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kylehotchkiss commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
ck_one · 2 days ago
Just tested the new Opus 4.6 (1M context) on a fun needle-in-a-haystack challenge: finding every spell in all Harry Potter books.

All 7 books come to ~1.75M tokens, so they don't quite fit yet. (At this rate of progress, mid-April should do it ) For now you can fit the first 4 books (~733K tokens).

Results: Opus 4.6 found 49 out of 50 officially documented spells across those 4 books. The only miss was "Slugulus Eructo" (a vomiting spell).

Freaking impressive!

kylehotchkiss · a day ago
I love the fun metric.

My hope is that locally run models can pass this test in the next year or two!

kylehotchkiss commented on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?   eljojo.github.io/rememory... · Posted by u/eljojo
maurycyz · a day ago
This. A physical safe provides something that you can't do digitally: It's hard, but not impossible to get in without credentials.

On the internet, it's either: Public for anyone in the whole world, or impossible to recover if anything goes wrong.

kylehotchkiss · a day ago
I've broken into Physical Safes using nothing more than a drill with a half inch bit (I was young and didn't want to drag myself to harbor freight to sacrifice a more suitable tool). Enough boreholes and I had access.

In hindsight, looking harder for the key would probably have been fruitful.

kylehotchkiss commented on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases   nytimes.com/2026/02/05/bu... · Posted by u/buellerbueller
pacificmint · a day ago
I mean, it’s not quite that simple, is it? Did they do everything they could to make drivers and passengers safe? Or did they put profits over people’s safety?

From the article:

> internal company documents […] showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up. Uber never warned her […]

Uber actually had a whole project that produced systems that determine the risk of incidents happening. Could they make rides safer but chose not to? That’s at the core of these lawsuits.

kylehotchkiss · a day ago
Oof, this sounds like a case where executives/management who knew about this tool and didn't act upon it should be charged with accessory-to-crime. There has got to be a moral imperative to act upon tools like this.
kylehotchkiss commented on The Waymo World Model   waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx
PeterStuer · a day ago
Imagine driving in a Waymo 'out of a raging fire'.

Talk about edge cases.

But, what would you do? Trust the Waymo, or get out (or never get in) at the first sign of trouble?

kylehotchkiss · a day ago
I can! If the Waymo got you into one on the way home because Google didn’t integrate with watch duty yet, that’s plausible
kylehotchkiss commented on The Waymo World Model   waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx
mgaunard · a day ago
Still needs to be trained on the final boss: dense cities with narrow streets.
kylehotchkiss · a day ago
Old Delhi is the the final boss.
kylehotchkiss commented on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions   code.claude.com/docs/en/a... · Posted by u/davidbarker
Sol- · 2 days ago
With stuff like this, might be that all the infra build-out is insufficient. Inference demand will go up like crazy.
kylehotchkiss · 2 days ago
It'd be nice if CC could figure out all the required permissions upfront and then let you queue the job to run overnight
kylehotchkiss commented on Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future   garryslist.org/posts/stan... · Posted by u/gmays
the_real_cher · 3 days ago
These are good questions.

You have found three outliers out of 193 countries.

It still really doesn't disprove the theory that 100% of white western civilization founded countries have people trying to immigrate to them whereas outside of a tiny handful the rest of the countries have zero immigration problems.

All of these countries need to be studied for what behaviors and cultures create high trust first world style societies.

kylehotchkiss · 3 days ago
Albania (1.7% immigrant), Bosnia (1.1%), Moldova (2.6%), Poland(3.6%), Slovakia(3.6%).

Additionally, I wouldn't consider UK to be "high trust" these days either. I don't blame that on immigration, but economic contraction.

I can't tell if you're serious or just saber rattling. I know better than to engage with this type of stuff on Reddit, but I like to think people in the HN space are more methodical than this.

kylehotchkiss commented on I miss thinking hard   jernesto.com/articles/thi... · Posted by u/jernestomg
kylehotchkiss · 3 days ago
Then work on hard problems in your free time. I've found myself clinging onto some fun ones after work lately, and I'm having fun building things in the weekends/evenings lately!
kylehotchkiss commented on Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future   garryslist.org/posts/stan... · Posted by u/gmays
kylehotchkiss · 3 days ago
I agree the US is trending towards third-world mentalities. Statistics aren't good. >50% of Americans now see homeownership as out of reach. Studies keep cropping up stating at 30-40% of young Americans will never marry. Never mind that many people need to pass 5-10 rounds of interviews to get a junior level role.

This all seems to stem from one demographics greed or another. Our parents generation and suppressing housing builds. The corporations using monopolies of dating applications which at this point seem to be suppressing relationship formulation more than increasing it. The political classes using tariffs for unclear purposes to shrink our economy.

https://www.equimundo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/State-o...

kylehotchkiss commented on Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future   garryslist.org/posts/stan... · Posted by u/gmays
kylehotchkiss · 3 days ago
> So according to the theory there will be an inverse correlation between high trust society and the presence of white people.

How do you explain Singapore? South Korea? Japan?

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