Hacker News: chairmansteve

New comment by chairmansteve in "Ear Training Practice Exercises"

chairmansteve — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:27:09 +0000

This looks really good!

New comment by chairmansteve in "Waymo Premier"

chairmansteve — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:10:49 +0000

Try living in Phoenix without a car...

New comment by chairmansteve in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

chairmansteve — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:53:00 +0000

But you don't know why...

New comment by chairmansteve in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

chairmansteve — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:28:43 +0000

I think some industries have notably high quality output. Automobiles, aerospace for example.

New comment by chairmansteve in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

chairmansteve — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:22:42 +0000

"but we will have no choice but to march forth from there".

If you haven't seen it, I think you would appreciate the film Margin Call.

New comment by chairmansteve in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

chairmansteve — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:45:33 +0000

> but the other half of the puzzle is you need to have good options to vote for.

No. It's always been that you get to choose the least bad option. Unless you fall for the personality cults that sometimes develop around politicians.

New comment by chairmansteve in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

chairmansteve — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:38:40 +0000

> Democratizing propaganda.

Not really. A lot of the disinformation is generated by authoritarian state actors.

New comment by chairmansteve in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

chairmansteve — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:42:25 +0000

Very well said. The author was noodling around bored, generating random crap on AI. Not surprising the result is meaningless junk.

New comment by chairmansteve in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

chairmansteve — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:17:16 +0000

>something i have seen dozens of times

Me too. But I think AI might be a much more powerful delusion generator.

New comment by chairmansteve in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

chairmansteve — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:51:53 +0000

"That leaves small SAAS companies exposed to incoming inflation in the cost of hosting".

Which they will pass on to their customers. If their product provides enough value the customers will pay.....

New comment by chairmansteve in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

chairmansteve — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:09:22 +0000

Well... I use RSS. I find a lot of the sites on HN. Google has been worthless for years,

New comment by chairmansteve in "Google changes its search box"

chairmansteve — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:39:20 +0000

Google???

Remind me what Google is again. Haven't used them for years...

New comment by chairmansteve in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

chairmansteve — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:47:01 +0000

You left out ponzi schemes, aka crypto.

New comment by chairmansteve in "We let AIs run radio stations"

chairmansteve — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:53:30 +0000

Whatever....

New comment by chairmansteve in "Claude for Small Business"

chairmansteve — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:59:00 +0000

Yeah. There were books written about Enron and Worldcom...

New comment by chairmansteve in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

chairmansteve — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:49:24 +0000

If there was a way to support smaller artists outside of spotify, that would be great.

New comment by chairmansteve in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

chairmansteve — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:17:54 +0000

"Because of onerous regulations, the EU has much less startups". That old trope.

Is that also the reason Miami or St. Louis have less startups?

I have started companies in the UK. The process is about the same as in the USA. The problem in Europe is that there is a lot less VC capital. Just like in Miami. It had nothing to do with regulation.

New comment by chairmansteve in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

chairmansteve — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:04:46 +0000

In chatgpt, I start every session with "Caveman mode:". Works at the moment.

New comment by chairmansteve in "Five takeaways from the King's historic address to Congress"

chairmansteve — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:23:43 +0000

The BBC wants me to pay $8.99/month???

How the mighty have fallen....

New comment by chairmansteve in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

chairmansteve — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:05:37 +0000

"This page is about 1 MB of assets".

And it could easily have been 10 KB.