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ghostpepper··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Any time someone shows me something an agent did, the first question I ask is whether there's plausibly something comparable already in its training data.
ghostpepper··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
OpenAI has 5 hour limits on the $20 plan. I agree about cybersecurity refusals though.
ghostpepper··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Or the industry standard will change
ghostpepper··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
It reminds me of when people will use filler words because they haven't actually decided what thesis they're going to commit to yet. Just-in-time thinking.
ghostpepper··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
One thing they could try eating is glue on their pizza, helps the cheese stick to the toppings
ghostpepper··on Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
They don't generate keyword search queries very well. They can overcome this by brute force but if you watch what they search you will cringe.

nhl toronto scores nhl hockey toronto scores "nhl hockey" toronto score today nhl "hockey score toronto" "hockey" who won toronto

etc.

Somehow being good at semantic search makes them bad at keyword search, for whatever reason.

ghostpepper··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
it's not just you, there is research that people are starting to talk more like chatGPT. you have a gift for parody though.
ghostpepper··on Stop Making TUIs
Your argument in favour of TUIs is that they can be, in fact, not TUIs and actually CLIs
ghostpepper··on Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help
why is that staggering? I think we're at a point now where the use of AI is not really much of a quality signal in either direction
ghostpepper··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
Did not read the paper so apologies if this is covered but isn't it possible that there is some recognizable semantic pattern in the training data where an "aha" is often followed by a subtle semantic shift that proves closer to the original premise in some critical way, and by emitting the "aha" token the model causes itself to produce such a subtle semantic shift that pushes the subsequent reasoning closer to the desired response?
ghostpepper··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
They finally killed the `old.reddit.com` subdomain for logged-out users this week, which was the final push I needed to stop even idly browsing. I've been using the site since at least the digg exodus in 2010.
ghostpepper··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
in my experience, gemini is easily the most grating, condescending, stereotypical LLM voice between opus/fable, codex-5.6, glm-5.2, etc
ghostpepper··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
I believe this is also why 911 doesn't show up in iOS/Android call logs
ghostpepper··on GPT-5.6
I guess this is a command in the GUI app? I still don't see it in the latest official codex CLI app (0.144 I think)
ghostpepper··on GPT-5.6
maybe I'm misunderstanding but I don't want to sign into the app on a mac - I want to run the CLI on a headless linux server and control the sessions from my iPhone. Does Codex allow that now?
ghostpepper··on GPT-5.6
I am curious about the claim that the subscription models are different. Has anyone benchmarked this?
ghostpepper··on GPT-5.6
I have used claude and codex extensively but only from their CLI app (heavily sandboxed using rootless podman, network filtering, etc), so I don't really know what I'm missing with the GUI apps.

One killer feature that Claude has, and AFAIK Codex still lacks, is the ability to start a session in the terminal and then hand it off (actually just remotely control it), from the iOS app.

Last time I tried Codex on iOS it required a ton of set up to link a github project etc. The way claude lets me remote into a session I've already started on my actual machine is much better IMHO.

ghostpepper··on Please stop the AI confidence theater
This is also the dichotomy I'm seeing. This meme sums it up https://fixupx.com/danhockenmaier/status/2021617680525172840

I like to imagine a similar dynamic happening when previous transformative technologies were invented: when the power tools like the chainsaw were invented, I wonder if there was a cohort of carpenters that dismissed them because of how much damage they could do in unskilled hands.

ghostpepper··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
what I was taught (and what still works for me) is to look out the front window, never the sides, and pick a as far away (ideally on the horizon) to focus on.

the theory being, at constant velocity in a straight line, your body feels at rest, so you want to look somewhere that reinforces that. looking out the side window has scenery rushing past, which is the opposite.

turning sideways and reading sounds like a nightmare.

ghostpepper··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I am a big fan of computer science education for kids that uses a light touch, or even completely offline - things like Computer Engineering for Babies, Turing Tumble, or any game that introduces basic concepts with intuition as opposed to showing the final product of decades of abstraction.
ghostpepper··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I'd love to hear more about the STEM week one, if there's anything online you can share. What's the target age range?
ghostpepper··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
which quants of 3.5 vs 3.6 did you compare? I guess you're saying that whatever quant you were using, going one lower was worse? ie. 3.5 Q6_K at 22.5GB versus 3.5 Q6_K at 22.9GB?
ghostpepper··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Supporting everything forever is how you end up with Windows
ghostpepper··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
would it blow your mind if I told you there are already idiosyncrasies in the way you write? not you specifically; everyone has them
ghostpepper··on Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
I agree it's not immediately clear how it works, although I think I understand the role it's intending to fill.

If you're not familiar with the distinction between git and github it could be even more confusing.

As soon as I hear decentralized I have lots of questions about the underlying protocols. Their protocol page helps a little but also uses terms I'm not familiar with like "gossip protocol".

It would be nice for there to be a page that motivates the project a bit more, ie. explaining the technical problems they are attempting to solve before enumerating the components of the complex system they've built.

ghostpepper··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
A lot of the distrust toward Bambu is because they originally announced cloud auth would be required even for printing locally in LAN mode, and only backpedalled on that when they saw the backlash.

I'm not sure why their entire domain has been excluded from archive.org but you can still see the original post for now: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...

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Critical Operations That Require Authorization The following printer operations will require authorization controls:

Binding and unbinding the printer. Initiating remote video access. Performing firmware upgrades. Initiating a print job (via LAN or cloud mode). Controlling motion system, temperature, fans, AMS settings, calibrations, etc.

ghostpepper··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
This is how it's used in Canada too
ghostpepper··on StarFighter 16-Inch
They claim it has a haptic trackpad, so I don't think that's what most manufacturers use.
ghostpepper··on Work with the garage door up (2024)
It was called Twitter for 17 years before being renamed in 2023. The Twitter domain still redirects to roughly the same site it was for all those years.

Why does it matter if someone still calls it Twitter?

ghostpepper··on Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks
the rest of it makes sense but what's the PLC for?
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