Hacker News: Tubelord

New comment by Tubelord in "Decoy Font"

Tubelord — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:39:19 +0000

If you present the text in an image / GIF format it could be useful.

New comment by Tubelord in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

Tubelord — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:29:15 +0000

> most likely to be correct and sensible.

No, you mean “the non-deterministic transformation this time based on my training weights and temperature setting”

New comment by Tubelord in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

Tubelord — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:21:22 +0000

You still have to think about significant figures with calculators I used. Most will produce an irrational number result with as many insignificant digits that will fit on the display.

New comment by Tubelord in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Tubelord — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:53:13 +0000

I've found regarding nuances I discover in language learning it will really fail me. It will tell me the incorrect path, I correct it, it apologizes, then just to see I tell it that latest one was incorrect actually, it apologizes and I can put it in an endless loop of getting it to apologize as I correct it into the opposite of something over and over.

New comment by Tubelord in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

Tubelord — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:10:24 +0000

Maybe we need some kind of worldwide negative event first. In Star Trek lore, World War 3 starts this year (2026). Like with World War 2, perhaps it’s needed to calibrate the zeitgeist to a spot where a prosperous era can follow /shrug

New comment by Tubelord in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

Tubelord — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:57:01 +0000

He left a caveat for you if you read it

New comment by Tubelord in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

Tubelord — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:40:50 +0000

Care to elaborate? Just taking the impact of data centers on locals is enough to validate his point. (Noise pollution, heat pollution and emissions from on-site gas turbines)

New comment by Tubelord in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

Tubelord — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:52:39 +0000

It was a great game. I also play it on emulator now and then. I love the little fight to be the next on the ski lift after every lap.

New comment by Tubelord in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

Tubelord — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:49:38 +0000

If they don't it would be a relatively easy browser plugin to make.

New comment by Tubelord in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

Tubelord — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:27:46 +0000

Also toggle-able with a very visible and accessible widget that remembers your choice.

New comment by Tubelord in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

Tubelord — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:25:45 +0000

I wonder what other alternative search engines Google lost to besides DDG.

New comment by Tubelord in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

Tubelord — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:18 +0000

Everything is fundamentally energy. If you hate something you're just hating energy.

New comment by Tubelord in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

Tubelord — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:56:05 +0000

They have. Even during the congressional hearings on the subject they were talking about and referencing many already fully debunked UAP sighting footage

New comment by Tubelord in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

Tubelord — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:59:09 +0000

People play video games for many different reasons. As someone who plays them to experience human craftsmanship and creativity (some call it art), I'm not at all interested in playing a game created with AI. People are free to see it differently, but I'm sure I'm not alone.

New comment by Tubelord in "We're learning more about what Vitamin D does"

Tubelord — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:54:39 +0000

I guess the logistics of prescribing an entire population of anything is expensive, and overkill when people can supplement it in pills or diet, or just go outside more.

New comment by Tubelord in "What Killed Perl?"

Tubelord — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:36:13 +0000

My impression was experienced Perl programmers took pride in making the smallest code possible, all in one line.

At my company they really locked in the project being dead if the original contributors left.

Perl propped up regex (JavaScript regex is based off of it), so I get the impression Perl practitioners tried to make all the code regex-y as possible as a cultural thing.

New comment by Tubelord in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

Tubelord — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:43:30 +0000

I learned React before hooks. Came from a mostly forgotten framework called ExtJS that used base JavaScript classes, so it was an easy transition.

Class based React is great. My old projects are cleanly structured, but harder to change. Class based React also lacks the composability you get with hooks.

New comment by Tubelord in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

Tubelord — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:33:22 +0000

Pascal’s wager applied to tech cycles. The fervent adherence to the hype is akin to religious zealots in many ways

New comment by Tubelord in "Abundant Intelligence"

Tubelord — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:23:37 +0000

Yes, this post ironically makes me more bearish

New comment by Tubelord in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

Tubelord — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:35:26 +0000

Training models on so much AI-generated content will certainly lead to diminishing quality.