Hacker News: ausbah

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?

New comment by ausbah in "Claude Fable 5"

ausbah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:31:01 +0000

when they keep saying “oooh this new model is too big and crazy and totally can’t be released” or “this new model is a 10x game changer totally unlike our previous iterations” it feels sort like boy crying wolf. yes they’re still pretty clearly improving models, but when you’ve hit diminishing returns / more incremental gains and you’re still saying this is sounds like pure PR hype from a company that previously been the “honest good guys” in the room

New comment by ausbah in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

ausbah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:50:10 +0000

that seems to be exceedingly common with boomers. shotgunning lord knows how much for the sake of keeping their current net worth up

New comment by ausbah in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ausbah — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:07:05 +0000

these ppl are so full of themselves

New comment by ausbah in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

ausbah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:32:51 +0000

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

actual consultation link

New comment by ausbah in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

ausbah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:15:30 +0000

i suspect based off some light readings around this that there will be even more of a wealth transfer in the coming 20-30 years as the boomers fall off. medical costs for advanced age, asset prices like housing falling off in certain areas, mismanagement of retirement funds, and even just continuing the mentality of “i can’t take it with so might as well spend”

New comment by ausbah in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

ausbah — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:48:35 +0000

shame we won’t see any of these medical breakthroughs when we all lose our jobs and thus our healthcare

New comment by ausbah in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ausbah — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:57:55 +0000

i think his “fame” in the past few years has been creating teaching materials, projects, etc with lots of nuanced informative takes around the LLM space

New comment by ausbah in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ausbah — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:56:22 +0000

their world changing agents surely make this a non problem?

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

ausbah — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:55:58 +0000

sorry but good god what an asshole this writer sounds like. a majority of people go to costco because it’s drastically simplifies the grocery shopping experience and saves money. easier to buy for 3 weeks at a time vs once a week, reduces decision paralysis on basic goods from fake variety at the grocery store, and again for a cheaper price than most places around

reducing the experience to “settling into the drudgery of middle age” scream more of a reflection of OP than any costco normal shopper

New comment by ausbah in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"

ausbah — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:35:53 +0000

on a totally personal level as a queer person it’s really really really depressing that some groups of ppl resort to stuff like this. yeah freedom of expression, religion, and everything but to be so hateful towards a group to want to just erase them your everyday line of sight is just like :(

New comment by ausbah in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

ausbah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:42:25 +0000

and you would be ok with an immortal class of tech overlords? history ending with one of the worst sets of ppl of our generation?

New comment by ausbah in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs"

ausbah — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:47:13 +0000

you would think being valued at billions of dollars for over 20 years now would give you at least a little validation

New comment by ausbah in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

ausbah — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:57:57 +0000

would love to hear more about your experiences at this time! sounds super interesting compared to how corporate tech has become in even the past 5-10 years alone

New comment by ausbah in "Claude Brain"

ausbah — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:46:41 +0000

ugh the declarative short pseudo-sentence, markdown arrows everywhere, and asinine metaphors. the trillion dollar future is here and it’s just markdown files shouting how they’ve solved machines intelligence by propagating a different flavor of markdown files. maybe it is useful, but seeing the field reduced to this leaves a sour taste in my mouth

New comment by ausbah in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

ausbah — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:02:57 +0000

is it really unthinkable that another oss/local model will be released by deepseek, alibaba, or even meta that once again give these companies a run for their money

New comment by ausbah in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

ausbah — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:44:57 +0000

i am plainly disagreeing with the assertion that people are unwilling to give up more freedoms of driving to save lives based off my anecdotal experiences online seeing how ppl seem to on avg react to such regulations being passed

New comment by ausbah in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

ausbah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:01:16 +0000

have you seen how anyone online reacts when speeding or red light cameras are installed? or when parking becomes discouraged for sake of pedestrians or residents?

i am somewhat convinced that Americans views on cars is like that of guns, a absolute right that can and will not be infringed no matter how many must die

cars are more of a necessary “evil” than guns so the comparison is a little extreme so i don’t think the infringement of movement to cars is entirely irrational or unmetered, esp when in 99% of this country a car is absolutely required to live