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New comment by skerit in "Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"

skerit — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:33:50 +0000

I just use /loop now which gives it a motivational prompt to keep the fuck going. Goal can be used too, but for some things a simple loop is better

New comment by skerit in "Claude Opus 4.8"

skerit — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:30:43 +0000

I noticed (and absolutely HATE) that Opus 4.7 likes to start any negative response with "I have to be honest" or whatever. It drives me mad.

New comment by skerit in "Last.fm is now independent"

skerit — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:16:40 +0000

It is. It's super easy to do so. You can send anything via the API.

New comment by skerit in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

skerit — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:22:00 +0000

You can use a modded client, everyone does, but there _are_ some protections. So you can get kicked, you just won't get banned.

New comment by skerit in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

skerit — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:59:00 +0000

2b2t is so interesting. It is a toxic place, yet you can find really nice things, builds, messages, ... It's fascinating.

New comment by skerit in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

skerit — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:09:43 +0000

Netsplits were fun. Especially if you were on the splitting part. You could get to know new people you got stuck with.

New comment by skerit in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

skerit — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:51:46 +0000

> We know this because your IP address was the first thing your device sent us.

First paragraph, and I don't like this wording already. It's as if "my device" has any choice in the matter.

And actually, it's the reverse! Often enough your own device does not know your _actual_ public IP address without asking some kind of public service to snitch on your internet connection.

New comment by skerit in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

skerit — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:51:15 +0000

> I worked on this project intermittently for 10 years, until recent developments in LLMs finally made it possible to complete this seemingly never-ending task.

I've been working on my own MFC C++ decompilation project. It's insane how useful LLMs are for this.

New comment by skerit in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

skerit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0000

For years, even leading up to starting the decommission of the power plants, Engie has been saying it's literally impossible to reverse the decision. And now that we're 2 years into the decommission, suddenly it is possible after all.

How is that possible? And what are the consequences?

New comment by skerit in "Claude Opus 4.7"

skerit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:53:15 +0000

~~That just changes it to Opus 4, not Opus 4.7~~

My statusline showed _Opus 4_, but it did indeed accept this line.

I did change it to `/model claude-opus-4-7[1m]`, because it would pick the non-1M context model instead.

New comment by skerit in "Claude Opus 4.7"

skerit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:52:03 +0000

I like this in theory. I just hope it doesn't require you to be be as literal as if talking to a genie.

But if it'll actually stick to the hard rules in the CLAUDE.md files, and if I don't have to add "DON'T DO ANYTHING, JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION" at the end of my prompt, I'll be glad.

New comment by skerit in "Claude Mythos: The System Card"

skerit — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:44:03 +0000

I'll believe in this miracle model when I see it.

New comment by skerit in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

skerit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:46:37 +0000

It comes over as so incredibly insane to me that people from the late 80s (people working with computers! Reporting on them!) would look at their current technology stack and basically go: "I have no idea whatsoever what else we can do with these things, we've reached the end"

The lack of imagination is just disturbing.

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

skerit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:31:40 +0000

I'm sure it'll be better than Opus 4.6, but so much of this seems hype. Escaping its sandbox, having to do "brain scans" because it's "hiding its true intent", bla bla bla.

If it manages to work on my java project for an entire day without me having to say "fix FQN" 5 times a day I'll be surprised.

New comment by skerit in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

skerit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:55:45 +0000

I have the 20x plan and use it together with my husband. 4 days in to our weekly usage window and we're only at 54% (and we both use it the entire day)

I have no idea how people are hitting the limits so fast.

New comment by skerit in "Every GPU That Mattered"

skerit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:44:45 +0000

I retired my 5700 XT a few years ago. Wasn't there some kind of hardware problem with it? It kept locking up my Linux kernel.

New comment by skerit in "Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word "geschniegelt""

skerit — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:21:14 +0000

Neat. Is it a single under-trained token in GPT-5.2? Or is something else going on?

New comment by skerit in "Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training"

skerit — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:45:39 +0000

I've been running my own (admittedly naïve) experiments of new, wacky ideas for both LLMs (well, SLMs) and for Image-Super-Resolution models.

I'm just trying different kinds of attention mechanisms, different configurations of the network, adding loops, ... All kind of wacky ideas. And the real weird thing is that 99% of the ideas I try work at all.

New comment by skerit in "Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found"

skerit — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:08:11 +0000

Do we also have stills of all the episodes? Or only audio?

New comment by skerit in "Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs"

skerit — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:59:04 +0000

This is kind of what LoopLM is doing, no? https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25741