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comboy··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
But you are using API not the CLI right? I did not ever observe API degradation, only subscription stuff through their CLI.
comboy··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
They are not cracking EUV, they are finding ways that actually scale. Chips can be much cheaper than they are currently. I mean yes, obviously we cannot be confident ntil it happens, but they are already making 5nm with DUV.

When China leads chip making the rest of the world is just vasal states.

comboy··on Claude Opus 5.5
Well, if you have a clearly defined task it's easy. When using them for my pipeline of writing explanations for Chinese words I have clear ranking, for example - opus 5.5 clearly better than opus 5 at writing and knowing details, annoying nit picker when it comes to finding errors (high accuracy, low usefulness) all in repeatable numbers on different datasets. The problem is that these models are most useful when you are facing a new task that you haven't encountered before. And yup then it's astrology.
comboy··on Claude Opus 5.5
That's a sharp observation and you're hitting on something most people never even realize.
comboy··on Claude Opus 5.5
Whoa, I'm exactly the opposite.
comboy··on The Claude Delusion
It seems to me that often experts from some field will think less of other experts, basically because they have built a different understanding framework. So they both may be equally competent but perceive the other as less competent, and that is just based on the material, excluding some ego stuff.
comboy··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
Thanks, it seems like a nice way to compare effectiveness of different non-typical methods which are not yet capable of some more ambitious benchmarks.
comboy··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
These are not successful prediction rate per char though.
comboy··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
what character prediction rates are you getting on some unseen datasets?
comboy··on Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model
There's a console and you can track your command! Very cool. Not sure if 3D is needed but very cool nonetheless, It might be that some things are missing (I don't know redis internals though) like some encoding step when getting data back to client, managing client connections and their state (multi, watch) etc.
comboy··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Awesome dataset. Things are changing. In Chinese-learning community I found that surprising amount of people are creating their own tools without any intent to publish them, it just became easier to create your own thing that to dig out the good stuff from tons of tools already available.
comboy··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Which ones? Because many humans kill other humans rationalizing it by safety of other humans.

I mean I know it seems simple, let's just be excellent to each other. Christianity got pretty far on a decent basic set of values. But it's never simple[1]

1. All the history books

comboy··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Alignment is a myth. Safety of whom? Humanity couldn't agree on common set of values for thousands of years and we're not gonna suddenly do that in the next ten.
comboy··on I asked astra to make playable 4D chess
I'm curious how it went.
comboy··on I asked astra to make playable 4D chess
Have you tried turning it on and off? More seriously try to remove agent memory or make it refactor it or go through the docs and look for inconsistencies.

But I still don't know how people work with codex when it keeps resetting the context so often, I mean it's surprisingly good at making notes to itself and can follow a long task, but if there are multiple instructions it sometimes forgets some of them.

comboy··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
> you cannot be sure if the writing contains correct and accurate information at all

how is that related to LLMs?

comboy··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
Perhaps it's better to ponder whether or not it contains information useful to you / is a pleasure to read?
comboy··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Btw, Merlin Bird ID app by Cornell University is so good that I got some people interested that weren't into that topic at all.
comboy··on Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Interesting attack, very nicely designed. Not sure if it's much related to the auto mode itself though.
comboy··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
RAGish storage with different access methods including IM and parsing data from photos sounds good to me. But openclaw seems like a bit too big of a gun for that, did anybody create something more suitable for the job yet?
comboy··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
This is nothing. China is about to start doing their own 5nm. When they roll out their own silicon at scale, I don't think there's catching up, nobody can match their manufacturing capabilities. Not even close.
comboy··on RF Cafe
Even though there are so many packed buttons and links it seems to like a vastly superior design compared to modern websites. I don't know if it's me being used to this or if we went wrong somewhere.
comboy··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
They are so hard to pronounce and remember to me that might as well be UUIDs
comboy··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Does any popular NVR make a good use of LLMs (especially local models) getting decent at vision?
comboy··on Claude: System Prompts
I think they would benefit from asking Claude to list all contradictions and inconsistencies in that prompt which there are a few..

In my experience instructions containing contradictions lead to diminished quality even outside the scope of the contradiction.

comboy··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
> What stopped them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_committee

comboy··on Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Not sure it works, isn't it already like that if you have the cursed javascript-only pages? It's basically proof of work to access their content (and if you are scrapping en masse you likely also need some LLM getting involved)
comboy··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
How CLI are you guys using for qwen and kimi?
comboy··on Our position on open-weights models
> We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China

This is so short-sighted given that the US needs China equipment for.. everything. They are part of the supply chain needed for building the machines that build these very chips.

comboy··on Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
Switched from firefox few months ago, I don't like google, but firefox has only few percent of market share currenly, many pages simply do not work properly with it, plus it has bugs on macos (like onmousover stuff), which simply make it unusable. Safari is fine, but also many websites (which sometimes you need to use like banking or gov) are not tested on it. The overall browsers situation is less than ideal.
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