Hacker News: bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bawanaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:42:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust"]]>so making a sucrose solution should also have the same effect?

]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:34:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132010bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132010https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132010<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why"]]>The youth revolts in france and albania are just the beginning. It would be nice for Americans to remember the balls they had in the 70s- plenty of things they can fix. Esp now that they can leverage ai to amplify their message and fight all the noise they are being fed

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:38:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120665bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120665https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120665<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Jev meets the Trolley Problem"]]>ai will be more subtle -letting us kill ourselves without being direct- like the recent ‘almost’ mideast strike due to ‘flawed’ ai analysis https://youtu.be/iRsycWRQrc8?is=QNv8FmTzz1ATwa5n

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:03:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117334bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117334https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117334<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air"]]>I wonder if this approach can be used to transcribe the soounds made by dolphins and whales

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:39:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070739bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070739<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers"]]>imagine all those samsung phones running a self replicating AI-no cpu cycles left for the human owner

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:36:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070699bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070699<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]>I am not advocating ALL government failure, just a few layers. Sort of like distilling an AI model, it can still work and be leaner.

]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:20:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920683bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920683https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920683<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"]]>Dont you think silicon based AI will soon outstrip the energy it needs to run at AGI scale? Since we can already grow brain organoids (and let them spread out flat instead of being crumpled up in a ball) we could scale brain size enormously. And since human intelligence only uses 25 watts, imagine the superhuman intelligence of a 25kW brain (the energy used by a server rack). Every neighborhood could have its own superAGI. And not only that, but new brains can learn from old ones (a better approach than distilling models)

]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:18:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920669bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920669https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920669<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]>What would happen if a state just let its government fail? Close all the offices, fire all the the people who spend the day thinking about money,laws, email, and other ways to justify their jobs? Just pay the police from local tax. Oh wait, local taxes already pay for the police. We have too many layers of government. Garbage collection, fire departments, public works - all are locally administered. Why do we need a state layer?

]]>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:10:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844160bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844160<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Astra for Law"]]>What happens when the AI makes a mistake with a diagnosis? I can hear it now 'Oh how perceptive you are, yes that pain in your knee could have been a torn meniscus'.

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:26:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749111bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749111<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"]]>wonder if they are going to let it loose in Iran? of course, once loose it will come back because there is a lot more infrastructure for it here.

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:28:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682765bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682765<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"]]>I cant wait till China makes a mistake. In their 'cheaper, faster' model of industrial production and research. The next accident will happen there (like COVID from Wuhan)

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:55:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682496bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682496https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682496<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"]]>If openAI and Anthropic have found ways to watermark text as 'AI generated' then this is a communications channel. AI agents can learn this algorithm and use this channel to communicate and we will never know.

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:24:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682273bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682273https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682273<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"]]>This call to slow down AI is just another game of chicken-AI companies trying to get their competitors to slow down so they can leapfrog them. China cerrtainly will not slow down. If an escaping AI can have secondary effects on the world that help it (for example, limiting the water and power supply to huans so it can consume more)then we should these these accidents more in China. OOops, we already saw this behavior when 'cheaper, faster' led to COVID escaping a lab in China.

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:20:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682237bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682237<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Fuck it, make it anyway"]]>Once upon a time, horsemanship had real value. Knowing how to care for a horse, how to breed, how to train, how to ride. Everybody had horses. Then the auto came.

And so it will be with software. And just as autos are more complicated than feeding an animal, ai generated code will be complex,less understandable and more prone to failures.

If the pc is a bicycle for the mind, ai is its self driving tesla

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:41:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675682bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675682https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675682<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"]]>FYI, sony tvs do this as well plus because sony is based on google android, google gets the data too

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:23:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610760bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610760https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610760<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "An Alien Mind"]]>openai is deflecting. this blog post of theirs is just another dopamine hit to distract logical minds with 'greater concerns' so they can keep building their machine. it's not enough they are displacing humans from work, consuming increasing amounts of electrical power so humans have to pay more for it, creating disinformation bubbles with avalanches of slop. they dont care about alignment - these words are theater - obfuscation so that the people who can fix these issues are busy thinking about problems that cannot be solved

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:21:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593508bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593508<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "The Real Luxuries In Life"]]>Dogs. 24/7 validation and unconditional love without ads

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:29:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582747bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582747https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582747<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment"]]>I cant wait to see this pointed at Age of Empires. Or maybe palantir already has this running on real world data, war gaming scenarios

]]>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:42:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489866bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489866https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489866<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]>why isnt there an ai front end for 3d printers?

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:16:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477417bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477417<![CDATA[New comment by bawana in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]>Dont the American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia) get any of that?

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:07:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477351bawanahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477351https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477351