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New comment by wasabi991011 in "AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers"

wasabi991011 — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 03:59:28 +0000

Patched versions of social media apps to remove ads and add more UI customization

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Hydrogen"

wasabi991011 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:27:32 +0000

FYI, you can use Antigravity as a web app with "remote control" mode. It works pretty well, better than VNC since the page is responsive, though the text is pretty small and the UX if not really differen than the computer version.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Hydrogen"

wasabi991011 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:21:59 +0000

According to Artificial Analysis, it's much cheaper per task than 3.8 flash, 3$ for H xhigh vs 6-7$ for 3.8 medium-high. I don't understand how though, since AA says it has more output tokens per task.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini Decisions API"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:36:18 +0000

Surprised how close all these models are on the benchmarks

New comment by wasabi991011 in "IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:28:07 +0000

I recommend people read the Ars Technica article [1] too, better written than this press release.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/ibm-to-offer-access-...

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is now available"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:42:46 +0000

Only major player that has student pricing too. I get Pro at Plus prices, it's a pretty sweet deal.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is now available"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:40:14 +0000

Interesting, I was on the free Pro plan (student offer) and it did not give me access to Argon until I started paying for Pro (but still with student discount) a week ago.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is now available"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:34:40 +0000

I would be interested in where you are looking, because the first page I found [1] says Plus includes "Access to Gemini 3.6 Flash and Deep Research in Gemini." and I don't see any "Access to our Flash models" on that page. Can't find anything similar on the wayback machine either.

Removing access to the Pro models is pretty messed up though, I agree.

[1] https://one.google.com/intl/en_ca/about/google-ai-plans/

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:22:59 +0000

Less ways to screw up an individual function, more ways to screw up their composition. Still not clear to me that it's better

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:36:21 +0000

I think the distinction is relevant even if the exact line is blurred. Two extremes:

It would be extremely surprising for a model to be able to ingest all model weights in a prompt and output better model weights, with no tool calls. While certainly possible for small simple models (eg a 4-parameter perception), at scale this becomes difficult in terms of near-perfect recall at huge context size and requires a superhuman intuitive understanding of linear algebra.

On the other hand, it is extremely unsurprising that a model can edit weights when having access to unrestricted tools, time, and resources (including non-public resources that the AI labs have). The methodology is fairly simple: just train the model more on whatever better non-public datasets. Hell, just benchmaxx the smaller model, that would be "a method to edit the weights" that achieves the necessary results.

I think everyone would agree that these two scenarios are very different. Where the actual Astra weight-space programming result falls on this spectrum is debatable.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "After 7 months, Glasswing overwelms maintainers with underwhelming findings"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:01:26 +0000

How would that help with the raised issue?

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities"

wasabi991011 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:00:43 +0000

That's my biggest issue with it personally, as an academic. Way too much unnecessary indirection that makes it harder to read and understand the assumptions and parameters going into the code, and unnecessary defensive programming for code that is just going to be run a few different ways with strictly controlled inputs.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is now available"

wasabi991011 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:55:27 +0000

The documentation on swarm has a short comparison with the other options: https://antigravity.google/docs/swarm

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is now available"

wasabi991011 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:51:54 +0000

When's the last time you checked what is offered by the plus subscription? It's been a while now that it's the equivalent to ChatGPT Go (on price and offer), giving only increased limits but no difference in model access compared to free.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

wasabi991011 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:34:57 +0000

From what I've read, it seems like the whole point of the RTR is to not be like that.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

wasabi991011 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:34:59 +0000

Can you explain to me what The Clearing House is as an organization, and how many participate in their RTP? I have tried to look this up but can only find vague promotional material by banks.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2"

wasabi991011 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:35:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing that link btw, it was great! You should post it on HN for more people to see.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)"

wasabi991011 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:43:02 +0000

That is not true. Especially since TFA clearly dates the invention of parchment paper to 1847, nearly a century before the synthesis of PFAS.

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)"

wasabi991011 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:34:55 +0000

a quick google search says yes

New comment by wasabi991011 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

wasabi991011 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:28:34 +0000

I had a research question in my area of expertise. Tried it with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. I think all three could have solved the question, but ChatGPT was an unreadable mess with too many sections and headings, Claude got stuck thinking and never produced an output. Gemini gave succinct explanation that I think was similar to ChatGPT conceptually but that I was able to follow and verify. The answer was actually fairly trivial to understand; I just hadn't gone at the problem from that perspective.

I know it is common for people to try AI in domains they aren't experts in, but it is also common for people to use AI in domains they are experts in.