Hacker News: arbuge

New comment by arbuge in "I Love the Computer"

arbuge — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:31:30 +0000

I fondly remember programming my Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer, in 1984 in Malta when I was ~11 years old. It booted straight into Locomotive Basic. Still remember my excitement at getting it to draw a circle on the screen for the first time. Good times.

New comment by arbuge in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

arbuge — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:39:27 +0000

> In a few years, there will be hardware capable of running frontier models good enough for most things at accessible prices for even tiny companies.

What makes you so confident about this prediction? Hardware costs haven't exactly been cratering recently.

New comment by arbuge in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

arbuge — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:47:32 +0000

Can they actually make money at these prices?

New comment by arbuge in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

arbuge — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:50:53 +0000

The EVs I'd really like to see some day in the US are the dirt cheap 100 mile range $5k Chinese EVs.

One can dream I guess.

New comment by arbuge in "VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)"

arbuge — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:33:46 +0000

> free-to-use pay phones

Some redundant words there perhaps.

Piss Pot Island

arbuge — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Pot_Island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111485

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by arbuge in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

arbuge — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:52:15 +0000

As it pertains to AI, I think we will eventually come around to the conclusion that consciousness is not a useful construct.

New comment by arbuge in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

arbuge — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:50 +0000

> Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It’s not aimed at designers.

Well, when you put it that way, that sounds bad for designers, and, by extension, Figma.

ps. I do like commas.

New comment by arbuge in "Michael Rabin has died"

arbuge — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:37:45 +0000

I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.

New comment by arbuge in "Claude Design"

arbuge — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:02:35 +0000

They state the link is claude.ai/design, which currently goes to:

Page not found Claude can help with many things, but finding this page isn’t one of them.

when logged in.

New comment by arbuge in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

arbuge — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:21:38 +0000

I'm far from a crypto expert but aren't costs largely GPUs and electricity here?

Those are now being driven by massive AI demand and are likely to remain so for the forseeable future. So how would costs go down?

New comment by arbuge in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

arbuge — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:22:43 +0000

Perhaps they'll pro-rate it by size.

New comment by arbuge in "AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds"

arbuge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:12:58 +0000

That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.

AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

arbuge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-bots-humans-internet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530589

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Obviously your list is different from mine.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:03:16 +0000

No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article:

> The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast majority being protesters, while warning the toll could be far higher.

Neither CBS News nor this agency are friends of the factions you mention. Facts are stubborn things.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:59:58 +0000

Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had governments that weren't.

If you have a problem with those laws and think our borders should be wide open, that's of course a different matter, and one you should take up with Congress, which makes the laws.

I think those laws should be changed by the way, to be much friendlier towards Hispanic immigrants. They share our cultural values and are easy for the US to assimilate in my opinion, so long as they're properly vetted for obvious criminal behavior, ability and motivation to work, etc.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:56:52 +0000

What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes.

Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thousands of Germans to take down Hitler in WW2?

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:34:56 +0000

From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration:

"Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:11:05 +0000

They did however murder thousands of protesters in their own streets in January, and who knows how much more dissidents over the years.

This one was just this week: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-execution-teen-wrestler-ja...

So there's that.