Hacker News: ausbah

New comment by ausbah in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ausbah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:33:45 +0000

straight up lying and doomer boomer mentality, sad and gross.

very consistent correlations between migrants being net positive economic providers, more law abiding then native citizens, and just straight up regurgitating racist myths

mass deportations won’t solve anything economic when it’s the same admin hamstringing prices and rates with tariffs, war, and defacto support of the oligopoly

i really wish basement dwellers like you though of something original now and then

New comment by ausbah in "[dead]"

ausbah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:02:18 +0000

i’m not trying to dismiss this article entirely as i did get value around from discussion around verifying

but this coming from a VC firm invested in token producing companies and quoting the “genius” behind openclaw makes me think this is just an psyop of over engineering to get ppl to blindly spend tokens on the LLM slot machine

New comment by ausbah in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

ausbah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:47:52 +0000

i have unlimited tokens being a large corp so i’m a bit detached from billing and even general best practices for promoting

but the incentives of these companies to become profitable at any cost slipping into entire new types of dark patterns around token based billing seems gross

- charging for injected prompts and cot tokens

- changing default thinking effort to be higher

- training models to give longer winded answers that don’t say anything more of substance

- refusing to fulfill a request and still charging you

i wonder if you could ever just charge based of each user message and it so how breaks even across short and long replies

New comment by ausbah in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

ausbah — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:31:16 +0000

i’m sure everyone replying to this thread has a level headed and unbiased assessment of themselves

New comment by ausbah in "On AI regulation and messaging"

ausbah — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:55:47 +0000

substack has devolved into the same thing. opening the app first thing you see if a infinite scroll of twitter like takes

and i honestly would rather have a reddit lite site like hacker news where there appears to be at least a diversity of opinion than the pseudo-intellectualization cjing occurring among the exact same sort of AI cockgobblers on LW

New comment by ausbah in "On AI regulation and messaging"

ausbah — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:49:19 +0000

and how does the public view AI tech workers?

New comment by ausbah in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:37:43 +0000

if you’re visiting major cities and need basic clothing you’re probably shopping at the some of the same name brand outlets or lines

New comment by ausbah in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:36:48 +0000

interesting how much overlap onebagging has with ultralight backpacking

New comment by ausbah in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:52:33 +0000

first sentence is one step from outright discrimination even if not everyone recognizes it. if you’re visibly transgender/queer, have noticeable accent, visible disability, and on and on and on

New comment by ausbah in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:17:39 +0000

idk have you ever driven in boston?

New comment by ausbah in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ausbah — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:55:15 +0000

i’m in the US, if you took a call for more than a few mins a busy metro car I’d tell you to knock it off

New comment by ausbah in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

ausbah — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:47:58 +0000

this reads like a blind comment

New comment by ausbah in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

ausbah — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:26:57 +0000

addiction? get lured in with the promises of enhanced productivity and knowledge asking, leave with half your brain rotted and a $200/month subscription

New comment by ausbah in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

ausbah — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:48:59 +0000

and this is good?

New comment by ausbah in "Our position on open-weights models"

ausbah — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:52:49 +0000

wanting to ban your competitors via regulatory capture via the trump admin of all things shows how little of a backbone anthropic has

ofc half of them are of the ai rationalist lesswrong crowd so i think they’ve always been a little of their rocker

New comment by ausbah in "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

ausbah — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:43:49 +0000

i feel like we’ve been doing that since 1999

New comment by ausbah in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

ausbah — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:23:31 +0000

2 parties, there are only two parties. and they vote on a majority of issues the same way. defense spending, judicial nominations, rote legislation, etc.

at least china isn’t pretending to be anything else

New comment by ausbah in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

ausbah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:10:33 +0000

what planet are you living on? “border control with pathways for immigration” (and variants) polls consistently high among both US parties

New comment by ausbah in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

ausbah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:23:42 +0000

how long before “AI agents have voting rights too” becomes real

New comment by ausbah in "Don't trust large context windows"

ausbah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:19:34 +0000

could you explains on how? what changed with attention mechanisms to allow for such a shift?