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cousinbryce··on Grok 4.5
It’s the #1 model for creating CSAM
cousinbryce··on Claude Sonnet 5
Sam Allan has said some things that would make Lenin blush
cousinbryce··on The Coming Enshittification of AI
That’s only one away from being a classic tech duopoly
cousinbryce··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
Why not point your clanker at this and ask for it as a blog post?
cousinbryce··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
Here’s a very short list of visual essays I like:

https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

This one is good but the content doesn’t speak to me like the above. Would have been nice if OP had added a writing style suggestion to the prompt. Vanilla LLM text is sad

cousinbryce··on A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf]
Naïve question: could you grease the helmets?
cousinbryce··on Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Sorry, you need to sign up for HN+ if you don’t want to be downvoted when pointing out the obvious enshittification that will occur with LLMs
cousinbryce··on Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center
Arguably Amazon is worse since they added AI
cousinbryce··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
World bank says there are 3.7B employed humans. Putting the total addressable market at around 67T if all of us spend USD 1.5k on tokens every month. This lines up well with current forecasts from the major AI labs
cousinbryce··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
It’s in the training data!
cousinbryce··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
I would guess they are trying to maximize training data
cousinbryce··on Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
Disco Ball Earth
cousinbryce··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
I pay to listen to songs. Do I own them?
cousinbryce··on ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
The fact that there’s more than one copy of TWINSCAN EXE 5k seems important
cousinbryce··on Claude Opus 4.7
Possibly due to moving compute from inference to training
cousinbryce··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
Automating requests to every municipality sure would be fun
cousinbryce··on Am I German or Autistic?
Feature request: a worldle style share button. E.g. 42%(DE emoji) 20%(Puzzle emoji)

Update: I scrolled down. Your share button is pretty good!

cousinbryce··on If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now
True, but that leads to even less demand for the oversupply of chips
cousinbryce··on If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now
Anyone else expect prices to go down after the AI pop?
cousinbryce··on Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast
This is great. Showing only even hours would be less text, maybe as an option. As I’m looking at it to plan late night activities it shows this mornings forecast where I kind of expect tomorrow’s. Maybe make a continual S curve that can be scrolled by touch? Maybe less elegant, maybe more?
cousinbryce··on Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
They define the negative consequences for justice as “unequal distribution of harm, inaccessibility, and consumption of space, time, and resources” Which fits with my understanding.
cousinbryce··on Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
I’m convinced that the multitude of off-line Internet tools is a ploy to keep any one of them from gaining traction
cousinbryce··on The Brand Age
I think you’re right about the impetus for the piece. I’ll say that branding is for things consumed in public, I expect vendor lock in before branding. But as you know this site is awash in speculation about how the lack of differentiation will play out
cousinbryce··on Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
Temperature range and magnetic field are my first thoughts.
cousinbryce··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Way down on my list of projects to vibe code is tags for HN users. I.e `Elon Stan` , `smart about aeronautics` , `grumpy` , `reasonable` etc etc. I like reading different opinion but if I formed an opinion about a user id like to record that without using my brain
cousinbryce··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Pagerank
cousinbryce··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
I bet it’s good enough at VI already
cousinbryce··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
Unemployed artist still make art
cousinbryce··on Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash
You’re free to program in language with only one data type all you want!
cousinbryce··on Data centers in space makes no sense
You’re also located outside of any country that could regulate
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