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xkbarkar commented on Claude Opus 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
xkbarkar · a month ago
This is great. Sonnet 4.5 has degraded terribly.

I can get some useful stuff from a clean context in the web ui but the cli is just useless.

Opus is far superiour.

Today sonnet 4.5 suggested to verify remote state file presence by creating an empty one locally and copy it to the remote backend. Da fuq? University level programmer my a$$.

And it seems like it has degraded this last month.

I keep getting braindead suggestions and code that looks like it came from a random word generator.

I swear it was not that awful a couple of months ago.

Opus cap has been an issue, happy to change and I really hope the nerf rumours are just that. Undounded rumours and the defradation has a valid root cause

But honestly sonnet 4.5 has started to act like a smoking pile of sh**t

xkbarkar commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model   book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
xkbarkar · a month ago
Have nothing to add that hasn’t already been commented. Like the entries in the add list stay. Other than that, my recommendation list keeps coming up with books I have already read and loved and I am hitting the limit :(.

So filtering would be great,

I have seen a few versions of the same books listed more than once.

Loved this. Hope you get to tune it a little.

Also, thank you for not ruining the site with a single popup, email subscription list offer, chatbot, wheelspin from hell anywhere.

Blessings from the popup hating part of the interwebs.

xkbarkar commented on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly   techcrunch.com/2025/10/27... · Posted by u/jnord
testdelacc1 · 2 months ago
Reddit is a really good example of this because it used to be a feed of what you selected yourself. But they couldn’t juice the metrics that way, so they started pushing algorithmic suggestions. And boy, do those get me riled up. It works like a charm, because I spend more time on these threads, defending what seems like common sense.

But at the end I don’t feel a sense of joy like I used to with the old Reddit. Now it feels like a disgusting cesspool that keeps drawing me back with its toxicity.

Edit: this is a skill issue. It’s possible to disable algorithmic suggestions in settings. I’ve done that just now.

xkbarkar · 2 months ago
Death threats are fairly common on reddit.

Reddit is beoynd toxic, its bordering on violent extremism

xkbarkar commented on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code   prahladyeri.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/pyeri
xkbarkar · 2 months ago
As a response to the AI negativity in the thread. Remember that this thing is in its infancy.

Current models are the embryos of what is to come.

Code quality of the current models is not replacing skilled software engineers, network or ops engineers.

Tomorrows models may well do that though.

Venting the frustrations of this is all very well but I sincerely hope those who wish to stay in the industry, learn to get ahead of AI and utilize and control it.

Set industry standards (now) and fight technically incompetent lawmakers before they steer us into disaster.

We have no idea what the effect of tomorrows LLMs is going to have, autonomous warfare is not that far away eg.

All while todays tech talent spends energy bickering on HN about the loss of being the code review King.

Everyone hated the code review royalty anyway. No one mourns them. Move on.

xkbarkar commented on Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders   github.com/ludo-technolog... · Posted by u/d-yoda
scuff3d · 2 months ago
Given an entire industry is cropping up to fix the mess these people make, I think less of them care then you think.
xkbarkar · 2 months ago
Hard disagree. Vibe code has its downsides but is not nearly as terrible as threatened coders on the forums make it seem.
xkbarkar commented on EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies   washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/geox
estebarb · 3 months ago
Conservative people tend to protect their believes, no matter how wrong they are based on new evidence. Humanity has many examples of this happening through millennia, it is widely documented...
xkbarkar · 3 months ago
right and so do libertans ,communists and socialists. Hanging on to false ideologies, no matter how disastrous, is not exclusive to right leaning its a human trait.
xkbarkar commented on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out   gavi.org/vaccineswork/den... · Posted by u/slu
pm90 · 3 months ago
If you're living in the US: please consider getting the vaccine, ragardless of your age. It was covered by my (rather shitty) health insurance. It consists of just 2 (EDIT: 3 for adults!) doses. It is recommended for both Males and Females.
xkbarkar · 3 months ago
In Denmark its not recommended for women over a certain age.

So please don’t get it regardless of age. Its not really considered effective for women who have been sexually active for some time.

Which is why its only recommended for girls, not women.

https://www.ssi.dk/vaccinationer/boernevaccination/vaccinati....

Tldr; Dont rush to get a vaccine that is probably not effective for you. Make an appointment with your doctor and discuss it with her first.

xkbarkar commented on Amish men live longer   plainanabaptistjournal.or... · Posted by u/johntfella
paulnpace · 3 months ago
I'm surprised. Amish are known for drinking raw milk and making raw dairy, which is all basically pure poison.
xkbarkar · 3 months ago
One of the few times I have used the downvote button in Hn for a comment.

Its not a huge effort to at least try to add some source with such a claim, besides the comment does not even bring anything of value to the discussion.

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xkbarkar commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy   weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher
xkbarkar · 3 months ago
You know what, let’s turn popular city parks to windmill and solarparks. NY central park for example. Copenhagen has a few beloved open green places we could clean out and replace with solarcells, so does Berlin.

Im unscientifically guessing support for nc energy would rise very quickly and wed have a whole bunch of them within a decade.

Source, I live near a windmill, they are loud as f*k. I drive by solaparks nearly every day.

They remind me of those horrible deforested areas in Sweden called kalhygge. Nothing green about those atrocities.

u/xkbarkar

KarmaCake day837September 11, 2019View Original