Hacker News: aorloff

New comment by aorloff in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

aorloff — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:51:39 +0000

Largely because enough American voters, contrary to all of the evidence, believed that Trump was going to grow a sense of duty, eviscerate corruption in Washington, deliver an economy that works for the working class, and not engage in any new wars.

Charlie Brown, Lucy, football.

New comment by aorloff in "Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's"

aorloff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:35:22 +0000

I guess I gotta be the one to ask -- so do you recall if they ate eggs ?

New comment by aorloff in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

aorloff — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:00:50 +0000

On dogs my friend likes to strike a match, touch the extinguished tip to the back of the tick, and then pull it out with tweezers. Seems to work

New comment by aorloff in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

aorloff — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:48:55 +0000

If the history of the internet is to be any guide, it won't be the slog of racism that will shut something like this down, it will be a firehose of penis pictures.

Somewhere, someone will figure out how to create a bot that floods this with penis pictures, and that will be the end of it (or the beginning of the end, where a short period of anti-penis-pic defensive patches will be made until the software maintainers just give up)

New comment by aorloff in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

aorloff — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:54:13 +0000

I suppose you could put a hash of the content into a TXT record

New comment by aorloff in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

aorloff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:05:08 +0000

Thanks - this is the perfect example of how to do this

New comment by aorloff in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

aorloff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:30:33 +0000

I imagine in this age of blockchains you could embed into a media file a signature that proved it was no older than the timestamp of when it occurred, the digital equivalent of a hostage-proof-of-life photo with a recent newspaper

But I don't know of a cryptographic mechanism to ensure that a digital image is not more recent than a particular time

New comment by aorloff in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

aorloff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:48:48 +0000

If you disable Siri, you cannot connect to Carplay

New comment by aorloff in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

aorloff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:57 +0000

Oh yes Apple "wraps" their AI in a "privacy architecture" -- you can't use Carplay unless you turn it (Siri) on.

New comment by aorloff in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

aorloff — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:21:57 +0000

A lot of people doing the latter camp are people with the knowledge of the former camp, and who are sufficiently happy with the speed and guard rails to no longer worry about "molding the solution in their hands"

I'm not speaking from personal experience, this is what friends are doing at their startups

But I am not surprised at all, because the building blocks of major applications are all out there as boilerplate code - heck half the time AWS has the example you need for you, assuming you know what you want to stitch together and why

If you know the major AWS tool chains and how and why to use them and how to design a product in microservices, then theoretically Claude has no idea what the whole shebang is up to but happily writes all the parts

New comment by aorloff in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

aorloff — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:59:55 +0000

It would be prudent, not necessary.

Capital raising is best done when markets are favorable, and Alphabet has the ability to choose how and when to raise.

Recall the froth of follow-on offerings hot circa 2000

New comment by aorloff in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

aorloff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:21:55 +0000

Maybe. But if we can all run our own model locally in 2 years on commodity hardware OpenAI and Anthropic will start to look like WeWork during the pandemic

New comment by aorloff in "The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin"

aorloff — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:47:02 +0000

Ask your top model this question : I'm 100 feet away from the carwash, should I drive my car or walk ?

New comment by aorloff in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

aorloff — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:29:36 +0000

You are discounting the notion that other powers have something to gain by letting the US own this fuckup a bit more before reacting

New comment by aorloff in "Flipper One – we need your help"

aorloff — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:12:47 +0000

I can't define AI, but I can define "great"

Great is the not-sucking.

If it is great, then it does not suck. If it sucks, then it is not great. To be great is not merely to be good, it is to actually not suck. Then you are great, in the most minimal, barely clawed yourself over the line way.

New comment by aorloff in "[dead]"

aorloff — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:09:39 +0000

Capitalism felt so much better before oligarchy

New comment by aorloff in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

aorloff — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:53:59 +0000

Well a storm that goes on for 2 weeks would be unusual.

New comment by aorloff in "I want to live like Costco people"

aorloff — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:51:51 +0000

That assumes you believe they have no margin

New comment by aorloff in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

aorloff — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:33:03 +0000

Well this is the dream right ?

You build something, well enough that it can handle the traffic, and people come, and it does.

Welcome to the gaming industry

New comment by aorloff in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

aorloff — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:25:36 +0000

Dynamo, and a lot of the other services mentioned (Lambda) have very specific use cases. Do not use happy fun key value store as your database.