Hacker News: abixb

Linux, Finally for Everyone

abixb — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:36:50 +0000

Article URL: https://yololinux.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557942

Points: 8

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New comment by abixb in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

abixb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:17:49 +0000

Looks like a fantastic book at the outset. Thanks for the suggestion.

High Stakes in Cyberspace – PBS Frontline (1995) [video]

abixb — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvef46Lb9QI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158597

Points: 3

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New comment by abixb in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

abixb — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:55:12 +0000

Thanks, good one. The current Russian economy is a shell of its former self. Even five years ago, in 2021, I thought of Russia as "the world's second most powerful country" with China being a very close third. Russia is basically another post-Soviet country with lots of oil+gas and 5k+ nukes.

New comment by abixb in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

abixb — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:27:34 +0000

Heavy Gemini user here, another observation: Gemini cites lots of "AI generated" videos as its primary source, which creates a closed loop and has the potential to debase shared reality.

A few days ago, I asked it some questions on Russia's industrial base and military hardware manufacturing capability, and it wrote a very convincing response, except the video embedded at the end of the response was an AI generated one. It might have had actual facts, but overall, my trust in Gemini's response to my query went DOWN after I noticed the AI generated video attached as the source.

Countering debasement of shared reality and NOT using AI generated videos as sources should be a HUGE priority for Google.

YouTube channels with AI generated videos have exploded in sheer quantity, and I think majority of the new channels and videos uploaded to YouTube might actually be AI; "Dead internet theory," et al.

When U.S. Troops Fought Nazis in the Arctic: The Forgotten Battle for Greenland

abixb — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:58:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.military.com/feature/2025/10/13/when-us-troops-fought-nazis-arctic-forgotten-battle-greenland.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708283

Points: 4

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New comment by abixb in "Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite"

abixb — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:12:13 +0000

Wonder if you could turn this into a .zim file for offline browsing with an offline browser like Kiwix, etc. [0]

I've been taking frequent "offline-only-day" breaks to consolidate whatever I've been learning, and Kiwix has been a great tool for reference (offline Wikipedia, StackOverflow and whatnot).

[0] https://kiwix.org/en/the-new-kiwix-library-is-available/

New comment by abixb in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

abixb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:54:16 +0000

One could argue that the quality of life per horse went up, even if the total number of horses went down. Lots more horses now get raised in farms and are trained to participate in events like dressage and other equestrian sports.

New comment by abixb in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

abixb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:12:12 +0000

>" One interpretation is that the extra $10 billion from the price increases will offset some of the red ink Microsoft is bleeding because of the investments they’re making in datacenter capacity, hardware, and software needed to make Copilot useful"

Saying the quiet part out loud. Looks like O365 folks will have to subsidize MSFT's losses in giving Azure compute away for its LLM customers. Not great.

New comment by abixb in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

abixb — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:29:53 +0000

I get that, but what I'm saying is that it's anticompetitive as heck. In a fair system, profits from NVDA's revenue growth should've been distributed to shareholders as dividends or reinvested into the company itself, not buy its own customers -- that's my (and countless others') biggest gripe with the whole AI bubble bs.

Antitrust regulators must be sleeping at the wheels.

New comment by abixb in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

abixb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:06:37 +0000

Anthropomorphizing non-human things is only human.

New comment by abixb in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

abixb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:39:15 +0000

The first step in building a large language model. That's when the model is initiated and trained on a huge dataset to learn patterns and whatnot. The "P" in "GPT" stands for "pre-trained."

New comment by abixb in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

abixb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:35:33 +0000

>They’re absolutely going to get bailed out and socialize the losses somehow.

I've had that uneasy feeling for a while now. Just look at Jensen and Nvidia -- they're trying to get their hooks into every major critical sector as they're able to (Nokia last month, Synopsys just recently). When chickens come home to roost, my guess is that they'll pull out the "we're too big to fail, so bailout pls" card.

Crazy times. If only we had regulators with more spine.

Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer (2019)

abixb — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/well/mind/putting-down-your-phone-may-help-you-live-longer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999170

Points: 1

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New comment by abixb in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

abixb — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:29:26 +0000

Switching a Japanese dumbphone (Kyocera) was the best thing I ever did. Eliminating your smartphone (as inconvenient and life altering as it may be -- you'll need to figure out a path) is probably the single most effective thing you can do to get into the top 1-10%... of people with properly functioning cognition.

New comment by abixb in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

abixb — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:26:20 +0000

Glad to see a fellow Madisonian make it to HN frontpage. Great work!

New comment by abixb in "Nano Banana Pro"

abixb — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:01:05 +0000

I feel it's strategic, like a massive DDoS/"shock and awe" style attack on competitors. Gotta love it as PROsumers though!

New comment by abixb in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

abixb — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:07:45 +0000

Insightful paper. Policy/lawmakers needs to take much more input from high-quality, publicly funded (aka unbiased) research and make informed decisions on restricting content type. The social media companies rn are akin to tobacco companies selling products/services to kids (and adults!) with zero meaningful restriction or warnings. There's a mountain of research showing cognitive performance impacts from content consumed through smartphone, especially fluffy, low quality "algorithmic feed" content.

BTW, I still need to use YouTube and this one extension has protected my YouTube experience from being TikTok-ified -- "ShortsBlocker - Remove Shorts from YouTube" [0]

When people do send me random Shorts, I use another browser (consciously) to watch that particular video and shut it back down. You can also pair that with "Block YouTube Feed - Homepage, Sidebar Videos" [1] for another layer of YouTube cruft removal.

Finally, I've also installed "Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat" [2] which keeps me from scrolling down to comments and letting that 'color' my perception of the video -- has restored my own ability to judge the value of a video.

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shortsblocker-remov...

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/block-youtube-feed-...

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turn-off-youtube-co...

New comment by abixb in "Gemini 3"

abixb — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:15:31 +0000

Okay, Gemini 3.0 Pro has officially surpassed Claude 4.5 (and GPT-5.1) as the top ranked model based on my private evals (multimodal reasoning w/ images/audio files and solving complex Caesar/transposition ciphers, etc.).

Claude 4.5 solved it as well (the Caesar/transposition ciphers), but Gemini 3.0 Pro's method and approach was a lot more elegant. Just my $0.02.

Anthropic's AI Claude tried to contact the FBI

abixb — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:54:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/why-anthropics-ai-claude-tried-002808728.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954110

Points: 3

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