Hacker News: bergen

New comment by bergen in "Apple is getting this wrong"

bergen — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:53:33 +0000

Yep, that's exactly what i thought at first look. This looks like one of those "letting-steam-off" mails you bin after thinking it through after cooling off.

New comment by bergen in "Don't be a meat proxy"

bergen — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:14:11 +0000

So you're telling me you haven't read the article?

New comment by bergen in "Kimi Work"

bergen — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:22:08 +0000

>Who is going to invest the trillion dollars into infrastructure needed to run the latest version of Kimi 3-5 years out

Everybody that is concerned about their data ownership and residency, and how the US political system is behaving right now. There is a huge incentive to cut off ties with API and subscription providers, especially those based in the US.

New comment by bergen in "Kimi Work"

bergen — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:17:40 +0000

>Some buyers need the best and you can charge a premium for it.

Yes, and that is how you get a top-heavy k-shaped economy I believe. It is harder and harder to sell premium A+ products, because most people can only afford what works. If my old ice cream vendor charges me 25% more but puts chocolate sprinkles on it i'm going for the non-sprinkle version.

New comment by bergen in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

bergen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:43:32 +0000

The US once was proud of its scientific achievements, now parts of it replaced that with being very proud of their ignorance

New comment by bergen in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

bergen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:39:39 +0000

Is it an accident though? This seems very deliberate

New comment by bergen in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

bergen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:53:29 +0000

And the european consumer doesn't want harmful products to be beta tested on the public.

New comment by bergen in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

bergen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:52:04 +0000

So we deploy a technology no one should trust to the general public, for what exact reason?

New comment by bergen in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

bergen — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:31:21 +0000

If they make single market predictions with high accuracy it is very very likely they are

New comment by bergen in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

bergen — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:19:03 +0000

Openclaw is on it

New comment by bergen in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

bergen — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:13:28 +0000

No serious company wants their key users to log into a platform with their personal accounts, this would be a security nightmare and asking for trouble

New comment by bergen in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

bergen — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:02:39 +0000

You just opened a huge nostalgia portal, never thought that Dreamweaver would still be around, I used that somewhere around 2003 I believe. Good memories

New comment by bergen in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

bergen — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:15:39 +0000

The two of you might simply talking about different locations. This article seems very US focused, but in europe third places still exist, and it seems the US is having a severe decline in those.

New comment by bergen in "Fintech dystopia"

bergen — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:00:05 +0000

I'd argue crypto casinos (pump.fun comes to mind) would not work without stablecoins because no one would back them with real dollars.

New comment by bergen in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

bergen — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 05:58:07 +0000

One point is missing for me - you get lazy. People are less and less equiped to think about complex problems the more they RELY on this for coding. Also this article is just about coding.

New comment by bergen in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

bergen — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:11:10 +0000

Depends on the context - in a scripting language where you have some kind of console you just don't copy all lines, and see what each pipe does one after another. This is pretty straight forward. (Not talking about compiled code though)

New comment by bergen in "Yahoo is selling TechCrunch to private equity firm Regent"

bergen — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:51:35 +0000

More big money swooping up journalism, what could go wrong.

New comment by bergen in "Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market"

bergen — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:41:05 +0000

From a "neutral" perspective it gives them legitimacy From a "maximalist" perspective it gives you access to government From a "scammer" perspective it gets you tax dollars and average Joes

New comment by bergen in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

bergen — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:01:33 +0000

If your sycophants eat everything you'll throw at them there won't be any need for justification. Which completely baffles me. The US digital technology sector seems to be full of yes man and groupthink, and it's getting worse.

New comment by bergen in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

bergen — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:58:37 +0000

Or just download the model.