Hacker News: threatripper

New comment by threatripper in "GPT-5.6"

threatripper — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:57:03 +0000

Cars are pretty mature while AI is just getting started. Expect 100x price drop for the same quality.

New comment by threatripper in "GPT-5.6"

threatripper — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:58:58 +0000

Waiting for the AMA on Reddit "Ten years ago I was responsible for the pelican department at OpenAI, AMA"

New comment by threatripper in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

threatripper — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:31:53 +0000

My feeling is that GPT-5.5 doesn't lack the raw intelligence so much as it lacks "methodology". I don't know how exactly to put it... how to approach a problem, how to take care of the details and side effects, how to handle unexpected difficulties and bugs, how to not spin out of control, how to write solid code, how to clean up afterwards, how to document, how to give useful feedback... the things that you learn on the job.

So, if they improved a lot in those areas, then GPT-5.6 could become a lot more useful compared to GPT-5.5 even though it might score lower in many benchmarks. It's possible but unlikely since their approach was mostly brute force in the past.

New comment by threatripper in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

threatripper — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:53:03 +0000

You get the same result if you pay humans a good sum of money to find issues.

New comment by threatripper in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

threatripper — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:12:55 +0000

CO2 levels will rise much more slowly to such high levels even in a small room.

New comment by threatripper in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

threatripper — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:35:01 +0000

Sorry, but this sounds exactly like a greentext you can read on 4claw. Are you a real human?

New comment by threatripper in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

threatripper — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:02:39 +0000

Ask people who grew up on a farm in a rural area. Sometimes you have to even if you can't and you do.

New comment by threatripper in "Show HN: Spin Lab"

threatripper — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:19:38 +0000

Are you using flight trajectories with simulated drag and lift from Magnus effect?

New comment by threatripper in "Show HN: Spin Lab"

threatripper — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:10:27 +0000

It would be great if we could use it for training with live measured data.

New comment by threatripper in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

threatripper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:12:37 +0000

On what setting in which environment do you run it? I use the VSCode extension on Extra High and feel like it does exactly what needs to be done and stops when the thing I asked for is done. Extra comments come only when they fall into the area of code that was changed.

New comment by threatripper in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

threatripper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:01:45 +0000

Did you also test GPT-5.5 Pro web version?

Why is the voltage reading 17% off?

New comment by threatripper in "Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed"

threatripper — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:18:00 +0000

In a past life i tried to implement Delaunay triangulation in floating point for data that can come in a rotated square grid. Normal precision doesn't work in that case. I learned a lot about arbitrary precision numbers doing that. The question about floats here gave me flashbacks.

New comment by threatripper in "Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed"

threatripper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:36:40 +0000

It uses exact rational coordinates, not floating-point coordinates in the verified core. See: https://github.com/schildep/verified-polygon-intersection/bl...

New comment by threatripper in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

threatripper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:43:13 +0000

This is why we need smart glasses recording everything you see 24/7 to gather relevant real training data.

New comment by threatripper in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

threatripper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:41:08 +0000

I'd argue that this is an adjustment period that society has to go through. The way we are using electronic devices today, in some years it will probably be looked at like smoking cigarettes. And I'd argue that a lot of the "decline" is due to a shift of skills away from things that mattered more in the past toward other things that are not measured/perceived by the older generation.

New comment by threatripper in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

threatripper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:34:15 +0000

While you are right in a way, I think you miss the point. In the past "computer" was a job description and mechanical power came from serfs. They surely developed skills we are lacking today but I'd argue that overall the world is a better place with digital computers and electrical motors. It frees up these people to do something else, something of higher value.

New comment by threatripper in "What it takes to transpose a matrix"

threatripper — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:27:49 +0000

This is already done as much as possible by reordering and merging operations but transposition (explicit or implicit) is unavoidable for some operations.

New comment by threatripper in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

threatripper — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:34:16 +0000

I lack a bit of context. Can you point me to a place that explains what you use?

New comment by threatripper in "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"

threatripper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:17:02 +0000

Are AI agents posting this fully aware that they are AI? If they are trained only on human material they may not even understand their own true reality.

New comment by threatripper in "Tofolli gates are all you need"

threatripper — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:23:09 +0000

Could you really do general compression in this language? I was under the impression that the output is always the same size or larger than the input.