<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bevekspldnw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bevekspldnw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:08:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bevekspldnw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>…and the guy shuffling the cups is Dave Chappell’s crackhead character.<p>My theory has always been Trumps grand con was acting like what poor people thought a rich person was like, Elon acts like what morons think a genius is like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:32:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824846</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "Fortran Outsmarted Our Billion-Dollar AI Chips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Telltale slop: "And honestly? I didn’t see it coming."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:31:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882323</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very much wish I could.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:00:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40137199</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40137199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40137199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh he did worse than that, far worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:39:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136990</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The majority of that revenue comes from violating data protection law and regulators and litigants are slowly racking up a series of wins which will gut ads margins.<p>There is no Plan B, they are just going to break the law until they can’t and there’s zero clue what happens after that.<p>They sat back and let OpenAI kick their ass precisely because ghouls like Prabakar call the shots and LLM are not a good display ads fit.<p>The best parallel for Google is Kodak.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:37:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136968</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To appropriate a quote “you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands”.<p>There’s only one thing the agree on in DC: defense spending is the most important line item, and everything else is secondary.<p>Also, turns out when you have the ability to take virtually anything by force the concept of “deficits” is a bit fungible.</p>
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<p>Exactly, flatten those in the first five minutes and that “shield” is gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132992</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Invasion by CCP followed by full ceasing of chip shipments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132972</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are military assets, the Pentagon gets what it wants.<p>That’s why CHIPS was passed, the brass told Congress to get them some fancy new fabs, and like all requests the Pentagon makes, they got it.<p>Long term it doesn’t matter if these fabs are hugely profitable relative to other locales, we’ll find a way to keep them producing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132961</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Japanese figured out how to build and manage American auto factories, I’m hopeful the Taiwanese will figure it out as well.</p>
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<p>Exactly, at the root a lot of this about ATT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116468</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "DuckDuckGo AI Chat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m saying it’s not worth anything <i>because</i> it is a Bing wrapper. The other “products” are just to drive more traffic to Bing ads. There’s no there there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088529</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "DuckDuckGo AI Chat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was the same premise when AOL released an “anonymized” set of search data and it was easy to find the original people.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release</a></p>
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<p>Correct, that would be full communications content protection. This is not that, this is a pretty half assed product with a misleading set of promises.<p>Either use one of the many open models that beat GPT-3.5 and you have a real, and better!, product.<p>I literally have no idea what the point of this is, or why not make the actual step of rolling out a <i>real</i> private LLM. It’s literally inferior to what Mixtral provides right now, under Apache license.</p>
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<p>“A number of products” that make no real <i>revenue</i> other than driving users to…Bing ads.<p>The discussion here is what you would get if bought DDG, and the answer is…very little.</p>
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<p>They could literally run Mixtral or Llama on their own machines and have total control. This is basically a ChatGPT VPN.</p>
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<p>Give me another one then?  It’s a search engine with no search index. It’s an ads supported site without an ads network. What is it then if not a wrapper?</p>
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<p>It’s just a Bing wrapper with Bing ads.  What is there to sell?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:44:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087482</link><dc:creator>bevekspldnw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bevekspldnw in "DuckDuckGo AI Chat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s a pretty disingenuous framing. Obviously the content of the communication- what you ask the chatbot - can totally be personally identifiable, and is stored.<p>You aren’t providing communications content privacy, you’re providing a meta data proxy which is not remotely the same.</p>
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<p>Hate to break it to you but there’s a thousand court cases a day precisely because “specific legal definition” is a surprisingly flexible concept depending on context. Likewise when new technologies emerge it often requires reappraisal and interpretation of existing laws, even if that reappraisal is simply extending the old law to the new context.</p>
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