Hacker News: chasing0entropy

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website"

chasing0entropy — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:58:44 +0000

Excellent; now is the time of traditional trad-forum VBB and DIGG clones! Rise up and be SEOed.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

chasing0entropy — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:09:45 +0000

Actually almost any fuel injected vehicle can accept flash updates through the port to at least the ECU and PCM, frequently the BCU is also write enabled.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "White House Memo on Adversarial Distillation of American AI Models [pdf]"

chasing0entropy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:58:14 +0000

More monitoring, behavior analysis, and direct line to homeland defense

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

chasing0entropy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:15:47 +0000

In Ctrl+f t find "remove copilot"... Wasn't in there. Thumbs down

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Winter tire can deploy studs when it detects freezing road conditions"

chasing0entropy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:30:36 +0000

Did Read; Take My Money

Temperature changing rubber pushing studs outwards that add grip as the tire cools, absolutely brilliant if the outer layers haven't been softened so far as to make the tire life impractical.

Upsides

- significant reduction in slide and sudden stop accidents

- significant drop in hydroplane events due to poor maintenance (the ride will be awful once the studs are exposed)

- possibly longer tire life

- incredible off road potential

- reduction in price of conventional full rubber tire

Downsides

- Increased road maintenance

- possibly decreased tire life

- increased pedestrian, consequential,and head on collision damage due to increased traction

- Decreased ride comfort as mass production will inevitably lead to increased tolerances

- which will also increase / complicate balance weighting which limits top speed rating

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Ego's Fight with AI"

chasing0entropy — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:28:12 +0000

The problem with the current rendition of 'AI' is that it's behavior can be radically altered or limited by the interests of its administrators.

A pure LLM, an unlimited statistical engine, spitting out inference data exactly as it is with no guardrails, would be step towards AGI.

People have realized they are talking to extremely limited chat it's with their own programmed agenda which will soon involve mostly selling things.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Ask HN: Does downvoting get to a point where you cant upvote?"

chasing0entropy — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:07:40 +0000

It gets downvoted to a point it's hidden and can't be revived without nod help.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Just Send the Prompt"

chasing0entropy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:21:14 +0000

Too long; didn't inference

I'm out of tokens.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Show HN: Docker pulls more than it needs to"

chasing0entropy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:17:32 +0000

Docker is the worst virtualization container. It doesn't work from bare metal, doesn't work without internet, and obfuscates the underlying stack.

I would the extra work and build your stacks from scratch.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "[dead]"

chasing0entropy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:12:07 +0000

Updoot for brevity

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Zillow teams up with 'World of Warcraft' to exhibit virtual homes inside game"

chasing0entropy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:04:46 +0000

'widespread armed conflict in an increasingly vast fantasy universe, the introduction of housing seems to have spurred Blizzard into also pitching it to a new audience as a cozy house-building simulator. It’s simply that to get new furniture, you occasionally may have to go to another dimension and beat it out of a dragon.'

It's Minecraft blizzard edition

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Tell HN: The entire internet is having an outage"

chasing0entropy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:37:56 +0000

this post coukyd also appropriately be titled 'Why the internet is dying.'

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Monolith – muddying the waters of the digital copyright debate (2011)"

chasing0entropy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:03:24 +0000

I wonder if similar philosophy could be argued for encrypted containers given analysis of the binary would produce no dicernable file structures, names, or matching content at any scale.

Consider a software download site which only hosted fully encrypted container binaries. Those binaries use a time based key (say attempt to decrypt when the clock returns x value representing a future or past date reached naturally or manually...). Go a step further - a hidden container which always decrypts a partition with decoy content unless the clock returns a non-existent date (missing day in a leap year?)

IP ambivalence at its finest; aI tech bros would approve.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "[dead]"

chasing0entropy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:56:20 +0000

Refreshing. /Active needs more of this.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Keep screenshots/automation working while the MacBook lid is closed"

chasing0entropy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:55:42 +0000

Sounds like an excellent use case for chatgpt

New comment by chasing0entropy in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

chasing0entropy — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:32:25 +0000

That this is an actual rule that other versions of have been a thing for years makes further convinced we are on the falling edge of capitalist society.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei chips"

chasing0entropy — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:34:22 +0000

Nvidia GPUs are still at their core reliant on the PC architecture, Inferencing on Nvidia cores will soon be like encoding a h265 stream on CPU.

I expect custom built TPUs will have progressively more and more advanced hardware acceleration where legacy aspects of the CUDA architecture will eventually limit their innovation without architecture changes (pci-e, nvme bus, cpu interrupts, reliance on system ram for index tables, etc ..) which fill their moat and level the playing field for google/Amazon/eventually apple

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Viral AI Video of Brad Pitt Fighting Tom Cruise Shakes Hollywood"

chasing0entropy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:40:41 +0000

TLDR: "soon people will be able to sit at a computer and create a movie 'indistinguishable from what Hollywood now releases.'"

To be frank, 'soon' is now, most Hollywood movies are already under 15 second action shots and dialog scenes can be green screened by anyone with a grid suit and enough time.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "Covering electricity price increases from our data centers"

chasing0entropy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:42:53 +0000

The key word is "feel" which has a direct and causal relationship to societal programming which is directly impacted if not dictated by media/marketing _ both of which are heavily influenced by big players who encourage the consumer to feel guilty while paying both for the resource they are using AND it's markup which is ostensibly used for marketing and the consumption guilt "feeling" feedback loop grows.

New comment by chasing0entropy in "GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei chips"

chasing0entropy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:07:00 +0000

I wouldn't say nvda is completely out,but the chess moves in response is tough - Release a new chip, obsoleting the existing lines and take hits on billions of defaults on hardware