Hacker News: blackoil

New comment by blackoil in "Genie 4"

blackoil — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:35:58 +0000

Peekaboo!!!

New comment by blackoil in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

blackoil — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:55:50 +0000

Not all rooms are real face to face. Smartest person also needs time to think and lookup information. Worst smartest person can think on one hypothesis at a time.

New comment by blackoil in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

blackoil — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:14:27 +0000

That is cheap, that will be one or two senior engineers one year cost in Cupertino.

New comment by blackoil in "Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more"

blackoil — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:58:33 +0000

They will get a larger share from the value gained by reducing ineffciencies, keeping them still rich .1% but making everyone richer (in terms of resources available) than today.

New comment by blackoil in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

blackoil — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:08:34 +0000

Than What is the meaning of "used"?

New comment by blackoil in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

blackoil — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:52:40 +0000

That is a harness issue. LLM needs a body to provide sensory inputs plus an infinite loop of what's next.

New comment by blackoil in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

blackoil — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:44:01 +0000

If you publish it, no issue in drawing anything for personal use. Same with AI One who published will be liable.

New comment by blackoil in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

blackoil — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:10:45 +0000

one of. other is he killed Muslims.

New comment by blackoil in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

blackoil — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:02:12 +0000

Toxic Nationalism.

New comment by blackoil in "Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production"

blackoil — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:47:12 +0000

Question. Is it guaranteed efficiency with wired?

New comment by blackoil in "AI is not a normal technology"

blackoil — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:56:48 +0000

.1 percentile will still be working.

New comment by blackoil in "Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies"

blackoil — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:57:14 +0000

Is your process Hindu, Buddhist, Christian?

New comment by blackoil in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

blackoil — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:21:40 +0000

Having an account of practically every software engineer remotely interested in AI....Profit

New comment by blackoil in "Zohran and the Short Link"

blackoil — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:13:19 +0000

Bro, your handle is hackernud3s.

New comment by blackoil in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

blackoil — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:08:30 +0000

Xiaomi can and does use TSMC.

New comment by blackoil in "Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling"

blackoil — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:18:05 +0000

> materials that were much better

Do you have few examples?

New comment by blackoil in "Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny"

blackoil — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:35:11 +0000

Is this the reason why this story is flagged and pushed down to 2nd page?

New comment by blackoil in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

blackoil — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:57:28 +0000

> beyond “natural” ones like chronological

So a mail s/w that pushes up mail that it deems important?

New comment by blackoil in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

blackoil — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:48:49 +0000

Images on cigarette packages are of real patient and real impact and still smokers ignore it. A fake, stylized hypothetical image will have much lower impact.

New comment by blackoil in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

blackoil — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:45:53 +0000

> Can you opt out of those features?

Kind of, by using a different software.