Hacker News: ryanschaefer

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Muse Wonder"

ryanschaefer — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:21:51 +0000

No contributor tier will do that I guess.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:21:55 +0000

So is it the house or just the tunnels? Because the listing says “land associated with”…

New comment by ryanschaefer in "How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound"

ryanschaefer — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:08:00 +0000

Deadheading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadheading_(employee) is incredibly common in the industry.

Interestingly enough it’s even mentioned in the wiki now…

Also the pilot triggered the hijack code before the cockpit was rushed.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:05:15 +0000

What area of basic research are they bemoaning?

Because as I see it, there are a lot of already established labs that could take research like this a lot further with the help of AI instead of just throwing more agents at the problem.

That’s my confusion around this topic. Does the strategy change when you can throw a bonkers amount of compute at the problem with fewer guardrails?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:09:40 +0000

I’m confused why AI companies are using agents in-house for this type of research instead of partnering externally.

I guess the improvement loop is tighter and they have more control over how discoveries can be used for marketing?

But, in my mind, it begins to feel like they are setting themselves up to be “everything” companies instead of focusing on their core product…

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models"

ryanschaefer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:53:23 +0000

Do anthropic release post-mortems on these outages?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:06:01 +0000

Do people prefer the new flat style LLMs are producing? I don’t mind it as much as the gradient theme they were pumping out previously.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "CSS Curiosities of the Past"

ryanschaefer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:31:32 +0000

If anything is worthy of the title “load-bearing” it’s IE…

I wonder how many collective years of developers’ lifespans were dedicated just to addressing its quirks.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:19:05 +0000

Is that the main differentiator? Not the use of a microphone to create the transcription?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:12:42 +0000

If it doesn’t record anything how does it make a transcript? I think some of these laws are strict enough such that no audio recording, even if it’s immediately discarded, is legal.

But of course, I am not a lawyer.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:59:26 +0000

Had this thought during the presentation. How is the “rewind” feature legal? Don’t a lot of states have laws against making secret recordings?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

ryanschaefer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:21:46 +0000

For me it’s the two mouths

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Muse Spark 1.3"

ryanschaefer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:37:41 +0000

For all of the comments about training: I thought that subscription plans for other models allow the same. Am I mistaken?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

ryanschaefer — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:35:42 +0000

Wow it’s actually that bad… I was looking for https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ but it appears people have co-opted the original phrase and out SEOed the original article… only to make a less concise, AI generated copy of it mimicking nohello…. https://dontbeameatproxy.com

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

ryanschaefer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:34:10 +0000

I had this debate with my coworker who prefers anthropic models to open ai ones. I ended up settling into the idea that gpt 5.6 is better used as a tool and opus 5 is a companion. GPT 5.6 takes you literally whereas opus 5 tends to take more liberties to try to get to the “spirit” of what you want. It comes down to preference, and I don’t want a companion.

New comment by ryanschaefer in "CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB"

ryanschaefer — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:11:34 +0000

Not showing the actual query is somewhat disappointing

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

ryanschaefer — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:40 +0000

What?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "Save GPT-5.5"

ryanschaefer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:12:00 +0000

Are you the author of this page?

New comment by ryanschaefer in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ryanschaefer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:28:30 +0000

The market *hates* this one weird trick to juice earnings

New comment by ryanschaefer in "The Making of Claude Code"

ryanschaefer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:22:44 +0000

This was a satirical comment about this:

https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427