Hacker News: Voultapher

New comment by Voultapher in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

Voultapher — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:26:46 +0000

*Of text it has read the full book of, read a huge corpus of text discussing it and watched the highly successful adaption of.

We should feed a snippet of an unreleased book in a novel universe.

New comment by Voultapher in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Voultapher — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:06:42 +0000

They are asked _once_ during browser setup, same way on iOS users are asked once during setup if they want to allow Apps to track unique IDs (memory is hazy, they did that a couple years ago). And surprise surprise IIRC 96% of users said no.

New comment by Voultapher in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

Voultapher — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:34:06 +0000

My gut instinct is to call you a mooncalf, given the lengthy documented history of OpenAI "re-appropriating" things and wanting to profit from it. So here is my honest question, what light did you see them in before and what did you base that on?

New comment by Voultapher in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

Voultapher — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:39:39 +0000

Good on you for trying, and I'm not saying it can't improve things. Optimizing for structural metrics is still only as good as the metrics. I can say with confidence that no metric exists for good design, because good design is art. Art requires creativity and the evaluation lies in the eye of the beholder. It also doesn't help with the bigger picture, AIs often do the wrong thing because they have been tasked to do the wrong thing.

New comment by Voultapher in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

Voultapher — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:24:50 +0000

For what it's worth they aren't reselling at a loss but rather at an eye watering profit [0].

[0] This assumes Anthropic and Google actually keep paying for at least 1 year of the signed 3, since they can cancel their contracts easily.

New comment by Voultapher in "India's surprise baby bust"

Voultapher — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:13:15 +0000

Honestly that resonates with me. I haven't made up my mind 100% about the topic, but I can say it would be an easier decision if there was a stronger support network. Watching single children be bored and play with their semi-enthusiastic parents makes me sad.

But it's not all doom and gloom, there are plenty of areas where families live and you see gangs of kids of various age-groups roam the streets and parks.

New comment by Voultapher in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

Voultapher — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:47:56 +0000

The article paints immigration as something undoubtedly negative:

> They are willing to accept a smaller economy, strained pensions, and dead rural towns as the price for keeping their core cities safe, clean, and culturally familiar.

I'll not pretend that immigration is an easy, uncontroversial and solved topic. But can we maybe not equate immigration with dirty and dangerous cities? Yes that has been the rhetoric for thousands of years, but it's most often the rhetoric of those with a dubious track record of saying true things. Trump is famously anti-immigration, why trust what he says? Since 9/11 the stereotype of a terrorist in the USA has been a brown Muslim. The facts tell us the majority of domestic terrorism is done by white christian dudes. I get that xenophobia is an emotional topic for many, but that doesn't excuse racism.

New comment by Voultapher in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

Voultapher — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:14:15 +0000

I despise AI generated no-effort art as much as the next person but what they are offering here is fine-grained application of AI tools which is completely different to one-shot do the art for me. Does anyone have experience with the processing cost it takes to run these effects locally? Topaz takes a minutes to do superresolution on a single picture and this has to work for many frames so I'd assume it is faster?

Also excited about the picture stuff. I'm on an aging Lightroom version and wouldn't mind something that works well on Linux. Also huge plus point is the licensing model.

New comment by Voultapher in "Coreutils for Windows"

Voultapher — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:02:11 +0000

It's not seamless now is it if half the commands don't work.

Wine and other compatibility layers show that non-trivial software doesn't work if even one of the many layers uses something unsupported.

New comment by Voultapher in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Voultapher — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:34 +0000

https://grimsmoknives.com/products/norseman-8359-8730526 look at those steps, calling this "precision & accuracy well beyond what's possible to achieve by hand" has to be a joke. Their other non CNC knives look much cleaner.

New comment by Voultapher in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

Voultapher — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:44:14 +0000

Based on operating experience and outlook, Rocketlab shouldn't be forgotten on that list. Launch cadence is the driving factor for revenue and profit for these companies' launch division.

New comment by Voultapher in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

Voultapher — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:06:31 +0000

Sadly this is pretty on brand for police everywhere, but it's particularly egregious in "the land of the free".

If you want a sobering perspective on government power and its connection to wealth look into the history of labor movement.

Or this senate report about the CIA's detention and interogation program [0]. The section "Findings and Conclusions" is some of the most damning stuff I've ever read. Essentially they lied about the scope and brutality of the torturing, lied about its success - there was none or even negative effectiveness and every case they used as an example was a success because of information collected through other means - and actively sabotaged all attempts at oversight.

[0] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/...

New comment by Voultapher in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Voultapher — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:38:38 +0000

Long story short, your point was that machines can do many things better than humans and I argue they can't even do kitchen knives better. How easily and well you cut through things depends on the thickness of the blade wedging them apart. Especially noticeable on denser food like carrots. The apex is the actual pointy part of the blade, and the thickness of the part after the apex and overall blade geometry dictate the cutting experience. Getting the front part thin is usually done via hand-grinding even in the video you shared, a fully controlled process would use something like C&C, but that tech currently can't get things thin enough to be a good knive.

New comment by Voultapher in "The Eternal Sloptember"

Voultapher — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:22:09 +0000

Even something as "simple" as a kitchen knife - the same basic concept found in ancient roman everyday kitchens - can't be made to the same quality by a machine as per hand. CNC can't do the tolerances needed behind the apex. Even ignoring the story attached to a specific maker and going solely by cutting ability the really top end hand-made stuff noticeably outperforms everything mass-produced.

New comment by Voultapher in "Autoenshittification (Background on WEI and Google Cloud Fraud Defence)"

Voultapher — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:02:28 +0000

Required reading every-time remote attestation comes up.

Autoenshittification (Background on WEI and Google Cloud Fraud Defence)

Voultapher — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:02:28 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073636

Points: 3

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New comment by Voultapher in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

Voultapher — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:02:01 +0000

The whole Coding Standards talk has always felt like an own goal. Don't get me wrong I have extensive C++ experience and wouldn't work on a project that doesn't have guidelines. But the fact that one _needs_ plain english and hard to check in an automated fashion guidelines when using the tool that is C++ implies something about the deeper culture and issues at play.

Sir you're holding the wrong handle.

New comment by Voultapher in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

Voultapher — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:06:19 +0000

This "violence never solved anything" mindset is in stark contrast with recorded history.

New comment by Voultapher in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

Voultapher — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:11:49 +0000

Proof by analogy is fraud .. and here the analogy is incorrect as well.

New comment by Voultapher in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

Voultapher — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:59:37 +0000

Every time I hear his name I have to think of "America needs to build more" but just not in my backyard.

> “I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton,” the two wrote in their email, signed by both, as reported by The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas. “Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.” [0]

Pointing out hypocrisy is easy and not necessarily damning. But looking at all the -100 for everyone but +2 for me fabric of society abusing startups he funds I can't help but think he is a pretty whack person. Let's stop listening to him.

[0] https://fortune.com/2022/08/06/marc-andreessen-billionaire-n...