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

tonyrice — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:46:40 +0000

Yesterday, I gave Claude Fable 5 a very simple task. The task was to create a few components and embed them onto another page. It ended up completely missing the mark and embedding it on another page. I also noticed that it burned through an exponential amount of tokens to complete a simple task. I ended up switching back to Opus 4.8

New comment by tonyrice in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

tonyrice — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:25:17 +0000

lol :D fair enough

Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use

tonyrice — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29045

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479452

Points: 431

# Comments: 301

New comment by tonyrice in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

tonyrice — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:57:25 +0000

I was literally just thinking about the desire to have a mouseless keyboard solution yesterday.

New comment by tonyrice in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

tonyrice — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:06:49 +0000

Same here. I had a window's phone at some point. Would have loved it with a stylus.

New comment by tonyrice in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

tonyrice — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:48:32 +0000

> Everything is relative.

That makes me realize how much of society, economics and our nature is really like a current, ripples in a big ol ocean. Supply and demand baby.

New comment by tonyrice in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

tonyrice — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:55:43 +0000

At one point I remember DDR2 ECC coating like $150-$180

Looking at it from that frame, it seems reasonable.

New comment by tonyrice in "President signs executive order to give Gov. Early Access to AI Models"

tonyrice — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:43:40 +0000

I would assume this would set a precedent for the government to have early access to proprietary technology before it was ever released?

President signs executive order to give Gov. Early Access to AI Models

tonyrice — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:41:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/trump-signs-executive-order-seeking-early-access-to-new-ai-releases/ar-AA24EVyU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372650

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by tonyrice in "Automating Human Connection"

tonyrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:22:34 +0000

The appearance of genuine, authentic interest would functionally appear to be the same as the actual true nature of it. I would imagine that the more frequent those connections are, the more likely leaks will appear that in turn signals the dishonest nature of the connection.

New comment by tonyrice in "Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time"

tonyrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:20:39 +0000

Functionally that makes sense to me. Something has a property of infinite must mean that it is infinite in nature? What if we can infinitely debate those questions because of infinity?

New comment by tonyrice in "Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time"

tonyrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:12:11 +0000

Without reading the context of the article yet, I would assume this means that we've observed another seemingly infinite component of existence ?

Automating Human Connection

tonyrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tonyrice.me/automation-killing-startups/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359619

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:05:24 +0000

This makes me think about how much the world really has come because of our nature to connect with each other. Small things scaling.

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:49:06 +0000

As absurd as it sounds, their brains had to find something to associate that context with. He gave off a signal, and they had to interpret it somehow. Maybe it was so absurd and out of context it just switched the entire context of what they were being processed at the time.

We're like walking flash drives constantly associating, downloading and updating our storage.

Disarm people with absurdity. I'd rather not test it out though

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:30:53 +0000

lol that brought some joy to me. Thank you for your time

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:12:57 +0000

One of the things that I've noticed is there's an aversion to people noticing their emotions, companies analyzing that data, "men sharing their feelings" and the way that I've come to process these things is that at the end of the day they're all signals.

For example the gentlemen that we crossed. His rage, contempt, anger, disgust, whatever it may be, was a signal and the way that we interreacted had a profound impact on the other signals that came to surface.

I believe when we look at these signals from a functional perspective and truly consider the "subjective" nature of the signals, then it makes sense that they are some of the most important signals we have.

You put your hand in hot scolding water, most people immediately take note of the signal and act accordingly.

There's been a lot of devaluation on the actual supportive and objective nature of our own emotional and cognitive signals.

The mere idea that a corporation is tracking emotional data becomes absurd because at the end of the day, we're all kind of doing that ourselves. The tone of how we associate is a bit dysfunctional if you ask me.

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:07:24 +0000

What did reading this open up for you?

New comment by tonyrice in "We are constantly broadcasting emotional data"

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:06:45 +0000

One of the beliefs that I conjured up, is that we're broadcasting these signals whether we intend to or not.

There's a lot of conflict around sharing emotional signals intentionally without realizing we're already doing that.

I personally believe that emotions are best to be understood regardless of what party is considering them, businesses, partners, society, etc.

We are constantly broadcasting emotional data

tonyrice — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tonyrice.me/emotional-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339186

Points: 37

# Comments: 20