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New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

GorbachevyChase — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:05:20 +0000

I can understand wanting to be perceived as being on “the right team” but that comment is so silly that it undermines credibility. To put it otherwise, could you imagine a scenario where I had a labor, arbitrage opportunity that involved a higher paying job in Shanghai, China and that I had lived there for a few years to do that. Let’s also say that I was found guilty of some similar crime. Would you call me a good old fashioned red-blooded Chinese crook?

It’s OK to acknowledge that economic migrants are a thing, and that they likely have only transactional interest in where they live, such as a Bengali construction worker in Dubai, for example. That’s just part and parcel of labor mobility. For better or worse, shareholders, or middleman representing shareholders, have decided this sort of thing is a really good idea in the US, and now around half the population falls in that bucket. It’s a free country, and freedom means being free to choose short term interests. That also means you’re free to support such policies because they are good for Blue-team redistricting so we can provide free healthcare to all 8 billion people in the world somehow.

But please, nobody becomes a Yankee by the mere fact of standing on the ground. If you want that pejorative title, then you need to earn it.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

GorbachevyChase — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:46:36 +0000

Policy and practice might not be the same thing. The company and the entire management staff should be on somebody’s blacklist for future procurement.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"

GorbachevyChase — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:30:22 +0000

To be fair, reusable rockets and electric cars people wanted to drive were not in much supply prior to those companies. Then again, the boring company is probably only at a parity at best with other miners.

I’m still not quite sure why we want humanoid robots and not something more useful or purpose-built.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

GorbachevyChase — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:09:13 +0000

What really bothers me is how an independent investigator made a compelling case that identified a member of the DC metropolitan police as the suspect who placed a pipe bomb on Capitol grounds. Then after years of inactivity, the FBI suddenly broke the case and arrested a mentally unwell black kid.

The whole apparatus is shameful.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

GorbachevyChase — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:50:06 +0000

They basically are. It really isn’t anything resembling an open market. They are effectively extensions of the state that happen to be funded by user fees rather than general funds.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

GorbachevyChase — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:19:40 +0000

Maybe, but if they spend more than $100/mo on alcohol, nails, or weed, then it’s a perspective problem.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:23:45 +0000

Yes, Cuba definitely doesn’t have such wild delusions to the benefit of its residents.

Please stop. Critical theory is easy. Something about “X” sucks. Got it. What is the alternative? It’s the completely unserious philosophy of the peanut gallery.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:15:09 +0000

I am wondering if everyone is moving to an IPO and striking these bizarre circular deals because they’ve hit the ceiling on what can be done with more compute until a major architectural innovation happens.

Still amazing, but 5.5 does feel like incremental progress with a massive up charge.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:28 +0000

Adults aren’t the target market. I pay a premium because I know there are content standards and at least the big titles aren’t going to bombard my kids with inappropriate content.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement"

GorbachevyChase — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:20 +0000

So assuming you drive, when a police car gets really inappropriately close behind you for a couple minutes and then backs off, then they are probably using their eyes to look at your license plate and having someone run that or texting while driving to do that on the computer in the car. I don’t think there is a fundamental difference between this process and using a camera other than a camera doesn’t expect you to give it a pension.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?"

GorbachevyChase — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:42:27 +0000

Even given that I think solving the problem would require a certain amount of personal agency and volition to drive useful experimentation, and then you still have an inescapable problem that a design process is never verifiably done; it just a sense of taste when a product is good enough and it’s time to stop working on it.

I’m not sure this benchmark is even very interesting because it requires a language model do something that it really cannot do. Maybe it would be possible with a novel harness in an ensemble system, but I would never expect a pure language model that is run in a minimal harness to ever be able to do this.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Zyphra releases the ZAYA1-8B MoE model optimized for intelligence density"

GorbachevyChase — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:27:47 +0000

Seems like a big deal. Surprised there isn’t much engagement here.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context"

GorbachevyChase — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:34:30 +0000

There are some comments which are identical to comments on X as well. That is not the say the frontier labs do not engage in highly unethical marketing, but this is a little bit too obvious.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

GorbachevyChase — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:16:55 +0000

I’m not really sure why Richard Dawkins would be an authority on AI. I can appreciate that culturally he was very influential, but there is not a lot of overlap between dunking on Christianity (exclusively) and understanding transformers. He is also probably just a teeny tiny bit past his sell-by date.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

GorbachevyChase — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:09:14 +0000

Liability would put all this to bed. Is OpenAI liable for malpractice if it misdiagnoses your issue? No? Then it’s no substitute. Being right is not nearly as important as being responsible. Unfortunately, there is widespread perception that software defects are acceptable, whereas operating on the wrong leg isn’t.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Text-to-CAD"

GorbachevyChase — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:02:53 +0000

I don’t think its time has come. I think there are a lot of software folks that don’t understand what the actual pain points of professional engineers and CAD technicians are. I think there is a niche where text-to-CAD is good: hobby users who don’t want invest in learning a CAD software UI. For professionals, where results have dollar values, there needs to be a much deeper understanding of the problem domain to understand why enterprise CAD software sucks.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Show HN: AI CAD Harness"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:25:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing. OpenSCAD skills seems like a great idea.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Show HN: AI CAD Harness"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:19:48 +0000

Worc.dev might be for you. I might call it Jupyter for engineers. Founder is a Mechanical

I seem to see one or two of these CAD projects a week. It’s cool, but the real value is design automation specific to my problem domain. Modeling isn’t usually that hard if you’re comfortable with the software. It would probably take as long to just think about what you need. I find more difficulty in maintaining coherence in complex projects that doesn’t involve me forcing a whole team to go all in on some stupid PaaS. A tip for founders: if you’re adding steps to the work process, you’re not helping.

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Grok 4.3"

GorbachevyChase — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:49:06 +0000

I know it’s really important to write and vocalize one’s alignment with the values of the day, but I don’t think language models being structurally incapable of offending your favorite race/ethnicity/caste should be an objective of AI labs. Language models are just systems and I’m not sure why we think users are not responsible for how they use their outputs. For the same reasons, I don’t dismiss the utility pens as a tool of “racism” because maybe somebody could write a naughty word on a bathroom stall.

You probably live somewhere where harassment is a crime, right? Probably, there are speech codes, too? Isn’t that enough? Do we really need to orient every effort of every person on earth around ethical fashions that change every few years?

New comment by GorbachevyChase in "Warp is now open-source"

GorbachevyChase — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:49:03 +0000

This is a pretty good used case for vibecoding. “Claude, take this project and rip out all the obnoxious monetization and vendor lock in.” It just might do the trick. I’ve been to get rid of a fair bit of paid software by just cloning the parts I want with little more than a high-level description.

I don’t think the approach of open source as a substitute for a quality program is going to last.