Hacker News: saretup

New comment by saretup in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

saretup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:18 +0000

Streisand effect marketing 4d chess move by Niantic?

New comment by saretup in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

saretup — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:36:03 +0000

Even more 'disquieting' when you take into account who's currently the president of US.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will." - Donald Trump

New comment by saretup in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

saretup — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:31:18 +0000

It does send an analytics event when you’re swearing based on a keyword filter (something like is_negative:true), presumably as a signal that the model isn’t performing well this session, but who knows?

New comment by saretup in "Personal Encyclopedias"

saretup — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:28:18 +0000

So this is why RAM prices are through the roof. (JK, this is cool)

New comment by saretup in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

saretup — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:07:07 +0000

With hardcoded flags like “sendClaudeMessages” and “sendChatgptMessages”, they weren’t even trying to hide it.

New comment by saretup in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

saretup — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:46:58 +0000

WBD price at this moment is just $25.28. I think there are some complicated conditions associated with the terms.

New comment by saretup in "[dead]"

saretup — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:43:17 +0000

If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.

Show HN: Heat Cue – Multilingual, LLM-powered reverse dictionary game

saretup — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:05:52 +0000

Heat Cue is a mini game where you have to guess a hidden word and AI gives you feedback on how close your guess is to the target word. An LLM based semantic distance system is used to generate the score and a hint is given to nudge the player in the right direction. New Word Daily!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149110

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Heat Cue – An LLM Powered Mini-Game About Finding Hidden Nouns

saretup — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:11:02 +0000

Heat Cue is an AI powered mini game where you have to guess a hidden noun and get constant feedback on how "Hot" or "Cold" you are to the target noun.

I liked playing 'Hot or Cold' type games online but most were not very accurate in estimating the proximity of different words across a variety of domains.

Seemed like an easy job for LLMs to do, so I made this game inspired by Wordle and r/HotAndCold. Would love some feedback :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107633

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by saretup in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

saretup — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:30:31 +0000

Different tax loopholes depending on region etc, but basically like this:

I’m a billionaire earning $100M this year.

I owe $40M as taxes for that. (Too much!)

I find a dumb banana painting by a starving artist.

I buy it from him for $1000.

I wait 6 months.

I go to a museum to get it appraised by “professionals”.

I pay the professional appraiser’s wife $50K as a gift.

The appraiser says the painting is now worth $30M!

Wow that’s awesome, I have such a keen eye for art.

You know what, I’m gonna donate this painting to a museum instead because I’m such a patron of art and culture.

Oh, look at that, I get a tax rebate for the value of my donated painting ($30M)

Now I only have to pay $40M - $30M = $10M in taxes on my $100M income.

There’s more nuance to it in practice, but that’s the gist of it.

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Edit: For some reason I can't reply to the comments below so I'm gonna do it here.

> That wouldn't explain the price here, since in your scam the whole idea is to buy cheap and donate dear. not buy for 139M

Now we're getting in the details but it's very suspicious for an appraiser to appraise a work of art from an unknown artist at millions. But it's not that suspicious if they take Van Gogh's Starry Night which was previously appraised at $500M to now be valued at $1B. this way the deca-billionaire still gets to save his taxes while appraiser avoids suspicion.

> As far as I know, that's not how taxes work. You can't get a rebate for the amount of taxes you would have paid, you can get a deduction for the amount of money you made.

There are a lot of loopholes in the complicated tax system for the ultra-wealthy, not for us. This video (still a simple explanation in an animated way) covers a few more of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHy07B-UHkE

New comment by saretup in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

saretup — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:10:22 +0000

Don’t forget the tax savings.

New comment by saretup in "Nano Banana Pro"

saretup — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:20:44 +0000

Interesting they didn’t post any benchmark results - lmarena/artificial analysis etc. I would’ve thought they’d be testing it behind the scenes the same way they did with Gemini 3.

New comment by saretup in "Project Gemini"

saretup — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:39:56 +0000

Too small for Google to care about.

New comment by saretup in "Dark Pattern Games"

saretup — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:21:39 +0000

The website does label some relatively harmless elements as ‘dark patterns’, but out of your ‘really bad ones’, I don’t see ‘Competition’ as being a dark pattern.

Competition is a fundamental part of Play. Humans (and other animals) are social creatures and learn via playing and competing with others.

Can people play games by themselves? Yes.

Is competitive play bad or a dark pattern? Not at all.

New comment by saretup in "Blender Lab"

saretup — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:24:09 +0000

The top navigation definitely put me off, I immediately came back without even scrolling down.

New comment by saretup in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

saretup — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:39:09 +0000

histrionic and meretricious

New comment by saretup in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

saretup — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:15:06 +0000

Counterpoint: Humans visualize stuff in their minds before trying new things or when learning new concepts. An AI system with LLM based language center and a world model to visualize during training and inference would help it overlap more of human intelligence. Also it looks cool.

Edit: After seeing your edited (longer) comment, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

New comment by saretup in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

saretup — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:00:43 +0000

Seems reductive. Some applications require higher context length or fast tokens/s. Consider it a multidimensional Pareto frontier you can optimize for.

New comment by saretup in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

saretup — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:42:38 +0000

There can be hundreds of safe, possibly effective, and cheap interventions. Can’t try them all. Higher quality of evidence helps narrow it down.

New comment by saretup in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

saretup — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:37:03 +0000

The entirety of the internet vs government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.