Hacker News: KludgeShySir

New comment by KludgeShySir in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

KludgeShySir — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:14:26 +0000

I'm not convinced that the invepstein class is, in fact, subject to our laws.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

KludgeShySir — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:11:05 +0000

Knowledge and wisdom *of recent technology* (or even current events) tends to increase with age?!

Dubitable.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:08:14 +0000

^ This.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:05:19 +0000

"generationally fuck" - Oxford English Dictionary's phrase of the decade

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:39:33 +0000

Wait, are you saying that human contact has no bearing on one's psychological well-being? Or are you saying that I'm being deliberately obtuse?

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Interview with Boris Cherny [video]"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:26:28 +0000

Boris Cherny is most definitely the kind of guy who sniffs his own farts.

He can be informative to listen to, as long as you keep that in mind.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

KludgeShySir — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:34:46 +0000

I'm begging, please let me use password "asdfasdf" on throwaway accounts. I accept full responsibility for the fallout.

Seriously, many web admins need to hear this message: "Chill. Your site is not that important."

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

KludgeShySir — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:28:19 +0000

Yeah, all the corporations will then be forced to pay for proprietary models, and then Big Model will be satisfied.

Just like typically individuals can get away with using pirated software, but IP owners don't make much of a stink as long as they've got the sweet, sweet enterprise license fees rolling in.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

KludgeShySir — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:24:16 +0000

There are already plenty of [illegal numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number).

We have numbers that you can't possess without proper license/authorization, and numbers that you can't yell at a crowded movie theater.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

KludgeShySir — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:19:11 +0000

Exactly, like weather forecasting. If you're told there's a 30% chance of rain, it doesn't mean that 3 out of 10 times you will experience rain.

Either it will rain or it won't, so the probability is either 0% or 100%. And so a forecast of "30% chance of rain" is referring to the likelihood that your probability will be 100%, as opposed to 0%.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

KludgeShySir — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:59:27 +0000

I'm sorry for your BIL. These things can both be true, though.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

KludgeShySir — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:55:00 +0000

Taking something regularly for extended time does not imply "addiction". Otherwise we could include in that category any number of everyday activities; it needs to entail some sort of negative consequence, in spite of which you persist.

I don't experience any significant negative side effects from my usage. And BTW I also don't have a problem going cold turkey whenever I go on vacations.

Do I hear myself?! No, but I can read what I wrote.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:14:16 +0000

"Are you prepared to bring them down to a total of 11 fingers?!?"

New comment by KludgeShySir in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:47:56 +0000

This is a very overblown assertion about kratom. I've heard of people getting addicted, but no one I've known personally has ever had any issues.

I have been using kratom almost daily for about a decade, and it has been one of the most useful substances for managing my physiology in response to my environment. It's great for stress reduction, but my most common use is actually ADHD treatment (which I doubt would be "on-label" if it went through the healthcare clusterf*dge)

The ability to self-titrate is one of **the most important parts**. I know how much I need, and when I need it. With doctors or psychiatrists, you gotta schedule appointments and then try out a dosage for a while, then schedule a recheck and refine the dosage, etc etc etc. I have not had much success with prescription drugs, and I have tried many

New comment by KludgeShySir in "The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)"

KludgeShySir — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:32 +0000

It gives me strong impressions of the aesthetic in the show Maniac (~2018)

New comment by KludgeShySir in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

KludgeShySir — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:50:37 +0000

https://www.alphaxiv.org/ is a nice place to browse, search for, and read ArXiv papers which have optional AI summaries and chat. If you like one paper, you can get a list of similar papers.

To view a specific paper, just take original link and change "arxiv" --> "alphaxiv". For example: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

KludgeShySir — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:14:39 +0000

Gemma4-31b seems to be very highly regarded for creative writing, especially its finetunes. As for comparison to E4B, I can't say.

Creative writing is not my focus, so this is only secondhand information. r/LocalLlama tends to focus more on the technical side; if you want more creative side check out r/SillyTavern as well (but type of info does bleed over between them).

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

KludgeShySir — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:36:55 +0000

And you probably don't want to dump the emails first thing into the agent's context. You should insert a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper into the context, and only then the emails.

New comment by KludgeShySir in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

KludgeShySir — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:09:07 +0000

On the other hand (based on memory of research I did many years ago), in societies where nudity is common (e.g. African tribes where at least breasts are usually visible), there is a much lower rate of sex-related problems (sexual assault, etc)