<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: bhelkey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhelkey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:23:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bhelkey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rooftop solar generally requires professional installation. Balcony solar, as discussed in the article, does not require professional installation and simply plugs directly into an outlet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:02:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063681</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That defeats the purpose of using the Claude subscription.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061834</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's what I thought after he lost in 2020. And yet he came back in 2024 winning even more votes, both in absolute terms and in percentage, than he did in either 2016 or 2020.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023475</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A "coherent" is not the same as "comparable to non-self-published authors".<p>Early LLMs were trivially non-coherent. The stories it wrote should shift constantly. The story could start on the moon, then the character could drive to Madison, Wisconsin.<p>A more obvious way to see this is in video generators. If the "camera" turns 180° twice, we often look at a completely different scene.<p>Can current models write an entire coherent book? I don't know. I have never wanted to generate such a book. But "do I like this book" is not a good test for coherence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:37:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935539</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a quote from a CGP Grey video from a bit over a decade ago, "There isn't a rule of economics that says better technology makes more, better jobs for horses. It sounds shockingly dumb to even say that out loud, but swap horses for humans and suddenly people think it sounds about right." [1]<p>A couple hundred years ago, something like 70% of the population worked in agriculture. Technology replaced almost all of these jobs.<p>So far, we have reimagined old professions and created brand new ones. Is this ability of ours limitless?<p>[1] <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFj75kBQlU" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFj75kBQlU</a></p>
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<p>>Americans pay for it with tax dollars and personal data.<p>From the privacy policy[1], "Our AI providers operate under Zero Data Retention (ZDR) agreements and retain none of your prompts or the responses they generate. America.gov’s own response cache is separate and is described in Section 5.<p>Our AI providers are contractually prohibited from selling your information, building an advertising profile, or training their AI models with your data."<p>[1] <a href="https://america.gov/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https://america.gov/privacy-policy</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908970</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "ChatGPT Pro 500"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you see the terms, "10x", "20x", or "25x"? If so, where?<p>I don't see any of those terms. Not even on the signed in page to upgrade to to a different Pro plan.<p>The plans I see are labeled, "Pro 100", "Pro 200", and "Pro 500" with the number corresponding to the price in USD.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:35:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900987</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "ChatGPT Pro 500"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> See the pricing page for a comparison of the features and usage included in each plan.<p>Does anyone see the usage limits? I don't see anything indicating how much usage is in each tier.<p>I checked:<p>* <a href="https://chatgpt.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/pricing/</a><p>* <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers" rel="nofollow">https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pr...</a><p>* <a href="https://chatgpt.com/#pricing" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/#pricing</a> (signed in plan upgrade page)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897460</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are suggesting that a Democratic President could label Palantir a supply chain risk.<p>If:<p>1. The designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk is politically motivated<p>2. We collectively accept that is okay for the US President to bar all defense vendors and contractors from working with an American company for political reasons.<p>What defense related company(ies) would a Democratic President have political reasons to ban?<p>It has been reported that Palantir and its founder have a history of political contributions to the Republican party.<p>Instead of Republican presidents driving left leaning companies out of defense and Democratic presidents driving right leaning companies out of defense, it would be better if neither party used supply chain risk as a political weapon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848159</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did tariffs raise prices? Or did prices stay the same because "if the market demand is such that it allows them to raise [prices], they'd already have done it"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:23:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838147</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no lock in. Anyone with sufficient budget can download the weights for GLM 5.3. On OpenRouter, I count 29 different providers for this model [1].<p>In terms of purely local LLMs, one can run GLM 5.3 flash on a beefy workstation.<p>[1] <a href="https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3" rel="nofollow">https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757449</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, move selection was not great. Notably, it should not have allowed nxe7+.<p>However, the pawn was defended by the queen and it took a forced queen trade to unlock the move.<p>I have seen much worse blunders from human players. And, I have made much worse blunders.</p>
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<p>It looks like it played a fully legal game of chess with one exception, it said "rxd1+" (Rook takes D1 with check) instead of "rd1+" (Rook to D1 with check) on move 29.<p>I would say this did a really good job of playing chess. It moved the pieces consistently and traded pieces when required.<p>This is worlds away from the frontier ~1 year ago where models would hallucinate pieces into existence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:55:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729795</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Apple Watch Series 12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple's announcement:<p>>Live Rewind, which can help users recall what was just said in conversation. A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet...Users can ask Siri about the content of the text or save it to the Siri app to revisit later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651693</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "iPhone Duo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The two fold format is much more popular than the three fold format. Samsung actual discontinued the Samsung z trifold [1].<p>Making the first folding iPhone a two fold format is a very prudent decision.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-trifold/" rel="nofollow">https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-trifold/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:59:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648692</link><dc:creator>bhelkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhelkey in "Apple Watch Series 12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will the watch only record conversations in public? There is nothing I see in the press release about that.</p>
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<p>I (again) am not a lawyer but I strongly suspect that one still has a reasonable expectation of privacy even if the person they are talking to is wearing an Apple Watch.</p>
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<p>There are two different features:<p>"Siri Recap" records throughout the day without the user needing to constantly enable it. It provides AI summaries of the recorded conversations including direct quotes.<p>"Live Rewind" shows an exact transcript of conversation but only of the 15 seconds immediately before the user activated it.</p>
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<p>There are two different features:<p>Siri Recap records throughout the day without the user needing to constantly enable it. It provides AI summaries of conversations recorded including direct quotes.<p>Live Rewind shows an exact transcript of conversation but only of the 15 seconds immediately before the user activated it.</p>
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<p>>Outside of phone calls, you are generally allowed to record anything you can legally hear<p>I am not a lawyer but I do not believe that is true in any state except Nevada. Two-party consent almost always includes in person conversations. California Code, Penal Code 632:<p>>A person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, uses an electronic amplifying or recording device to eavesdrop upon or record the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per violation, or imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year<p><a href="https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632/" rel="nofollow">https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632/</a></p>
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