Hacker News: whbrown

New comment by whbrown in "Breaking "provably correct" Leftpad"

whbrown — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:54:12 +0000

To be fair, you'd have to also import this crate to get the result he wanted:

https://docs.rs/unicode-segmentation/latest/unicode_segmenta...

New comment by whbrown in "The $11T gap between White House and economists on Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill"

whbrown — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:16:51 +0000

'girl math'? really? It's literally a bunch of old men and always has been.

New comment by whbrown in "I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits"

whbrown — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:22:38 +0000

Isn't it quite possible they replaced that Flash model with a distilled version, saving money rather than increasing quality? This just speaks to the value of open-weights more than anything.

New comment by whbrown in "I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation"

whbrown — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:02:35 +0000

Who says you need to use a top model to produce cybersecurity slop? Did this person use o3?

https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832

New comment by whbrown in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

whbrown — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 03:57:25 +0000

Running the 3 bit quant of https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF now on a 128GB macbook.

New comment by whbrown in "Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU"

whbrown — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:31:29 +0000

Those sound like the sort of issues which could be caused by your server silently truncating the middle of your prompts.

By default, Ollama uses a context window size of 2048 tokens.

New comment by whbrown in "Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore"

whbrown — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:39:17 +0000

Evidently they simply aren't respecting the .gitignore when choosing which file contents to post to their servers, https://forum.cursor.com/t/env-file-question/60165/9

Regardless of whether it actually makes a commit with the secret, it's still being leaked.

New comment by whbrown in "AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k"

whbrown — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:45:32 +0000

> As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money

Are you telling us you fell for the same pig butchering scam?

New comment by whbrown in "OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs"

whbrown — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:30:40 +0000

Is there a difference anymore?

New comment by whbrown in "Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets"

whbrown — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:06:21 +0000

really makes you wonder what Babbage was trying to achieve with his Difference Machine...

New comment by whbrown in "Fred: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States"

whbrown — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:43:26 +0000

I doubt all the tracked job titles are in the example, but they do aggregate job titles to the category of 'Software Development':

https://github.com/hiring-lab/job_postings_tracker/blob/mast...

And they do aggregate from other sources:

https://www.hiringlab.org/indeed-data-faq-2/

New comment by whbrown in "Ask HN: Has degradation in the quality of ChatGPT and Claude been proven?"

whbrown — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:53:02 +0000

There are even some benchmarks which have caught 'lazy coding' regressions with their latest models[1]. I recall my best experience with their models was last year with an early version of the advanced data analysis feature where it would write a script, write tests for it, run the tests, update the code and/or tests, and re-run them. Presumably that was too expensive, and now it feels like pulling teeth to get the same result.

[1] https://aider.chat/2024/04/09/gpt-4-turbo.html

New comment by whbrown in "A heck of a wild bug chase"

whbrown — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 23:26:34 +0000

Why make it a link if you aren't linking to anything?

New comment by whbrown in "NFL Reveals Ultra-Rare Lens It Uses to Capture Cinema-Style Shots"

whbrown — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:52:48 +0000

> Would you not agree that a game like this is ideal in terms of what can be done with photography, videography and storytelling?

Nope, that would have to be boxing—just go watch Raging Bull, Rocky or Muhammad Ali dancing in the ring.

New comment by whbrown in "The Seamless Communication models"

whbrown — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:21:22 +0000

Can anyone help demystify the licensing?

Besides the ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY, there's a CC BY-NC 4.0 (NonCommercial) license, a 'SEAMLESS_LICENSE' (NonCommercial), but also an MIT license? It would seem these other licenses contradict the MIT license, could somebody help clarify how these all interact in practice?

New comment by whbrown in "FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number"

whbrown — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:36:15 +0000

Since it's a normal distribution with a mean of 7500, and a standard deviation of 3000 multiplied by daily volume—it would only cause a negative change less than 1% of the time. This "PublicInsuranceFund" truly embodies their culture of "number go up".

New comment by whbrown in "How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong"

whbrown — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:10:03 +0000

> But like okay, if you are so great why can I only watch at 1x playback speed for video?

Maybe they updated this recently since you last tried, but you can most certainly change the playback speed for podcast videos (0.5x–3.5x). I just did it. Of course, the UX could definitely be improved in other ways, such as providing a more organized & easily filterable feed rather than a somewhat random assortment of 'Your shows' and 'Episodes for you'.

New comment by whbrown in "Twitter suffers major outage, leaving users unable to log on"

whbrown — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:55:12 +0000

Seems that their api for their web app is currently returning a 503 from POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json

Response payload: {"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}

And then it redirects to https://twitter.com/logout/error

New comment by whbrown in "Should You Kill the Fat Man?"

whbrown — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:46:20 +0000

> Utilitarians think morality lies in outcomes - the whats. But whatever I am is completely orthogonal - I believe it lies in the story surrounding the outcome, the hows and the whys.

Reminds me of virtue ethics, and understanding the complex story of the hows and the whys is called practical wisdom. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/

New comment by whbrown in "230 people living communally on 175 acre eco village [video]"

whbrown — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:53:02 +0000

Probably no more labor than any other organic farm, which is to say, far more than most people expect but tolerable. And upstate New York is quite agreeable even in the height of summertime.

Winter is a different story.

I'm more curious about what sort of social responsibilities are required. Do you have to engage in all that `frog`, `song`, `tree` triteness or is it truly an open and accepting community?