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When commenting on HN, the most important thing for me is to make sure I speak my mind rather than conform to common opinions/gather the karma etc. In this way I contribute to reducing the filter bubble that is present in all online communities, including HN. Speak your mind, that's what matters.
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dvfjsdhgfv··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I believe the original statement is an oversimplification. What actually happens is that extreme situations, both positive and negative, can help you discover things about you that you didn't know before.

Apart from that, the problem with "who you really are" is that individual is more of a process than a static thing, so any such reification becomes invalid in the next instant.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash
People usually respond to this, "But he apologized". Well, of course he did. The question is: did he really change his attitude? Because from his actions we can infer not only he didn't, it became worse.
dvfjsdhgfv··on Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
But they explicitly negate this:

> We haven’t configured, and don’t use IAP (Identity Aware Proxy) - I’ve used this before and yes that is Chrome only due to how it does device verification

> This isn’t because of “Context Aware Access” this is an enterprise only feature, and we’re on Google Workspace Business Plus

dvfjsdhgfv··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
What you describe is practically the opposite of tokenmaxxing.
dvfjsdhgfv··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
In Europe people on sick leave are protected (under certain conditions).
dvfjsdhgfv··on Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
Sure, but the omniprevalence of LLMs just just crystallized these into clearly recognizable patterns. Just like cliches, but not being limited to simple phrases.
dvfjsdhgfv··on Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
> I've been getting this weekly from colleagues. It's very much an epidemic right now! And the port number is indeed almost always a random number between 8000 and 8100.

Really? A bit hard to believe, unless you have many dumb colleagues.

dvfjsdhgfv··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
It's a very heavy hammer. I used it in the way you describe and after double-checking noticed some crucial details were missed and certain facts were subtly misrepresented.

But I agree with you, especially in areas where they have a lot of training data, they can be very useful and save tons of time.

dvfjsdhgfv··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
for a sufficiently long definition of long
dvfjsdhgfv··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Yeah, I remember it was one of my biggest disappointments with LLMs.
dvfjsdhgfv··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
lol

(That's the first time I used that expression on HN.)

dvfjsdhgfv··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
I upvoted your comment even though I disagree with you.

Yes, LLMs are sloppy, and local models usually more so (but things change fast).

But the local ones have one big advantage: they are private. So you can safely feed them the collection of your private documents and things you wouldn't trust people like sama with. The fact that some people do not care is one of the failures of our educational system.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
> The new alignment isnt East vs West... But North vs Global South, which Brazil sees itself a part of the South.

Where's Russia and Australia then?

dvfjsdhgfv··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Taken into account than of two convicted criminals, Sarkozy went to prison and will probably be sent there again, whereas Trump is running a big country, I'm pretty sure which is which.
dvfjsdhgfv··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
Our only hope as a society in this aspect is to hope that in 2 years or so the prices of RAM fall to the lever where more people are able to use local SOTA models (which, at that time, should correspond to commercial SOTA models 6 months older.
dvfjsdhgfv··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
It's hard to detect sarcasm these days but in case you're being serious, not everybody will share your feelings.
dvfjsdhgfv··on AI is making me dumb
This is a reasonable approach but has nothing to do with what is being pushed on us from all sides.
dvfjsdhgfv··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
> middle east partners

Well, European partners are looking, too - and they are drawing logical conclusions, such as producing more interceptors locally rather than wait years for the first batches of PAC-3.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Learning Software Architecture
> Laozi gives the complementary warning: “In pursuing learning, every day something is added. In pursuing the Tao, every day something is dropped.” Mastery is not only accumulation. It is also subtraction: removing unnecessary abstraction, ceremony, cleverness, and control.

Well, your (or your LLM's) interpretation is a bit less nuanced than the original. The verse from DDJ you mention is more about letting go and living a simple life, a bit the opposite of programming where we actually need an adequate level of complexity to handle the complexity of the world.

As a side note, even if you are not a native English speaker, trying to formulate thoughts without the support of LLMs is very welcome here.

dvfjsdhgfv··on People Hate AI Art
Anecdata, but among real people I know and touched the subject, nobody has anything positive to say about GenAI "art".

And in online communities, most often people just call it "AI slop" and express fatigue. It's very different form a brief period when people were excited by midjourney-generated images. I believe it just faded off just like any novelty.

dvfjsdhgfv··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
> DoD

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy who made his campaing on ending wars the first thing he does after being elected changes the name from DoD to DoW and starts new wars.

dvfjsdhgfv··on SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context
> I do, for sure! Yes, we have a few product rollouts lined up.

When, more or less?

dvfjsdhgfv··on SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context
> Am I missing something?

Yes, this product doesn't exist.

And the last time a company claimed something similar it disappeared after taking money from investors.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Well, the link you provided basically confirms Kimi's dominance.
dvfjsdhgfv··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
> I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly.

Well, if your bonus depends on spending it, you'll find a way.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
Not that much, though, and the gap seems diminishing every couple of months.
dvfjsdhgfv··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
I think you are wrong, for several reasons.

From the human perspective, researchers are people, and they do have their incentives. Making a breakthrough, of any kind, is important for them - even if for their career (but many do genuinely care and want to help humanity as a whole).

From marketing and sales perspective, look at what happen to pharma companies capitalization when Ozempic appeared: a relatively small Elly Lily suddenly got bigger then Merck, Novartis, Roche or Johnson & Johnson. You can hardly call it a long treatment plan with expensive drugs "till the end".

Really, there is a lot of bad things going on in healthcare and pharma industry, but the conspiracy theory "they don't want to invent efficient drugs" really makes no sense when you dig deeper.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
> literally everybody

I personally make sure I really diversify, so that when I buy funds, I buy those with stocks of EU companies which pay dividends. AFAICT there are 0 European AI companies that pay dividends.

dvfjsdhgfv··on Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
Why are you adding 's' for a HTTP-only server?
dvfjsdhgfv··on Saying goodbye to Agile
This applies to everything. If your coding agent has problems with non-trivial programs, it's your fault, too.
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