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New comment by vl in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

vl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:19:50 +0000

I trained to play insane, usually a just bit slower than average, after using hints for couple times.

I suggest larger levels (yes, scrolling and zooming might be required). After all, minesweeper is the most interesting on the largest level.

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:36:39 +0000

The simple fact is that economy can’t be 100% services. Who is going to pay these baristas if nobody else earns anything?

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:32:13 +0000

The only reason you can figure it out is because of the system prompt which is designed to make model “useful”, safe and compliant.

Raw modern LLM with different pre-prompt will easily fool anyone.

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:07:22 +0000

Or another way to see it is that current models are AGI as it was defined before, and the goal post is being moved.

New comment by vl in "Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:41:09 +0000

Does market closing and not trading continuously affects this?

If market opens at significantly different price, you may be forced to liquidate and loose more than expected.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:08:49 +0000

Frontier labs release frontier models to the public only if there is market pressure to do so. Anthropic is not even hiding that they have been using Mythos internally for months now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI (so much for “open”) is using GPT-6 internally already.

It appears that peasants like us are not going to get access to frontier AI anymore at any price.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:03:59 +0000

This is strategy by Chinese government, so much of US economy is invested in AI. Releasing free or cheap versions of the models undermines US economic growth. It’s asymmetric strategy that makes sense if you are close second in AI race. If situation is reversed, US would do the same.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:50:59 +0000

France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.

It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:34:15 +0000

While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.

“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.

New comment by vl in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

vl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:47:49 +0000

Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.

New comment by vl in "Claude Fable 5 Backlash Grows"

vl — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:31:29 +0000

I uploaded my blood test results and prompted pedestrian medical question. I shut it down because it's "bio research".

New comment by vl in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

vl — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:56:15 +0000

I really don’t understand what SD card reader on MacBook Pro is for.

All small cameras and devices use micro SD. Professional cameras don’t use SD since forever now. Basically I always need an adapter now.

New comment by vl in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

vl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:51:30 +0000

So for new Ghost in the Shell is it a good idea to watch previous ones before watching the new one? If so, it what order? Is movie worth watching at all?

New comment by vl in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

vl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:53:06 +0000

Usually the grants are restructured. Ie instead of what was vested and unvested rank-and-file gets new 4 year grants. And then it works exactly the way you would expect: everyone works for 4 years and then leaves.

New comment by vl in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

vl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:17:38 +0000

What people don’t get that traditional software jobs are gone.

There is no need for developers, testers, PMs, TPMs, devops, leads anymore. Communication burden and structure imposed by these roles is too high when you have AI. It doesn’t make sense to tell somebody to do something and for them to type it into the AI. You can type it into the AI yourself without wasting the time.

There is new job - software creator. Think of it as a single person replacing a team. This job requires different mix of skills, and different level of autonomy. Hiring needs to be adapted to this really, and people need to adapt. Some will shine in this new world, and those who still narrowly think of themselves as specialists in the specific old role are going to be jobless.

New comment by vl in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

vl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:08:24 +0000

What transmitters? Now calls happen over WiFi which companies sell.

New comment by vl in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

vl — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:23:22 +0000

Now wait for manufactures introducing mandatory flight mode on devices (with Apple leading the way) that “trusted partners”, like airlines will be able to force-activate themselves.

New comment by vl in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

vl — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:18:03 +0000

Because they knew it’s not a real threat and they wanted to land at United hub for cost saving reasons.

New comment by vl in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

vl — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:15:17 +0000

What is even better now phone calls are prohibited, but all these airlines had actual credit card phones installed in every seat just 20-15 years ago and really wanted you to do phone calls for $1 a minute. And some people did, and it was annoying, and it was “fine”. Now that they can’t charge extra suddenly it’s “against regulations”.

New comment by vl in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

vl — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:16:42 +0000

They are going to do what movie industry is already doing: create shell company for release of each game.

Then they will shut down the company when they want, and there will be nobody to come for.