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New comment by taormina in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

taormina — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:53:56 +0000

Everyone’s point is “they have everything to gain by lying about being more done then they are” and “the claims seem at least a bit full of shit”.

New comment by taormina in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

taormina — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:26:35 +0000

HN titles are not the best.

Have you ported a desktop title to mobile? It is NOT trivial. This is the next step in a continuing chain of work that builds upon the next and next person's work, but this is not a trivial step. If it was so trivial, why hadn't it already been done?

The jump to Apple Silicon is net-new work, and they aren't trying to pretend they did more than they did.

> This fork — the iOS/iPadOS port (arm64-ios cross-build, DXVK-on-iOS, touch controls, app lifecycle, packaging) and engine fixes, offered upstream

They are even asking you to support the original creators on Steam, so they are getting a cut. No one is stealing assets. I would love to see more of this sort of work being done out in the wild, not discouraging it. Were previous steps harder? Absolutely. Doesn't that invalidate this step? No.

New comment by taormina in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

taormina — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:16:46 +0000

Alright, I'm ready. These are engineering motivations, as you said. So, which one of these isn't a cost center? Because an insurance policy would handle the first two, but probably cheaper. Customers have repeatedly proven they will buy the product lacking the trust. Resisting mass surveillance? They are the mass surveillance. Which is now a legal compliance based cost center.

* preventing insider abuse * reducing liability * improving customer trust * resisting mass surveillance

New comment by taormina in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

taormina — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:16:28 +0000

It does do this to frustrate you, save 30 tokens, and then waste a few thousand more when it didn't get all the context it needed by grep'ping. You have to be involved in the process though. It frequently wants to do things that are so incorrect, that even if it would be more convenient to just totally ignore it, it would be insane to actually ignore it. Do you trust it to not accidentally rm -rf the .git/ right after it helpfully force pushes to remote? I don't. Even if I don't expect it to do that, why would I ALLOW it to be able to?

New comment by taormina in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

taormina — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:32:19 +0000

If they didn’t get canned, the slap on the wrist is the cost of doing business. If we all agree to investigate ourselves and we’re all very disappointed in what happened, what a shame!

If you say something is illegal and costs $X as a fine, you don’t curb behavior, they just bake the fine into their business model.

New comment by taormina in "Why Does Everyone Hate AI?"

taormina — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:11:29 +0000

They announced their price increases on all their products today, which is responsible for their red day today.

New comment by taormina in "Why Does Everyone Hate AI?"

taormina — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:57:53 +0000

You haven’t seen Apple’s stock price today huh?

New comment by taormina in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

taormina — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:16:33 +0000

For that matter, the new models are shit. If I’m using Opus 4.6 anyway to get anything actually done, then great, we’re actually entirely caught up then.

New comment by taormina in "Claude Fable 5"

taormina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:10:36 +0000

Listen. I don’t care about evidence. I care about my lived experience for the product I paid for. I used the new product. It’s actively terrible. To the point of not being usable. We’re all ancedata, but what is “better evidence to the contrary”? The known and game-able benchmarks that they know they need to win at, so they train it to. It’s all he said, she said, which is the only reason we keep having this conversation.

New comment by taormina in "Claude Fable 5"

taormina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:11:39 +0000

Listen, you can say “but benchmarks, the benchmarks!” all day long, but consumer know when we are being sold a lemon. If it can’t do the most basic of things at least as good as it used to, this is table stakes. Nevermind that if you can’t do the basic stuff, how on earth can you be trusted with more?

New comment by taormina in "Claude Fable 5"

taormina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:38:46 +0000

4.6 has been my happy place for getting anything done for a while now.

New comment by taormina in "Claude Fable 5"

taormina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:38:15 +0000

I'd argue that 4.8 is a straight downgrade. For every type of task I've tried. It's been a gambit at this point. If 4.6 quits being available, I'm out at this point.

New comment by taormina in "Claude Fable 5"

taormina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:13:45 +0000

Those already landed! Oh, you weren't talking about 4.8?

New comment by taormina in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

taormina — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:36:43 +0000

So, is this what they call Opus 4.8? Improvement?

New comment by taormina in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

taormina — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:56:31 +0000

Did you not see the banner image?

New comment by taormina in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

taormina — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:55:24 +0000

They do literally pay people to do that. Then one of those people chose to reject this anyway.

New comment by taormina in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

taormina — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:06:19 +0000

Get a credit card that isn't dogshit then. You can absolutely charge back.

New comment by taormina in "No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031"

taormina — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:23:42 +0000

How long do you think careers last?

New comment by taormina in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

taormina — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:06:01 +0000

The interface designed for humans is poor for AI needs? And the interface designed for programmatic use is easier for the AI to use? In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

New comment by taormina in "Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative"

taormina — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:01:43 +0000

> Rated 5/5 by 100+ SEOs

If you just made this, who is reviewing this? How many total reviews? Can we see the reviews? Did you get 100 5 stars and 10000 0-1 stars? Where did you find those customers? I understand that this is obviously megavibe coded, but is this just marketing lies?