Hacker News: sebzim4500

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

sebzim4500 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:54:43 +0000

I mean obviously they had a point? No one wants to lose their job.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "AI coding is gambling"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:55:33 +0000

You are doing something, but 99% of the work has been done for you. I guess it's like vibe coding and telling the model to fix issues when you see them.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:33:01 +0000

If you believe Polymarket odds are wrong in a systematic way then you are free to make a lot of money out of it. Unlike the stock market, where "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", any such irrationality will become irrelevant at settlement time.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:46:23 +0000

Interestingly in British english valet would rhyme with cadet if you were referring to a servant and not to someone who will park your car.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "The JVG algorithm could break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5k qubits"

sebzim4500 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:47:34 +0000

His take fits in the headline: The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9615

New comment by sebzim4500 in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

sebzim4500 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:49:48 +0000

How does that work technically? Presumably a fork of firefox is almost indistinguishable from firefox from Cloudflare's perspective?

New comment by sebzim4500 in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

sebzim4500 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:46:48 +0000

How does Cloudflare know you are using the fork? Can you not just set the user agent to match firefox's (or even chrome's for that matter)

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sebzim4500 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:34:44 +0000

I don't think the US has ever done/threatened anything like this to a US company so it's not surprising that Anthropic were caught off guard.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sebzim4500 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:33:15 +0000

I think it makes a pretty compelling case that most invocations of the statement are either blindingly obvious or probably false. Can you give a counterexample?

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sebzim4500 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:25:53 +0000

This action is far more likely to land him in prison than complying with the pentagon

New comment by sebzim4500 in "The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign"

sebzim4500 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:16:48 +0000

The dispute is over the completely automated operation of lethal weapons powered by Anthropic's products, it has nothing to do with AI safety.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sebzim4500 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:42:21 +0000

TIL it wasn't created to be a porn site

New comment by sebzim4500 in "How not to answer the salary question"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:06:38 +0000

Even that range is much better than nothing. A person making 300k knows not to bother with the process and a person making 100k knows that it is definitely worth applying.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:30:38 +0000

Sure, but this would break a significant portion of sign in UIs.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:10:35 +0000

It's hard to see how you would implement that, any script run within the context of the page needs access to these fields for backwards compatibility reasons, so the context script of the extension would just need to find a way of running code in the context of the page to exfiltrate the data. It could do this by adding script tags, etc.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "It's all a blur"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:07:47 +0000

Does this actually work? I would have thought that, given the deconvolution step is just a linear operator with reasonable coefficients, adding a small amount of noise to the blurred image would just add similarly small amount of noise to the unblurred result.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

sebzim4500 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:27:43 +0000

Can one man really make a C compiler in one week that can compile linux, sqlite, etc.?

Maybe I'm underestimating the simplicity of the C language, but that doesn't sound very plausible to me.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:22:39 +0000

Sure but you also need proportionally more solar panels. I'm just pointing out that if we accept that they can launch enough solar panels they will likely be able to launch enough radiators too.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:06:02 +0000

Cooling a datacenter in space isn't really any harder than cooling a starlink in space, the ratio of solar panels to radiating area will have to be about the same. There is nothing uniquely heat-producing about GPUs, ultimately almost all energy collected by a satellite's solar panels ends up as heat in the satellite.

IMO the big problem is the lack of maintainability.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

sebzim4500 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:25:58 +0000

Seems pretty unnecessary given we've got reddit for that