Hacker News: beambot

New comment by beambot in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

beambot — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:33:31 +0000

Get saavy...? More like "will require trust that manufacturers are honest" -- which I won't believe for a miliesecond.

New comment by beambot in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

beambot — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:27:19 +0000

Humans still have brains (and thus human intellect) even in the presence of AI... Even today, people make varying use of their brains.

New comment by beambot in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

beambot — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:17:21 +0000

"Manufacture as many paperclips as possible"

New comment by beambot in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

beambot — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:43:51 +0000

"Does it?" - Yes? Did you learn arithmetic with log & exponent tables, or just calculators?

New comment by beambot in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

beambot — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:28:54 +0000

Y'all are missing the point: It's probably less than 100 hours to learn the foundations of one of humanity's most-current breakthroughs. It's a disservice to any young hacker to not learn it. Here's your curriculum. Watch these:

-- 3Blue 1Brown's Neural Network Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_6700...

-- Karpathy on LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

-- Stanford CS336: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuoVZkPBiKk

Then do this hands-on:

-- Karpathy's zero-to-hero: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

New comment by beambot in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

beambot — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:43:21 +0000

Maybe. As the nature of assistive tools changes, so does pedagogy. Calculators are the easy example since most of us are (still) familiar. But there are others that were just as pronounced -- e.g. log tables and slide rules were transformational and instrumental at one time, and you've (probably) never used them. If you had used slide rules to solve your homework problems then were excluded from using them on exams, you'd see a similar effect.

AI is a big change; pedagogy is going to change too.

New comment by beambot in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

beambot — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:40:32 +0000

> So why are ai companies shredding books

Because a cartoon mouse's parent company used regulatory capture to extend copyright for decades.

New comment by beambot in "Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B"

beambot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:09:15 +0000

> And lets not even talk, the lack of compliance in an enterprise environment, and as they defer to providers on that...

A middleman that adds compliance & regulation while skimming a slice off the top for themselves: You just described credit cards - stripe's core business...

New comment by beambot in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

beambot — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:29:15 +0000

Not sure I understand your implication... because I'm the primary consumer of the content AI generates for me. I'd rather not have its output adulterated.

New comment by beambot in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

beambot — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:31:42 +0000

Yet another reason to support open-weight alternatives, I guess.

New comment by beambot in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

beambot — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:38:05 +0000

yes, which is why Apple got massively fined for doing it -- nowhere near enough to compensate all the depressed engineering salaries though.

New comment by beambot in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

beambot — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:58:07 +0000

This is (probably) a natural evolution of Garry's gbrain, a basic RAG for individual use. Gbrain is super useful as a starting point for an individual; this seems like an extension to a company.

I've found gbrain to be very effective with meetily (instead of granola), vikunja for project planning, various mcp for email, etc. It's nice not being locked in to vendors and models...

Thanks for making this OSS too.

New comment by beambot in ""the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits""

beambot — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:39:30 +0000

"...and that's a good thing."

New comment by beambot in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

beambot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:13:01 +0000

Does basic photoshop count as AI usage...? What about changing color balance, dynamic range, etc?

New comment by beambot in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

beambot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:57:41 +0000

They settled with a subset of copyright holders. Guarantee they violated lots of others' rights in the process

New comment by beambot in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

beambot — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:04:58 +0000

> What makes art meaningful and impactful isn’t whether it looks good or cool.

I fall on the other side of that coin: I care about the final output way more than the story & struggle of the artist.

Also: Nature is probably the most epic artist in my book - a sunset, leaf, coral or rock can outshine virtually any human creation.

New comment by beambot in "World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made"

beambot — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:41:48 +0000

The Veritasium video on how jet engine turbine blades are "grown" in an aligned crystalline structure for enhanced material properties (e.g. thermal performance) is absolutely fascinating & well worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

New comment by beambot in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

beambot — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:22:29 +0000

> A lot of it is effectively bribing and menacing trading partners

That's just a byproduct of propping up the military industrial complex; have to have conflicts to justify giving the primes sole-source cost+ contracts so they can meet their quarterly EPS targets.

New comment by beambot in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

beambot — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:18:07 +0000

Yet rents won't drop -- the commercial mortgage covenants prevent landlords from dropping rental rates, so they'll just sit there fallow until the market recovers.

New comment by beambot in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

beambot — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:12:46 +0000

The entire rail industry suffers from massive deferred maintenance issues that manifest as serious safety concerns. This shit happens in every industry: dieselgate, 737max, flint water crisis, PG&E camp fire, etc. Let's not pretend one engineering discipline is holier than thou -- especially when the consequences are derailments versus some leaked youtube videos.