Hacker News: theplumber

New comment by theplumber in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

theplumber — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:32:50 +0000

I think in the next 6 months we will have Opus 4.5 performance in open models. We are very close

New comment by theplumber in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

theplumber — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:10:45 +0000

Claude will bring you the taco but will refuse to let you eat it due to its “safety” restrictions. Only the chosen ones are allowed to eat

New comment by theplumber in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:18:03 +0000

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New comment by theplumber in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:06:40 +0000

I feel Dario did enough harm. I wonder if he can do the right thing and step down. It’s really just tiresome to follow all his PR/Hype/warnings and this fiasco makes everything he says seem so silly. At the same time he’s dangerous for the industry. In the end he may get more regulation than he asked for. If the gov decides the Opus models are too powerful without KYC they are toast. And to be honest I think they deserve it.

New comment by theplumber in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:54:28 +0000

Perhaps the U.S should change its industrial policy as well so that it can be competitive on the global market? To me it’s been clear that the car manufacturers both in the US and Europe were just milking their customers every year with a facelift as a reason to sell the same old car. I am glad that a 3rd player is in the market to challenge the “heritage” tax.

Don’t worry about the free market. China will definitely agree to free market terms after it captures the market like the U.S did and Britain before it. Then enforce strict free market rules and strict IP rules.

New comment by theplumber in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:45:31 +0000

>> Politically they believe AI belongs to humanity

It’s really BS. Comunist China Party is mostly interested in control above all. Forget humanity, human rights, what is good or what is bad or even financials. The most important thing to them is to keep the people on a short leash. Of course once they feel they have that under control they think about the “humanity” stuff as well but that’s just extra.

New comment by theplumber in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:29:09 +0000

Can you keep a straight face when you say IP theft while OpenAI and Claude have their entire business based on IP theft?

New comment by theplumber in "Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:47:00 +0000

Ok, I am sold on this. I give you 60 billion!

New comment by theplumber in "GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:08:37 +0000

Well you have tariffs and bans on EVs as well so surely there will be bans and tariffs as well on AI products and chips but for people who really want the chips and models we know they can get it. I expect a market like it used to be for pirated content

New comment by theplumber in "GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:30:46 +0000

Anthropic wants to ban the alternatives through regulation and ideally provide differential access with differential pricing.

New comment by theplumber in "GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:29:00 +0000

The Chinese will flood the market with cheap AI chips just like they did with EV cars. As consumers we can’t thank them enough.

New comment by theplumber in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:38:04 +0000

That looks like BlackMirror

New comment by theplumber in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:35:09 +0000

I am not that pessimist. We have stuff like Roborock so why not a super Roborock ?

New comment by theplumber in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:22:25 +0000

GPT 5.5 xhigh is smarter than Fable but Fable like Opus 4.8 as well is faster and seems more “agentic”. It’s easy to test this. Build a fairly complex software with Claude(opus or Fable).

Review the commits with both Claude and GPT 5.5 Xhigh. You can see that Fable is still sloppy(er) compared to GPT. You can test it the other way around as well(drive the dev with GPT and review with GPT and Claude). You get the same result Claude has an edge though and that’s on building more beautiful user interfaces.

New comment by theplumber in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

theplumber — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:58:17 +0000

Are they 20k unit tests or sloppy tests? Would 100k unit tests make it better?

New comment by theplumber in "The Docker+WASM Technical Preview"

theplumber — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:53:43 +0000

A reason could be standardised build/deployment/testing.

New comment by theplumber in "Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government"

theplumber — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:47:23 +0000

Why would I spend my energy and time to investigate a story from a source with such a low credibility(i.e fox news)? It's like reading Russia Today to understand the reasons and the current status of the war in Ukraine. Surely I can find something of value there but who has time and skills to extract that value?

New comment by theplumber in "The Docker+WASM Technical Preview"

theplumber — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:11:03 +0000

I guess it's a wasm runtime. Basically a way to execute a wasm binary just like you use docker to execute a x64 binary

New comment by theplumber in "Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government"

theplumber — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:09:56 +0000

For some reasons I stopped reading after I saw it's about a fox news video.

New comment by theplumber in "Live Counter of Uber's Net Losses ($27B and Counting)"

theplumber — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:13:46 +0000

Care to elaborate what scams? I never considered someone could be scammed using uber