Hacker News: chpatrick

New comment by chpatrick in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

chpatrick — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:28:44 +0000

The difference is that LLMs may or may not be sentient in the domain of human language, which we can relate to, unlike the domain of chess.

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

chpatrick — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:42:56 +0000

For me it was the original DALL-E project page.

New comment by chpatrick in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

chpatrick — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:38:21 +0000

I think it's niche now because getting the hardware to run it is expensive and the quantized models don't work as well. If those improve then it would be a no brainer to pay one off for the hardware instead of a fortune for API calls.

New comment by chpatrick in "Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers"

chpatrick — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:10:17 +0000

Yeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

New comment by chpatrick in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

chpatrick — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:22:04 +0000

The live music experience would be terrible if only the richest fans can get in. Every crowd would be old and square.

New comment by chpatrick in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

chpatrick — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:45:36 +0000

I'm quite happy with the status quo that I don't need to negotiate escrow with every random online service or store.

New comment by chpatrick in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

chpatrick — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:38:03 +0000

If I get sent a fake (or no) product by someone halfway around the world there's absolutely no way I'm getting my money back in small claims court.

New comment by chpatrick in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

chpatrick — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:42:15 +0000

It's not hard if E is in tune already. :)

New comment by chpatrick in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

chpatrick — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:07:31 +0000

Yes, we can't immediately convert all vehicles to electric and gas boilers to heat pumps, so if we lose access to gas and oil we're kind of screwed.

Orbán had 16 years of unlimited power to diversify from Russia as the only source though, so there's no excuse.

New comment by chpatrick in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

chpatrick — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:38:54 +0000

In my part of Europe (Hungary), on a sunny day we have more energy produced from solar (on top of about 50% nuclear) than we can actually use. Sometimes we're 110% zero-carbon and it's because of solar and nuclear.

As of writing this comment our energy mix is 35.69% solar, 23.19% nuclear, 26.66% nuclear imported from Slovakia. The rest is hydro and solar from Austria and about 5% gas and biomass.

In my opinion clean electricity is an almost solved problem, especially as storage gets better.

New comment by chpatrick in "Waymo in Portland"

chpatrick — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:25:42 +0000

In the US it's often not the last mile, but the last 10 or 100 miles. I'm saying this as someone enjoying fantastic public transport in Budapest.

New comment by chpatrick in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

chpatrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:35:43 +0000

90% of the actual code writing? Yes. The actually valuable part is coming up with the ideas for what to do.

There isn't going to be a great reset where everyone goes back to coding by hand any more than we're going back to typesetting by hand.

New comment by chpatrick in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

chpatrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:07:26 +0000

I think the very smart people already work at Google and the 40B buys some of the rest.

New comment by chpatrick in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

chpatrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:56:55 +0000

Imagine you're a typesetter and they just invented computerized printing.

New comment by chpatrick in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

chpatrick — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:01:49 +0000

Why not?

New comment by chpatrick in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

chpatrick — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:58:19 +0000

I know I'm thinking, I have no idea if you're thinking, or if you're a human or an LLM. But I wouldn't assume you aren't thinking just from reading your output.

New comment by chpatrick in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

chpatrick — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:12:58 +0000

This is such a boring cliche by now. "thinking" and "knowing what it's doing" are totally vague statements that we barely understand about the human mind but in every comment section about AI people definitively state that LLMs don't do them, whatever they are.

New comment by chpatrick in "OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot"

chpatrick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:55:34 +0000

If he's right they'll be out of job regardless whether it's because of Claude or another AI.

New comment by chpatrick in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

chpatrick — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:41:59 +0000

But they're pretty fast and can have loads of RAM, which would be prohibitively expensive with Nvidia.

New comment by chpatrick in "Inside the covert operation to bring down the party threatening Orbán's rule"

chpatrick — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:12:39 +0000

The detective who was pressured by (presumably) intelligence services to invest the Tisza tech staff has also given an interview today: https://youtu.be/IXmuE2TX9yE?si=d3Kw3-4R8QvFEHz8