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New comment by christkv in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

christkv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:03:55 +0000

You could build the reactors inside the mountains to improve the security and effects of things like meltdowns.

New comment by christkv in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

christkv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:51:38 +0000

I hear this argument about the weapon a lot but it makes no sense. Sure for intelligence processing etc but what weapons system would an llm be a good match for.

New comment by christkv in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

christkv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:43:36 +0000

They proposed a plan to ensure their dominance of the space and to cripple any competitors using regulation as the weapon. So I’m not going to feel sorry for them and their temporary plight

New comment by christkv in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

christkv — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:43:29 +0000

Waiting for this https://github.com/antirez/ds4 to stabilize for strix halo.

New comment by christkv in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

christkv — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:33:38 +0000

Its harder than you think and no "state" ban will work if the 14-15 year old is smart enough to get around the child locks at the os level either. Next they will ban VPN just wait for it.

New comment by christkv in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

christkv — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:37:37 +0000

For now I suspect however that the gigantic models are not needed and you will be able to do pretty much what you need in a specific domain with 120b or lower. There is so much trash in the frontier models. I don't need all the world's slam poetry for my coding tasks for example.

New comment by christkv in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

christkv — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:20:35 +0000

Have you not discovered piehole or child controls? My kids stuff is completely locked down it was not hard. I don't need the state to be involved.

New comment by christkv in "How to earn a billion dollars"

christkv — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:21:56 +0000

Why do you think state control is democratic

New comment by christkv in "How to earn a billion dollars"

christkv — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:59:26 +0000

So what does you practical utopia look like in real terms. What's the master plan beyond I don't like people making money from what people want? What does that utopia look like in practice.

New comment by christkv in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

christkv — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:01:40 +0000

It's also going to fail consistently. When calling Claude you don't know what version of the model you are talking to, it might be quantified sure to load or have been patched.

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

christkv — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:38:42 +0000

Anthropic already with Fable basically said they will be the arbiter of who gets to use the "godmodel" with no criteria specified. So no thank you. We need to make llm's open source and completely disconnect from these companies or live in a dystopian "Anthropic" etc social credit score system where only the "blessed" have access to models.

New comment by christkv in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

christkv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:24:17 +0000

This is a great interview with Jordan Mechner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVB7tP1JIg

New comment by christkv in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

christkv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:25:29 +0000

Where is my dune stillsuit ?

New comment by christkv in "Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:40:49 +0000

What is the estimated cost these days to train something like this to conclusion?

New comment by christkv in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:34:25 +0000

LLMs is a little like the guy in Memento right. Every single conversation is it looking at the compressed scribbles of the context.

New comment by christkv in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:33:35 +0000

The problem starts with a project of 20 engineers pumping 1000+ lines of code a day into a shared code base.

Single dev it's amazing, tiny team still good, large team wohoooo

New comment by christkv in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:41:52 +0000

Ban them. Beyond cars is the fact that somehow its ok to buy unregulated chinese made products following no safety standards of the EU on temu, shein, aliexpress etc allowing them to skip all the costs of producing safe consumer goods in the EU. Ban all of them or put a 1000% tariff on all of the items. To long the EU has been followed the financial interests of German industry and their dealings in China. Since that phase is over we should treat China as the hostile power it is and force cuts to trade. Not a single Euro more in trade in than export to China.

New comment by christkv in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:55:01 +0000

I'm against BYD factories unless car parts shipped from china are not heavily tariffed. You don't want to allow them to ship entire kits from china to final assemble in Europe. You want them to buy from providers in Europe. Otherwise I'm in favor of massive tariffs on their cars to avoid dumping.

New comment by christkv in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:30:50 +0000

I think we as a professional class have gotten a bit overwhelmed with the magic slot machine. 2 in the morning let me just do one more pull on the slop machine. I WILL win this time.

It's a phase. The problem is the managerial class sees it as a magic black box and don't understand it's limitations. Calling it AI does not help either. It's the "rockstar developer" illness but on crack.

New comment by christkv in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

christkv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:25:04 +0000

I have found that the attention moves to thinking about the things I want done and planning, reading and iterating over the specs and other artefacts that will be part of running the agents. I still need to understand the code and iterate over it to get to a usable and maintainable point.

I find the problem is we are reaching the top of the slop curve. I will subside because it's impossible to actually do anything useful with all the output. There will just be a ton of half-finished and abandoned projects. Whatever gets into production will require more eyes on it.

I just think a lot of people are still stuck in the "holy f** I'm so productive" and working themselves into the ground being productive pumping out code. I think it's a phase that will pass.