Hacker News: spuz

New comment by spuz in "Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale"

spuz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:28:03 +0000

I don't understand how the rules of the game are being modelled.

New comment by spuz in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"

spuz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:41:01 +0000

It's not just a bike specific thing. There is a well known bias - at least in the western world - to want to view motion going from left to right. That's why I mention bias "in our brains".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys8-a0yD-MM

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26561966/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1509704/

https://www.newneuromarketing.com/right-to-left-isn-t-right-...

New comment by spuz in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"

spuz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:21:15 +0000

And funnily even in the diverse set, most of the images show the pelican riding from left-to-right. There's a ton of bias in our data and even in our brains that you would need to erase to get true diversity.

New comment by spuz in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

spuz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:08:29 +0000

Surely your conclusion should be that this was not the work of a spy - not a state sponsored one anyway. It's much more logical to conclude that he was working as a whistleblower or under some other personal agenda.

New comment by spuz in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

spuz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:10:12 +0000

You can do that - it's called Spec Driven Development.

New comment by spuz in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

spuz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:12:22 +0000

I am missing something about how this could hypothetically be useful. If I played this in the background it would be far too distracting to get any actual work done.

New comment by spuz in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

spuz — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:41:09 +0000

Perhaps it's the moment that the likes of Terence Tao hand over the reins to the likes of Grant Sanderson.

New comment by spuz in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

spuz — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:35:57 +0000

I said this when OpenAI announced they had solved a Millennium prize problem: solving open problems for the sake of it will lose its cachet. AI companies will no longer benefit by making these announcements. They've proven the effectiveness of their tool. If people want to use them to advance human knowledge then let them do that. There's no benefit to humanity to turn electricity into proofs just for the sake of it.

New comment by spuz in "SynthID Detector"

spuz — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:59:46 +0000

Yes but OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, Apple have said they will also implement SynthID

New comment by spuz in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

spuz — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:38:57 +0000

Jetbrains IDEs are far from bloated and slow especially compared to electron and chromium based software. Besides - they are still growing in revenue so the financial loss probably isn't due to users jumping ship.

New comment by spuz in "A map of every lighthouse"

spuz — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:21:43 +0000

It's almost as if a human had no part in its creation.

New comment by spuz in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

spuz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:03:20 +0000

As the article explains - this was not an option.

>SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user’s physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor’s age just in case they might be in Utah. The law’s “actual-location provision in practice requires an entity to perform age verification services for every user visiting its site from any location because the entity would violate the law if even one of those users happened to be obfuscating,” the court wrote.

In order to withdraw from Utah, they would be forced to block traffic from everywhere since it's possible that some kid in Utah used a VPN to make it look like they lived in Singapore.

New comment by spuz in "Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech"

spuz — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:29:01 +0000

Arguably, no AI voice should sound like a human voice:

https://youtu.be/M-IVVJkZnuo?t=236

New comment by spuz in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

spuz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:18:57 +0000

The decision to force you to sign in to view replies is clearly not by accident or ineptitude. It's probably not malice either - just a business decision.

New comment by spuz in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

spuz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:03:50 +0000

Haha, damn not enough caffeine this morning to parse correctly

New comment by spuz in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

spuz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:10:51 +0000

Am I missing something? What do you mean the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling data to itself?

New comment by spuz in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

spuz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:31:12 +0000

What does "on five handicaps" mean? The human received a 5-stone handicap?

New comment by spuz in "Unusual Suspects"

spuz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:02:16 +0000

I can't wait to see how actual artists do with this game.

New comment by spuz in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

spuz — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:35:46 +0000

No, training tends to override system prompts at lot of the time.

New comment by spuz in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

spuz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:15:29 +0000

I guess for one thing, these launches don't tend to fail and second, they actually do make duplicate missions sometimes. See Voyagers 1 and 2, Spirit and Opportunity and Curiosity and Perseverance.