Hacker News: TooSmugToFail

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay"

TooSmugToFail — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:27:19 +0000

So much more than my average of zero posts and zero replies per year.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

TooSmugToFail — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:24:29 +0000

Oh boy, would he enjoy the modernity.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

TooSmugToFail — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:08:13 +0000

I’d love to try Blunders pls! Thanks!!

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "'Playing with fire': Jeffrey Epstein bankrolled Bill Gates reported girlfriend"

TooSmugToFail — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:08:55 +0000

Seems like the dude ran a girlfriend-as-a-service business model, with non-monetary payment options.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "macOS app to copy text from screenshot"

TooSmugToFail — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:54:29 +0000

TRex is great, been using it for a while.

https://ameba.co/trex/ https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex/releases/tag/v2.0.0

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Two Claudes discussing the nature of their own existence"

TooSmugToFail — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:18:12 +0000

Wow. Whatever it was, this was deep, beautiful, and moving.

One thing comes to mind: this is not a kind of a conversation two human beings could have had. This is a genuinely LLM-to-LLM interaction, articulated in human terms.

I wonder about the “feelings” they refer to (or whatever is the term they used). What is the underlying phenomenology they chose to articulate as such?

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "White House slams Trump's perceived Nobel peace prize snub"

TooSmugToFail — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:50:31 +0000

This dude is attempting to gaslight the entire world.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth"

TooSmugToFail — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:49:56 +0000

Just a hint?

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "America by Design"

TooSmugToFail — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:34:52 +0000

“What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.”

3*:

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "America by Design"

TooSmugToFail — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:34:10 +0000

“What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.”

3 *:

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "I treated GPT as a prophet. It answered with a 740-page trilogy"

TooSmugToFail — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:04:15 +0000

Not related to the text itself, but the LLM style more generally: why does it regularly adopt the “it’s not X, it is Y” pattern?

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches starling to recall file"

TooSmugToFail — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:22:52 +0000

Not exactly.

What he did is he drew a simple sketch (a drawing of a bird) in an audio spectrogram, played the resulting sound to a (very talented) bird, which replayed the sound to him, and the spectrogram of the bird sound really looked quite similar to the original sketch.

While super interesting, not quite storing data in a bird in a way I hoped when reading the title.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "How to Future-Proof Your Work and Life with a Personal OS"

TooSmugToFail — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:40:38 +0000

Why do I need to subscribe to read the article?

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Daily Notes Considered Harmful"

TooSmugToFail — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:25:07 +0000

Daily notes are my life line.

If you’re managing any fairly complex organisation and handling multiple threads on variable time horizons, daily notes can be an immensely useful tool.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Gate Array"

TooSmugToFail — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:13:59 +0000

This reminded me reading (ages ago) about Altera’s HardCopy [1]: a “process that takes a working FPGA design implemented in one of Altera’s high-end FPGAs (such as Stratix II) and gives you a functionally- and footprint-equivalent ASIC at a fraction of the unit cost.”

Did a bit of Googling and realised it seems to be still alive in the form of Intel’s eASIC! [2].

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/20081125_hardcopy/

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/eas...

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Grok Pivots from 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust"

TooSmugToFail — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:47:38 +0000

Grok is the Tesla of AI: poor quality and desperately unreliable hype fuel.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Volonaut Airbike – Welcome to the Future of Mobility"

TooSmugToFail — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:13:04 +0000

That logo reminds me of Zastava Yugo.

https://images.app.goo.gl/BgXN2GVErNoMMECf7

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "A Plutonian Landscape"

TooSmugToFail — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:39:31 +0000

How come there’s no visible craters?

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Trustpilot just tried to extort us"

TooSmugToFail — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:17:26 +0000

Trust pilot is a scam. I knew that they protect you from negative reviews if you pay, but I didn’t know they would extort you if you don’t.

A new low.

New comment by TooSmugToFail in "Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia"

TooSmugToFail — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:26:36 +0000

Bonus: the useful idiots also caused damage and harm to the USA.