in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

redox99 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:10:17 +0000

> AI programming is fundamentally different from programming

It's really not. Maybe vibecoding, in its original definition (not looking at generated code) is fundamentally different. But most people are not vibe coding outside of pet projects, at least yet.

New comment by redox99 in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

redox99 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:05:41 +0000

The takes on LLM programming on reddit are hilarious and borderline sad. It's way past the point of denial, now into delusions.

They truly believe LLMs are close to useless and won't improve. They believe it's all just a bubble that will pop and people will go back to coding character by character.

New comment by redox99 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

redox99 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:55:03 +0000

Are there really 70 percent srgb laptops at $600?

New comment by redox99 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

redox99 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:46:25 +0000

But the time it takes is too variable. Even standard can sometimes take 15+ minutes.

New comment by redox99 in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

redox99 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:44:32 +0000

You're implying all software/hardware is of equal quality. I've had many routers with years of uptime, never requiring a reboot.

And I'm sure they had a lot of bugs, but not every bug means hanging to the point of requiring a reboot during normal operation.

Even a proper watchdog would, after some downtime, recover the system.

New comment by redox99 in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

redox99 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:28:03 +0000

Power cycling is not a solution. It's a crappy workaround, and you still had downtime because of it. The device should never get stuck in the first place, and the solution for that is fixing whatever bug is in the firmware.

If they want to reduce support calls, then have more reliable gear.

New comment by redox99 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

redox99 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:10:11 +0000

Yeah I use that, but it's not really a solution that allows to only have auto. It doesn't help when it chooses Instant instead of Thinking, and it's also much slower than using Instant outright because the Skip button doesn't immediately show, and it's generally slow to restart.

New comment by redox99 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

redox99 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:58:04 +0000

IME ChatGPT is pretty mid at search. Grok although significantly dumber, is really strong at diligently going through hundreds of search results, and is much more tuned to rely on search results instead of its internal knowledge (which depending on the case can be better or worse). It's the only situation where Grok is worth using IMO.

Gemini is really good with many topics. Vastly superior to ChatGPT for agronomy.

You should always use the best model for the job, not just stick to one.

New comment by redox99 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

redox99 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:38:39 +0000

Auto will never work, because for the exact same prompt sometimes you want a quick answer because it's not something very important to you, and sometimes you want the answer to be as accurate as possible, even if you have to wait 10 minutes.

In my case it would be more useful to have a slider of how much I'm willing to wait. For example instant, or think up to 1 minute, or think up to 15 minutes.

New comment by redox99 in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

redox99 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:59:12 +0000

I'm growing so tired of the typical vibecoded UI design. The overuse of cards, icons, emojis, and zero images.

New comment by redox99 in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

redox99 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:19:38 +0000

Because it's pretty useful, for example to avoid refreshing data if the tab is unfocused and refresh immediately on focus.

New comment by redox99 in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

redox99 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:26:08 +0000

> For a disease which (to my knowledge) can’t be slowed down or reversed

There's Lecanemab and Donanemab. The effects are modest however.

New comment by redox99 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

redox99 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:39:20 +0000

I don't think there's much recursive improvement yet.

I'd say it's a combination of

A) Before, new model releases were mostly a new base model trained from scratch, with more parameters and more tokens. This takes many Months. Now that RL is used so heavily, you can make infinitely many tweaks to the RL setup, and in just a month get a better model using the same base model.

B) There's more compute online

C) Competition is more fierce.

New comment by redox99 in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

redox99 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:28:01 +0000

Not really, these subscriptions have a clear and enforced 5h and weekly limit.

New comment by redox99 in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

redox99 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:54:15 +0000

It's a wiki. Maybe you lose the edit history and stuff like that, but the actual content which is what matters should be very easy to recreate from those sources.