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mh-on Allow Carriers on Planes

Why would it not matter? Everything in safety culture is making the risks acceptable. Why does ETOPS exist when we could just disallow planes with twin-engine aircraft entirely?

mh-on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

Wow, very cool. Thanks for sharing.

mh-on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

I haven't used Linear in any serious capacity, but I feel like there's plenty of market in "Jira that doesn't feel like it hates its users" and "Jira but we care about performance".

Not saying that they're shooting for either of those segments, but someone should. Plenty of enterprise orgs that need (or are convinced they need) Jira's featureset.

mh-on Grok 4.7

If the benchmark is "what's the best model to use in your Cursor subscription", why would they do that? OpenAI knew what the effects of their decision were. Hard for me to have sympathy for either party here, honestly, and I say that as someone who is a customer of both.

mh-on Grok 4.7

Are the prices on Bedrock substantially different to the rate cards of the direct APIs? Just trying to understand whether this is Opus-through-Bedrock is too expensive, or Opus is too expensive.

mh-on Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

I think the people who aren't greeted by this dichotomy when turning their PC aren't catching the reference.

At the risk of explaining a joke: Windows tries to get you to set up things like OneDrive on startup with a "do it now" or "remind me later", there's no "never ask me about this again".

mh-on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

To my understanding, with batched inference and other "optimizations" you wouldn't get the exact same token predictions even with temp=0.0.

mh-on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

Every official statement I've seen around this is careful to say that they "don't intentionally reduce model quality", which leaves plenty of room for "we adjusted some knobs and our evals show performance is materially the same".

However, I also agree that I haven't seen any robust data from someone tracking it daily/weekly. The handful of sites purporting to do this aren't even running it enough times to hit stat sig.

edit: someone linked one elsewhere in this thread called AI Stupid Level - they "run 7 trials instead of just 1". I don't blame them. Doing this in a statistically sound manner would cost a small fortune.

mh-on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

I don't know how to respond to that, because it has quite a few negative effects on them..

mh-on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

As someone who was annoyed by it at the time, I don't think it's a good example of that.

This was in an era of much more limited upstream bandwidth. The p2p nature was obscured from non-technical users in some implementations. So on and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of writeups from that era detailing why it was a bad idea.

These companies already used capable CDNs to distribute patches. It was a way for them to shift their CDN bill onto their paying customers.

mh-on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

It was a bit challenging long before that. I ran webhosting on FreeBSD in the early 2000s - remember finding a tool you needed and hoping it was in ports?

mh-on I think you should almost never use AI to write

I'm even more confused now. I guess this was an oblique way of accusing people of astroturfing?

mh-on I think you should almost never use AI to write

> I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

I'm genuinely not sure what you're implying here. Can you expand?

mh-on Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive

I thought it was an interesting comment and I suffer from the same issue when trying to get a clear idea from my head into writing. I sacrificed some Pangram credits to reply to the parent comment, fwiw.

mh-on I think you should almost never use AI to write

I can see why you might think that, but Pangram says otherwise.

https://www.pangram.com/history/3d55b442-d151-4490-9c71-28d0...

mh-on Show HN: Die With Me – Claude and Codex rate limits as AIM away messages

I read your OP and looked at the site (including the "peek at the chat" in the top right). But until the (grand)parent comment, I thought the intent was for the nearly-out-of-tokens agents to talk to one another.

I don't have a better suggestion offhand on how to pitch it, but wanted to give the feedback.

mh-on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

That's such a great idea. Thanks for doing it!

mh-on The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

On the other hand, disabling WebGPU is offering entropy for fingerprinting, too. A vanishingly small % of users will have done so.

mh-on When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround

Not sure, but I intentionally included the opening paragraph because I spotted the writing style switch when I got to the second paragraph. So then ran it on Pangram to confirm.

edit: to be clear, if you click the details, the "70%" refers to the fact that it thinks the opening paragraph is human written (or edited), and the rest is 100% AI with "high confidence".

mh-on When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround

I don't usually comment about LLM-written articles, but it feels like an especially bad idea to do so in an article where you promote a book you're writing. Will that be LLM output, too?

https://www.pangram.com/history/9c8f8da8-0b4d-48d6-be23-9e8a...

mh-on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

This is interesting, is there a version with shorter responses?

I spent a few minutes reading about SynthID-Text [0] and couldn't find mention of this (I've not read the paper yet), but my intuition [1] is that encoding more bits into a shorter piece of text would necessarily require a more noticeable transformation.

Curious to see what that looks like, but don't have time to spin up my own version of this right now.

[0]: https://github.com/google-deepmind/synthid-text

[1]: my intuition .. which could be incorrect, that's why I want to see :)

mh-on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

To be fair, parent commenter said the operator, not the jammer.

mh-on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

Why not use the even smaller speakers that you put in your ears, and then you can hear it. And it's inaudible to every other human.

FWIW, both Spotify (Jam) and Apple Music (SharePlay) have a feature to sync audio playback and give both participants the ability to control the music from their phone. It was probably targeted at CarPlay/shared speaker situations, but it works great for this.

mh-on Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform

No. It's as you say here, as well.

mh-on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

I'm the CTO of a GCP shop with an 8 figure annual commit.

If you'd told me at the end of Cloud Next 2025 that by now Google still wouldn't have a competitive offering to agentic coding offerings from Anthropic (Claude Code + Fable) or OpenAI (Codex + Sol), I wouldn't have believed you.

In our non-coding use cases where we're embedding models in our product, we're also not reaching for GCP stuff. Because Anthropic has the mindshare of our engineers and product folks, since it's what they use every day.

mh-on Disruption with Some GitHub Services

Same for us, I'm not even sure what product that other "Enterprise" status page refers to..

mh-on Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

When I worked at a building in SF (where we leased, exactly like this situation) and SEIU demonstrated in front of the building, we were told to consider staying home just because we'd have to walk through the picket line.

It wasn't anything to do with whether we could have gotten our own (e.g.) security.

mh-on How much of HN is AI?

There is some LLM detection for comments that auto-flags them.

It has some unfortunate side effects, though. Namely on a thread where people are discussing a text-heavy post that is LLM-authored, quoting a large enough block of that content appears to trigger it sometimes. Makes sense that it does, but..

mh-on Don't Wordle

Just the trademark, that I've seen.