<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Grimblewald</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Grimblewald</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:37:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Grimblewald" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tough luck for MS or other "AI" providers claiming any ownership, since if they can claim ownership, then it opens up the discussion of what license the AI output really is under, since it was trained on GPL licensed data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572633</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wine has always beem a bandage not a final thing. Something to drive exactly this transition to better. Through wine ive been able to transition many colleagues accross because software they need will work as they expect it to in linux and everything elese is an arcane mystery to them anyway. This means one less network effect contributing win user. Most also experience a massive jump in tech literacy as a result of the move, since a system that doesn't wall you out at every step lets you passively learn more.</p>
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<p>BYD / Denza z9 gt claim 10-70% in 5 mins, 97% in 9 mins. With a range of ~1000km this seems to crush these results? I don't know enough about this space to know if I am missing something here, but would love to know because something about this feels more exciting than i think i am grasping. anyone know?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:37:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522874</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Philips to drop Google TV for European-based Titan OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I miss dumb tvs. Just give me the option for a dumb tv that i plug whatever "smart" device I need into. Something that is snappy and responsive. No one really uses the built in thing for long, everyone who can ways gets frustrated and opts for 3rd party eventually so now your tv just scrapes your data, draws more power, and offers nothing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496049</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "A Student Built a Water Filter That Removes 96% of Microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds great and it's cool to see young people involved, but part of what makes ferrofluid what it is, is surfactants. These love water as much as they move oil, so much so they can allow the two to mix. So my question is, what is being added to the water? Are the plastics removed the ones we worry about? Not all plastics or even particles are the same or have similar biological impacts.<p>If this adds extra gunk to my water and only removes particles I'd have excreted anyway, it makes the problem worse not better.<p>this is exciting but i wouldnt rush to put something like it into my kitchen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496022</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really. Basic stuff, sure, ai nails. However much stuff thats interesting or useful AI sucks at. Try getting it to replicate the performance of microsoft research's image composite editor. The research/knowledge is in public domain (brown et al paper on panoramic stitching via ransac/sift, gain correction etc) and yet ai suck at it. A task that takes ICE less than a minute can take AI version 30 minutes+ and produces worse results. After loads of hand holding you can kind of get it to be close to ICE performance, but never really. Every new model that comes out, that's one of my personal tests among a battery of others. Ironically llms seem to be getting worse at many of these tasks, not better. Need some webapp with a database and a sleek looking ui? AI has your back (kind of, still sloppy or dangerously unsafe half the time) need some simple get data plot data thing? Ai can do that.<p>however, actually interesting useful things it tends to fail at, and these can be small reasonably sized projects.<p>worse still, AI models seem to be optimizing for how many tokens they can make you burn before you give up, rather than minimizing turns required to have a finished product, I say that because each new model that comes out, it needs more turns of coaxing and prodding to get to a functional state.</p>
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<p>This reads like the way they'll try to implement is<p>"""
ok copilot, implement these changes, make no mistakes
"""<p>Having learned absolutely nothing from their existing sins.</p>
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<p>"Don't be evil" how far we've fallen.<p>dear google: fuck off and die. May something worth the resources it consumes grow from your fetid corpse.</p>
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<p>I dunno man, at least give me the option? Like at least give me the option to play without klac with the exception i can join klac'd lobbies or something.</p>
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<p>Does well in my tests, limited as they were, but it did well in zero-shot tasks in niche domains historically (and possibly still here) underrepresented in training data (microscopy)</p>
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<p>As opposed to your more high brow verbiage equally low brow take? Come now, engage with the core critique.</p>
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<p>Re-reading without a knee jerk, its a well reasoned examination. I suppose I might be overly sensitive to the topic given general lack of justice we already see in the domain, normalizing further feels like an existenial threat to basic human decency. Perhaps i need to disengage from the topic, i find visceral reactions like mine unbecoming. Appologies for not engaging critically initially and thanks for the vibe check.</p>
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<p>I always wondered who their demographic was. The core early adopters, the ethical vegans, who actually like the taste of plants are never going to make a lab made ultra processed salt bomb their daily driver (never mind issues surrounding industrial agriculture). Health-conscious folks would take one look at the ingredient list and bail because of the heavy processing and industrial fillers. You've got bodybuilders and athletes skipping it because it lacks the micronutrient density and bioavailability of real animal protein. Everyday folks aren't exactly lining up to pay a "green premium" for something that tastes almost like a burger but costs more and offers less. It feels like they built a product for a tiny, hyper-specific niche: people who desperately crave the experience of a fast-food patty but have an ideological dealbreaker with meat, while being well off enough that finances aren't carefully managed and loose enough in their convictions that a burger-joint is still ok. It always seemed like an odd propsition to me, even if cool in some ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405147</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try to imagine how nuanced you'd feel it is when someone takes an image of your child and distributes AI csam in their likeness.<p>Imagine how nuanced you'd feel the topic is when real csam can hide in broad daylight because everyone assumes it's fake/detection of real vs fake becomes impossible with existing tech.<p>This is a hill i'll die on, violently. There's no real nuance here, the damage it causes is far to extreme to even entertain the thought beyond a few thought experiments to confirm there is no case this is ever acceptable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:07:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397865</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "How kernel anti-cheats work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i searched "hacking in valorant" and found hella complaints about aimbotting and wallhacking. I can give you a simple way to make that work right now in a way that completely bypasses KLAC. Vanguard hasn't meaningfully solved the problem, and so my point stands. Something as simple as a webcam, a virtual controller, and a cnn can be used to construct a fully isolated aimbot. No memory inspecting anticheat will get that, klac or otherwise. Don't need to go that far though, since streaming means you can simply capture video output realtime, and better than realtime vision/action models exist. Its a project a skilled and motivated highschool student could easily finish in a weekend, in fact, im sure if you search something along these lines you'll find someone doing a video series on exactly this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:16:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393971</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "How kernel anti-cheats work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kernel access <i>is</i> related to privacy though, and its the most well documented abuse of such things. Kernel level access can help obfuscate the fact that it'a happening. However, it is also useful for <i>significantly</i> worse, and given track records, must be assumed to be true. The problem is kernel level AC hasnt even solved the problem, so the entire thing is risky, uneccesary and unfit for purpose making an entierly unneccesary risk to force onto unsuspecting users. The average user does not understand the risks and is not made aware of them either.<p>There are far better ways to detect cheating, such as calculating statistics on performance and behaviour and simply binning players with those of similar competency. This way, if cheating gives god-like behaviour, you play with other godlike folks. No banning required. Detecting the thing cheating allows is much easier than detecting ways in which people gain that thing, it creates a single point of detection that is hard to avoid and can be done entierly server side, with multiple teirs how mucb server side calculation a given player consumes. Milling around in bronze levels? Why check? If you aren't performing so well that yoh can leave low ranks, perhaps we need cheats as a handicap, unless co sistently performing well out of distribution, at which point you catch smurfing as well.<p>point is focusing on detecting the thing people care about rather than one of the myriad of ways people may gain that unfair edge, is going to be easier and more robust while asking for less ergregious things of users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:36:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384069</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Meta acquires Moltbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the irony is that moltbook, a sm for bots, is probaly less bot content per post than facebook.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:31:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347971</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>safe to say: Claiming AI is 'breaking Math' or 'transforming the field' might be jumping the gun. It is improving trans-temporal/spatial communication via asynchronous channels, not re-inventing the bedrock.</p>
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<p>How does it compare with qwens open weight multimodal embedding model? Anyone know? This seems lesser form what i read, with the drawback of bei g via some api/model i dont have control over. Qwen gives great ebeddings out of the gate while also being steerable, i.e. you can supply a prompt to focus on embedding specific tasks with higher resolution, which in my tests has been mind-blowingly good. Not seeing the value add here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333571</link><dc:creator>Grimblewald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grimblewald in "Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alternative: mathematics has become myopic and unaware many keep rediscoveirng wheels from different perspectives.</p>
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