Hacker News: thousand_nights

New comment by thousand_nights in "Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?"

thousand_nights — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:48:26 +0000

i don't think OCRing a bitmap font is very expensive or power hungry, if you know the exact pixel configurations of the glyphs ahead of time

New comment by thousand_nights in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

thousand_nights — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:47:14 +0000

i'm personally quite perplexed how sloppy the harnesses are from the leading AI labs, you'd think these are their primary products and would have some human attention devoted to them

it's embarrassing when every claude code release has obvious bugs in it like telling you to upgrade when you're on the latest version or codex opening visible powershell windows for every command that pop up on your screen

like 5 minutes of human testing would catch this obvious shit but obviously they don't bother because vibes are the future and stuff? idk

New comment by thousand_nights in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

thousand_nights — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:38:21 +0000

> Their ads are terrible.

I imagine they are that's why I pay for YT Premium, which I think is my most bang for buck subscription based on the amount of time I spend watching it

> Curation doesn't exist.

I don't find this a problem personally because 95% of my feed is just channels I'm subscribed to but YMMV depends on what you expect out of it

New comment by thousand_nights in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

thousand_nights — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:35:11 +0000

independent-ish creators (I'm aware that a lot of channels seem to be bought out by private equity lately), but mostly science, technology, speedrunning, mysteries, recipe guides, things like that, basically stuff that I'm interested in

New comment by thousand_nights in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

thousand_nights — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:47:08 +0000

youtube has slowly become like 90% of my TV time over the past few years, I think it's the fact that you don't have to commit to watching 40+ minutes of something every time and there's just way too much interesting content on it

and i'm not even someone you'd class as young anymore, so I don't think this is a younger generation thing

New comment by thousand_nights in "I don't like passkeys"

thousand_nights — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:25:21 +0000

am i the only one on HN who really likes passkeys?

so much better than fumbling around with a password managers

New comment by thousand_nights in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thousand_nights — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:36:09 +0000

it's an internet thing. people were typing lowercase on IRC in the 90s.

New comment by thousand_nights in "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"

thousand_nights — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:47:23 +0000

> You wouldn't ask an agent to review a PR then just copy/paste the output into the PR, would you?

of course not, it's disrespectful to the author even if they used an LLM to generate the code. what you should do is actually try to understand what the LLM is saying about the proposed changes, check whether it's talking shit or legit, and if legit, rephrase in your own words why you think a certain thing should be changed

New comment by thousand_nights in "Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100"

thousand_nights — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:52:26 +0000

> The figure was rhetorical, not a disclosed 100-times investment return.

seems no one is reading the article..

New comment by thousand_nights in "I asked astra to make playable 4D chess"

thousand_nights — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:56:28 +0000

very cool. that being said, I have never not wanted to play anything more than this :D

New comment by thousand_nights in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

thousand_nights — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:12:22 +0000

this is nice to know as someone who is the adult child.

i used to argue a lot with my parents when i was still living with them, but ever since i moved out and we only see each other once every few months, our relationship has improved so much, and we're always happy to see each other in smaller doses

New comment by thousand_nights in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

thousand_nights — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:58:18 +0000

that game had such a dope soundtrack!

New comment by thousand_nights in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

thousand_nights — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:41:22 +0000

> He was a bright and broken child

i wasn't there and i didn't know him, but talking about a 26 year old man like this makes it seem like you're just taking away his autonomy

New comment by thousand_nights in "Sol loves to cheat"

thousand_nights — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:44:56 +0000

people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible

New comment by thousand_nights in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

thousand_nights — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:00:56 +0000

yes of course, I understand that. but I feel like it would've been nice to include in the article because the main point of it is the effort and overthinking

New comment by thousand_nights in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

thousand_nights — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:57:59 +0000

i feel like Simon omitted an important part of how Qwen's "reasoning" levels work. they are just one sentence additions/omissions to the system prompt

xhigh -> "Reasoning effort is set to xhigh. Please think carefully through the task, validate key assumptions, consider plausible alternatives, and prioritize correctness, consistency, and clarity in the final answer."

medium -> no mention of effort (sentence omitted)

low -> "Reasoning effort is set to low. Keep your thinking brief and focused, moving directly to the conclusion without unnecessary elaboration."

in my testing this doesn't seem to produce exactly deterministic thinking levels, because it's just a system prompt nudge. i had instances where medium thought longer than xhigh

New comment by thousand_nights in "A simple fix for LLM tail latency"

thousand_nights — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:44:15 +0000

agreed, reads like a breath of fresh air, no fluff

New comment by thousand_nights in "H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon"

thousand_nights — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:09:14 +0000

> a ~9-second 480x864 clip at 20 steps takes me a bit over an hour

that's rough. for comparison, i tried the exact same parameters on my 5090 RTX and it took 2 minutes to generate.

i believe diffusion models are primarily compute bound so the macs aren't really the ideal hardware for this kind of stuff

New comment by thousand_nights in "Did They Ghost You?"

thousand_nights — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:51:59 +0000

for a moment i thought this was a commentary about my relationships

New comment by thousand_nights in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

thousand_nights — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:45:40 +0000

i do homebrewing and asked it to compare some beer yeasts for me and hit the safeguards because... biology i guess lol