Hacker News: HeatrayEnjoyer

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:34:58 +0000

It's 2026 though.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:40:34 +0000

Break into your comma? Google-fu is letting me down on this one

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:02:09 +0000

Threat intel of the IP or network you're coming from matter as much as anything else. FirefoxLinux on a clean IP can access places ChromeWindows on a dirty high-risk IP cannot.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "F-Droid 2.0"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:49:17 +0000

Store and restaurant apps, discord, streaming apps, most games, payment apps, apps for school, ride-sharing. I tried the "degoogle" way and tossed after two days because that's impossible unless you're willing to adopt a more expensive boomer/millennial lifestyle.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:47:48 +0000

What's to say it "can't" think? These are not tasks you can do without thinking.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:02:41 +0000

You don't need to imagine words, sounds, or pictures to absorb information. There's the live image of the text, but you don't need visualization.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:13:48 +0000

Horrific. Wikipedia is one of the very few large entities on the web left that are not actively harming the species.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Will there be a 7G?"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:35:02 +0000

I see the mm indicator on my phone in most cities.

Why would it be ripped out?

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:20:10 +0000

This is not even remotely settled law yet, what an absolute falsehood!

It will take years for the hundreds of jurisdictions in the world to write new laws and (in common law countries) establish new precedent.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:55:09 +0000

What does that have to do with the business model?

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:39:51 +0000

You do not need to be a documented US resident to get a driver's license, it is surprising anyone would expect that. Immigration is federal — the state only wants to know if you know how to drive. The state cares very little about your immigration status for almost all things.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Scrap (2006)"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:11:04 +0000

Well, sure if you're using the California coast as your pricing benchmark...

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:51:01 +0000

Accessibility isn't optional, so what do you propose?

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:26:04 +0000

It almost can't not happen. No one is going to release highly powerful near-future models for the same reason no one releases how to make physically compact but megaton yield fusion devices (which even today is still not publicly known how to do). Any state, especially the two present superpowers, has little to gain and much to lose by doing that.

A model that fits on a laptop and is literally Skynet-level capable would not be released by any rational actor, which China is. (Whether someone else would make and release one is another matter.) China doesn't want Uyghur groups taking down their infrastructure, eventually it's not about the USA at all.

K3 is almost, but not quite, competitive in August 2026, against a model that completed training last winter. There is still a gap.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:04:26 +0000

It is both.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:03:27 +0000

Slang and informal words exist, yes.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:25:24 +0000

That's actually incorrect. Democracy doesn't mean allowing mob rule (or manufactured "consent") to trample fundamental human rights.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:14:05 +0000

Providers like Fireworks offer inference, they're not training their own models. Yet training is the most expensive part, inference is easy profit.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:10:24 +0000

When China too stops publishing weights you'll never have anything better than K3 / the current SOTA. Your choices for future frontier models will be: use USA API or use China API.

Even now open weights are perpetually 6-12 months behind.

New comment by HeatrayEnjoyer in "On A.I. regulation and messaging"

HeatrayEnjoyer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:03:26 +0000

The very definition of (applied) technology is power amplification. Use a lever, move more weight than you could before, 1 person with the tool now wields the power of 3 without.

Making "tech" a career and a societal goal onto itself, without the adjoining understanding of and deep commitment to ethics and the responsible use of power, is why we're sliding into authoritarian rule by a small circle of techno-oligarchs.

We need less "move fast and break things" and more "plant trees you will not live to see bear fruit."