<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: bigyabai</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bigyabai</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:00:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bigyabai" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point.<p>You don't have to wish, in this scenario. Bluesky supports third-party clients, you can use one that has a more minimal featureset if you prefer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:34:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338594</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>$199 for a personal license? The UI looks vibe-coded, it uses GTK3 design primitives that have been outdated for a half-decade by now. The FOSS GNOME Builder app has a nicer UI: <a href="https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/" rel="nofollow">https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/</a><p>If I was evaluating frameworks for shipping a native app, the UI of this IDE would give me pause...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336300</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "Anthropic's War on open source AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With my real life PII? I trust Meta more at this point, fuck that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335170</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "Anthropic's War on open source AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's gonna be real peachy when AI research backslides into a "national security" imperative to recoup their losses with defense contracts.</p>
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<p>That's a configuration issue, not people preferring a bad idea. SCADA itself is not a hard sell because it's ostensibly deterministic.<p>If AI cannot provide the same baseline promises while only bring right a fraction of the time, then it's not the right solution. I don't want my car's AC to ask Anthropic what the right temperature is; it's a waste of tokens that isn't optimizing jack shit 99.99% of the time. If a system isn't failing currently, then it's probably in the same boat as car ACs. Shoehorning AI into it won't solve anything.</p>
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<p>Okay, explain your third path.</p>
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<p>The Jetson Orin is a dev kit, it's not shocking to see it escape sanctions or be used for weapons.<p>If you try to bring the axe down on <i>all</i> CUDA devices, you'll still struggle to stop China from exporting their warehouses of Nvidia Tegra boards. Or stop Nintendo Switches from being jailbroken to run CUDA drivers. It's a no-win situation like saying you found Intel/Texas Instruments chips in a missile.</p>
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<p>It's not wrong to use any of those words. It's just wrong to deliberately conflate them, which I did not do.</p>
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<p>So, which do we choose?<p>A) Let AI override safety mechanisms (increases uptime while endangering humans)<p>B) Let AI impose additional safeties (decreases uptime with questionable safety uplift)<p>If you intend to go with option B) then there's basically zero benefit to investing in that kind of automation. AGI will be fallible, and even with all the safeties and safeguards it's hard to see what tangible benefit AGI would add to the system. It'll be a hard sell for critical infrastructure of any kind.<p>I understand that it's hard to get a man to understand something when his AGI Society executive credentials depend on it, but it feels glaringly obvious why AI isn't masterminding these sorts of systems. Even accounting for unprecedented advancement in AI, it's hard to see what AI could contribute to managing these things.</p>
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<p>> For them Jews/Israelis/Zionists/Genociders are fully interchangeable synonyms<p>You are the only person here conflating those groups.<p>Cui bono, from this type of brinkmanship?</p>
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<p>I doubt AGI will be used for life-or-death systems like that if it resembles anything like the LLMs of today. Systems at that scale are about risk management, and everything we know about AI suggests that it cannot mitigate risk at all. All AI is seemingly a net-positive risk factor.<p>Really, the "big AI story" will be when the next Snowden defects from the NRO and tells us what SENTIENT is doing. Until then it's just going to be a bunch of pie-in-the-sky wishcasting about what we <i>want</i> the future to look like. It's getting a little tiring hearing people insist that abundance is around the corner while surveillance is here-and-now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321489</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ARM, the ISA, is wholly rooted in academic exercises like Berkeley RISC.<p>What do <i>you</i> think happened? RISC-I and RISC-II never existed, ARM means "Automated Reasoning Mechanism" and the ISA was never RISC whatsoever?<p>Talk about nonsense, damn...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321340</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ARM was also rooted in an academic exercise. A lot of the drawbacks for modern ARM PC platforms stem from the aversion to <i>actually</i> advanced features like SVE/SVE2 and UEFI.<p>It's sad, but it was also wildly successful. RISC-V has already replaced ARM in highly-custom embedded spaces like Nvidia's GPU controllers, and it likely won't stop unless ARM finally changes their tune vis-a-vis licensing.</p>
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<p>The downside is, escalating to an annexation is the next step if a naval blockade fails. The US can't achieve their objectives by landing Marines on the shore, they've got to bring up <i>the whole</i> Army and prepare for proper war. It's a dark omen for the future in the Strait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:33:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313051</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "Ask HN: Will AI lead to complete human irrelevance?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As a result, there will be nothing worth paying any human to do, as an AI system can do it faster, cheaper, more reliably.<p>Do you live in a world where farming, mining, refining, manufacturing, managing, policing, politicking, QA testing, investing, bartering and advertising are all completely automated?<p>If you automated all of those things, there would be so much room for disruption that the AI wouldn't be able to maintain dominance.</p>
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<p>More wonderful yet is Seymour Hersh's <i>Samson Option</i>, outlining how Israeli spies hijacked America's intelligence agencies to support this double-standard. Those agents provided the necessary diplomatic cover for Israel to make their initial incursions into satellite intelligence and nuclear weaponry, which started the strategic imbalance that would endanger civilians in the Levant for decades to come. You can see shadows of the same US/Israel relationship in the China/Iran axis, wherein China's intelligence agencies successfully launder support for humanitarian crises like Gaza, while strategically bolstering Iran with air defenses and satellite intelligence.<p>Hersh's best work since unveiling Abu Ghraib. Highly recommend it over the super-spy biographies, especially since Hersh didn't have to go through Israel's Military Censor like Bergman did.</p>
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<p>Nvidia and AMD both have their own unified memory laptop SOCs, now. Apple Silicon's GPU is relatively weak, it's one of the less-efficient ways to use 100w for compute.<p>Even the fastest Apple Silicon chips like the M5 Max and the M3 Ultra still put up worse GPU compute performance than last-gen laptop RTX 4080 chips. And they don't scale, the largest M3 Ultra cluster you can configure is still ~2,000x smaller than a DGX SuperPOD. There's a reason Apple discontinued their rackmount hardware, there's very little demand for Apple Silicon in the datacenter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305582</link><dc:creator>bigyabai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigyabai in "Ask HN: Let's all sell our AI stocks, short Nvidia and pop the AI bubble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I can remain irrational far longer than AI stocks can pollute nature<p>AI, pollution, eminent domain and global warming will all outlast you.<p>> Today is the Terminator AI moment.<p>Try mid 1990s, the earliest deployment of autonomous-kill weapons like the Patriot System and CBU-97 SFW.</p>
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<p>Your intuition has been telling you this same thing for years, now:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530497">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530497</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203174">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203174</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093016">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093016</a><p>If you shorted Nvidia back when you started complaining, you would not be any richer or better-off today. I'm not an AI maxi, but you've let your own emotions poison your understanding of the AI market segment.</p>
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<p>It can get even higher.</p>
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