Hacker News: Jackson__

New comment by Jackson__ in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

Jackson__ — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:17:37 +0000

Oh what is that, the most "ethical" AI company on the planet making deals with literal democracy undermining fascists?

I'm starting to think the problem with "ethical" AI was always that no company could ever act ethically in the long term. They are and always will be a cancer to society and AI will only serve to amplify this further.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"

Jackson__ — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:56:26 +0000

Alternative take: Because no designers are getting paid to move "rm" to "fileops rm" or otherwise between releases.

New comment by Jackson__ in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

Jackson__ — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:30:31 +0000

Yet it just so happens OAI donated millions[0] to the trump admin in the past. And they were immediately there to pick up the slack.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this sounds like classic quid pro quo. I would not be surprised if the ousting of anthropic was in part caused by these donations.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/technology/openai-sam-alt...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...

New comment by Jackson__ in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

Jackson__ — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:54:12 +0000

Hell, I would have thought it likely that anthropic was doing the same thing. Of course that was proven wrong, but for OAI I wouldn't even be guessing. This has always been what sama does.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

Jackson__ — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:32:12 +0000

As someone who is new to the whole google cloud ecosystem, the amount of dark patterns they employ are absolutely shocking. Just off the top of my head:

1. You never know how much a single API request will cost or did cost for the gemini api

2. It takes anywhere between 12-24 hours to tell you how much they will charge you for past aggregate requests

3. No simple way to set limits on payment anywhere in google cloud

4. Either they are charging for the batch api before even returning a result, or their "minimal" thinking mode is burning through 15k tokens for a simple image description task with <200 output tokens. I have no way of knowing which of the two it is. The tokens in the UI are not adding up to the costs, so I can only assume its the first.

5. Incomplete batch requests can't be retrieved if they expire, despite being charged.

6. A truly labyrinthine ui experience that makes modern gacha game developers blush

All I have learned here is to never, ever use a google product.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

Jackson__ — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:10:33 +0000

As your local vision nut, their claims about "SOTA" vision are absolutely BS in my tests.

Sure it's SOTA at standard vision benchmarks. But on tasks that require proper image understanding, see for example BabyVision[0] it appears very much lacking compared to Gemini 3 Pro.

[0] https://arxiv.org/html/2601.06521v1

New comment by Jackson__ in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

Jackson__ — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:37:52 +0000

It is literally not even a vision model.

New comment by Jackson__ in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

Jackson__ — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:31:00 +0000

It's not just any pile of melting glaciers, its a pile of melting glaciers that looks really big in mercator projection!!

New comment by Jackson__ in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

Jackson__ — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:04:36 +0000

Me wonders how many millions of peasants he is ready to throw into the wood chipper to pay for this. Just kidding, of course I know it's all of them.

New comment by Jackson__ in "France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year"

Jackson__ — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:04:40 +0000

>6. Once validated, the code is good for 1 year (or 6 months or 3 months, adjust based on how stringent you want to make it) - then it expires and a new one must be purchased.

> 7. A separate token is required for each website/each account.

I propose instead:

A single code valid for 10 packets sent to a single IP address, or 30 seconds, whichever expires first.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich""

Jackson__ — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:32:19 +0000

See also "The only moral abortion is my abortion" for the complete opposite. Where people fail to develop empathy even after it has affected them.

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...

New comment by Jackson__ in "GPT-5.2"

Jackson__ — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:49:39 +0000

Funny that, their front page demo has a mistake. For the waves simulation, the user asks:

>- The UI should be calming and realistic.

Yet what it did is make a sleek frosted glass UI with rounded edges. What it should have done is call a wellness check on the user on suspicion of a co2 leak leading to delirium.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

Jackson__ — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:40:50 +0000

This once again shows that idiocracy was an overly optimistic movie.

New comment by Jackson__ in "We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start"

Jackson__ — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:35:23 +0000

It exceedingly appears as if the stock market is becoming little more than the means to liquidate the commoners savings to further prop up the rich.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

Jackson__ — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:01:54 +0000

So they spent all of their R&D to copy deepseek, leaving none for the singular novel added feature: vision.

To quote the hf page:

>Behind vision-first models in multimodal tasks: Mistral Large 3 can lag behind models optimized for vision tasks and use cases.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

Jackson__ — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:35:43 +0000

I'm referring to the plane loads of hardware they shipped in during the tariff panic.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

Jackson__ — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:38:01 +0000

It's not like apple is going to eat the cost of this for either though. As soon as their tariff supply runs out they'll price hike like everyone else.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

Jackson__ — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:56:04 +0000

Sadly pipewire still has issues properly delivering audio on my system with all core load of ~50%. It makes media consumption on a linux pc simply impossible for me, even a 13 year old thinkpad running windows is better in that regard.

New comment by Jackson__ in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

Jackson__ — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:05:39 +0000

what are you hinting towards?

New comment by Jackson__ in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

Jackson__ — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:55:25 +0000

From the outside, it always looked like they gave LeCun just barely enough compute for small scale experiments. They'd publish a promising new paper, show it works at a small scale, then not use it at all for any of their large AI runs.

I would have loved to see a VLM utilizing JEPA for example, but it simply never happened.