tezza's comments

On: Claude Fable 5

[tezza]

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 animation. You can clearly see Fable is much improved on both Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5.

Better Textures . A nifty camera follow . Humans rendered better . ... see for yourselves

On: Side by side videos of Claude Fable vs. Opus 4.8 vs. ChatGPT 5.5

[tezza]

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 run right in your browser.

On: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

[tezza]

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 leonardo crossed with hockney.

it almost gave you art sickness

On: London's Smallest Public Sculptures

[tezza]

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 intricate mechanical entertainments. Some are tiny.

[mr_toad → tezza]

> The John Snow pump

Usually called the broad street pump if you’re trying to find it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...

On: ChatGPT Images 2.0

[tezza]

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.

gpt-image-2 has a lot more action, especially in the Apple Cart images.

On: Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

[tezza]

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

2013: https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-britannica-dvd-2013

On: Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war

[tezza]

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 horse

On: JVM Options Explorer

[tezza]

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, some not

On: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

[tezza]

> 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 video game art.

On: Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC

[tezza]

They were Thunderstruck?