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gameshot911··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
If I write healthcare software, and a doctor orders the wrong drug that kills the patient, am I responsible?
gameshot911··on The AI job market in 2026
You get to focus on the design, which (to me at least) is the REAL fun. Implementation itself is a tedious annoyance that I'm happy to leave to a bot.
gameshot911··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
If I buy a game/movie/book/song, regardless of where or in what format, I should be able to:

If I produce a game/movie/book/song, regardless of where or in what format, I should be able to... dictate all the terms upon which I agree to sell it. You have the right to agree to those terms, or not.

gameshot911··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
In fact there's very good reason to think intelligence has much more room to be compressible - the human brain, for one.
gameshot911··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
>Even if they're a near perfect tool, we are still the interface between them and our lived experience.

Until they are embedded into automatons that can interact with the world.

(To be clear, I'm both on board with this, and I think it's the natural progression. Currently they are bounded by their training set, but interaction with the world is the imperative for theory -> test -> analysis -> update that is essential for growth and creativity.)

gameshot911··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
And maybe we should listen to him...
gameshot911··on We should be more tired than the model
I think the right comparison is AI models versions, not intra-AI-model growth (although even that can 'learn' with persistent memory & contexts).
gameshot911··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
Does anyone else always read "Mistrial" instead of "Mistral"? Always think I'm about to read a juicy gossip piece, and let down when it's just a standard update on an AI company.

edit A lot of AI company names are really strange, actually. "Claude" is really the best a trillion+ dollar company could come up with? It sounds like the name of a grandpa or something.

gameshot911··on Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
Is this how the Warhammer 40k tech priests start?
gameshot911··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I read that the emergency vehicle may have weighed 60,000 lbs. It can't stop quickly any more than an airplane can.
gameshot911··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
I was a small child at the zoo. I had lost my parents in the crowd, and was scared.

A nice black man (this was important because I grew up in a white neighborhood and hadn't encountered many black people before) knelt down to me and asked me if I was okay, if I was lost. They brought me to the zoo office where they called my parents.

I'll never forget how strange and different they were to the child me, and yet how kind they were in the sea of scary strangers.

gameshot911··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
Your right to buy a DRM-free book?

I put that in the same bucket as my "right" to buy your house for $1.

gameshot911··on 40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language
Really interesting - thanks for taking the time to comment.
gameshot911··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Are you vegetarian/vegan?
gameshot911··on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
Noob here: could this issue have been worked around if you had a personal list of the IP addresses that the domain resolved to?
gameshot911··on How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value
Were 10 people in fact staying when the listing max was 8?
gameshot911··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
> dang” is pronounced “dang” and not “Dan G.”

WAIT WHAT?!?

gameshot911··on Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
They offered us the same thing, we signed up through it, they never paid out. Uninstalled.
gameshot911··on Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
Thanks for the great summary!
gameshot911··on Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Your comment is really interesting, but I didn't fully understand.

What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes?

'If powered down, the engine would destroy itself' - from what? Overheating?

The lower power setting on shutdown does what? Spin it at a low RPM so it doesn't decrease in temp too quickly?

gameshot911··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Critically, by torrenting they also directly distributed the copywritten material itself. That is a standalone infringement separate from any argument about trained LLMs.
gameshot911··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Beyond illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted content, the article also describes how Meta staff seemingly lied about it in depositions (including, potentially, Mark Zuckerberg himself).
gameshot911··on Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"
>There English language skills... declined catastrophically.

Let he who is without sin...

gameshot911··on Is stuff online worth saving?
How often do you reference your vault?
gameshot911··on How to lose a fortune with one bad click
That quickly becomes tedious when you need to do it multiple times a day - e.g. logging in to different customer environments. Much prefer the one-click approval.
gameshot911··on DraftKings fined for online slot incapable of generating a win
Revenue, not profit.
gameshot911··on Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering
Eh, I think people's motivations for responding on forums like SO are other than whether ChatGPT will incorporate their information or not.
gameshot911··on The unstallable plane that stalled
Gentle reminder that it's good practice to define your acronyms at least once, particularly for audiences they may not be SMES.
gameshot911··on TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
>30mpg vs 20mpg is... not as simple.

How so?

gameshot911··on Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
That's actually a really fascinating science fiction idea!
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