Hacker News: barbazoo

New comment by barbazoo in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

barbazoo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:19:04 +0000

It's possible to avoid interacting with AI in every day life but it's impossible not to be affected by second order effects. The impact from a data center boom fuelled by dirty electricity is real.

New comment by barbazoo in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

barbazoo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:35:24 +0000

Agree, the application of LLM often feels too literal. I like when LLM inform the UX but a layer or two removed for example like you said by giving feedback on things produced by the user or combining multiple things that happened over time and acting on that. That's where the magic lies and where I see users actually be happy having AI in their workflow.

New comment by barbazoo in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

barbazoo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:48:52 +0000

What about a dog?

New comment by barbazoo in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

barbazoo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:48:02 +0000

> And the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it's, like, 15

Research seems to point at more like 3-5 https://www.socialconnectionguidelines.org/en/evidence-brief...

New comment by barbazoo in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

barbazoo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:59:38 +0000

So is the quantitative difference in token use the only difference or do you think there's also a different qualitat? I'm on CC only and immensely happy. Very productive both at work and privately and at work I average around $250 a month which probably means nothing but it's little compared to my salary.

Is that the main concern though, cost?

New comment by barbazoo in "German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses"

barbazoo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:21 +0000

I imagine Meta and folks wearing these glasses would object to webcam like behavior where it tells you with a LED that it's consuming the video feed. Could be same for taking a picture.

But then probably fewer people would buy them.

New comment by barbazoo in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

barbazoo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:27:34 +0000

We always talk about damage, what's the damage here?

New comment by barbazoo in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

barbazoo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:01:36 +0000

Make it so the parts that are done by AI are rock solid, until then, they shouldn't be near a customer and be done by humans. Resist the greed!

New comment by barbazoo in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

barbazoo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:00:27 +0000

I just don't get why we're not doing it vertically like you said here. Implement a part of the cognitive work using AI but let the hard parts be done by a person. They're still gonna be more rich, just less so.

New comment by barbazoo in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

barbazoo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:04:53 +0000

It's fine to build these apps that are clones of other's in my opinion but don't start publishing it for fame or fortune. Be humble, the computer did pretty much all of the work for you.

New comment by barbazoo in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:22:04 +0000

If that means you need to at least be physically present then I'd say that's a lot of protection already. Means someone in a foreign country can't simply get lucky fuzzing.

New comment by barbazoo in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:35:28 +0000

Right, instead of just having more LLM conversations as they get faster and cheaper we'll find products having AI that never had it before.

How about an actually smart thermostat that checks the weather and possibly makes decisions more like a human would i.e. tool calling, judgement, preference, history, personal plans.

Sure we have thermostats and you can configure rules and data sources, hook up Google calendar, etc but it has to be all predetermined and breaks as soon as anything stops working. AI could make this less brittle. AI agents are more flexible.

New comment by barbazoo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:41:59 +0000

Some are, and some aren't.

New comment by barbazoo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:40:59 +0000

Are both optional in the same way? Where I live a child has a much harder time getting cigarettes than getting access to Facebook. What's the regulation here that applies to Meta you're thinking of?

New comment by barbazoo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:39:23 +0000

> The judge found that Meta’s operation of Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance which injured public health, safety, and welfare; and burdened public schools, hospitals, and law enforcement.

Hopefully one day this is what people think of when they hear people say "I work for Meta".

New comment by barbazoo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:31:22 +0000

Still better than Meta having the money imo

New comment by barbazoo in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:44:37 +0000

With more wealth concentrates at the top, yes.

New comment by barbazoo in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567M over harms to children's mental health"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:41:37 +0000

> “We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content. We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts,”

Laughable for anyone who's actually been on their platforms. There's been harmful stuff forever in ads, posts, marketplace, comments. It's so disingenuous, those people should be ashamed of themselves.

New comment by barbazoo in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

barbazoo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:50:49 +0000

I love it. It makes me feel like I have super powers. I wish it wasn't so resource intensive.

New comment by barbazoo in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

barbazoo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:02:11 +0000

What I mean is that I get the purpose of chat when the target audience is a small group of people that might have a reason to talk to each other.