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New comment by scroogey in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

scroogey — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:40:25 +0000

Just yesterday I asked it to repeat a very simple task 10 times. It ended up doing it 15 times. It wasn't a problem per se, just a bit jarring that it was unable to follow such simple instructions (it even repeated my desire for 10 repetitions at the start!).

New comment by scroogey in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

scroogey — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:46:06 +0000

Am in Europe and have certainly not found it straightforward. It took several years for my friend to get prescribed, as well.

New comment by scroogey in "Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness"

scroogey — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:02:22 +0000

Also known as Robusta. I have two different instant coffees at home and just checked - one is robusta, one arabica.

New comment by scroogey in "What nicotine does to your brain"

scroogey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:13:47 +0000

How much do you take?

New comment by scroogey in "Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3"

scroogey — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:34:48 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by scroogey in "Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3"

scroogey — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:48:33 +0000

What did you use to upscale them?

New comment by scroogey in "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club"

scroogey — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:45:21 +0000

Is it possible to sign up without a Linkedin account?

New comment by scroogey in "FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection"

scroogey — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:28:25 +0000

It takes time to develop institutions and foster the talent, but China is certainly advancing at a fast pace: https://archive.is/Csvbe

New comment by scroogey in "Claude Code Router"

scroogey — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:41:50 +0000

Here's an alternative perspective: https://x.com/rauchg/status/1949197451900158444

Not a professional developer (though Guillermo certainly is) so take this with a huge grain of salt, but I like the idea of an AI "trained" on security vulnerabilities as a second, third and fourth set of eyes!

New comment by scroogey in "Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell"

scroogey — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:43:35 +0000

Have not done part 2 but enjoyed the first part of the course!

New comment by scroogey in "LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux"

scroogey — Thu, 29 May 2025 07:02:54 +0000

But if you're "starting from scratch", then what would be the problem? If none of the results match what you want, you reiterate on your prompt and start from scratch. If one of them is suitable you take it. If there's no iterating on the code with the agents, then this really wouldn't add much mental overhead? You just have to glance over more results.

New comment by scroogey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

scroogey — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:52:32 +0000

I'm (slowly and haphazardly) working on https://pianobooth.com. Give it a midi file and it should visualise the playing on a piano (though I make no promises and at least currently it doesn't parse all files correctly, but it's mostly there).

I think I've finally gotten it to a point where it's usable and it seems to work on my phone as well. Hopefully baking in the lighting for the 3d models will give a small performance boost and I don't think it will be noticeable at all with the color changes and small movements.

I've also been going through the fastai course so hopefully I'll be able to put that to use on this project by generating midi files from audio! I might be underestimating the difficulties there but it should be fun.

New comment by scroogey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

scroogey — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:21:40 +0000

What a neat idea! I'd second the person requesting a timeline view.

New comment by scroogey in "Spaced Repetition Memory System"

scroogey — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:21:25 +0000

Here's Michael Nielsen on using spaced repetition for math:

https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

New comment by scroogey in "How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science"

scroogey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:06:08 +0000

Thanks! Some familiar names from looking at mitochondrial supplement stacks from the literature. I guess I'll just have to try for myself.

New comment by scroogey in "How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science"

scroogey — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:16:02 +0000

Do you mind sharing what you're taking?

New comment by scroogey in "Ask HN: Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art?"

scroogey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:13:59 +0000

For what it's worth I'm all for both. As someone who dabbles in both domains but does neither professionally, there's a very distinctive difference in how AI fits into the process of producing art and producing code.

For code, it augments my ability to produce code. It's very easy to tinker and modify that code if I so choose, and it's much easier to steer it into the right direction (at least when it comes to the output of the code). For art, it just replaces things. If I create an image with AI for example, it's not that simple to drop it into Procreate and start tinkering with it. There are no layers, no brushes, no masks that come with it - it is the output. I'll just re-prompt, or try to find style guides or reference pictures, but there's no place for an artist in the loop. Others might be using these differently of course, but at least my impression is that it's much more of a replacement when it comes to art.

New comment by scroogey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

scroogey — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:55:30 +0000

Thank you!

Maybe I'll finally get some of the more obvious improvements done and have something a bit more polished this week. :)

New comment by scroogey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

scroogey — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:18:21 +0000

I've been re-energized to work on some programming things I'd mostly left on the shelf or only picked up once in a blue moon on some quiet weekends. Mostly this is all thanks to LLMs and how enjoyable tools like Claude Code can be to use (when they actually give you what you want!), and how much more social they make the experience for me.

Not a professional developer so I suspect these projects look a lot more like slugging through mud and trying to navigate through a maze in a pitch black environment, and I've found these tools to be helpful especially in small refactorings that would normally result in me just slowly losing interest in the project.

Anyways, https://pianobooth.com is the latest one! Gave me an excuse to learn some Blender as well. It'll play your midi files (well, it might play your midi file) and show the notes being played on a keyboard. :)

Lots of room for improvement. It now works on most of the midi files I've tried, but it's still glitchy and buggy. But at least it works sometimes!