Hacker News: _wire_

New comment by _wire_ in "Mythos, make me a pelican on a bicycle (in 3D)"

_wire_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:47:35 +0000

Why is the word "beautiful" included in the prompt?

New comment by _wire_ in "Apple Cut Frequencies in WWDC Keynote to Prevent Siri Activations"

_wire_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:54:46 +0000

Put this amazing Siri technology in medical equipment, power grids, transportation...

Humans can't keep up with the complexity of AI; we're going to have to let AI manage it

New comment by _wire_ in "Fable 5 Ported the Ladybird Browser to WebAssembly in One Shot and It Cost $552"

_wire_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:48:30 +0000

What was the human operator cost?

How was the port verified as complete?

New comment by _wire_ in "The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts"

_wire_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:50:28 +0000

Reposted many times.

New comment by _wire_ in "How Costco sells such cheap gas"

_wire_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:26:51 +0000

30c is 5–7% discount over the field. Fine, if it's on your way. But if you drive a SUV it likely costs as much to drive to the discount as the savings are worth.

New comment by _wire_ in "'The rich are living a golden age under Trump'"

_wire_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:37:27 +0000

The rich are always living in a golden age

New comment by _wire_ in "Agents are getting phone numbers. The reason is not obvious"

_wire_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:49:33 +0000

White pages?

Having your phone number listed was once a desirable service of the phone company

New comment by _wire_ in "Jevons Paradox"

_wire_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:03:13 +0000

Not a paradox.

New comment by _wire_ in "Startup replaced $14K/mo cloud GPUs with 1000 M4 Mac Minis"

_wire_ — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:46:32 +0000

Whatever this article is about, it's probably not about economic advantage of local hosting.

The cloud GPUs are 170 thousand a year.

1000 minis are going to cost 1.5 million + floor space, power, setup and administration over their lifetime.

Amortizing the minis against the cloud savings looks to require 10 or more years.

But the entire genAI industry has manifest in less than 10 years-- AppleSi based compute modules aren't that old!

New comment by _wire_ in "Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?"

_wire_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:44:57 +0000

"Executioner... Execute!"

—The Grand Turk

New comment by _wire_ in "Software Has Long Been Beyond Our Understanding"

_wire_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:41:49 +0000

Software Has Long Been Beyond My Understanding

Fixed it.

New comment by _wire_ in "How LLMs Work"

_wire_ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:08:17 +0000

Which of these two articles (lead and below) is a parrot of the other?

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

Or are they sourced from a common ancestor?

New comment by _wire_ in "The simplest proof LLMs are not conscious [video]"

_wire_ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:30 +0000

> Please provide an evidentiary basis for human consciousness

I think, therefore I am.

Try it yourself.

If that's insufficient for you, you'll have to deal with this on your own.

New comment by _wire_ in "Terrifying -Two airliners took off just metres above airport workers"

_wire_ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:10:41 +0000

Strangely clear if taken as a contraction for "Near, but a miss."

Carlin's stand up was fun as loved goofing with such ambiguities.

New comment by _wire_ in "What AI slop (on LinkedIn and elsewhere) now reads like"

_wire_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:18:12 +0000

AI reads sloppy like it does because it mimics how people write.

Two utterly unnecessary and pretentious anecdotal figures of speech in this article are as devastating to the vibe as the slop it complains about:

I want to be clear...

...matters more than you realize...

The more woke the point, the more likely these figures will be used.

Closely followed by:

Let's get this straight..."

Did you know that..."

New comment by _wire_ in "Testing Google's Gemini Spark AI agent: it's incredible, and creepy"

_wire_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:31:27 +0000

I ask the machine to tell me what to do, and I do it. I'm free!

New comment by _wire_ in "macOS needs its grid back"

_wire_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:51:40 +0000

This is all normalization to iOS horseshit.

A list ordering is the most primitive and least memorable layout because lists sort arbitrarily and alphabetical listing of capabilities are not intuitive.

But the weirdness only grows from here:

For example, Photos shows library recents bottom to top, but pick-photo from library shows recents top to bottom

Portrait orientation puts "Done" on one end, landscape puts it on the other.

"Done" can be implied by a return tap or involve a "done" tap.

Some controls tap, some slide and some do both.

Release to release, the formats move around.

Format varies between apps & modes.

Mystery meat abounds

Holding the device a certain way causes spastic mode changes, which vary release to release.

Almost any way you touch the device instigates an action or mode change and some controls have 3+ levels of function:

WTF does the "power" button do?

- stand-by - camera shutter - emergency SOS vs shutdown - arbitrary mode change depending on accessibility setting

Bugs and features overlap.

The UI is never baked, ever more modal...

exhausting

New comment by _wire_ in "Anthropic is conditioning our minds"

_wire_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:21:53 +0000

The hazard of AI has never been domination by robot overlords, the hazard has always been turning people into robots. And there's 350 years of history of financed chattel slavery that proves this point.

New comment by _wire_ in "Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery"

_wire_ — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:12:35 +0000

Misleading lede "Forget..."

Corneal Electromechanical-Reshaping (EMR) experiments suggest that optical correction of vision may someday be possible by reshaping the cornea via electro-chemistry and a corneal mold, rather than tissue removal. Animal testing shows promise.

New comment by _wire_ in "Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during prelaunch test"

_wire_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:27:51 +0000

Systems are nominal

Fat cats please begin boarding now