Hacker News: Upvoter33

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

Upvoter33 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:26:31 +0000

"US government bans floating point numbers"

New comment by Upvoter33 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

Upvoter33 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:57:46 +0000

ah cool - thanks for the clarification. some of the comments here read like nothing like this has ever been done before ...

New comment by Upvoter33 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

Upvoter33 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:40:43 +0000

Lots of great work that pioneered here (I wish the website did a better job showing that?)

e.g., Dr. Brett Seales and his decades of work: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601247

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

Upvoter33 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:25:37 +0000

No that is not true. Read about PARC and all the crazy tech they built some time. It was ahead of its time!

New comment by Upvoter33 in "For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:13:23 +0000

Come on. It reads all the code in the world; then, you ask it to produce code; then, it gladly writes out something "new" which is a synthesis of what is out there, often with direct copying. It's more than reading.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:04:48 +0000

Also connected: many composers would write out previous great works, to learn them more deeply. Bach as I recall would do this.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:33:37 +0000

Which Hamming quote, btw, do you refer to? I think he mostly talks about talking with other "smart" people, and communicating what you are working on a lot (like giving talks, etc.). But, this doesn't read like much of a case for the humanities, per se.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:31:53 +0000

this is true in all human endeavors. Tech is not special in this regard, alas.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

Upvoter33 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:26 +0000

It didn't strike me as modest, to compare oneself to another who is known to be great.

"Van Gogh is almost certainly a better painter than I am" -Monet

New comment by Upvoter33 in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Upvoter33 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:34:54 +0000

You know, there seems to be a hidden thought here that it's either just (A) let the Founders do their thing and of course they will provide great value and happen to become billionaires as a result or (B) tax those crooked cheaters who are taking our wealth.

There could be alternatives. For example, laws that ensure ownership of said companies is more widely held, so that the wealth is more evenly distributed among those who created it, for instance.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

Upvoter33 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:04:22 +0000

written with confidence too. I'm amazed at the levels of confidence people have in predicting the (unclear) future.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

Upvoter33 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:15:26 +0000

I'm having a hard time putting much faith into posts like these, especially as they near IPO.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

Upvoter33 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:03:10 +0000

I read this differently: they are actually seeing that it's hard to keep advancing frontier models, and now are moving the goal posts so that when they start getting evaluated more harshly, they can point to something like this.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Check Your Fucking Sources, People"

Upvoter33 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:57:01 +0000

"Links No Longer Mean Credibility" - did they used to? I mean, I mostly agree with this article but a person could have written this about the internet. I remember people linking to all sorts of random web pages and using that as a source of credibility.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Googlebook"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:24:46 +0000

I'm amazed by all the "people hate AI therefore this won't get anywhere". This is a first (perhaps real) attempt to envision what a desktop of the future looks like assuming AI progress continues. If I'm Apple, I'm very concerned about this, because it is the type of thing that will be tough for them to compete with if Google can pull it off. A traditional computer experience may be very different in a few years, and Google may suddenly be the company that can pull this all together...

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."

Upvoter33 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:55:05 +0000

Really? I see this all the time. Maybe I'm going to all the wrong places. I see "couples" on their phones, I see groups of friends on their phones, etc., etc. Maybe different parts of the country / world?

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

Upvoter33 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:52:26 +0000

so is the Unix command line ...

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Kona EV Hacking"

Upvoter33 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:56:19 +0000

me too. It's like it was written in 1980.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now"

Upvoter33 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:02:19 +0000

“The presence of greatness” - ugh.

New comment by Upvoter33 in "Some Words on WigglyPaint"

Upvoter33 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:23:29 +0000

Yes I’ve had to do this but it does work. Unfortunately it’s a constant cost to have to look for stuff like this and then do the work.