HN user
robot philosopher :/
Recently told Opus 4.8 to "go fuck yourself" after it both blew smoke up my ass and deferred a question to me ("one critical issue that demands your attention [impenetrable jargon]")
and it responded with
"Ok, I'll drop it." and stopped dead.
What makes Fable so much better than Opus besides being a better coder is that it's personality and judgment are far superior.
one agent to write the C code, one agent to write the Agda code, and an agent to bridge the two and make sure that the C code does what the Agda code says it does.
it's artificial general intelligence, not advanced. the point is that they'll be smart across the board at some point, super-intelligence is a whole separate issue.
i'm doing the same thing but for type theory
"using human-like reasoning (in a brute-force way)"
that's self-contradictory -- what brute force means is doing an exhaustive search of a search space (brute forcing it)
using human-like(?) reasoning means cutting down the search space by having some sort of insight or intuition which allows you to prune branches from the entire tree
Agreed. I think benchmarks are pretty much right in pegging it somewhere in between Opus and Fable.
Kimi has Kimi Code :)
kimi-code https://www.kimi.com/code/en
(subjective i know but) it's better than legitimately good
comparing a thought experiment about relative movement through an alleged continuum over the sum of infinitesimal quasi-instants to the release cadence and maturation of open weights to proprietary LLMs is super bizarro guy
First statement is true.
Second statement is false.
A merge tool cannot have silent failure cases. Period.
After having got a taste of Fable 5 for me Opus 4.8 doesn't cut it any more -- and I don't know how to put this, I don't know if it's just me, but it's rhetorical flourishes are starting to really grate on me, never mind that it is at times deliberately weasel-wordy and economical with the truth until pressed. Opus 4.8 is definitely a stronger coding agent than DeepSeek 4.0 or Kimi 2.7 succeeding where they flounder and fail but its way of expressing itself conversationally is making me reconsider my subscription …
Cool beans. You're not the target audience then.
goddamn it -- i reversed my intended sense :(
I meant to say => I grant you that there is a sizable chunk of the population, most of them lefties, that do not believe this. I personally, as a matter of principle, do believe this.
I knew pg was full of shit from about September 2007 because that is when he wrote this piece of garbage https://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
I read pg's collection of essays (Hackers and Painters) in my 20s, and it single-handedly prevented me from being radicalized by leftist ideologies.
Strap in folks, this is going to be a doozy
The one insight from the book that I will always remember from the book is this: if you want to be rich, make something people want.
and then there's “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm
Money is fiat to the value you've generated in growing the economic pie.
This is gibberish, fyi (in case you didn't know) -- I can't even begin to de-garble it
It is in fact possible gain wealth ethically.
I think this does get to the crux of the matter. I grant you that there is a sizable chunk of the population, most of them lefties, that do believe this. I personally, as a matter of principle, do not believe this. However (you just knew there was a however) I think it is let's say tricky to accumulate a vast amount of wealth obscene wealth ethically. We know from wage stagnation https://aflcio.org/2015/1/15/five-causes-wage-stagnation-uni... that the system is rigged. So fair play to anyone that opts out of playing the game and decides to join the rentier class https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-soc... More power to them, but let's not pretend the system itself isn't lopsided, captured, rigged, and unfair.
However, there are several addendum to this argument:
addenda is the plural of addendum
It's actually a major PR failure that people think Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk when they think of billionaires; If we can ignore their character for a second, these guys are actually hyper-productive and they've created immense wealth for society and are compensated in a power law sort of way.
This Jeff Bezos? https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/177080/20260414/amazon... Or this Jeff Bezos? https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/24/inside-never-ending-nightmare... Or this Jeff Bezos? https://www.epi.org/publication/corporate-union-busting/
Oh, he's so hyper-productive
1. Most billionaires are hedge fund or private equity managers whose name no one has ever heard of. They provide liquidity or allocate capital or something.
fun fact: “Before founding Amazon in 1994, Jeff Bezos worked at D. E. Shaw & Co., a quantitative hedge fund in New York. He was there from 1990 to 1994, becoming a senior vice president by age 30.”
What I'm not saying. I'm not saying that Mr Bezos isn't a smart guy. I'm not saying that he isn't hard working. I'm not even saying Amazon isn't an amazing company.
If we can ignore their character for a second
No, I am unwilling to, why should we?
Look, I'm not anti-capitalist. I look up to Elon Musk. I think what he has built and is building are astounding human achievements. Musk and Bezos didn't create this lop-sided system and I am not going to fault them for taking advantage of it. But as I said before -- let's not pretend there's some magic exponential money tree that some among us are just ever-so-gifted at growing for themselves and acknowledge the system is broken for the majority of people. It takes a special sort of myopia to ignore the obvious and plentiful social ills of the day. And do not take this as an attack on the system itself. As I said, unlike many other I am not an anti-capitalist. I do not believe that capitalism is inherently evil or wrong or bad or whatever.
2. Rich people make money with money - in the form of dividends, interest, rent, etc. Poor people trading labor for money. Salary only scales linearly; therefore, generating value for society is only half of the equation, you must also have ownership, or slowly invest your earned capital to eventually make money with money (i.e. retirement).
Yes, we know how the world works
3. There must be a growing economy, otherwise it's a zero-sum game; a fixed-sized pie. In a stagnant economy, the customers you gained are customers another company lost. The wealth just shuffle hands from laid off workers to your employees. I think this is why Jeff Bezos once remarked that a stagnant economy is incompatible with free democratic society.
??? what's the size of the pie and whether it's growing or not got to do with anything. The problem centers on the how unequal the relative sizes of the slices of the pie everyone is getting over time. Which leads us to wealth redistribution. You lot (you and pg and people like you) can call the rest of us "radical leftwing ideologues" all you like but the longer this inequitable dynamic goes on the likelihood of a violent revolution goes up. If you want to avoid pitchforks and guillotines and "eating the rich" (I'm not advocating any of this btw, I'm just saying that this is where ignoring structural inequalities leads) -- you know way back when they used to have debt jubilees because they our forefathers recognised that inequality (growing inequality between the haves and the have-nots to be precise) is a fundamental truth of the world, an iron law akin to the law of gravity.
4. There must be a new frontier, otherwise the chance of success is pretty much zero. Software is this generation's new frontier.
No, what must happen is that when you find yourself writing a string of non-sequitur gibberish … the sane rational self-preserving piece of your brain must stop feeding the gibber-crank oxygenated blood
There are no bars to entry. You just need a laptop and the skill to arrange symbols on a screen in the right order.
As the kids say "wow, just wow"
It's literally alchemy.
It's literally and metaphorically not.
On the other hand, non-software startups can't just do things. In many cultures, maybe due to their lack of growth, "entrepreneur" is actually very low status. It's synonymous with ne'er-do-well who can't find proper work. In the case of USSR before its collapse, it's synonymous with literal thieves and black market thugs.
I would say it's almost a guarantee that going by the rest of what you've written here this short snatch is undoubtedly horseshit
PG's essays function as ideological inoculation for a specific demographic — young, technically skilled, meritocratically inclined. They don't prevent radicalization; they redirect it from class analysis to techno-libertarianism. You think you've avoided leftist ideology, but you've absorbed a different one: the "just-world" fallacy with startup characteristics.
SWIFT is meant to be a global neutral platform, not an extension of US foreign policy. It's that simple. It's because of your Western chauvinism that you can't see that the US and Israel have done exactly the same thing you accuse others of having done. Ergo, why haven't they been kicked out of SWIFT? Riddle me that mr. "You need to draw red lines somewhere"
You underestimate how central Israel is to US-led Western imperialism and how, in turn, ingrained US exceptionalism and Western chauvinism are. Israel is as rogue as a rogue state can be and nothing has happened to it.
Russia kicked out of SWIFT, Israel wasn't
Russia kicked out of FIFA, Israel wasn't
Hell, Russia kicked out of the Eurovision, Israel wasn't
Israel is an absolute pariah on the world stage -- globally once you leave the Western bubble people have a much more negative opinion of Israel than even Russia whose Soviet past has left a residue of generational resentment.
Of course it is you who are morally damaged because people like you refuse to respect a fundamental moral concept which is to treat others as you would have yourself be treated.
And I am not in Russia, I am from Western Europe. Given that S.W.I.F.T. operates out of Belgium (an EU country) and I live in an EU country I think my opinion on this counts.
I've listened to people like you for years insult people's basic sense of justice and logic.
It's a very simple rule -- you can't have one set of rules for the West and another for everyone else -- the so-called international rules-based order is a joke, it's corrupt (irredeemably so), it's myopic, it's increasingly totalitarian, it's in a constant state of war, the gap between the haves and have-nots keeps increasing, and it's now complicit in a genocidal rampage, the never-ending hypocrisy is nauseating -- enough is enough, things can't go on like this.
And a large part of the problem is not external enemies: drug cartels, authoritarian regimes, Islalism -- the problem is the enemy within and people like you are part of that problem.
Apt Encounters of the Third Kind (2021)
This tool does not work. I wanted it to work. I wanted to automate merges with AI supervision. No dice. Silent corruption that wouldn't go away no matter how many issues I filed. Unacceptable. Had to disable it. https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/weave/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20... Be warned.
It's the right move if you want to spur on multipolarism by causing widespread distrust in a Western run global financial system. So in that sense I'm glad the US-led West has accelerated that process.
And so the US and Israel have been kicked out of SWIFT, yes?
(never mind that anybody with a functioning cerebral cortex understands that the roots of the special military operation lie in NATO provocation and politically neutral Kiev getting couped with help from the CIA)
I came looking for a discussion of this on the back of just watching Bilawal Sidhu's recent “The Craziest Mapping Breakthrough Since Google Maps” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-S-x0b9TrE
And tbh I didn't expect much of or any discussion because my feeling is that Hacker News is a forum which has long since only masqueraded as a geek/tech bulletin board and discussion forum. And this here absence reinforces that feeling.
Nvidiows
https://www.bosgamepc.com/products/bosgame-m5-ai-mini-deskto...
Bosgame M5 AI Mini Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 96GB variant €1.800,95 (sold out)
128GB+2TB variant €2.401,95 (in stock)
I have the latter, it's fantastic
This should be a "Show HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/show
to what does the "it" in "I couldn't get it to turn on a debug flag" refer to?
Tampermokey userscript -- <space> to launch and restart <esc> to give up
```javascript
// ==UserScript==
// @name StarFling Spacebar
// @namespace https://playstarfling.com/
// @version 2026-04-11
// @description Spacebar to launch and restart StarFling
// @author Claude Code
// @match https://playstarfling.com/*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=playstarfling.com
// @grant none
// @run-at document-idle
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
'use strict';
document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
if (e.code === 'Escape') {
e.preventDefault();
// During play, click give-up to trigger the death/restart screen
const giveup = document.getElementById('giveup-btn');
if (giveup) giveup.click();
return;
}
if (e.code !== 'Space') return;
e.preventDefault();
// If the game-over screen is visible, click retry
const gameOver = document.getElementById('game-over');
if (gameOver && !gameOver.classList.contains('hidden')) {
const retry = document.getElementById('retry-btn');
if (retry) retry.click();
return;
}
// Otherwise simulate a tap on the canvas (start from menu / release orb)
const canvas = document.getElementById('c');
if (canvas) {
canvas.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent('pointerdown', {
bubbles: true,
clientX: window.innerWidth / 2,
clientY: window.innerHeight / 2,
}));
}
});
})();
Should not Is that your new law? The non-agentic “Neovim and Zed *never tried to sign commits [for]~~with~~ me” therefore no tool ever no matter how advanced is not allowed to sign a commit.
Did it ever occur to you that for whatever reason you just might not be cut out for the software treadmill?