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New comment by 4ndrewl in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

4ndrewl — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:08:32 +0000

This is amazing. Loved the emails! Thank you for making it.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Xbox for Sale: Don't Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied"

4ndrewl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:56:02 +0000

Netflixbox

You heard it here first

New comment by 4ndrewl in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

4ndrewl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:20:45 +0000

And he was probably very inquisitive too. Great story.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

4ndrewl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:44:05 +0000

Sounds amazing. How on earth did he go from shoeing horses to learning about the internal combustion engine? Seems quite the leap that not everyone would be capable of.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity"

4ndrewl — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:35:42 +0000

Being bought by nvidia also probably helped...

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

4ndrewl — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:33:42 +0000

And yet this is somehow better?

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas"

4ndrewl — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:50:04 +0000

More like that content creators are psychopaths?

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

4ndrewl — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:48:25 +0000

Never heard of them, but yes they are a lobby company. So they're biased and lobbying for their interests and OAI are biased and lobbying for their interests. That adds a lot of colour.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

4ndrewl — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:44:21 +0000

"This is a lobby organisation using only the pieces and bits they like to push their own agenda."

Do you have any evidence of them being a lobby organisation (as opposed to OpenAI for example which spends millions of dollars hiring actual lobbyists)

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas"

4ndrewl — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:44:12 +0000

YMMV, but the value I get from producing a diagram is derived from the thinking. Thinking about what I'm trying to draw leads to understanding about where my/my team's knowledge is poorer, what assumptions we're making, etc.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

4ndrewl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:19:43 +0000

A terrorist organisation is whatever your government says is a terrorist organisation. Always has been always will be - there's no objective measure.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

4ndrewl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:48:11 +0000

the algorithm is programmed to deliver it. Better engagement metrics with misery and anger than joy and hopefulness. (yes I know that you will reply 'but I prefer the joy and hope', but that's not the case across the wider population)

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

4ndrewl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:58:57 +0000

> We ejected one of the previous PMs for having a party during a lockdown

Weirdly that never happened, but that's how many people remember it.

He was ejected because he lost the support of his ministers (most of who resigned over a period of a few weeks) after he had made them to go out and lie to the public on his behalf in the case of Chris Pincher MP.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to leave the country"

4ndrewl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:52:51 +0000

I'd just sell the companies?

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

4ndrewl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:39:30 +0000

Well they proscribed PA, and showing support for a proscribed organisation _is_ a crime.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to leave the country"

4ndrewl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:22:12 +0000

"I wanted to move to Thailand to live with my girlfriend. I own a few companies" seems like tiny violin territory...

New comment by 4ndrewl in "There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy"

4ndrewl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:47:08 +0000

Except that the most effective way of conveying facts _is_ through narrative and storytelling.

That and powerpoint, obviously.

Trump Orders US to Rename AI to SI – "Super Intelligence"

4ndrewl — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:02:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/donald-trump-renaming-ai-super-intelligence-after-bad-it-s-going-to-kill-us-all-rep/ar-AA2cL6vW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803477

Points: 5

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New comment by 4ndrewl in "Deodands put a price on objects that caused death"

4ndrewl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:28:13 +0000

I was really hoping that this would lead into a discussion about Big Tech, but it was just a (interesting) tease.

New comment by 4ndrewl in "Deodands put a price on objects that caused death"

4ndrewl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:26:01 +0000

I think that's addressed in the article ( the ladder example)