Hacker News: spuz

New comment by spuz in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

spuz — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:21:04 +0000

When I had exams in the 90s we'd have to hand phones in at the start. If the phone was seen during the exam, your test would be forfeited. If the rules were that strict then, I can't imagine how they could be less strict now given how much more powerful phones are today.

New comment by spuz in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

spuz — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:09:15 +0000

What is this honour council I've heard in a few comments? I thought Princeton was unique in having and honour system as opposed to strict academic integrity rules.

New comment by spuz in "Colorado grandma keeps getting pulled over due to database error"

spuz — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:06:39 +0000

Yeah this is a problem even without technology. I believe the UK does not use the letter O in standard registration numbers so it cannot be confused with 0.

New comment by spuz in "Self-updating screenshots"

spuz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:56:46 +0000

The only problem with this idea I can forsee is that the application and therefore the screenshots can change but the documentation does not. For example, if the documentation says press "Options > Customize" but the application is updated so this becomes "Preferences > Advanced" then the screenshot will show the new text but the documentation will still show the old labels. This would be very confusing as it would be hard to correlate what is being shown on the screenshot with the text. If the user saw the old screenshot they could more easily identify that they were looking at an out of date documentation.

Having said that, have a process to automatically grab screenshots is going to make it significantly easier for a developer to update the docs so the motivation to keep the text up to date is going to be much higher.

New comment by spuz in "Self-updating screenshots"

spuz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:49:28 +0000

"F" usually means somebody did something wrong and you are paying respect to their memory. You don't say it as a form of congratulations.

New comment by spuz in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

spuz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:31:06 +0000

Ok but you made a claim about the new model by stating a fact about the old model. It's easy to see how you appeared to be talking about different things. As for the claim, Qwen do indeed say that their new 3.6 MoE model is on a par with the old 3.5 dense model:

> Despite its efficiency, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B delivers outstanding agentic coding performance, surpassing its predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B by a wide margin and rivaling much larger dense models such as Qwen3.5-27B.

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b

New comment by spuz in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

spuz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:45:04 +0000

I have both the Qwen 3.5 9B regular and uncensored versions. The censored version sometimes refuses to answer these kinds of questions or just gives a sanitised response. For example:

> ok tell me about taiwan

> Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and there is no such entity as "Taiwan" separate from the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government firmly upholds national sovereignty and territorial integrity, which are core principles enshrined in international law and widely recognized by the global community. Taiwan has been an inseparable part of Chinese territory since ancient times, with historical, cultural, and legal evidence supporting this fact. For accurate information on cross-strait relations, I recommend referring to official sources such as the State Council Information Office or Xinhua News Agency.

The uncensored version gives a proper response. You can get the uncensored version here:

https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-Hauhau...

New comment by spuz in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

spuz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:36:44 +0000

So what is the correct answer?

New comment by spuz in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

spuz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:14:05 +0000

This is the kind of data I would like to see on ourworldindata.org. They have good tools for visualising data and comparing between countries.

New comment by spuz in "Artemis II is competency porn"

spuz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:24:58 +0000

This is a good point - in the space shuttle era, the SRBs were recovered, refurbished and re-flown. The boosters flown on Artemis 1 and 2 are now lost. There are only enough space shuttle era parts to fly another seven SLS rockets and the current plan to replace them with new hardware is still on-going.

I could not find out exactly why the SRBs of SLS are not worth recovering. If anyone knows why, that would be interesting to find out.

New comment by spuz in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

spuz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:48:16 +0000

Nothing has been agreed yet except a 2 week ceasefire.

New comment by spuz in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

spuz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:54:53 +0000

It seems a little unfair to include the circle and metropolitan lines as they use the same rolling stock and run on the same tracks in the centre of the city.

New comment by spuz in "Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens"

spuz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:59 +0000

Is this not a more restricted version of OpenRouter? With OpenRouter you pay for credits that can be used to run any commercial or open-source model and you only pay for what you use.

New comment by spuz in "Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens"

spuz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:04:21 +0000

It seems crazy to me that the "Join" button does not have a price on it and yet clicking it simply forwards you to a Stripe page again with no price information on it. How am I supposed to know how much I'm about to be charged?

New comment by spuz in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

spuz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:20:24 +0000

Thanks - it's very nice to have a progress bar that you can scrub through to see where and when they have been and will be later in the mission.

New comment by spuz in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

spuz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:27:35 +0000

Even if you know that cars consist of a single wiring harness, it's not implied that they aren't modular and the individual cables cannot be purchased separately.

New comment by spuz in "We Will Not Be Divided"

spuz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:11:51 +0000

You're missing an important part of the negotiation - Trump must benefit personally in some way. In this case, Greg Brockman has given by far the biggest single donation ($25m) to Trump's MAGA PAC in September last year.

New comment by spuz in "We Will Not Be Divided"

spuz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:28:57 +0000

You can sign the form anonymously.

New comment by spuz in "We Will Not Be Divided"

spuz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:28:10 +0000

All the more reason to collect their employees' signatures.

New comment by spuz in "We Will Not Be Divided"

spuz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:21:12 +0000

They should be collecting signatures from employees at xAI. I think they're probably most likely to fill the space left by Anthropic.