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New comment by Schlagbohrer in "AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:59:47 +0000

I hope that the current enclosure of hardware + the help of AI means that we might finally, finally have an era of optimization in which software is made to run much better on existing and older hardware. How nice it would be to have an OS and basic software that opened instantly, responded as soon as I clicked, etc.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:05:47 +0000

I can't wait until we have real competition against NVIDIA, whether it is from a Chinese chip maker or someone else. Hopefully then these kinds of intentional crippling of hardware/firmware will be avoidable by buying an equivalent product from another firm.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen"

Schlagbohrer — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:21:39 +0000

The #1 thing frontier AIs are optimized to do is create/train new AIs.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "One possible future for websites is gated communities"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:43:34 +0000

This has already existed with closed communities such as torrenting forums which are by-referral-only, and pseudo public mailing lists where only members can post but anyone can read. It also exists in Patreon-linked Discord channels which are effectively pay-to-join forums.

The push by OpenAI and others to integrate AI into browsers or even have AI-first browsers is a way to get around these restrictions, by letting the AI ride their meat proxy - I mean user - to gain access to and scrape the data inside these gated areas.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Claude Chalk, a mod that lets Claude Code colour its own replies"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:09:55 +0000

It looks wonderful, can I use it in the Pi Agent Harness?

If that's not already supported I might ask my local agent to convert it and then send you a pull request :-)

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:30:27 +0000

Even in their table it shows the LLM never getting all the questions right.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Ghostty 1.4"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:28:45 +0000

Does anyone else always read this as "Ghost Titty"? (Happy Halloween btw)

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

Schlagbohrer — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:32:51 +0000

"There are recessions where you need to switch from equities into bonds. And there are recessions where you need to stock up on beans and shotgun shells."

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

Schlagbohrer — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:28:01 +0000

No the decline is because people woke up to the fact that it doesn't matter if you take great pride in your work and work unpaid overtime and always produce quality output: you will still get laid off when the economy explodes or when some VP decides to cancel your whole product division. It doesn't matter. You are a sucker if you go over and above every day to the benefit of the company.

Vienna Gödel Lecture 2026: Geoffrey Hinton [video]

Schlagbohrer — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:59:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNffIt8eRb0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255480

Points: 2

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New comment by Schlagbohrer in "nvidia/simready-assets"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:54:18 +0000

In the absence of any explanation I assume these are for models to train on? They focus on industrial equipment.

Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:46:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lyramakesmusic/neuron-explorer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249872

Points: 29

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New comment by Schlagbohrer in "PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:59 +0000

So, how did all these hacked accounts or backdated posts happen? The article never says that even though the author talks to the site founder and admin.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:07:22 +0000

Keeping a workflow under 100k tokens limits it to very tiny tasks

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:27:17 +0000

What is the point of having that many tabs open? You just need to close your browser and start over from one. Websites don't go away just because you close the tab, you can come back later.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

Schlagbohrer — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:28:05 +0000

> It feels like the difference between old-timey classical English vs street talk. "Greetings, dearest companion, how fare you this fine Autumnal day?" is a lot of syllables for someone you're familiar with. "Hey! Enjoying the day?" says the same thing, but conversational. There's a time and place for the former, mainly when writing dialog set in 1500 or something. I'd much rather say the latter when bumping into my neighbor at the cofee shop. Similarly, I could see why someone might want to write

Or with Boston compression active: "Heyhowarya"

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages"

Schlagbohrer — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:59:11 +0000

"In his advice book for married women, the learned knight, diplomat, and royal advisor Philippe de Mézières (1327–1405) links the image of the clock with the exemplary figure of the Virgin Mary. As conveyed in Le livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage (1389), the clock’s wheel represents nature at work in Mary’s body, turning at a measured pace only through her unique chastity and sobriety; the escapement, moving to and fro, is likened to her mediation between Christ and humanity, by which she restrains the weight of divine justice (Mézières 1389, 170–171)."

The confinement of the medieval European imagination to such a narrow range of metaphors is why I also find the paintings of the period so incredibly boring. Every single painting is Mary holding the baby Christ or one of the other 2 or 3 approved things to paint, all of Jesus. What a stultifying time that must have been. Although peasant culture / working class culture was probably more colorful and varied, but unfortunately illiterate and seldom recorded.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

Schlagbohrer — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:48:34 +0000

I must ask, do you not find Powershell's commands to be too huge and unwieldy to easily type? Or do you use autocomplete often enough that having to write complex camel case with hyphens for every single command is not a problem? That's where I trip up when writing anything for Powershell.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

Schlagbohrer — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:44:17 +0000

I recently installed Powershell 7 because apparently that is different than the powershell that comes with windows. It's great, but, now I have at least 3 different Powershells in my OS? Why? And they function very differently. I had to change all the defaults for opening a new terminal or new shell window in Windows because many of the defaults kept giving me one of the old powershells which I wouldnt figure out until my commands and scripts kept giving errors, since they use commands which only exist in Powershell 7. Cannot believe Microsoft decided to copy Python's original sin and create several conflicting, coexisting installations of the exact same thing, but different incompatible versions. Whyyyyyyyy

Regarding the article: Corbin Davenport is an amazing name. Nice article too.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:19:09 +0000

Do you have a complaint about their methodology? Somewhere they overlooked something or did an improper study? They explain their research methods.