Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — tezza

tezza

HN member
Joined
Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 3:54 PM UTC
HN karma
1,834
Public activity
674 items

About tezza

PM: hackernews (at) terrylurie DOT com

In spare time I make:

- https://epicwin.team - browser video games. Remote Teams and Solo

- https://generative-ai.review - Reviewing AI tools from a professional angle

- LLM London organiser

Based in London. Light inventor on the side of a regular day job

Any opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49059123

    Even well meaning bodies like TFL (Transport for London) have cookie warnings that impede the actual access of the website. Need to look up a bus time? Full screen cookie consent w…

  2. comment
    Comment #49039602

    I would add that Brazil (1985) foretold this 41 years ago. The civil servants are addicted to their personal TV and only pause watching it compulsively when the boss comes around. …

  3. comment
    Comment #48951023

    Yes, I see your point. Your pelican output is thus both in the training set and yet still outside the capability of the model architecture. And so you are tracking both the capabil…

  4. comment
    Comment #48941738

    Nice qualitative test! Just like you I am super impressed by Kimi K3. I do a qualitative benchmark series making 3D explainers and so here's Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable: https://genera…

  5. comment
    Comment #48869762

    well i’ve come across it loads, especially 1/2) during REPL style build outs and 2/2) calling libraries and frameworks you are not yet familiar with. perl another offender… is it a…

  6. comment
    Comment #48853229

    Absolutely, the change in quality over time is a great yardstick. Nice to see you did the quality level comparisons and did three passes. I've been using that technique myself on m…

  7. comment
    Comment #48637287

    I've just put GLM 5.2 through my __qualitative__ benchmark. I was quick enough to capture Claude Fable, so now you can compare GLM5.2 vs Claude Fable vs Opus 4.8 vs Chat GPT 5.5 ht…

  8. comment
    Comment #48473109

    There are benchmarks if you want quantitative results. Mine is qualitative, and clearly billed as such. Comparison and contrast still possible.

  9. comment
    Comment #48472707

    check the backlinks[1][2] in the article before you start throwing around accusations. I am not (yet) a person that has advanced notice and access to models. Fable just got announc…

  10. comment
    Comment #48472435

    [flagged]

  11. comment
    Comment #48469405

    I did a qualitative side-by-side of Claude Fable vs Opus 4.8 vs ChatGPT 5.5 https://generative-ai.review/2026/06/claude-fable-rush-test-... I get them to make a 3D explainer animat…

  12. comment
    Comment #48469308

    I did a rush review of Claude Fable in my benchmark test and compared it to Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5. Side by side videos to compare and contrast. The 3D viewers are also available…

  13. story
  14. comment
    Comment #48418509

    MidJourney public discord channel. The amount of masterpiece level art flowing per hour was astounding. For every one doing a ninja waifu, there were ten doing art from davinci and…

  15. comment
    Comment #48141442

    The John Snow Pump… where they sealed it up to stop Cholera is very small. Also Novelty Automation (WC1R 4AX) is a tiny interactive museum/wharf end arcade which has some very intr…

  16. comment
    Comment #47860213

    I've rushed out my standardised quality check images for gpt-image-2: https://generative-ai.review/2026/04/rush-openai-gpt-image-2... I've done a series over all the OpenAI models.…

  17. comment
    Comment #47852360

    2004: https://archive.org/details/britannica-2004 2009: https://archive.org/details/britannica-multimedia-dvd-2009-d... 2012: https://archive.org/details/britannica-dvd_20230709 20…

  18. comment
    Comment #47819919

    Wait until they find out how many people place perfectly timed horse racing bets on the winning horse, JUST before the start of the race. 100% of them knew to back the winning hors…

  19. comment
    Comment #47738457

    How is this different to system tuning parameters in Linux /proc, FreeBsd, Windows Registry, Firefox about:config, sockopt, ioctl, postgres? Zillions of options. Some important, so…

  20. comment
    Comment #47542048

    > take part of the color space and map it uniformly to a different part of the color space fyi Affinity Photo has recolor and hue filters that will do just that. I used it for my v…

  21. comment
    Comment #47522122

    They were Thunderstruck?

  22. comment
    Comment #47464763

    when you make a program that has a random seed, many LLMs choose 42 as the seed value rather than zero. A nice nod to Hitchhikers’

  23. comment
    Comment #47229388

    My latest game BossBattle[1] (html5, have a play) uses AI for graphics, some strobe effects, a C64 loading screen shader. I have decided to lean in to it and I will document all th…

  24. comment
    Comment #47214837

    I put a link to the LLM session at the end of the commit, and prefix with POH: if I wrote it by hand. POH = Plain Old Human Easy to achieve. Why NOT include a link back? Why depriv…

  25. comment
    Comment #47058838

    Terminals are text. Text adds features missing from gui namely: * Ad Hoc requirements change and terminal gives ultimate empty workbench flexibility. awesome for tasks you never ne…