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ggsp··on Anthropic's models improving nearly twice as fast with help from AI, study finds
No mention of what those “well-specified tasks” might be?
ggsp··on Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad
> free stuff with no strings attached

I'm aware I'm preaching to the choir here on HN, but boy are there strings...

ggsp··on Lemmings CSS Animation
Cute :) It has a couple of zoom bugs on mobile, something like

html { overflow-x: clip; touch-action: manipulation; }

should fix them!

ggsp··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Very cool tech! Q1 27 is… Ambitious. Good luck with it, we need new interfaces for AI!
ggsp··on Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Very cool, thank you for sharing that :) I got curious, funny how every single Wikipedia article for languages which use the Latin script is some cognate of “anthology”, including for “outsiders” (excuse the term) such as Finnish, Basque, or Hungarian, while the Dutch (and the Romans obviously) translated it.
ggsp··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Rust in the future? Excuse the flippancy but what is missing nowadays?
ggsp··on Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!
ggsp··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
After asking my LLM some questions to barely grasp what you are working on, I can now say: very cool!

For anyone wondering, the thing lives at https://compile-xc.org/ ;)

ggsp··on Mark Zuckerberg versus the Pint of Guinness
https://archive.is/Ecfd0
ggsp··on Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
It’s The Register, very much their style
ggsp··on Blindsight (Watts Novel)
My understanding is that they are implying interstellar travel, because of its complexity, would be impossible without some form of consciousness in charge to steer things.

I'd argue that evolution has accomplished plenty of incredibly complex designs without an ounce of consciousness in play—much more complex than anything humanity has made. And I'd add that even we puny humans have been able to create intelligence without consciousness, meaning the concept of one being orthogonal to the other does not at all seem far fetched to me.

I think Blindsight quickly runs into questions which people will disagree on rather strongly, based on their beliefs and world views. Which I'd say is a marker of a good sci-fi book.

ggsp··on Blindsight (Watts Novel)
Isn't the point of the book that the aliens are not at all conscious?
ggsp··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
I know the point you’re making is half facetious—do you feel like LLMs are specifically getting better at planning?
ggsp··on iPhone Duo
On the Samsung Flip you can definitely see a crease—it's not super annoying but it's definitely there
ggsp··on GPT-6 Astra
If you define AGI as "can do the work of a human sitting at a computer, end to end", then I'd say comparing yourself to it on a specific skill is the wrong test. Can you hand it a role and walk away for a day/week/month?

I can’t yet. I think that I'd want at least two things it doesn't have: the ability to retain what it learned yesterday (without me carrying it in the context window and thus micromanaging it), and the ability to prioritize correctly, i.e. tell which of the n things it could do next is the one that actually matters.

Can't say for sure that those are enough, but not having them seems to be most of why I still have to "babysit" these incredible tools.

ggsp··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Fans stop cooling you once air temps approach body temperature. The EU sees tens of thousands of excess deaths each summer, mostly among the elderly.
ggsp··on Substack writers, you need a website
It does
ggsp··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Yes, and /model claude-opus-4-6[1m] gets you the larger context window. Happy to help :)
ggsp··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
The only way to keep using CC for me has been to stick to 4.6 1M
ggsp··on Where the goblins came from
Agree with your sentiment, I think synthetologist (σύνθετος/synthetos + λογία/logia) flows better.

The plural of anthropos is anthropoi, not anthropodes.

ggsp··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
Fair warning: I’m quite ignorant in terms of economics, so this is a naïve way of looking at it.

The question that always pops up for me when it comes to UBI applied to the current capitalist system: even if you did actually come up with the money somehow (which is a pretty huge if as you say), once everyone has X “base money” per month, doesn’t that mean the cost of living (specifically renting) will rise to match this new “base”?

ggsp··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
Look up “spatial agency bias” and “glance curve”
ggsp··on Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
> extrapolanorsking

<3

ggsp··on Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer
Why these wouldn’t be cached is beyond me. Cool idea though!
ggsp··on A leak reveals that Anthropic is testing a more capable AI model "Claude Mythos"
TFA states "Capybara and Mythos appear to refer to the same underlying model"
ggsp··on Flighty Airports
The point is "everyone is there at the stated boarding time" never actually happens IRL, so you give an earlier time.
ggsp··on Flighty Airports
My guess is that's because boarding a plane is a little bit like being an extra for a film, it's a hurry up and wait situation. If they printed the exact time boarding starts and people showed up then (and later), no flight would ever board on time. Better for the airline to print an earlier time and have people wait longer, so they can board as quickly as possible. Every minute behind schedule costs the airline money.
ggsp··on Flighty Airports
Have you asked people how much they'd be willing to pay?
ggsp··on HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab
Very cool to see movement in this space, and congrats on launching! Agree that it looks polished, I also like that you chose to show screenshots from settings on the LP.

I use yabai and I've been wanting something similar to what you built. Instead of one desktop per workspace, I'd like to be able to have "sets of desktops" per workspace as it were, because not all work I do that involves multiple apps needs them on the same screen at all times (or even ever).

As an example: I might have IDE + browser on one desktop, Fork.app and local server on another, and Music.app on a third (as I like to listen to music while I work). So to me, those are all related, but don't make sense on one desktop.

The other consideration is that I also tend to use tiling more on bigger displays. Since I sometimes do work with just the builtin display, I have to reorganize windows and desktops every time I switch, which is a bit of a PITA. With a solution like yours, but for sets of desktops, I could just switch to a different set and be done in seconds.

Is something similar possible using HopTab?

ggsp··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
It's already included in the list, between the pricing UI and the Windows XP disks
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