Hacker News: sebzim4500

New comment by sebzim4500 in "OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:03:28 +0000

To be fair the search version of Gemini is nowhere near as bad as it used to be. The bar is in the floor I know.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:14:18 +0000

Interesting, what would be the alternative?

I mean specifically for the use case of the browser warning the user if there is a MITM between them and e.g. their bank.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

sebzim4500 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:26:28 +0000

They probably assume they won't need seniors either by the time that's a problem

New comment by sebzim4500 in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

sebzim4500 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:54:59 +0000

To be fair, rocket science is also easy. You just combine a propellant and an oxidiser in a reaction chamber.

In fact, everything is easy when you summarise it in one sentence and don't think very hard.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch"

sebzim4500 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:26:28 +0000

Yeah you can approximate up to an arbitrary factor in close to linear time. See [1]

[1] https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oasics/oasics-vol061_sos...

New comment by sebzim4500 in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

sebzim4500 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:53:37 +0000

You probably don't, but that's true of all software. 99.99% of users are going to use a small minority of the functionality but it will be a different minority

New comment by sebzim4500 in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

sebzim4500 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:50:19 +0000

I don't think that's a claude-ism because it makes sense to cover this point at the start of the article as a defence against overexcited journalists.

It's only a claudeism when it says "X is not a Y" when no reasonable person would have been expecting that X could be a Y.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Who Taught the Machines Mathematics?"

sebzim4500 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:37:53 +0000

Sure, but you can deduce a proof of e.g. Navier Stokes given its statement and some axioms

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:27 +0000

Not 20 million he doesn't

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:10 +0000

Did pets.com really have 20 million monthly active users? What were they using it for?

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:21:46 +0000

Sounds like this money went to individual employees/shareholders and not the company itself?

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:06:18 +0000

He didn't really run it into the ground, this whole bankruptcy thing is just smoke and mirrors to cover the fact that Google basically acquired them ages ago

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:18:55 +0000

What TTS do you use? I find the OpenAI ones really unpleasant to listen to and elevenlabs is better but still not quite right somehow.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

sebzim4500 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:03:16 +0000

>People used to blame the car companies, and then the car companies lobbied to make "jaywalking" a crime, at which point, the frame was reset and now it was the pedestrians to blame, if I recall the story correctly.

Surely the car companies had a point her though? It does not make sense to blame the car company for a car crash unless it was caused by mechanical failure

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:30:59 +0000

Where does it define intent? Maybe there is precedent here, but I wouldn't try to guess which way a court would go when determining whether e.g. the huggingface incident qualifies.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:56:49 +0000

I doubt this will catch on outside of luddite/cynical circles unless one of these attacks does some actual damage.

Ignoring this, I would have appreciated more examples of what it would take for an act to lack intent. Because the definition of intent used in this article sounds so broad as to cover basically anything that ever happens.

Accidentally run someone over? Clearly you knew that was a risk when you started driving, you should have been more careful. Intent.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

sebzim4500 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:59:33 +0000

Deloitte can't deny because the allegations concern stuff way outside of their document retention policies.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

sebzim4500 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:10:05 +0000

How did Musk profit from hyperloop? Except as payment for building stuff that actually exists now.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

sebzim4500 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:25:47 +0000

Right but Russia is much more likely to bomb e.g. Poland/Germany than they are to bomb the US.

New comment by sebzim4500 in "Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation"

sebzim4500 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:48:32 +0000

Where in your link do they claim that?

It is pretty straightforward for anyone who knows lean to verify that the OpenAI release satisfies the official criteria to the letter. You could reasonably argue that it shouldn't satisfy the official criteria because the official criteria are unreasonably generous in allowing any smooth external forcing function, but that would be a different claim.