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New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:15:30 +0000

Testing, yea right. No doubt they have gone on an epic AI assisted hacking spree. Gotten get persistence in all the things before vulnerabilities start getting patched.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Allow babywearing carriers on planes"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:33:09 +0000

Exactly. There is no way most parents could keep ahold of a child during 9Gs, unless they have the grip strength to lift several tons.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

9cb14c1ec0 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:37:08 +0000

Meanwhile, my non-smart fridge continues to run just fine. Why do we need smart fridges? That was always a bad idea.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

9cb14c1ec0 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:37:28 +0000

This is cool. I'm so eager for faster innovation in the hardware space, as opposed to some people's concept of innovation being who can make the most addictive social feed.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

9cb14c1ec0 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:06:01 +0000

Given the huge amount of money being spent on AI chips in the US, what prevents US AI labs from doing the same level of software optimization? It could be a solve for some of the capacity constraints.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?"

9cb14c1ec0 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:00:35 +0000

Same here. I'm still a better software architect that AI, but there is no question that my AI generated and reviewed code has fewer bugs than code I hand write. It takes some humility to acknowledge that your coding prowess is less of a useful skill than it used to be.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

9cb14c1ec0 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:09:17 +0000

Working on a fork of https://github.com/JoinChang/ghostlock-oneplus

Trying to root several android tablets that so far have not been liberated.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:52:43 +0000

Makes me want to be a frontier model provider just to get the ring-side seat on what every bad actor in the world is doing.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

9cb14c1ec0 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:58:31 +0000

A lot of people would be really mad if their card rewards disappeared.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

9cb14c1ec0 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:10:46 +0000

> The answer to that is to "donate" to about 270 congress critters.

Not too far off. You gotta ask why such a lucrative business has a near monopoly, and the answer is not that potential competitors don't notice their profit margin.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

9cb14c1ec0 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:06:11 +0000

Yes. As a merchant it's pretty cool that the money just shows up and I don't have to chase down as much bad debt. The processing costs easily pay for themselves.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "The two Christian saints who are the Buddha"

9cb14c1ec0 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:29:11 +0000

> Writing Jesus into the canon 2000 years later as a seperate but equal entity was bound to be fraught with continuity issues.

If you pay any attention to Christian history, you would know that this goes back to the very founding instead.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

9cb14c1ec0 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:49:47 +0000

Not necessarily. You might want to rate limit bots instead of disallowing them.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

9cb14c1ec0 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:46:08 +0000

> "sweeten" the deal for the local towns where they are building

Yes. And datacenter companies have to foolish to slow-walk doing this. When you are building a 10 to 50 billion dollar construction project, it may be worth giving the local town 100 million (plus 10k directly to every resident) to do with as they please, and it would certainly grease the wheels.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "IBM Bob"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:34:30 +0000

Does anyone actually care about what IBM's skill files say?

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:01:06 +0000

Just throwing this link out into the void:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

Wonder why it took the Pentagon so long to take the ads risk seriously.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones"

9cb14c1ec0 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:57:59 +0000

Oh, this is an old trick the US has used for a long time:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"

9cb14c1ec0 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:36:25 +0000

This is the solution. Implementing auth isn't that difficult.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't"

9cb14c1ec0 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:19:02 +0000

This is why Google's war on sideloading is so terrible. It does very little to make people safer, and it restricts user's ability to make a free market choice about which companies they transact with.

New comment by 9cb14c1ec0 in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

9cb14c1ec0 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:32:26 +0000

Sonnet, Opus, and Fable are pushing so much revenue growth right now that it makes more sense to keep growing the expensive models than growing the cheap models.