Hacker News: robryan

New comment by robryan in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

robryan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:37:46 +0000

Surely it is. Ask it to keep a list of all the promising sub paths, reprompt the collections of agents again on these after the main problem has been addressed. Or even release a list of them and let others investigate.

New comment by robryan in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

robryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:36:41 +0000

I feel like most of the latest big Chinese lab models are good enough now. If I had to pick a difference it feels like sol goes further towards 1 shotting things and needs less babysitting. But if I am actively prompting and reading the results can get just as far on a lesser model.

New comment by robryan in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

robryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:24:36 +0000

They really can't in the open model space. Look at any current open model you would want to use on open router, there will be 20 or more options.

New comment by robryan in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

robryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:27:56 +0000

I think that is fine, certain things are becoming less important to learn and certain things more important. With the pace of change it is likely to continue shifting.

New comment by robryan in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

robryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:11:53 +0000

Nothing stopping kids from asking AI to give you responses like this, it is more than capable. There is always going to be the temptation to take short cuts though.

New comment by robryan in "Go 1.27"

robryan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:46:25 +0000

Can just pass it a context, cancel the context, and handle for it in the goroutine.

New comment by robryan in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

robryan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:55:09 +0000

Some of the pre-ai decline in questions might just be that they had filled out of alot of the question space. What might be more interesting is the traffic graph as it would be possible to have a decline in questions but still have traffic rising to the existing ones.

Today I'd expect even when someone is googling and a question is relevant that most people will just read the AI overview.

New comment by robryan in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

robryan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:09:30 +0000

I think it was different pre-AI. Someone might come in and spend days getting some understanding of the codebase before they contribute some minor fix. Over time they might stick around a make some more of these, progressively gaining trust so when they do take on something bigger the maintainers will know they aren't wasting their time reviewing it.

Now they can drop a multi thousand line poorly understood PR day 1.

New comment by robryan in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

robryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:20 +0000

It is the least reliable piece of software I have ever used. While I was still using it I got into states that were completely broken and the easiest way to get out was to wait for the next version and hope that did something.

New comment by robryan in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

robryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:22:35 +0000

Assignments the agent is bad at seems like a losing battle. Just need to base the mark off the in person test, maybe keep 20-30% to encourage people to still do the assignments. Some will cheat but it will just be hurting them for the test.

New comment by robryan in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

robryan — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:12:45 +0000

0.2% of google users try out duck duck go after google pushes more AI doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:56:31 +0000

They appear to be lining up a funding round at a $900 billion dollar valuation. Or to be more conservative they already raised at $380 billion. A long way from worthless.

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:50:14 +0000

To be fair the commit message `revert proc.exited change in spawn.test.ts` suggests the sleep was there originally.

New comment by robryan in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

robryan — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:24:23 +0000

Would you say the same thing for teaching math or music?

New comment by robryan in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

robryan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:21:13 +0000

I had a surprisingly large amount of issues getting it to correctly message me on discord if needed as part of heartbeat. Multiple times it broke and we fixed it. Then it was chewing through way too much usage so I set it to 6 hourly heartbeat and it stopped messaging entirely again, haven't bothered to fix.

It is nice though for debugging home server things when I ask it to.

New comment by robryan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

robryan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:26:28 +0000

Nice, too much stability though compare to Lunar Lander.

New comment by robryan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

robryan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:24:24 +0000

Yeah, I want to enter weird orbits around the planets.

New comment by robryan in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

robryan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:58:06 +0000

Yeah and updating profile image, profile description and description for work history. Almost no one that isn't looking around for a job does this.

New comment by robryan in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

robryan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:26:21 +0000

Youtube shorts will come back but you can just click the row each time to show less. Otherwise if you really don't want to see them on the desktop at least a browser extension works well.

New comment by robryan in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

robryan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:09:51 +0000

Block reportedly handed out a bunch of incentives to the people staying, could be similar to that.