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New comment by bluerooibos in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bluerooibos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:55:51 +0000

Probably a marketing ploy. Inflate the value even more before an IPO, and Daddy Trump and his friends make a few $$$.

It'll be "resolved" within a few days.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bluerooibos — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:34:27 +0000

"...and I do not care."

New comment by bluerooibos in "How LLMs work"

bluerooibos — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:43:47 +0000

> I think you need to ask what you actually want to do with the AI.

What about improving the efficiency of token consumption, etc., basically opportunities for improving cost/performance?

I keep thinking there has to be a better way to share context with models than dumping entire gigantic skill files of raw text or otherwise into them - I'm betting there's a bunch of low-hanging fruit there.

New comment by bluerooibos in "How LLMs work"

bluerooibos — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:39:57 +0000

Since you spent a month digging into this, can you recommend any materials/projects to look into to get a decent grasp of how they work?

New comment by bluerooibos in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

bluerooibos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:18:12 +0000

Well, people keep throwing money at them, including you and investors. So why would they care? It hasn't annoyed you or a large enough portion of users enough to move off their service - because there isn't a better alternative.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

bluerooibos — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:21:44 +0000

So, back to the author's title - if they leave everyone to die/with no money, who buys their services and enables them to turn a profit?

New comment by bluerooibos in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

bluerooibos — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:35 +0000

Just curious if there's a reason you mentioned 8 or if that's an arbitrary number? Was 8 an industry norm/upper limit at one point?

New comment by bluerooibos in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

bluerooibos — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:49:15 +0000

> Ruby might not be best suited for large code bases

Ruby/Rails powers some of the largest platforms on the planet - Shopify, GitHub, GitLab. Both have had something of a resurgence lately, too, with Ruby 4 and Rails 8 shipping recently, and people rediscovering that Rails is excellent for vibe coding.

I've been a Ruby developer for 10+ years and have never struggled to find work, and the communities feel very active and growing - so I'm honestly not sure what you mean by "what happened to Ruby". If you don't actively follow or participate in the community, I can imagine you wouldn't hear much about it day to day.

I don't pay attention to the JS world these days - what happened to JavaScript?

New comment by bluerooibos in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bluerooibos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:23:29 +0000

Of course we are. And Opus 4.6+. It's a matter of when, not if.

Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic

bluerooibos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2522463-key-ocean-current-is-slowing-at-locations-around-the-atlantic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711895

Points: 2

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Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas

bluerooibos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:59:06 +0000

Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711873

Points: 5

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New comment by bluerooibos in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

bluerooibos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:43:25 +0000

It would have to "escape" to hardware capable of running it, which limits where it could go quite a bit, I'd imagine.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens"

bluerooibos — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:11:39 +0000

So shared hosting for LLMs?

New comment by bluerooibos in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

bluerooibos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:45:26 +0000

Three years seems ridiculously low lifetime - I'd hope that was covered by warranty.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

bluerooibos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:58:55 +0000

They found microplastics in the snow in Antarctica and in human embryos right? So this seems rather redundant.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

bluerooibos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:05:21 +0000

The bottleneck is capitalism, in which only things that turn a profit are deemed worth doing.

New comment by bluerooibos in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

bluerooibos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:37:47 +0000

Compared to Opus 4.6 though? And what sort of hardware/RAM is that running on - I'm assuming 32 or 64GB at least, right?

New comment by bluerooibos in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

bluerooibos — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:01:23 +0000

These smaller models are fine for Q&A type stuff but are basically unuseable for anything agentic like large file modifications, coding, second brain type stuff - they need so much handholding. I'd be interested to see a demo of what the larger versions can do on better hardware though.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

bluerooibos — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:48:51 +0000

Ah, the American individualist mindset. It's free, just like schools are free - because we choose to give everyone a basic level of education at no cost, rather than allow people from disadvantaged backgrounds (no parents, mentally or physically ill parents, etc) to grow up illiterate. It works in Europe and most of the developed world. Christ, I am tired of this argument. It's free to the people who use it - I didn't say it had zero cost. Is that easier to understand?

You benefit from this system whether you like it or not - the taxes used to build roads, transport infrastructure, schools and colleges - they benefit YOU, so yes - you can damn well pay back into the system. Feel free to move to Dubai or another low-tax "utopia" of your choice at any point.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

bluerooibos — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:43:09 +0000

I'm sure people (society) wants cheap food, free universal healthcare, free public transport, so why don't we have these things?

Under capitalism each of these individual systems needs to turn a profit to be deemed worthwhile instead of treating the system as a whole and taking into account the economic externalities and benefits to the entire system.