Hacker News: Argonaut998

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Apple reportedly preps native support for Google Cast in iOS 27"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:53:42 +0000

10 years too late.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?"

Argonaut998 — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:12:45 +0000

I had an appointment with an ENT recently. He said that weight and age affects snoring mostly unless it’s some actual condition. The weight affects it because of some compression on the neck or something like that.

I went because I had a deviated septum and thought that was the cause of the snoring but he said that’s unlikely if the snoring only started recently.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:03:09 +0000

I swear the industry is being Garry Tanned.

Senior management let go our localisation staff. Now they want us to use AI to translate. They still want manual review.

We use Github Copilot at work, we get a measly 300 requests with the budget to go over if necessary. Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5 would eat all of those up in a day. Are we supposed to be using more than the allotted amount, do management see that as a good thing. Or is it best to stick within the allocated amount. Who knows? Management are playing games everywhere it seems.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:33:13 +0000

Their TV shows are definitely better than the movies by far but even then I can’t think of one that I watched that didn’t decline in quality as time went on. Even the last season of Stranger Things was pretty poor

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:41:06 +0000

I struggle to remember hardly anything memorable from Netflix, especially their movies, despite that amount of investment.

K-Pop Demon Hunters, what else? The rest is mostly if not all slop. Even looking now at their top 10 most popular movies we have a generic Rock movie in second place

New comment by Argonaut998 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

Argonaut998 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:41:39 +0000

Already done https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andyeung_i-just-met-a-founder...

New comment by Argonaut998 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

Argonaut998 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:39:03 +0000

Interestingly this is not something native to Tibetan Buddhists. Neoplatonists had something similar, and even Orthodox Christian monks speak about literally "praying ceaselessly" which inludes prayer during sleep, it's definitely all lucid dreaming

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:32:01 +0000

Doing this ensures:

- No more soft power

- Massively reduced capability to strike the Middle East

- Europe dumping US bonds

- Europe reducing dependence on the USD

- No ability to restrain Europe from arming

- No one would trust the US again - remember, the USA has had security guarantees with Ukraine long before this mess.

There is a lot to be said about this attitude of "we are doing Europe a favour" idiocy, it's reminiscent of the Bush era jingoism that I have noticed a resurgence of since Trump's second term, especially since the war with Iran.

The USA would be doing the USA a favour if they keep doing what they have been doing in Europe since the end of WWII. It's NOT bad for the USA. Europe is under the USA's thumb as a result of NATO.

Europe is in for a lot of short term pain as a result of the Ukraine and blockade of the Strait.

I also firmly believe (controversial I am aware) a desperate Europe will 100% throw Ukraine to the wolves and make peace with Russia for their energy, and what then?

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:47:27 +0000

They can't wait forever, especially at this level of investment

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:21:43 +0000

Uber had only 25B invested in them before their IPO. OpenAI has 120B invested in them currently which excludes these kinds of deals (as far as I’m aware)!

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:13:32 +0000

Does anyone feel that the jig is almost up? Surely the returns aren’t anywhere close to what investors expect with the sheer amount of cash at this point in time.

Are Anthropic and OpenAI rushing to IPO for immediate cash so they can delay the inevitable? Surely this cycle of robbing Peter to pay Paul to pay John to pay Tim must end.

We are only just now getting a taste of the “true cost” of these tokens. Then there is a lack of compute bottlenecking everything. Even now I’m looking at the 7.5x rate of tokens for Opus 4.7

Open models are promising and cost a fraction of what they proprietary models cost which the big two are vulnerable to when companies start to feel the cost of tokens.

Will data centres be built fast enough and powered sufficiently to lower the cost of compute thus tokens?

Is it just a giant Hail Mary to get to AGI ASAP before the economy collapses?

Above all else, I simply feel the models have plateaued. I am noticing productivity loss for tasks I deem as “complex”

New comment by Argonaut998 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:50 +0000

Yes and calories as labelled aren't "true calories" either. Not all calories are equal.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:58:56 +0000

Dog meat isn't available here, and where it is available in countries such as China and Vietnam, they are readily tortured and boiled alive to make the meat 'taste better'. No thanks.

It is for the same reason I do not eat pork.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:57:20 +0000

Sorry, let me eat 1.8kg of lentils instead. The point I was making is that there is a need for both.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:55:42 +0000

Nothing, like the 10s of generations before me.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development"

Argonaut998 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:51:27 +0000

That's what screenreaders are for

New comment by Argonaut998 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

Argonaut998 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:35:33 +0000

Yes let me eat 5.7kg of broccoli per day instead of 500g of beef to meet my protein macros

New comment by Argonaut998 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

Argonaut998 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:39 +0000

I haven’t seen any women be bussed or blown up with a drone yet. Are you sure this is the case?

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Argonaut998 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:52:11 +0000

You are making an argument from authority too though.

Even ignoring my point, these people have more insight than anyone into their own products and their harmful/beneficial nature.

New comment by Argonaut998 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Argonaut998 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:38:56 +0000

Do they need to be? If I was a billionaire surrounded by the most educated and competent people in the world I wouldn't even spare a thought for the "Whole words are better than phonics" crowd.