Hacker News: xyzal

New comment by xyzal in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

xyzal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:41:47 +0000

How about reviving key signing parties?

New comment by xyzal in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

xyzal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:40:23 +0000

Given that according to some we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, I wonder where there are some autocoded softwares with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engineering work.

New comment by xyzal in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

xyzal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:27:44 +0000

By socializing the losses of course.

New comment by xyzal in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

xyzal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:26:58 +0000

I think it is time to start shorting.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

xyzal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:21:37 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486865

Points: 6

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New comment by xyzal in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

xyzal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:14:02 +0000

I'll root for DeepSeek v4 Flash as well. It surprised me just how "good enough" it is for most of my needs, and also dirt cheap. Everyone should try it at least once.

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

xyzal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:32:45 +0000

Which other profession has the same amount of training data freely available for the taking?

New comment by xyzal in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

xyzal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:42:02 +0000

Given that we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, one would expect to see at least some pieces of machine-created software with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engineering work.

Anyone know some?

Ask HN: What are some agent-coded masterpieces?

xyzal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:12:31 +0000

Given that we can code at 10x speed for at least half a year, one would expect to see at least some pieces of machine-created software with 5 years' worth of equivalent human engineering work.

Are there any we know of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432881

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by xyzal in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

xyzal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:46:37 +0000

YC indisputably has a financial incentive for AI sentiment to be positive on HN. The structural conflict of interest is worth being aware of.

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

xyzal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:03:23 +0000

Mind that the host of this site has an interest in keeping the hype going on ...

New comment by xyzal in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

xyzal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:32:02 +0000

To me it was just a few weeks ago discovering just how good and dirt cheap the recent flash models are, in particular Deepseek V4. Previously used Claude's variants almost exclusively.

I use them mostly in the "artist's assistant" role, doing internet research, writing a occasional function and doing transformations or refactorings (don't belive the agentic hype honestly), and for such tasks they seem to be well capable enough.

It seems that their open weights nature leads to competition among providers keeping the user cost close to inference cost.

Try them at least once if you haven't, it's well worth it, and the price difference is staggering

Google to add sources in AI Searches, allow to opt out following UK ruling

xyzal — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://sfist.com/2026/06/03/google-to-add-clearer-attributions-to-ai-searches-allow-sites-to-opt-out-following-ruling-in-uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395865

Points: 6

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New comment by xyzal in "Microsoft CEO: We're moving from OS and apps to agents instead"

xyzal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:35:10 +0000

So, telemetry and surveillance.

Casey Muratori's 'Wading Through AI' [video]

xyzal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjO-s4rNPlY&list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6U_pA-7GKuP9xiv9utLaP4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381170

Points: 4

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New comment by xyzal in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

xyzal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:44:16 +0000

This contradicts my anecdata.

Recently, I tasked Opus 4.6 to study a new Czech building permit law in conjunction with some waste disposal regulations and the result was disappointing. The model could not stop drawing conclusions from obsolete regulations in its training dataset, even when given the fulltext of the new law. The usual "you are totally right" also applied and its conclusions were most of the time obviously wrong even to a human with cursory knowledge of the subject.

I ended with studying the relevant regulations myself over the weekend.

New comment by xyzal in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

xyzal — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:57:18 +0000

Not sure about flawed code logic, but it is embarassingly easy to plant false information into models. Make a few static sites with random info, crosslink them, reference them on reddit a few times, then plant the payload there.

I know it because i tried ...

New comment by xyzal in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

xyzal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:02:56 +0000

I am really baffled by the comments in the spirit of "this is unenforceable, and therefore worthless".

I bet most people would not steal even if they knew they could get away with it.

New comment by xyzal in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

xyzal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:01:21 +0000

The question is what fraction of the population can afford it.

UC Berkeley Law blanket AI ban since summer 2026

xyzal — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:19:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343728

Points: 7

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