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andrewmunsell

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Any content I post on Hacker News is strictly personal opinion and does not reflect the views of my employer or anyone other than myself.

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andrewmunsell··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
The cost-per-task in the charts from the now-remove blog post put it more at Sol-level cost per task, however. It seems like the model is significantly more token efficient in the benchmarks
andrewmunsell··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
It's also now live on Ollama Cloud as of a couple minutes ago
andrewmunsell··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
My guess is for distillation, they need to forward the prompt to Anthropic to get the real Anthropic model's response so they can train their own models on it
andrewmunsell··on Claude Fable 5
Improvements in model performance aren't always strictly compute-constrained in a way that makes them reliant on Moore's Law. Open weight models-- in particular, from Chinese labs-- are optimizing model intelligence with less compute. They're "behind" frontier models by months, but as others have noted, it's possible to get Sonnet 4.5+ level performance at reduced cost, today, from open weight labs.
andrewmunsell··on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
This has been a thing for years, and so much so, that there's an entire TV with a dedicated second screen that shows you ads underneath your main screen: https://www.telly.com
andrewmunsell··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
No one rich enough flying what the average person would consider a "private jet" or private plane would be flying VFR from uncontrolled airport to uncontrolled airport. The "ultra rich" are not puttering around in single-engine Cessnas
andrewmunsell··on Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex
Yes, but I had to update the Codex CLI manually via NPM to see it. The VS Code extension auto-updated for me
andrewmunsell··on OpenAI Codex hands-on review
> incorrect, its an o3 finetune.

This is Open AI's fault (and literally every AI company is guilty of the same horrid naming schemes). Codex was an old model based on GPT-3, but then they reused the same name for both their Codex CLI and this Codex tool...

I mean, just look at the updates to their own blog post, I can see why people are confused.

https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/

Edit:

Google just did it too. "Gemini Ultra" is both a model (https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/ultra/) and their new top-tier subscription plan (a la Open AI's Pro plan). Why is this so difficult?

andrewmunsell··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
The reason I have never bothered with Claude Code (or even other agentic tools), is that I still code mostly by hand.

When I am using LLMs, I know exactly what the code should be and just am using it as a way to produce it faster (my Cursor rules are extremely extensive and focused on my personal architecture and code style, and I share them across all my personal projects), rather than producing a whole feature. When I try and use just the agent in Cursor, it always needs significant modifications and reorganization to meet my standards, even with the extensive rules I have set up.

Cursor appeals to me because those QOL features don't take away the actual code writing part, but instead augment it and get rid of some of the tedium.

andrewmunsell··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
Given that there's a dozen agentic coding IDEs, I only use Cursor because of the few features they have like auto-identification of the next cursor location (I find myself hitting tab-tab-tab-tab a lot, it speeds up repetitive edits). Are there any other IDEs that implement these QOL features, including Void (given it touts itself specifically as a Cursor alternative)?
andrewmunsell··on ChatGPT is turning everything into Studio Ghibli art
https://archive.is/okv6M
andrewmunsell··on Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs
On the Apple Edu store, it's $499 for the 16/256 and $1079 for the 32/512
andrewmunsell··on QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
Another data point:

17.6 tokens/s on an M4 Max 40 core GPU

andrewmunsell··on M4 MacBook Pro
Data privacy-- some stuff, like all my personal notes I use with a RAG system, just don't need to be sent to some cloud provider to be data mined and/or have AI trained on them
andrewmunsell··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
Sellers are actually supposed to mark items as AI generated/assisted, where applicable: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/09/etsy-new-seller-policy-202...

Whether they actually do this (and whether there's any incentive to do so), is obviously not a given

andrewmunsell··on Apple Explains iPhone 15 Pro Requirement for Apple Intelligence
If Apple's "Private Cloud Compute" is used even on the latest devices for some tasks that are too computationally complex to be done on-device, then is there some reason (other than money) that they can't launch Apple Intelligence on all iOS 18 devices but use the cloud for all "AI" requests that would be "too slow" because of the older chips?
andrewmunsell··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
From MacRumors:

> Notes can record and transcribe audio. When your recording is finished, Apple Intelligence automatically generates a summary. Recording and summaries coming to phone calls too.

So the functionality exists, maybe just not in the Voice Memos app?

andrewmunsell··on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
CarPlay is rendered by the phone itself, so it's not strictly a function of how powerful the car infotainment is. You've been able to talk to Siri since the beginning of CarPlay so additional voice control is really just an accessibility thing
andrewmunsell··on Apple introduces M4 chip
My current assumption is that this has to do with whatever "AI" Apple is planning to launch at WWDC. If they launched a new iPad with an M3 that wasn't able to sufficiently run on-device LLMs or whatever new models they are going to announce in a month, it would be a bad move. The iPhones in the fall will certainly run some new chip capable of on-device models, but the iPads (being announced in the Spring just before WWDC) are slightly inconveniently timed since they have to announce the hardware before the software.
andrewmunsell··on Wi-Fi 7 certification is now underway for new routers and devices
You appear to be right, as far as I can tell the standard itself has not been ratified

https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbe_update.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11be

> Development of the 802.11be amendment is ongoing, with an initial draft in March 2021, and a final version expected by early 2024

andrewmunsell··on WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home
I was very excited by this, but I found that some of my dumber IoT devices would refuse to connect to the network if it used PPSK. If I connect them to a separate SSID I use for IoT devices with a basic WPA2 PSK, they work totally fine, but I didn't dig too much so it could also be user error
andrewmunsell··on SpaceX launches first phone service satellites
There's always the option to turn off your phone entirely, leave it at home, or simply buy a dumb phone incapable of using these new satellite features.

There's always going to be that one person blasting music in the wilderness, just because some people want to be disconnected doesn't mean we should eschew progress towards tech that can save peoples' lives.

andrewmunsell··on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes
Honestly no, it's mostly due to inexperience with operators and not really understanding what the "best" way to find operators is. I did also look at the Crunch Data one (I was having some issues setting that one up), but didn't even find Zalando during my search.

OperatorHub is currently the main resource I use, but GitHub stars aren't exposed in the search so I have been looking at the "Capability Level" chart and checking for Github popularity when I find one with the feature support I want.

I'm facing this exact same issue now when trying to find an operator for Redis. I am not sure if I am just missing out on the "right" option by limiting myself to Googling and Operator Hub and looking for the one with the most Github stars, so I am open to tips.

andrewmunsell··on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes
My holiday project was doing another pass at my Homelab Kubernetes cluster, part of which involved switching to a proper operator to manage Postgres. Coincidentally, I setup cloudnative-pg (https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg) yesterday.
andrewmunsell··on Why is Bluetooth sound quality bad on my Mac
The article is essentially an ad for an app that does just this
andrewmunsell··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Everyone made fun of me for having one, but it was the perfect city car. Great turning radius & it fit basically anywhere. And the plastic body meant that if someone opened their door into you, it just bounced off instead of leaving a dent.

It's a shame they never made any significant improvements on the range. After degradation, the range on the i3 ends up pretty abysmal. The REx was a fun idea too and even let me take the car on multi-hundred mile road trips, without recharging, after coding the REx to one of the buttons in the car.

andrewmunsell··on Google Bard AI Now Has the Ability to Understand YouTube Videos
Since I had the same question as everyone else, it seems like it must be using just the transcript. When asking about one of those "8k HDR" showcase videos (with no speech), Bard responds with:

> I'm sorry, but I'm unable to access this YouTube content. This is possible for a number of reasons, but the most common are: the content isn't a valid YouTube link, potentially unsafe content, or the content does not have a captions file that I can read.

andrewmunsell··on Insta360's Ace Pro combines Leica engineering with computational photography
They've had a Leica partnership for a while in the form of the Insta360 One R (and RS) 1-inch lenses, plus with their 1-inch 360 module. There's still some fundamental physics limitations with gathering light on a small sensor, but I enjoy using the 1-inch lens on my One RS when I can over the "normal" action lens.
andrewmunsell··on OpenAI's chaos does not add up
As with many things in life: Hanlon’s razor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

andrewmunsell··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
Why do you think that blue represents E2EE and not simply iMessage? If data isn't available and the iPhone sends an SMS, like you mentioned, the bubble is green, but this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with encryption. For example, the satellite SOS messages are represented as gray. It seems more like the color represents the transport.
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