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nerdyadventureron DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

This can be a reason too. There is an another reason, they want some govt involvement because good relationship with govt, so govt will help them with public money, when the bubble bursts.

nerdyadventureron I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

As I read, this OpenAI and Anthropic slowdown and asking government to help regulate them is an attempt to govt bail them out when bubble burst. Otherwise why they did not want regulations when starting out?

nerdyadventureron LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

I do not thing anything wrong with this statement, do LLM model know about objects on a table? are they conscious? they are just glorified pattern matchers, we get amazed due to their sophisticated and large pattern matching capability.

nerdyadventureron Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

Consumption is only part of the problem other part is ground water pollution[1]

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

nerdyadventureron Plan mode is dead

We cannot blame just LLM models, it is brains nature to save energy. If agent did tasks consistently good, our brain try to delegate cognitive load to the model to save energy. After consistent use of LLMs anyone can have tendency commit slop just reviewing at high level, this is specially true with busy lifestyle. Also AI generated code do not give dopamine just like solving problems we did before LLMs, we tend to get lazy. Strict discipline is necessary to make good use of LLMs in order to not commit slop and not to make us dumb.

nerdyadventureron Plan mode is dead

There is a popular skill for this kind of workflows: https://github.com/obra/superpowers

nerdyadventureron AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

> For the first time in my career, I acted as a senior product manager, steering the project along the right roadmap. Without AI, I wouldn't have been able to do that.

This may be Dunning–Kruger effect in action. (this is not an insult, but showing cognitive biases)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

nerdyadventureron google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

While they can scrape all whole web, ignoring copyright content. Sometimes Gemini even output images with watermarks from a popular licensed media seller. Mean while Aron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping[1] and finally he end up taking his life.

1: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea...

nerdyadventureron Coding Is Over. Get over It

Even though I use AI selectively, there are great engineering who do not use AI ex: Jake Wharton [1]

Major problem with AI blunt your critical thinking, in order to use AI mindfully, you should have critical thinking, but usage of it blunt the very thing. What an irony?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WjPdgOK-68

nerdyadventureron Sam Altman: I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier

As I think they are already regulating things, unlike in US, oligarchs cannot control the govt in China. They crackdown the rich, before it is too late. ex: Jack Ma[1]

You may listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1y_m8pKiKY

1: https://www.dw.com/en/china-alibaba-founder-jack-ma-appears-...

nerdyadventureron Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?

May be it is because of DHH. Not sure why did they canceled measly $50 for Gnome.

nerdyadventureron Sergey Brin pours more than $100M into fighting California's billionaire tax

I used to admire these two people when I was a teen, but look at them now. Where is their goal to do good?. May be money really blind people. Why cannot they just spend 5% onetime? I'm wondering how much they will spend if there is recurring tax of 40%?

These oligarchs have enormous power over us, at least impose 50% recurring tax as a start. In 19s tax rates were really high (even 94%)

nerdyadventureron Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

I also recently requested for data exports on all platforms before deleting the history. Claude and Google ones came quickly while OpenAI took about two days, I'm suspicious, may be it's their worker scheduling?

nerdyadventureron Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI

nerdyadventureron The Real Luxuries In Life

Health affect all others. Also I would love to have a quiet mind, those who do not have it know why.

nerdyadventureron Doomscrolling ourselves to death

I also noticed this, login prompt seems to have added recently.

Also you cannot anonymously scroll on mobile browser for long, prompts to install the app.

nerdyadventureron Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

There is also Caveman[1] skill which rewrite prompts.

1. https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/

nerdyadventureron Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

> What an ahistorical thing to say

I know about dynasties expanding centuries some was prosperous others were not, same goes for European monarchies, amount of killing, abuse, looting done in colonies is staggering even though about most boast about how they conquered this and that.

> less comments under cat videos

I find cats interesting they have different personas kind of similar to humans than dogs who are people pleasing.

Aside from that world should be like this[1], where Chinese and Americans work together.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhd7vERQY3A

nerdyadventureron Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

Cannot understand EU leadership.

Urzula turnning of AC for others, but not for her.[1]

Russian helicopters sitting duck when wild fire rages[2]. Afterall these are Spanish property even though Russian made.

They do not want to find solution to this heat wave getting intense year by year other than war mongering. 35K excess deaths this year[3]. Next year it will be far worse.

Trying harder to install backdoors[4]

Keep postponing Ukrain joining EU, while they have suffered imensley.

These things are getting ridiculous day by day.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-fo...

[2] https://www.intellinews.com/sanctions-on-russia-backfire-lea...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/25/at-least...

[4] https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-b...

nerdyadventureron Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

I'm not Chinese, but I'm confused why people think Xi Jin Ping is worse, yes they have surveillance, there is single party authoritarianism, but they always take care of their people unlike US who when filthy rich getting rich, more and more on homeless on the streets. In addition to that there is surveillance by Flock and Palatir. Most of all they do not let corporation to manage govt, even though their big corps like Alibaba has tried. They have to wage the wars to capture someones natural resources, unlike US holding Iraq oil revenue captive, manage Venezuelan oil. Not to mention helping genocide with trillions.

Funny thing, I recently saw comment under Turkey cat video, saying something like

> Stray cats in live better than homeless in US.

nerdyadventureron Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

This reminded me of this Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_anderson_your_brain_is_more_...

nerdyadventureron Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

I won't be surprised EU banning Chinese models at all, because EU govt.s also hate China just like US.

I'm not surprised by the hypocrisy of western govt.s, "it is good when they do, bad others do. Only western lives are precious not Palestians, etc."

nerdyadventureron Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

These AI CEOs are psychopaths, they will do anything to get big bucks from defense contracts. There is recent interview with Dario where he said Iran school bombings do not even violate their redlines[1]. Full interview [2] shows that he think like Trump (we are the superior nation)

1. Breaking Points Discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI

2. Full Bloomberg interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2VHFgyawPE

nerdyadventureron EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

Hope they do not dump it on Africa just like US and UK doing.

- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/05/y...

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clot...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HTrOmJpJjg4

nerdyadventureron The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

US may not take Iran under them, but they will grip the Iran's economy by controlling their oil and gas resources. It is what US doing in Irque, all oil sales going through bank of New York, they not only take cuts from sales but also make threats like we would not send dollars if you did not do this and that.

US involvement in the Middle East has ruined those countries. It is not a just middle east where ever they involve they ruin others ex: Trump's Congo deal which locked in their mineral for decade without any benefit to poor Congos

nerdyadventureron 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

Lot keep grinding leetcode to get six figures and FAANG on resume, most do not have moral compass, they are no different than politicians who get AIPAC money.

nerdyadventureron Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers

Actually this is not specific to rich or US, this is behavior in most of western countries. This started with colonialism, where one consider superior than others in every aspect, so they can do whatever they please. Many are still blinded by this ego, which is the reason for current geopolitical stability. We should understand that sometimes we are the problem. Simon Sinek have great talk with historical example on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWEI9FDf-0g

nerdyadventureron The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

Problem is even today many people still have this colonial mindset, that some are superior in every aspect than others, which is a shame. Many of the current geopolitical problems stem from this.

nerdyadventureron Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

Everyone is rooting for wars till we all die from environmental degregation.