Hacker News: chews

New comment by chews in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

chews — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:47:01 +0000

Unlike the xenophobia

New comment by chews in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

chews — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:03:46 +0000

Wow, what happened to no holds barred American capitalism? Is it bad when the Chinese somehow do it better? The US stateowning US Steal, Intel, and possibly openai is no different than the Chinese ownership model… and before the US took stakes in the companies they were just bankrolling them as customers SpaceX Oracle etal.

If life is a meritocracy, you gotta give it to the Chinese for their immense growth and improvement of living from agricultural poverty to technical supremacy. I don't want to hear the they stole our IP argument either, because all math is borrowed from something else. Distillation is innovation, in booze and in models.

New comment by chews in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

chews — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:27:09 +0000

Dunno why the downvotes, if you're willing to trust Apple or Google this is a good method for passkey usage. because your touchID/faceid/opticalid auth gate the keyring's on either of these vendors your passkey works without having to migrate them. EDIT: Also ANY device that you add to your iCloud has access to the passkeys you've made... it's a dream for secure access.

New comment by chews in "Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?"

chews — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:52:22 +0000

later secondaries investors in openai/anthropic. It's like time traveling into the spacex ipo.

New comment by chews in "Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused"

chews — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:50:45 +0000

I got banned again by fable this weekend because of usbliter8 work and that 0day is the center of a graykey lawsuit. My hunch is that Mythos participants are training the model to prevent others from working on code that steps on their turf.

New comment by chews in "Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused"

chews — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:47:00 +0000

my opinion: he's a well connected grifter who sold the outrage looking to buy anthropic secondaries at a discounted price.

New comment by chews in "Kimi Work"

chews — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:10:56 +0000

computer says no

New comment by chews in "ASML to offer employees €20k retention bonus for staying in 2027-2030"

chews — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:16:30 +0000

Too bad there isn’t competition on the lithography side… they know for now ASML can treat them as serfs. Chinese EUV startups are coming just not fast enough, even then there is still a stranglehold on ingot manufacturing. This industry is run like a cartel.

New comment by chews in "Qwen 3.8"

chews — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:47:15 +0000

Deepseek spun out of a hedgefund that took a huge short position on Nvidia. China is actively looking to switch to chips made by huawai and ween themselves off of the difficulty of sourcing nvidia.

New comment by chews in "Much of the crypto universe is "gambling" with a better vocabulary"

chews — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:31:30 +0000

the stock market is 70+ trillion dollars. The derivatives market (options put and calls) is 400+ trillion. It's gambling all the way down.

New comment by chews in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

chews — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:11:35 +0000

Yo dog, I heard you like browsers, so I put a browser in your browser.

New comment by chews in "Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear"

chews — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:07:23 +0000

With respect to GDP the #2, #4, and #8 all agree that artificial companionship is probably bad for humans should tell you something.

New comment by chews in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

chews — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:59:52 +0000

Credit unions are superior to banks... Navy FCU is incredible

New comment by chews in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

chews — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:57:05 +0000

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876506

New comment by chews in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

chews — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:38:58 +0000

thank you for the advice mr mcarthy, i'll happily use deepseek and GLM to vibe my next project.

New comment by chews in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

chews — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:19:07 +0000

they've slowly gone from being one of the most progressive and customer focused financial institutions (they invented at home electronic deposit of checks) to a gross regular bank / insurance company.

New comment by chews in "Fable is not a useful model"

chews — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:10:24 +0000

Anthropic's TOS clearly says they don't want to facilitate any sort of distillation, it's not a stretch to think they will limit any sort of learning on improving other models.

New comment by chews in "l: A new runtime for k and q"

chews — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:29:07 +0000

if you k you k ;-) for the uninitiated, this looks like some wallstreet quant's new startup. Initially I thought it was the rebrand of shakti, Arthur Whites most recent rewrite of an array language. It's purpose built tooling for computing tick data for financial markets, but the best way I can describe it is codegolf for experienced programmers who don't want to give up the keyboard. these tools combine dataaccess and the ability to compute against that data with as few abstractions as possible.

New comment by chews in "Right to Local Intelligence"

chews — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:05:19 +0000

Why would we need safe harbor for electrons on hardware we control?

New comment by chews in "FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet"

chews — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:03:51 +0000

Just annoyed that tencent and others are using alternate channels.