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drekipus··on The pivot
Genuine intelligence is kindness. But ai is recall and pattern recognition.

I generally sum it up as "ai doesn't have the human spirit" and ergo it will not have a moral compass

drekipus··on LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
The same way that you and I think up a word and what it might mean without being taught the concept.

Adverb + verb

drekipus··on PG: Free Press got bought by them to control US media, not for revenue growth
A year or 3 ago, it was a conspiracy theory to acknowledge this.

Thankfully I think the attitude is changing quite a bit and people are coming to realise that it's not good if all of our communications are controlled by a group of people with the same beliefs

drekipus··on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
Calling out Israeli conspiracy isn't Jew hating.

This is the whole issue. No one can question what Israel is doing for fear of anti semitimtism.

If everyone is "anti-semitic" then you allow real antisemitism to foster unabated.

drekipus··on Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign
would using some sort of GPL allow for that?
drekipus··on Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release
I've been working on a project that had a similar origin story, and gave up because it's so big.

I'm glad to see immich strive forward.

I wanted to change the "approach" of how I do photos:

* When I take a photo, it's usually in the moment.

* I want to have the option to "share" that photo directly to a certain album

* I'd want my wife / friends to be able to "share" the photo to those albums

Almost the same way that "frequent contacts" come up from WhatsApp.

Is this possible with the current app? This is what I wanted my app to do, and focus on being more "album" centric, rather than a big-black-hole of all photos I've ever taken..

I might even make my app, but use immich on the backend, and allow users to order a hardcopy / backup of their albums as part of the app.

drekipus··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
This is really cool, I'm interested in this as I'm also a chinese learner and I thought about doing sometihng kinda similar (just locally)

I like the UI, really cool project.

I think the prompting might need more work to make it natural though. I just tried a "hungover chat with 996" worker, and the responses seemed to be lacking a little too much context

drekipus··on Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel
Yes. That is how it is counted, likewise we didn't know who we killed via nuclear bombs or firebombing.

There's a yt short that sums it up: https://youtube.com/shorts/ROKUjImdPws

drekipus··on Python developers are embracing type hints
The correct response to this is to figure what is the use case for your function: IE: add two numbers. Set the input and output as decimal and call it a day
drekipus··on 'We need the smartest people': Nvidia, OpenAI CEOs react to H-1B visa fee
It's nice at the comments are full of pretty reasonable and balanced discussions.

It's unfortunate that everything gets disregarded as simply just racist / neo Nazi, The powers that be do not want you to discuss.

drekipus··on Ask HN: What am I doing wrong Re Agentic coding
This is agentic programming, if you're not having fun I suggest you jump ship.
drekipus··on Democratic PR Firm to Run Bot Army for Israel
Israel will get away with quite a lot when it comes to the US administration
drekipus··on Gleam is my new obsession
They want to keep otherlangs as a compile target
drekipus··on Why language models hallucinate
But it's the perfect definition because it shows what it is. The output is a hallucination in what it thinks you want, which you can use for better form prompts or the like.

To say "it only hallucinates sometimes" is burying the lede and confusing for people who are trying to use it

Q: How do I stop Hallucinations? A: useless question, because you can't. It is the mechanism that gives you what you want

drekipus··on Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers
Usually because indentifying groups, motives, psychological mechanisms, methods, or intentions, usually gets labelled as anti-business, anti-red, anti-blue, antisemitic, racist, or other such "bad things" that we're getting conditioned not to do.
drekipus··on WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi
Posture (how you position your body) isn't the cause or prevention of back pain.

Your muscles need strengthening, strengthening comes from movement, movement comes from mobility.

But you are right in that it is an interesting hammer to find nails for

drekipus··on Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease
It's ok to not know why something is.

My daughter doesn't know why we have archaic laws around seatbelts either, but she's 3.

drekipus··on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
I don't live under a rock and I'm also not seeing it.

I mean, companies are trying to force it onto us, but it's not ready for any real work, so the "adoption" is artificial.

drekipus··on Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
I can almost assure you, the plan is to run it into the ground,
drekipus··on Ask HN: How do you find and sell to B2B customers?
You're generating low 3s, so you have (a) customer(s).

Talk to them and find out what you can do more for them. Literally talk to them on the phone, and ask what can you do to help them further, what pain points do they still have? Maybe don't even talk about your product at the start.

Ask why you're geting NO responses.

drekipus··on Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)
Is the problem solved then? Is he making bank?

Ideas are useless without execution

drekipus··on GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom
Just use LLM to interface with nerds /s

Oh god please kill me

drekipus··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
The fact that other countries exists and do their own tech development, boggles the mind
drekipus··on Focus and Context and LLMs
Anthropic
drekipus··on LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
In your mind, what distinguishes a language as "general" or "specific" purpose?

I'd argue the community and focus of the language.

drekipus··on Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses but won't admit sucks?
Big one, but I've had a few people who admit that it's shit.

It's shit but it's just enough to get the job done/get out of your way, As long as you play by its rules

drekipus··on Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
> And above all, it will be a long journey. Don't dispear, do at your own time but don't forget the objective.

My biggest issue with robotics is that I don't see the point in any objective.

Building a cool robot feels like it's just a toy to me, and I don't know how to get around that feeling. I studied mechatronics at uni and spent a long time learning on my own in addition.

Robotics for business is almost a cliff, very hard to get into and make something that works reliably at a reasonable cost, from a solo developer point of view

drekipus··on How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search
there would have to be some added element of human interaction for a a feedback mechanism.

Unfortunately this will be profit driven, rather than something like human enjoyment or insight or something

drekipus··on Ask HN: Why are dating apps so bad? Why hasn't anyone made a good one?
this is the whole thing.
drekipus··on Unhappy Meals (2007)
> In fact, combine that with some refried beans and you might be able to live off it for a long time.

Might it be the beans that are what you're able to live off?

What are Doritos adding to the equation here?

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