Hacker News: asats

New comment by asats in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

asats — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:24:39 +0000

Are you using the instant model?

New comment by asats in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

asats — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:17:07 +0000

Same, and what made me finally quit reddit for good was realizing that on a given r/all page I was blocking 98+% of the content, to the point where it made me question why I am even bothering.

New comment by asats in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

asats — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:03:07 +0000

near slavery

New comment by asats in "Why language models hallucinate"

asats — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:10:31 +0000

Exactly. I always found it strange when people assume that "hallucinations" are just some sort of a bug in the system, as if by you tweaking some code or training modality will produce an oracle of absolute truth incapable of making mistakes.

New comment by asats in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

asats — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:31:28 +0000

Also the human vision is backed by the general intelligence, which those cameras are very much not.

New comment by asats in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

asats — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:11:11 +0000

Still doesn't answer why you would need any crypto here. Why can't the USD transferred to stripe just be a record in an SQL database saying customer X has N USD in the account, and transferring that around could be done instantly at zero cost by changing an sql row.

New comment by asats in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

asats — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:11:39 +0000

Sure, if we are talking about the top end we can check the O-visas, the "extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics" ones, both the applications and the issuance of those went up even more than the DV applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa#Number_of_visas_issued_...

New comment by asats in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

asats — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:58:05 +0000

>The desire to come and immigrate to the US has greatly diminished

Do you have any data to back up that claim?

E.g. the number of diversity lottery applicants (one of the easiest proxies to judge how many people express their interest in moving to the US) went up from 12 million in 2011 to almost 20 million last year.

New comment by asats in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

asats — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:52:43 +0000

>day-to-day life is mostly similar to life in the west

The "happy path" is, the major differences start when you have any kind of a problem, then not having any functional institutions makes the experience _very_ different from the west.

New comment by asats in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

asats — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:36:12 +0000

The pages are not static and require computation to serve, and there's more than one app on that same bare metal server, so it was negatively affecting the performance of a lot of my other stuff.

If I couldn't easily cut off the majority of that bot volume I probably would've shut down the app entirely.

New comment by asats in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

asats — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:12:19 +0000

I've some personal apps online and I had to turn the cloudflare ai bot protection on because one of them got 1.6TB of data accessed by the bots in the last month, 1.3 million requests per day, just non stop hammering it with no limits.

New comment by asats in "Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels"

asats — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:01:03 +0000

Both of those things could be solved by just talking to people, and talking to people does not require you to use addiction machines.

I keep in touch with my friends abroad by emailing them when I think about them, and I get long form responses on what they are up to, not whatever is the public image filtered stuff that they may or may not be posting somewhere.

New comment by asats in "Telo MT1"

asats — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 04:57:04 +0000

And it's a self reinforcing downward loop as those deteriorating online spaces then completely drive away everyone with anything better to do

New comment by asats in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

asats — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:04:05 +0000

Or confidently declaring the _true_ motivations of companies/people, like they, the random internet person, for sure know why some company or a famous person are doing something, and express it as a statement of fact and an agreed upon common sense and not a speculation based on nothing.

Most seen on reddit but seems to be becoming commonplace on here as well.

New comment by asats in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

asats — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:10:22 +0000

Don't know if I'm biased but it seems there has been a slow but consistent and accelerating redditification of hacker news.

New comment by asats in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

asats — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:40:49 +0000

Why not find a job where hard work is valued, or start your own company?

New comment by asats in "Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities"

asats — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 22:31:35 +0000

If I'm not mistaken that's 0.08% of their revenue.

New comment by asats in "The 1/8th Sleep"

asats — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:55:04 +0000

I think most Garmins have it. I have a Venu 3 and am very happy with it, the killer feature for me is it getting over a week of battery life on a single charge vs the apple watch with it's 20 hours.

The 1/8th Sleep

asats — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:43:01 +0000

Article URL: https://near.blog/the-1-8th-sleep/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41824138

Points: 195

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New comment by asats in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

asats — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:59:42 +0000

>Try harder

Why? I have zero interest in yet another utopian idea that will probably result in millions dead, as they always do. The current system works well enough and seems like a miracle to me coming from where I grew up, the fact that you can work hard on anything you want, take risks and get rewarded for it, and no one is gonna arbitrarily take it all away is magical.