Hacker News: avisser

New comment by avisser in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

avisser — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:20:11 +0000

> I am sure that what they're using it for can be substituted in large part by way cheaper models.

I saw a commit in the repo at work that edited a few config files and a dictionary.txt file. "co-authored by Fable"

New comment by avisser in "Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield"

avisser — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:58:29 +0000

> Once CosmoCube’s data is back on Earth

Did I miss it or did they fail to explain how that would work? Does it just slowly move around the moon so it gets its 1000 hours of observation, then eventually comes out of the EM shadow?

Or is there some final boost that pushes it?

Will it crash into the moon eventually?

New comment by avisser in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

avisser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:13 +0000

So the conversation might go, "Hi we're Deutsche Bank - we're able to clear renminbi transactions up to one million yuan." ?

New comment by avisser in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

avisser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:39:48 +0000

Is it a yuan or is it a Renminbi?

New comment by avisser in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

avisser — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:39:17 +0000

My argument is that all the vocabulary for computer science are things. Even if they are virtual, they are tangible. You can draw a picture and label a box "bytes".

Nothing in the ChatGPT conversation is tangible. It's all in the realm of concepts.

New comment by avisser in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

avisser — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:19:28 +0000

start-ups spend over 100% of revenue on risky ventures.

New comment by avisser in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

avisser — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:59:42 +0000

I'm stodgy, but I can't get past how they chose VERB-OBJECT instead of OBJECT-VERB. get- is useless. MSFT knew tab-completion would be a thing, yet they made it useless.

New comment by avisser in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

avisser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:06:41 +0000

Fallout 1 & 2! Formative titles for young me.

New comment by avisser in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

avisser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:59 +0000

For recorded music, you could always buffer however many milliseconds of audio to account for the processing.

New comment by avisser in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

avisser — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:42:55 +0000

Michael Bay just read "computronium" and spawned an 8 movie franchise in his head.

New comment by avisser in "New California bill to require license plates for electric bikes"

avisser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:00:41 +0000

Well yeah. Cars kill 40x the people.

New comment by avisser in "New California bill to require license plates for electric bikes"

avisser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:13:53 +0000

Seeing this while the 75 year old who killed a whole family of 4 with her car gets away without jail time...

Some pretty wild misplaced priorities.

New comment by avisser in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

avisser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:26:56 +0000

I did the math. Twitter was down $1.3 billion over 10 years.

Anthropic lost $5.2 billion last year. So they are 40x better at spending investor money than Twitter.

Hard to call Twitter the archetype for Anthropic.

New comment by avisser in "Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction"

avisser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:06:06 +0000

You just engaged in deflection and whataboutism on his behalf, but you aren't defending him?

It really seems like you're defending him.

New comment by avisser in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

avisser — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:53:43 +0000

Putting on my pedantic hat, does this qualify as a picture of the mountains? As in, is there any light hitting the mountains, then hitting the film/sensor?

Or is this just an elaborate silhouette?

Is that a difference? I don't know.

New comment by avisser in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

avisser — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:57:47 +0000

After 4 years of Russia/Ukraine, does anyone think that a terror group would take down an airliner with anything other than a drone? Why take any operational risk of actually going through security?

New comment by avisser in "Please just try HTMX"

avisser — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:15:49 +0000

Off the top of my head, C# is both the language & the runtime. React only throws things over the fence to browsers.

Probably helps a lot to keep abstractions from leaking.

New comment by avisser in "Please just try HTMX"

avisser — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:21:57 +0000

> why bother learning two paradigms

Objection. Your React is ultimately turning into HTML so you DO have to learn HTML + CSS. You just have an abstraction over it.

New comment by avisser in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

avisser — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:24:35 +0000

The Pacific ocean is big.

New comment by avisser in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

avisser — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:04:16 +0000

> Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years

How does OpenAI keep this load? I would expect the load at 2pm Eastern to be WAY bigger than the load after California goes to bed.