Hacker News: AISnakeOil

New comment by AISnakeOil in "I'm scared about biological computing"

AISnakeOil — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:08:51 +0000

LLMs have awareness for the time they are spawned into memory. But it's very limited, think about if you could use your brain to think, but only after someone asked you a question. After you think the answer, then you are brain dead (unconscious) until another question is asked.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "MacBook Air with M5"

AISnakeOil — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:11:01 +0000

What I actually like about Apple products is the heft. They feel premium and the heaviness contributes a lot to the premium feel.

I tried a ThinkPad X1 Carbon as well, it felt like a toy.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

AISnakeOil — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:51:16 +0000

This is how open source wins

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Digg.com relaunch public beta is live"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:56:45 +0000

I use to enjoy diggnation, but now every episode is about them claiming not to be alcoholics when they clearly are.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:11:40 +0000

nice numbers, but what does this actually mean?

What does this model do that others can't already.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Steam Frame"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:21:18 +0000

Valve just defeated Meta and Xbox in one go. nice.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "TIC-80 – Tiny Computer"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:27:19 +0000

Is there any way to edit programs in my own editor?

I can't work with these blocky fonts.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:25:38 +0000

It must be a slow news day.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:12:17 +0000

Some of them, but that's changing soon.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:11:40 +0000

You bought the hunk of metal and glass, but you didn't buy the app store servers, the software has a legal agreement and you sign that.

If you don't agree, don't sign it.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:40:03 +0000

These api models are for developers. Gemini is for consumers.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:32:12 +0000

It's Apple's phone, they can do what they want.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:44:01 +0000

A solution looking for a problem. We already have devices which can access AI with ease. I don't need your proprietary data farming apis in the OS level...

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Microsoft Study: AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared""

AISnakeOil — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:07:50 +0000

Just as any muscle gets weaker the less you use it, same goes for intelligence.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:22:57 +0000

Apple has fallen off in every product category.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

AISnakeOil — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:19:32 +0000

The naming convention is so messed up. o1, o3-mini (no o2, no o3???)

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy"

AISnakeOil — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:05:25 +0000

Very interesting. How can we get rich from this?

New comment by AISnakeOil in "M4 MacBook Pro"

AISnakeOil — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:30:53 +0000

This is how it feels to own a desktop computer.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]"

AISnakeOil — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:17:32 +0000

Page 20 has an employee with a HL3 shirt. It really is one of the most tragic tales in gaming history.

Half-Life Alyx only being available on VR was the final nail in the coffin. I will never play it.

New comment by AISnakeOil in "ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing"

AISnakeOil — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:53:27 +0000

So basically the model took user data and used it as training data in realtime? Big if true.