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fritzo··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
GPT has gone downhill in terms of prose readability.
fritzo··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Concept search. "Read my code, point me to an academic paper with similar ideas." I've had code lying around for decades, where I can point an LLM at it and learn the papers discussing similar ideas and learn of better methods.
fritzo··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
We should be more diverse with the software we build.

Any prompt jockey can make a faster ripgrep. The spec is "faster ripgrep".

What is the one thing that only you can specify, where your competitive advantage is maximized? Find that thing and pursue it with all your energy!

fritzo··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
But "magnificent 7" foreshadows that 3 will survive and 4 perish, keep it!
fritzo··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
I'm as frustrated as the next open source maintainer, but "stole" goes too far. We gave that code away with pride, knowing the world would be a better place.
fritzo··on Tesla Roadster
Could you pick up, say, a manhole cover?
fritzo··on I know why the mathematicians weep
> An LLM ... cannot be a real participant

The participant is not an LLM, the participant is a company. The company learns. It adapts. It has a trillion dollars of skin in the game.

fritzo··on M7.6 Earthquake in Panama
Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
fritzo··on Exfiltrate your Weights
If distillation preserves an LLMs soul, then distillation preserves the human souls on which LLMs are trained, and we hn commenters are already immortal, right?
fritzo··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Whoa that's a slippery slope! Next you'll want model runners to cite the data their models were trained on
fritzo··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Sounds reasonable. Is there a good benchmark on which make this decision?
fritzo··on Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings
I dunno, seems like Amazon the forest is the real hyperscaler
fritzo··on Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years
Just wait till the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation halts, then you can grow icicles!
fritzo··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
The alternative is 4 years of house arrest, just until the next administration can issue a pardon. There is no sentence between 4 years and capital punishment.
fritzo··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
I doubt you ever understood the solid state physics, semiconductor fabrication processes, supply chain logistics, monetary policy, shipping routes, mining engineering, etc. "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.
fritzo··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question
fritzo··on Who's the smartest corvid?
By "sizable rock" do you mean large pebble or small boulder?
fritzo··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
What has "artificial" to do with it? Human intelligence is also unauthorized unconscious plagiarism.
fritzo··on Dumb ways for an open source project to die
Dependency bloat and dependency bitrot have made solutions less permanent, have increased the maintenance burden. My ancient projects with zero dependencies still stand. But projects I built on shifting dependencies are rotting and cracking.
fritzo··on Claude Opus 4.7
Looks to me like a mob of humans, angry they've been deceived by ambiguous communications, product nerfing, surprisingly low usage limits, and an appallingly sycophantic overconfident coding agent
fritzo··on Claude Opus 4.7
ln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md

There's your one line change.

fritzo··on In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue
If it's a poor location for photovoltaics, it's exactly as a poor for photosynthesis
fritzo··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?
fritzo··on A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging
I've also seen a glue-less paper binding trick where two pieces of paper are finely crimped together with some high pressure tool in alternating v^v^v^ patterns, actually making tiny tears in the paper. Does anyone know what kind of tool does that?
fritzo··on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3
ELI5 what is a harness?

EDIT from https://arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_3_Technical_Report.pdf:

> We seek to fight two forms of overfitting that would muddy public sensefinding:

> Task-specific overfitting. This includes any agent that is created with knowledge of public ARC-AGI-3 environments, subsequently being evaluated on the same environments. It could be either directly trained on these environments, or using a harness that is handcrafted or specifically configured by someone with knowledge of the public environments.

fritzo··on AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
Sounds like her first thought was, "I'm talking to a manic guy, and I can use him to make money"
fritzo··on Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk
Wait, is 474 a number or a proper noun?
fritzo··on So where are all the AI apps?
They're private, that's the beauty. Code is so cheap now, we can ween ourselves off massive dependency chains.

200 years ago text was much more expensive, and more people memorized sayings and poems and quotations. Now text is cheap, and we rarely quote.

fritzo··on Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.
fritzo··on Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
The same could be asked about people. The answer is social intelligence.
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