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New comment by svdr in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

svdr — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:52:53 +0000

I would also regret it if they become that fast; right now I can really take a moment to enjoy the hard work the model is doing for me.

New comment by svdr in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

svdr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:25:07 +0000

Michael Levin has a lot of new ideas.

New comment by svdr in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

svdr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:48:40 +0000

The idea that there is much more computation (and intelligence/agency) going on in biological and other systems seems to be getting more popular. (The author writes: The whole body is a computer: it’d be wasteful for evolution to only use the brain for computation when other systems could take part too.). Michael Levin has some super interesting ideas about this.

New comment by svdr in "Human Fovea Detector"

svdr — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:20:15 +0000

I first thought the spinning was an optical illusion, like https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-our-b.... But in this case the spinning is real and you don’t see the rotation except in a small area (your fovea).

New comment by svdr in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

svdr — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:58:29 +0000

I think the difference now is that traditional software ultimately comes down to a long series of if/then statements (also the old AI's like Wolfram), whereas the new AI (mainly LLM's) have a fundamentally different approach.

New comment by svdr in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

svdr — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:23:06 +0000

I'm using the smaller models for things like searching and summarizing over a larger part of the codebase. The speed is really pleasant then.

New comment by svdr in "The EU Just Killed ARR"

svdr — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:49:51 +0000

Is there a distinction made between business customers and consumers? (B2B/B2C)

New comment by svdr in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

svdr — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:20:46 +0000

I guess I mean that we are awake experience the input from our senses, and that in a dream only the replication of the experience of seeing or hearing etc. is needed, not a replication of the input of the senses which then leads to the experience.

New comment by svdr in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

svdr — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:36:29 +0000

Your brain does not need to render any environments, just the experience of being in them.

New comment by svdr in "NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills"

svdr — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:34:04 +0000

When images of Mars are shown on social media, there always is a flood of 'Devon island, Canada' comments, so depressing!

New comment by svdr in "Purple Earth hypothesis"

svdr — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:26:35 +0000

The removal is only temporary.

New comment by svdr in "Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms"

svdr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:13:34 +0000

Hi Preet, I think this is looking great, and a lot of features are present already. Two things to consider: I think your pricing is too low to be taken seriously by a lot of organizations; also, with a one-time payment support is an issue.

Second, to have a selling point, you might want to focus on privacy. Is the data shared in any way? Where is it kept? What measures have you taken to keep data safe? Will it be deleted if I cancel my account? That sort of things.

Anyway, good luck and keep on going!

New comment by svdr in "Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking"

svdr — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:00:26 +0000

I've been programming for 40 years and have started using LLM's a few months ago, and it has really changed the way I work. I let it write pieces of code (pasting error messages from logs mostly result in a fix in less then a minute), but also brainstorming about architecture or new solutions. Of course I check the code it writes, but I'm still almost daily amazed at the intelligence and accuracy. (Very much unlike crypto).

New comment by svdr in "Lazarus Release 4.0"

svdr — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:37:03 +0000

Who remembers Steve Gibson's 'little corner of the web'? He wrote super small Windows applications in assembly: https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm

New comment by svdr in "Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty"

svdr — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:50:50 +0000

It it false but I would not blame the parent; the ISP blocked page is unclear and suggests the block is linked to Russia.

New comment by svdr in "An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1"

svdr — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:17:31 +0000

Yeah, if I understand correctly AI will create it's own internal reasoning language through RL. In R1-Zero it was already a strange mix of languages. They corrected that for R1 to make the thinking useful for humans.

New comment by svdr in "Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world"

svdr — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:42:05 +0000

I think here it is bearable because the page is more like a presentation. The worst is when nothing special happens, and you only notice scrolling is off.

New comment by svdr in "1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor"

svdr — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:42:13 +0000

We are using Helpscout wich is very nice over all. The also do not send the weirdly formatted ticket email, with 'respond above this line' etc.

New comment by svdr in "Terence Tao on O1"

svdr — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:06:12 +0000

Did you find out what the error was in computing the volume of the truncated icosidodecahedron?

New comment by svdr in "Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users"

svdr — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:24:02 +0000

The attackers are demanding only $500,000 as a ransom payment, that's cheap!