Hacker News: ryanjshaw

New comment by ryanjshaw in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:29:32 +0000

You’re mistaking your preferences for the majority’s preferences. Huge chunk of humanity now chooses to experience in-person events recording it through their phones.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

ryanjshaw — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:39:45 +0000

Because I pay $60 per month and not using the included API tokens on other models is wasteful.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Three important steps in my maturation process"

ryanjshaw — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:43:50 +0000

There are some things you cannot easily come back from - or at all - later in life eg poor health decisions, bad finances, not having children.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Three important steps in my maturation process"

ryanjshaw — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:41:35 +0000

Early 40s here. I really wish I had started weightlifting 20 years ago.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Felony Bench"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:09:55 +0000

The whole story makes no sense.

How do they perform evals without a full reasoning trace of how the result was achieved?

And if they have a full trace why did it take so long to detect the bad behavior?

I understand that they disabled the safety nets during testing but what does that have to do with not monitoring the activity.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:58:13 +0000

The fact that companies with access to SOTA non-public AI keep having these kinds of dumb bugs in something as simple as a chat app helps validate my disbelief of people claiming AI is ready to replace all software development.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

ryanjshaw — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:53:05 +0000

Surely anybody who could download the keygen could just as easily download the pirated game? Only difference is time and dialup costs, but neither of those would’ve pushed somebody into the buy category.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

ryanjshaw — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:06:45 +0000

Is getting people’s voices difficult? Doesn’t YT have more than enough data already?

New comment by ryanjshaw in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:32:56 +0000

I want it off by default even for calm low HR outdoor walks. Nothing wrong with stopping a few minutes to admire nature during your outdoor walks! This feature was probably designed by the same person who thought it was a great idea not to let us switch off the screenshot sound.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

ryanjshaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:27:31 +0000

If somebody experiences psychosis while using AI, it’s because they have an existing mental illness and the AI use is co-incidental not causative of mental illness.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:39:56 +0000

Haven’t seen any bloody bodies advertised to my child… yet.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:37:59 +0000

As somebody who has unfortunately had to deal with people suffering actual psychosis stemming from some of the most terrible illnesses that can afflict a human being - no, this is not psychosis.

What parent is describing is more akin to believing in astrology and tea leaves.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:13:29 +0000

Google Play Store showed my child an ad of a bloody body on a bed for a murder mystery game. The game was rated 18+ and the account had my daughter’s correct single digit age.

I reported the ad and a week later it was still there. I switched to Apple.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

ryanjshaw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:22:27 +0000

> Cause if that is justified, then Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek etc are also valued at a trillion dollars

It’s more like a bunch of people are placing different bets. Only a few bets are going to generate a return, possibly only one, but the profit on that one bet will make it all worthwhile. That’s the theory, anyway.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Darktable"

ryanjshaw — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:10:16 +0000

“Intuitive” implies “don’t need to read documentation”. That’s the entire point of my comment. There’s intuitive software and unintuitive software. This is unintuitive software. It’s not bad software, just unintuitive. I place value on intuitive software.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Darktable"

ryanjshaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:15:26 +0000

Killer feature is intuitive UX. Using DarkTable was an exercise in frustration for me.

In darkroom mode you can’t navigate to other photos with cursor keys. Since the cursor keys do nothing else I have no idea why the aren’t bound to the nav. You have to double click on a photo to select it, one click does nothing so again I have no idea why not just bind single click to select. Then it recenters the entire row on what you selected, which I find disorientating but I suppose because you can’t navigate with cursor keys this recentering is necessary.

If you are willing to read the manuals and relearn everything it can do what it’s supposed to but the UX of LR is worth it to me.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "JetZero"

ryanjshaw — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:49:12 +0000

> have all been shaped heavily by human blood

This assumes the lessons were specific to the body type and aren’t generalizable?

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

ryanjshaw — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:28:15 +0000

Stable coins are not foreign currency, they are commodities

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

ryanjshaw — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:35:53 +0000

This is simply not true. In South Africa, one of the largest African economies, you cannot hold foreign currency unless you are traveling and then you have to sell it back within 30 days of returning to the country. You can open a foreign currency account with a minimum of eg R1500 which is half the monthly minimum wage. Then there are the exchange fees to talk about. You are oversimplifying.

New comment by ryanjshaw in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

ryanjshaw — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:31:59 +0000

Crypto advocates are not one homogenous blob.