<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: torginus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=torginus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:45:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=torginus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Don't trust large context windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Considering how expensive context is in terms of compute, I wonder why (and if ) vendors don't invest more into context engineering.<p>When it comes to source code, I feel like LLMs could just as well work with something like minified source code, if an LLM is trained on programming well, I think there's no reason why something like a variable  should be represented by something more than a single token. Comments can be discarded, etc. In fact considering embeddings for LLMs are very rich, I think common ops could be reduced to a single token.<p>Imo that's why LLMs are soo good at reverse  engineering. A lot of the time, assembly (with symbols) is pretty close to the source code, but compressed and encoded, and if you're familiar with the patterns of your compiler, reversing it is not that difficult.<p>Anyways, context engineering could be huge boon to input token curation imo (and maybe it already is)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525626</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Electric motors with no rare earths"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Munro took apart a Nissan Ariya which has this exact kind of motor. The maintenance is basically removing a tiny cover and replacing the tiny and cheap carbon brushes every 100k km or more. It's basically cabin filter level maintenance.<p>And they said that PMSM motors are more efficient at low RPM, but their coils get saturated at higher RPMs meaning they lose efficiency at highway speeds (which actually affect the range number people car about).<p>So overall not such a bad tradeoff, if it makes cars less expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:49:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517326</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this mean that it's an effective business strategy to red-team your competitors models to find a jailbreak, then go to the govt. and ask them to ban them for you?</p>
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<p>I wonder why it's the natural tendency of models to BS or do stuff like this when they don't have the correct answer - it's clear that they can program refusal into them, but for some reason, refusal has to be injected after the fact, and models can't really arrive at the conclusion that they can't answer properly.</p>
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<p>I mean people expect a model to give a working solution. They also expect it to provide it in as few tokens as possible (input/output). They might expect it to come up with an original solution, but I don't think most people would compromise on the first two points.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:35:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497891</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean that sucks, but I have many tales of people, who were passionate and outstanding in what they did, and were rewarded with a leadership position for their efforts.<p>Now they get to fill out excel sheets, babysit people and sit in planning meetings.</p>
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<p>The US is worse - an F150s headlights are at eye level if you're sitting in a Corolla. Nothing on European roads is quite as bad.</p>
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<p>I wonder why this type of deployment is not more popular - pushing all resources inside a single HTML file, with a script tag, and inline resources as blobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:45:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487504</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember the Death Star tweet? I reserve the right to believe upper management is somewhat out of touch.</p>
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<p>My 2 cents is that doctors people with lots of money and very specific needs who generally don't really go for tech jobs, so they're probably planning to create a separate monetization tier.<p>That, or alternatively, Mythos is so good at medical stuff, that it cam replace a lot of physician work 90% of the time, pissing off doctors, while the remaining 10% would result in very expensive lawsuits.</p>
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<p>I dunno, I think I got more out of it than I put in, but it was mostly due to happenstance and knock on events, and my name sounding more familiar to some important people, but this wasn't really in the cards.<p>Imo if you don't do stuff others dont you wont end up in places others dont, which might be good or bad.<p>I mean, one of the biggest raises I got was when I brought my dog to the company cookout, and it turned out my boss's boss was a huge dog person, and we bonded over that, and he decided I was a good guy, which was kinda ironic as I was working my arse off to little benefit at that time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483548</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it just me, but this feels like Claude gets to have a nigh-impenetrable black box right on your machine and you have no idea what is going on inside it.<p>After all, the last time I encountered Hyper-V it was in the context of copy protection that prevented crackers from observing or interfering with video game protection</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:18:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482853</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a person who gets paid to make Chrome (CEF really) do its bidding, I would say Chrome is really as close to an OS as it can get, as in I've found API or service typically an OS or an external tool would provide, that wasn't built into Chrome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:14:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482814</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, if the jump is big, then we should be able to see the qualitative improvements, or see where Opus was tripped up in a task and Fable did succeed</p>
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<p>Yes, I ran into this during an internal company hackathon. This was before LLMs.<p>We took a problem, designed an internal tool for it, and put some Bootstrap UI on top with some  fancy CSS animations.<p>After wiring up the mock data, it looked convincigly real.<p>We did win, got congratulated by upper management, and were immediately asked if we could get this into production in a week, or do we need 2?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:08:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474033</link><dc:creator>torginus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torginus in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the argument could be made both that both engines are raycasters, though they don't cast rays over pixels, but horizontal 2D spans (where each ray is going to end in the same sector).<p>With the data structure being more efficient, and doing less overall work, I think this part of the Doom/Duke engine might even be faster than than Wolf3D</p>
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<p>Though it must be said that Duke's flexibility came with a tradeoff - while BSPs will find a leaf node in log(n) time, no such guarantee exists for Duke and its up to the mappers to optimize the maps so that the renderer doesn't need to traverse a large amount of sectors.</p>
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<p>Yeah sorry, you are right - I got it mixed up.</p>
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<p>I tried to read the 'design doc' - its slop full of vague platitudes and impressive sounding but impossible to pin down management speak - in short, it's slop, and I still don't really get what its supposed to do exactly.<p>It's some prompt engineered AI harness, that guides the AI to create stats after it researches a subject and ingests the data, but I'm not sure what is it that the tool actually <i>does</i> on top of this.</p>
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<p>That would only be true if a row (by which I mean a scanline) would be equidistant in view-space depth across its whole length, which is not quite true. While a column of pixels for a wall is (as long as you dont tilt the camera).</p>
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