HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

monkpit

1,327 karma · joined December 1, 2015

submissionscomments
monkpit··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
> Considering they put Opus 5 (High) at the same level as Fable 5 (Max), I don't trust it that much.

Have you used both? I’ve never experienced any seemingly greater level of intelligence from Fable 5 over Opus.

monkpit··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_leg_and_pelvic_girdl...

A bit more direct

monkpit··on Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
Depression
monkpit··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
That’s the implication with any of these mmo stories, really - they’re addictive by nature
monkpit··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Not OP, but dependency management, for one.
monkpit··on AI usage patterns in software teams
No, don’t be silly, they get ai to spy on you en masse instead. Nobody has to look at anything anymore for it to be actionable.
monkpit··on Two lines of Python that segfault the interpreter
> ET_ADD trusted the compiler, and PEP 749 quietly handed user code a way to break that trust

Sigh, and I quietly closed the article as it was quietly written by AI.

That’s not just lazy — that’s uninteresting. And it’s more uninteresting than you think.

monkpit··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
> If they all quit everybody else would be better off.

Look, I get where you’re going, but if you think about what would _actually_ happen, it would definitely be much worse if they suddenly had to rehire the majority of the force.

monkpit··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
It implies that these two should be directly related without acknowledging any other contributing factors.

It’s implying “overtime is a function of staffing, staffing went up so overtime should go down”.

What if the population went up? What if there’s more work for 1 person to do for whatever reason, like some new process? What if crime rates changed? What if traffic beats were more demanding due to new roads or whatever?

The rest of the data in the article is more damning and directly correlated to the point they’re trying to make.

This specific data point just raises more questions than answers and feels like they’re trying to dogpile instead of being journalists, and it would have made their case stronger if they left it out, imo.

monkpit··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
> […] even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime went up by almost 200%.

The data in this article is good, but this piece is really weak. They should have just left this blurb out.

monkpit··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
Would you put up with that at your own job? They’d just all quit and the problem would be worse than before.
monkpit··on Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
Seems to work! The UI for switching boxes is a little fiddly but it does work. Thanks!
monkpit··on Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
Ok! This is a killer feature / a must for me. I can use Claude code’s remote control, but I can’t do that across my multiple accounts. So having the ability to manage any and all sessions remotely is my goal with a tool like this, if it matches your goals I’d love to see it added. Thanks!
monkpit··on Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
I love this but I can’t figure out how to have my two computers have remote control sessions at once from a single phone browser session. Is it possible?
monkpit··on Claude: System Prompts
But what makes it crazy? If nobody told you it was 22k chars, and it gets the provider the results they want for their benchmark goals, why is it crazy?

The only observable side effect, as a user, is that the system does what you want more often than one without this prompt. Or, it stays more aligned with the provider’s guidelines. Or some combination of both.

If it was a 65k context window, then it might be a bigger deal. But it isn’t, so the comparison is moot.

monkpit··on Claude: System Prompts
Is there a reason a document could not be converted to vectors via embedding, and you’d have both?

EDIT: I see, the control vectors operate more directly upon the model, in a way embedding vectors don’t quite have access to.

monkpit··on Claude: System Prompts
What makes it crazy?
monkpit··on Claude: System Prompts
Performant could certainly mean “higher performing” and not “quicker”.
monkpit··on Claude: System Prompts
I’m sure you can use a warm chrome session over CDP no problem
monkpit··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Who is pretending?
monkpit··on Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC
why not in a readme
monkpit··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
What point are you trying to make, exactly?
monkpit··on U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
I still don’t get it, left and right are clearly LLMs so if right is a human then they’re a meat puppet. Wish them luck with their sandbox
monkpit··on U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Is this a joke? I don’t get it. Are you calling Rovo a DoE programmer?
monkpit··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Don’t use it? You don’t have to
monkpit··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
It’s not really possible with the way that the context works.
monkpit··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
I mean, yeah, consider a system that takes English questions and does nothing with them, it’s very secure. What’s your point? It doesn’t really refute what the commenter above you was saying.
monkpit··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
That would make the loss $48,000 ;)
monkpit··on Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
lmgtfy
monkpit··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
Left click?
← PreviousPage 2 of 25Next →