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New comment by GrinningFool in "India's surprise baby bust"

GrinningFool — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:09:10 +0000

In the places I have lived, the value of the property for tax calculations was significantly lower than the market value.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

GrinningFool — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:49:22 +0000

If I remember you have two hypothetical kids and one loves robotics and the other loves games; they are 9 and 11; but I can't remember their names no matter how many times I've asked (much to my increasing embarrassment), it doesn't mean I'm pretending to be interested.

In any case the point I was making was more about how the technology we are allowed is not in our service. This was just a use case where having a trustworthy service would be nice, but is impossible.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

GrinningFool — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:41:30 +0000

> Because they don't try.

Must be nice.

In any case the point of my original post was much more about technology that serves only the user - not any specific use case.

From the replies, I see I could have done a better job of making that clear.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

GrinningFool — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:04:58 +0000

Sounds like I touched a nerve.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

GrinningFool — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:26:56 +0000

Another case of really cool tech done badly.

Imagine a world in which you could use facial recognition, have an instant summary in front of you you reminding you of someone's birthday, the names of their kids ...

Then imagine that it wasn't tracked, recorded, saved, or tied into anything at all. Just a useful service, in service to only you.

Thanks Meta et al, for pushing forward with this broken (for people) model of business and ensuring we'll never be able to have that.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

GrinningFool — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:38:42 +0000

Any kind of rug-pull is a serious concern. Companies are re-orienting their entire development processes around these tools. Sure they can go back, but it will require a much larger and more expensive effort than to transition in the first place.

All companies who make this transition will be more or less at the mercy of model providers.

SpaceX's IPO is set to be the biggest ever: $75B

GrinningFool — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:06:45 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/spacex-tesla-elon-musk-ipo-public-offering-6490112997adcbc47235479685a89b72

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390059

Points: 6

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New comment by GrinningFool in "The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival"

GrinningFool — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:35:18 +0000

New comment by GrinningFool in "Various LLM Smells"

GrinningFool — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:29:18 +0000

Jab, jab, thrust is how I think about that pattern. Or tap tap whack, if you prefer. And it shows up for for positives too:

"Smooth. Effortless. A perfect fit for your needs".

In any style of informal or persuasive writing this shows up , as if it has to drive the point in.

I kind of wish we'd stop talking openly about what the tells are. It's nice to be able to determine with fair accuracy - but it couldn't last forever.

New comment by GrinningFool in "I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty"

GrinningFool — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:51:05 +0000

There are plenty of tells. Quotes and dashes don't even have to enter into it.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

GrinningFool — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:07:12 +0000

"considered and mindful order of presentation" -- along these lines my favorite programming book is the Commodore 64 User's Guide, coupled with the reference. I was quite young and found the programming section very approachable. It build on itself in logical layers, and I felt like I had a companion to guide me through the process of learning and understanding. IIRC, I read it like a novel a couple-few times in the process.

https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-user-guide/

New comment by GrinningFool in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

GrinningFool — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:48:19 +0000

And now we see the beginning of how even local LLMs will be turned against their users -- by persuading agents to advertise to them.

I don't think that's what you're intending here, but it's the next logical step. Agents are on the Internet, and they represent an opportunity to reach their humans.

New comment by GrinningFool in "The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests"

GrinningFool — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:25:35 +0000

I miss reading things written by humans.

New comment by GrinningFool in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

GrinningFool — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:51 +0000

I am starting to see so much consistency in the "it's not AI, it's overhiring" commentary that it's actually starting to feel like a narrative constructed to allay concerns about AI impacts. At this point it's a "pandemic overhire correction" that the industry has been doing for two years, and is accelerating.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

GrinningFool — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:17:23 +0000

That's a huge gap for llama.cpp server - any idea why?

New comment by GrinningFool in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

GrinningFool — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:26:41 +0000

What chances do the vast majority of those graduates have to shape what's happening? That happens at exec level at the largest companies. Everyone else gets to produce or consume what they decide on.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

GrinningFool — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:53:29 +0000

May have been better as: "I like stawberrries, and walking to the car wash to clean my car."

New comment by GrinningFool in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

GrinningFool — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:42:11 +0000

The majority of users will see the convenient answer right in front of them and stop, because their question has been answered. We've seen it again and again across industries, an an accelerating cycle: make it easy, and the users will usually do what you want.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

GrinningFool — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:38:30 +0000

Some percentage of developers before AI were unable to code fizzbuzz. Some significantly higher percentage of them are not able to do so now.

Saying there have always been bad developers doesn't change that there's a higher ratio of them now.

No stats to back this up. Just interviews I've done recently and historically.

New comment by GrinningFool in "Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos"

GrinningFool — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:24:58 +0000

This was nothing like investigative journalism; it's just LLM spew. It could have been written in a handful of paragraphs.