Hacker News: stefap2

I built a projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

stefap2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:06:07 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1tva44g/i_live_by_sfo_and_built_a_projection_mapping_of/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456242

Points: 4

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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk

stefap2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:53:53 +0000

WSJ Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose significant societal risks.

The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,” the company said Thursday in a blog post that disclosed internal data documenting how quickly its most advanced models are improving.

The post, written by the head of its internal research institute and head of policy, noted that model advances appear to be on a path toward “recursive self-improvement,” when AI systems can improve on their own without human intervention. Some AI insiders have seen that threshold as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” the post, written by Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, says. It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.

The post cautions that recursive self-improvement hasn’t yet happened and isn’t inevitable, “but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

Anthropic recently concluded a fundraising round that valued the company at almost $1 trillion and filed confidential paperwork to begin the process of publicly listing its shares. The company has recently emerged as the front-runner in a ferocious competition for AI supremacy with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, which is also expected to file paperwork for an initial public offering soon.

Anthropic’s run-rate, a figure commonly used by startups that forecasts annual revenue based on short-term sales, is on track to reach $50 billion in annualized revenue by the end of this month, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403770

Points: 9

# Comments: 8

Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States

stefap2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032435

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Next-generation AI for visually occult pancreatic cancer detection

stefap2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:09:33 +0000

Article URL: https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2026/04/22/gutjnl-2025-337266

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007684

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Universal INCOME via check is best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI

stefap2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:03:48 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2044990537145753894#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807405

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy [video]

stefap2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360888

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by stefap2 in "Willingness to look stupid"

stefap2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:00:53 +0000

I found it gets easier as you get older. Somehow I care much less what others think

New comment by stefap2 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

stefap2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:54:47 +0000

If it takes longer to read, it's not an AI problem, but the author failing to catch that the comment is too drawn out. I don't see how it is a problem to have AI write a comment if you agree with the content. If it is bad content, it will eventually reflect badly on the author anyway.

Silicon Valley's New Obsession: Watching Bots Do Their Grunt Work

stefap2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bots-claude-openclaw-285ac816

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352621

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by stefap2 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

stefap2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:35:22 +0000

And Amazon also discontinuing Amazon One palm authentication services in whole foods. I wonder if these are related events. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790734

New comment by stefap2 in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

stefap2 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:18:49 +0000

The site is down.

We Have No Idea How to Code. So We Got Claude to Code This Article for Us

stefap2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-vibe-coding-experiment-a4a3bb0f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734701

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stefap2 in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

stefap2 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:23:54 +0000

Actually, it falls under OF-1 visa category.

Google discontinuing the dark web report

stefap2 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:51:42 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405641

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by stefap2 in "Everything's Fake Now – Liam Fallen"

stefap2 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:57:16 +0000

Grammar seems to have improved on Instagram posts :)

YouTube Headquarters Shooting (2018)

stefap2 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:31:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817123

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stefap2 in "Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse"

stefap2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:36:55 +0000

I read what you say, but I can hardly imagine how people can be twice as productive. I use Claude daily for writing various scripts. It produces a lot of code, so yes, if I measured it by generated code, then it's productive. However, it works best for short, clearly defined tasks/scripts. If you want anything longer, you have to watch it like a hawk so it doesn't go off track. And I'm not sure if I would give this code to someone else to use without a thorough review. I would say it may be even less productive (I think there was a paper on that).

I also use LLMs for writing; it's good, but again, you need to carefully read everything and rewrite passages that are completely made up. So I'm not really sure how this can replace people, to the point that Amazon is firing 30,000 people. I have a hard time squaring it that it's because of AI.

New comment by stefap2 in "AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows"

stefap2 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:25:54 +0000

Some 72% of responses by Gemini, Google's AI assistant, had significant sourcing issues, compared to below 25% for all other assistants, it said.

Issues of accuracy were found in 20% of responses from all AI assistants studied

AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows

stefap2 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:25:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-assistants-widespread-errors-news-220841474.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667066

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by stefap2 in "AI is making us work more"

stefap2 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:17:50 +0000

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661775