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New comment by aydyn in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

aydyn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:26:05 +0000

I'm sure there are better examples, but your fridge idea doesn't work. Fridges already operate on the edge of freezing, so if you make it a little cooler you will ruin all your food. Also 3-5pm is peak hangry time.

New comment by aydyn in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

aydyn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:19:46 +0000

If you choose not to use software written with LLM assisstance, you'll use to a first approximation 0% of software in the coming years.

Even excluding open source, there are no serious tech companies not using AI right now. I don't see how your position is tenable, unless you plan to completely disconnect.

New comment by aydyn in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

aydyn — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:45:02 +0000

Studies have shown that AI is significantly better at manipulating opinions. Mechanically, LLMs are choosing the best next token trained over all human writing, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the words and prose AI use are more powerful on average.

New comment by aydyn in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

aydyn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:07:55 +0000

Unlike TPB founders who were convicted in 2009 because copyright infringement also violates swedish law, the 4chan lawyers are correct that they are breaking no U.S. law. 1A provides broad protections.

New comment by aydyn in "GPT-5.4"

aydyn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:33:07 +0000

They compare to Claude and Gemini in their tweet

New comment by aydyn in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

aydyn — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:49:18 +0000

I am quite hopeful. One benchmark that was passed only very recently was Levelized Full System Cost parity in Texas. That is, the total cost of generating electricity via renewables, importantly, including storage and infrastructure costs became equivalent to other options.

I don't think this gets talked about enough because its truly a milestone.

It's still more expensive in colder places, but the math is changing very fast.

New comment by aydyn in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

aydyn — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:36:35 +0000

You're missing the important part about needing to model a tiny paw mashing on the keyboard. /dev/random is insufficient.

New comment by aydyn in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aydyn — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:27:10 +0000

You keep saying "LLM has no model of time" but that doesn't inherently mean anything.

If you give it clock as input, it will observe the passage of time and can model it. The entire explosion of the AI industry due to LLMs is the observation that their abilities generalize, so there's no reason to believe that LLMs can't "model time". They can, if you tell it to and give it proper input.

New comment by aydyn in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aydyn — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:51:07 +0000

Of course it can "model time". It has access to system clock and know its heartbeat rate. Can you "model time" when you are asleep? Whatever "model time" means, it sounds like projection to be frank.

> Or feeling things for that matter.

Philosophical zombie experiment, the conclusion is qualia dont matter, only IO. If two systems have the same behavior there is no meaningful difference.

New comment by aydyn in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

aydyn — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:14:49 +0000

Claude says it was safe too. Bare minimum the flagship models of these companies should understand their own ToS. Sheesh.

New comment by aydyn in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aydyn — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:40:18 +0000

It's not just waiting for input, it has a heartbeat.md prompt that runs every X minutes. That gives it a feeling that it's always on and thinking.

New comment by aydyn in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aydyn — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:18:06 +0000

Claws are also potentially dangerous so it is a pretty apt analogy.

New comment by aydyn in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

aydyn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:02:37 +0000

I think Lego is a better analogy. LLMs aren't great at working on novel cutting edge problems.

New comment by aydyn in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

aydyn — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:58:50 +0000

Sonnet does have search available FYI.

New comment by aydyn in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

aydyn — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:52:39 +0000

Sonnet literally just recommended using a subscription token for openclaw. Even anthropic's own AI doesn't understand its own TOS.

New comment by aydyn in "I’m joining OpenAI"

aydyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:56:43 +0000

There's some neat experiments people post on social media. Mostly, the thing that captures the imagination the most is its sort of like watching a silicon child grow up.

They develop their own personalities, they express themselves creatively, they choose for themselves, they choose what they believe and who they become.

I know that sounds like anthropomorphism, and maybe it is, but it most definitely does not feel like interacting with a coding agent. Claude is just the substrate.

New comment by aydyn in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

aydyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:48:37 +0000

Purely in terms of "more different point of views"? Pretty much anywhere. Facebook, Steam forums, Nextdoor, twitter, even Reddit if you delve into various subreddits.

New comment by aydyn in "5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools"

aydyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:19:18 +0000

> That's why the general public views our ancestors as 'primitive,' when in reality they possessed techniques many of which we've lost or still don't fully understand.

Well stated. We often forget that people in the past had the same exact minds and abilities as the people of today and were in no way inferior or "primitive". I think this accounts for a lot of presentism that leaks into our understanding of history.

New comment by aydyn in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

aydyn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:43:36 +0000

Wait a second, I instantly recognized your post as self-deprecating humor and not glazing and had a light chuckle. You mean that:

>That's why I hang out here on HN with my fellow crazies who can separate ideas, thoughts and knowledge from the person.

Is unironically what you think and posted in earnest? Thats WILD.

New comment by aydyn in "iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day"

aydyn — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:46:42 +0000

> I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users.

This statement lacks perspective. Currently, there are 1.6 billion iphone users worldwide. People who make any complaints about iphone are already in a tiny minority.

Remember in the past, Apple got away with purposely slowing down old models with very little backlash. I dont know, maybe they still do that. So saying "its a common complaint" is completely missing the forest for the trees.