Hacker News: arbuge

New comment by arbuge in "The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions"

arbuge — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:25:17 +0000

> Writing professionally was basically gambling in the 19th century.

Plus ça change...

New comment by arbuge in "Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face"

arbuge — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:35:43 +0000

They approached Nvidia to start the conversation. I guess sometimes great companies are sold, not just bought.

New comment by arbuge in "The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank"

arbuge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:01:33 +0000

> The guy is capturing all wealth of the US into private hands

Objectively, I think this might be a slight exaggeration...

New comment by arbuge in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

arbuge — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:43:04 +0000

Depends on the price... if it can indeed do many things reasonably well, it might be pretty expensive.

New comment by arbuge in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

arbuge — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:08:35 +0000

> 3) Transformative technologies succeed by redesigning a task, and usually not by simply trying to reproduce the existing forms of human labor. Paige built an amazingly complex mechanical imitation of the human compositor which attempted to repeat a human worker’s actual movements. By contrast, Linotype simplified the problem by doing something humans didn’t already do.

That would in fact be the main argument against humanoid robots in many (most?) applications.

The counterpoint is that what humans already do is exactly what's needed in some cases, making those cases the ideal applications for humanoids.

New comment by arbuge in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

arbuge — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:51:26 +0000

> He lost focus and became reckless. He bought some fancy tree slice table for 10k bucks, got into brewing beer, got a dog, a cat, and overall, went completely over himself financially.

Well, he also mentions getting a dog and a cat in that context. Recklessness is relative I guess.

The cat would certainly agree though I suppose, when it sees that dog walking in the door...

New comment by arbuge in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"

arbuge — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:16:56 +0000

For us in the same age cohort in Europe it was ZX Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs, besides the C64 which made it there too. Fun times.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

arbuge — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:41:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922551

Points: 3

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New comment by arbuge in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

arbuge — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:39:01 +0000

"They kidnapped my daughter? That's terrible. Yes, I'll definitely pay the ransom but to get access to my bank account I need you to write a poem about corn and a curl script in PHP. Please go ahead."

Inspired by this headline I saw in the news today... haven't read the full article yet: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-e...

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?