Hacker News: azan_

New comment by azan_ in "Claude Fable 5"

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:29 +0000

Approx. 5% sessions? That's insanely high.

New comment by azan_ in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:41:08 +0000

The idea that few people can.

New comment by azan_ in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:08:19 +0000

> Apple is great at winning capitalism.

Exactly, they deliver products that are better than their competition and thanks to that they got extremely rich. It's a great example of capitalism working as intended.

New comment by azan_ in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:00:02 +0000

I'm 100% certain it will sell out at the release and you will have to wait few months to get it. I don't know where people get the idea that only few people will be able to afford that phone.

New comment by azan_ in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:21:10 +0000

Yeah, to support this point I'd also like to point that mobile gaming is larger market than both PC and console gaming.

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

azan_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:33:08 +0000

Extra-EU immigrants are not uniform group. E.g. in Denmark non-western migrants at some point are (weakly) positive net contributors to public finances, but MENAPT immigrants are on avg. net negative their entire life. https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...

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

azan_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:23:29 +0000

Is being able to move to Switzerland really an universal human right?

New comment by azan_ in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

azan_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:55:18 +0000

You've made lots of (wild) claims, but provided zero support for them. Also didn't bottom income quartile see the largest growth in last few years?

New comment by azan_ in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

azan_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:25:08 +0000

Something tells me that you have some kind of anti-AI agenda and that you are not really looking at things objectively. Maybe it’s your nick “ai_fry_your_brain”, maybe it’s “ If you disagree with me, you're a slopper.”, who knows!

New comment by azan_ in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

azan_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:39:57 +0000

Either human-like attributes can be described using physics or they are magic. If they can be described using physics then they can be simulated. If they can be simulated then they can be simulated in any Turing complete system, include AoE II.

New comment by azan_ in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

azan_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:44:54 +0000

> No. It's a k-type curve where the high deciles are getting higher and the lows are getting lower, so to speak.

Could you provide source? I don't think that's true.

New comment by azan_ in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

azan_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:18:45 +0000

> And instead want to live in an ethical society that prioritizes stability and universal access to housing, healthcare, and education?

Then talk to your local NIMBY. Housing crisis is not due to capitalism being evil, but due to constraining people from building. Healthcare is getting better all the time, we had MASSIVE breakthroughs this year at ASCO (which were made possible by big pharma!). As for education yeah, it could be better but it's completely tangential to the topic.

New comment by azan_ in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

azan_ — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:45:30 +0000

Isn't basically every decile getting richer (i.e. able to afford more things) thanks to economic growth?

New comment by azan_ in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

azan_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:38:02 +0000

Well, if progress in LLMs will steadily continue over next 5 years, then models will be so powerful that there will be no longer place for (most of) human researchers in math (remember that 5 years ago there was no chatgpt!). But I think it's more likely that progress will stall and then open models will catch up to frontier models and almost everyone will be able to afford them.

New comment by azan_ in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

azan_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:36:41 +0000

Yes. It's not just a reply - it's a joke.

New comment by azan_ in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

azan_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:37:28 +0000

I'm 99% certain it's AI. Lots of short sentences. Very short paragraphs. It's not X, it's Y.

New comment by azan_ in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

azan_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Man, just write your own comments yourself, no need to use AI-generated ones. You are making good point but the twitter-AI-slop style makes it really annoying to read.

New comment by azan_ in "The dead economy theory"

azan_ — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:44:01 +0000

Standard of life for avg uber driver is much higher in us compared with china.

New comment by azan_ in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

azan_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:31:12 +0000

> It would speed up the "progress" you so desire.

Wait, how would it do that? I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by azan_ in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

azan_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:27:07 +0000

People losing jobs is price we pay for progress, not goal in itself. I'm really surprised I have to point it out. Hence me quitting my job will have zero positive impact. Programmers for years have automated other jobs and suddenly when their work is in danger somehow automation becomes bad.