Hacker News: LastTrain

New comment by LastTrain in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

LastTrain — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:08:33 +0000

Broadcom has paying customers - they sell chips to companies that have no paying customers.

New comment by LastTrain in "U.S. science is in chaos"

LastTrain — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:08:37 +0000

We funded research in the 1950s . This is more like the 30s.

New comment by LastTrain in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

LastTrain — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:21:10 +0000

Yes. For every line of code or documentation I write there is a lengthy internal dialog that can never be scraped & used by an LLM.

New comment by LastTrain in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

LastTrain — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:38:37 +0000

The thing is, we are spending more on building out data centers and the infrastructure required to build and run them than the total global gross sales of software and related services so prices will go up, not down.

New comment by LastTrain in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

LastTrain — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:53:46 +0000

Sure, but clearly you don’t mean at any cost, right?

New comment by LastTrain in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

LastTrain — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:45:03 +0000

Yes there are those two very extreme things and then there is every position in between.

New comment by LastTrain in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

LastTrain — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:14:55 +0000

Yep. I wonder if being at the forefront of AI makes for a better & more free society.

New comment by LastTrain in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

LastTrain — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:15:53 +0000

The US lays claim to all kinds of bullshit. But more to the point; different values, different laws - does it matter how centralized the control is? I would argue neither is “more” free, just free in different ways. US has a huge problem in equal access to the law, which undermines freedom no matter how good the laws are.

New comment by LastTrain in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

LastTrain — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:09:39 +0000

Some of those seem like good things TBH.

New comment by LastTrain in "Thoughts on AI and Jobs"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:04 +0000

The whole “guiding hand” of our government is done through the lense of job creation. Tax incentives. Protectionist trade policies. War. IP law. It all imperfectly comes down to job creation, because jobs are fucking important and necessary. Beware people who now come along and say “oh jobs aren’t that great” because they are warming you to accept a certain reality. That is to say, this essay is not just complete rubbish, it is dangerous rubbish.

New comment by LastTrain in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:19:16 +0000

> I don't know if it's fair to require that needs to be unlocked

Sure it’s fair, and manufacturers could price accordingly. Legally enforceable is another story.

New comment by LastTrain in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:40:30 +0000

For peons sure. For anyone who is an actual security threat it would be easy. That is why this is either a) stupid or b) yet another lever to make it easier for this administration to incarcerate people.

New comment by LastTrain in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:32:49 +0000

> I draw the line at things that directly impact my net worth.

That is a really interesting admission upon which to evaluate your other comments here…

New comment by LastTrain in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:28:39 +0000

Sure. Why give a shit about anything really.

New comment by LastTrain in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:26:22 +0000

A few major failures will scare the risk mitigating bejesus out of some kinds of businesses, but maybe AI will be better than us at fixing those kinds of problems by then.

New comment by LastTrain in "Open source AI must win"

LastTrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:16:08 +0000

Hyperinflation is how it will impact most people. You will still have your job, at your pay, but a continually higher percentage of earnings will go to very few at the top.

New comment by LastTrain in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

LastTrain — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:40:24 +0000

How about instead we do "know your company" and consumers get intel about the ones doing the calls?

New comment by LastTrain in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

LastTrain — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:18:26 +0000

You, my friend, have drunk from the goblet of koolaid.

New comment by LastTrain in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

LastTrain — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:47:54 +0000

If slop adds nothing then discussing what is and isn’t slop and how to get rid of it does add something.

New comment by LastTrain in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

LastTrain — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:45 +0000

It’s also OK to be turned off by AI use in hobby projects and it is also OK to prefer disclosure of the use of AI in projects so I can make that choice.