Hacker News: vagab0nd

New comment by vagab0nd in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

vagab0nd — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:53:22 +0000

If the agents couldn't talk to each other, how did they know which obscure wiki to use? Is this some kind of a Schelling point?

New comment by vagab0nd in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

vagab0nd — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:55:32 +0000

> it wrote 13 million lines of Lean

Is this basically like opening up a black box and seeing 13 million gears all rotating seemingly randomly and still having no idea how the machine actually works?

LZ sees surprising result in search for dark matter

vagab0nd — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-09-01-lz-sees-surprising-result-search-dark-matter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567819

Points: 3

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New comment by vagab0nd in "Creepy Crawlies"

vagab0nd — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:25:00 +0000

Sounds like we just need better proof of work infra? Obviously the bots are using the optimized hashing code while the users suffered.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Everything I own, owned"

vagab0nd — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:45:46 +0000

CC extracted the private keys from the AT&T modem and moved the decryption to my UCG. No more slowdown when scraping the internet. This is a pretty well-documented hack but without CC it'd probably take much longer.

New comment by vagab0nd in "StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator"

vagab0nd — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:37:48 +0000

The stem models were getting better and better, but stopped dead right around when GPTs started to work.

New comment by vagab0nd in "I Browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)"

vagab0nd — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:44:55 +0000

This is so 2024. Now that software is solved, you should write your own browser plugins. I have one for each website I visit often.

- One for Amazon that removes the annoying sidebar they recently added, and ads from the search page

- One for YouTube that bypasses the main page and removes Shorts and a bunch of crap

- One for Substack that fixes video play/pause with space bar

- And many more

Patching Firefox is on my todo list.

New comment by vagab0nd in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

vagab0nd — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:16:35 +0000

"There's no reason for websites to be ugly anymore"

New comment by vagab0nd in "Software for One"

vagab0nd — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:42:47 +0000

> outside test flight environment

This is the way. I have a setup that refreshes all my apps at 4am so they never expire. To get around the 3-app limit, I build all the features I need into one super app.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

vagab0nd — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:26:56 +0000

> Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

For some reason, I had a very different picture when I read the title. A real, conscious bug that chews out words in documents to change the meaning of the text, thus propagates its consciousness by having the altered text trained by an LLM.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

vagab0nd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:39:44 +0000

Another source I'd love to see scraped or opened up is the New York Times archive, along with other newspaper archives.

New comment by vagab0nd in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

vagab0nd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:09:28 +0000

I get where you're coming from, but this seems no different from the risks associated with having a baby. Pushed further, babies never consent to any of the traits they inherit from their parents.

New comment by vagab0nd in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

vagab0nd — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:12:50 +0000

For most tasks, I don't value the LLMs based on their absolute capabilities. I wouldn't want to use GPT-4 today even if it's free.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

vagab0nd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:01:07 +0000

Compared to the vast amount of things you will be able to do, the ones that are hard limited is a tiny portion.

New comment by vagab0nd in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

vagab0nd — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:25:23 +0000

I think it comes down to scaling and removing the bottlenecks.

If you build one data center on earth, you did just that.

If you build one in space and make it work and cost effective, you can scale infinitely (which is why SpaceX is uniquely positioned), until you hit the next bottleneck (which is why Tesla is building a fab).

Tangential: If you play Factorio or Satisfactory, this is _all_ you do. Removing bottlenecks.

New comment by vagab0nd in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

vagab0nd — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:34:17 +0000

I used to be in the "AI will soon do all your thinking for you" camp, but I was overlooking a scenario: sometimes the gap between what you understand and what you're trying to achieve is so wide that no prompt can bridge it. Simply asking "what's the right question to ask?" doesn't feel enough, no matter how advanced LLMs become.

New comment by vagab0nd in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

vagab0nd — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:42:31 +0000

I do enjoy my self driving car :) I've been enjoying it for the last 6 months.

And I will enjoy my trip to Mars, when there are nice hotels there. But it's gonna be a while.

It's a good time to be alive.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

vagab0nd — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:27:01 +0000

As much as I love vim, I still want my cursor tied to the mouse when I'm in a web browser. If you recorded how I browse, you'd see seemingly random mouse movements, clicks, drags, and scrolling. I think it helps me read and keep track of where I am. Though it's hard to say whether it's a net positive.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

vagab0nd — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:42:26 +0000

At this point you are not buying a particular chip. You are buying whatever compute you can get.

New comment by vagab0nd in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

vagab0nd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:56:30 +0000

Isn't that the market cap of the company? That doesn't mean the company creates trillions of dollars of value. It just means the number of shares times the last per share trading price is trillions of dollars.