Hacker News: AndrewDucker

New comment by AndrewDucker in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

AndrewDucker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:42:17 +0000

Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvlydn8d3lkjo

Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

AndrewDucker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:41:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvlydn8d3lkjo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018635

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov

AndrewDucker — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:05:44 +0000

Article URL: https://hex.ooo/library/power.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012279

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rolling the Root Key (Update)

AndrewDucker — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:45:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ispcol.potaroo.net/2026-10/kskroll.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011975

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

AndrewDucker — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:51:36 +0000

True. We very much value time over owning things that require that much maintenance. If your preference is the other way round I could see it taking up much more time (and you getting, presumably, more joy from your clothes. Most of the joy I get from clothes is from t-shirt designs. YMMV.)

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

AndrewDucker — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:31:32 +0000

There are four of us. It takes me 5 minutes to gather everything up and put it in the washing machine, 3 minutes to transfer it to the dryer when it's done, and ten minutes to separate it out and drop it in the right drawers when dry. That happens 3-4 times a week. Say 60-80 minutes total per week.

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold"

AndrewDucker — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:01:24 +0000

I do ¾ of those things, including two children and a wife, without a car.

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors"

AndrewDucker — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:50:53 +0000

It's a reference to The Big Short, where Selena Gomez guested to explain Credit Default Swaps.

(If you haven't seen it, you might think I'm joking. I'm not, and it's an amazing film.)

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

AndrewDucker — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:08:27 +0000

1x10^77 is a lot of pigeon holes.

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

AndrewDucker — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:41:53 +0000

Unless you link using tags.

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

AndrewDucker — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:43:42 +0000

Part of the effect of spending time around other people is that you get to know them, discover which ones aren't creepy, and develop connections with them. And, over the age of 25, the personal connection starts to matter more and more for people than "Are they hot or not?"

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

AndrewDucker — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:09:25 +0000

See my response to the similar reply at the top of the thread

New comment by AndrewDucker in "CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective"

AndrewDucker — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:10:26 +0000

The job-getting paper ceases to be meaningful if it no longer verifies competence. If it merely verifies the ability to prompt an LLM then nobody will pay a premium for people have it, and then nobody will pay to obtain one.

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

AndrewDucker — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:59:00 +0000

It will. But having watched the video, I can tie one faster and cheaper. This week. Next week, who knows?

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

AndrewDucker — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:12:23 +0000

How are your plumbing skills?

New comment by AndrewDucker in "We’re forgetting what darkness feels like"

AndrewDucker — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:45:39 +0000

Kids these days don't even know what a channel is ;-)

(Well, except for YouTube channels)

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent"

AndrewDucker — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:44:17 +0000

No reason why you couldn't do that research in the same buildings as the models.

Or, more likely, control things at the network level so that packets from the LLMs you're investigating cannot leave the virtual network they're assigned to.

If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

AndrewDucker — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853955

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by AndrewDucker in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

AndrewDucker — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:05:28 +0000

Once you have a solar panel you can't be cut off from using it. It's not like oil where you need regular deliveries forever.

Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here

AndrewDucker — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812583

Points: 7

# Comments: 0