Hacker News: chrsw

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

chrsw — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:18:23 +0000

Cryptographic technology has been under various levels of export controls for decades.

New comment by chrsw in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

chrsw — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:02:27 +0000

My fear is in the future it won't matter. People will accept slop because while they can be convinced it's not as good as it could be, it's good enough. To them it's good enough because it's fast and cheap not because it's actually good. There won't be any room in the economy for the value human output brings because the economy will rearrange itself around AI and become completely dependent on cheap output, good enough or not.

New comment by chrsw in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

chrsw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:59:25 +0000

It's not. The first time I ever saw kids playing soccer on their own with no adult supervision was when I left the US. I haven't seen it since I've been back. I think that's the most glaring "issue" right there.

New comment by chrsw in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

chrsw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:58:08 +0000

Is modern baseball "high-production-value entertainment"?

For basketball and American football, those sports weren't exactly blockbusters either. The rules and strategies of those games have been carefully tailored over the years to cater to action and scoring, something that was never going happen to the rules (or laws) of soccer.

New comment by chrsw in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

chrsw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:50:03 +0000

Very few American companies know how to properly set up and self-host their own models. Even fewer actually do it. It in the context of your typical large enterprise it's not as simple as buying a rack of servers and downloading a model off Hugging Face.

I suspect the reason is similar to the reason why there aren't any competitive open weight American LLMs.

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

chrsw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:26:45 +0000

Claude Opus 4.5 in November 2025

New comment by chrsw in "India's surprise baby bust"

chrsw — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:58:19 +0000

It's not talked about more because it's very uncomfortable to talk about.

New comment by chrsw in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

chrsw — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:35:04 +0000

I took "same" to mean "compatible driver and software stack" not "compute perf", rightly or wrongly.

New comment by chrsw in "What Is a Dickover?"

chrsw — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:40:28 +0000

Why doesn't Apple do dickovers? Or Hacker News?

New comment by chrsw in "What Is a Dickover?"

chrsw — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:03:10 +0000

I guess the entitlement comes from looking at it from the other way: my employer pays me a lot for my attention. I've accepted the arrangement so now I pay attention to their problems. If you want me to pay attention to your problem, there has to be something in it for me.

I've been wondering how we can use AI to clean up websites before they hit our eyes. If AI is as good as they say it is, surely it can clean up dickovers. If someone is allowed to shove something in front of my face should I not be allowed to make them invisible?

New comment by chrsw in "What Is a Dickover?"

chrsw — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:57:54 +0000

Yeah this is really bad. Firefox + uBlock Origin + Filters cleans a lot of these dickovers. Some seem to slip through the cracks. There's a never ending fight between bad websites and the warriors trying to protect our attention.

New comment by chrsw in "Claude Opus 4.8"

chrsw — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:47:23 +0000

I agree. My company pays for my tokens so I use the best models I can. I'm more worried about the quality of the work and the speed of accomplishing tasks than I am on saving the most money on every token.

Now, if they come back and tell me I can't spend as much om tokens, I'll have to change my strategy. But everything I'm hearing so far is we're going to be increasing our token spend this year and probably next year too. Not crazy increases but maybe enough to still keep using the latest models without being anxious about every prompt.

Cassandra: Enabling Reasoning LLMs at Edge via Self-Speculative Decoding

chrsw — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:45:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26558

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323047

Points: 4

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New comment by chrsw in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

chrsw — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:28:38 +0000

Companies only want to spend money on AI in order to save more money somewhere else. So if LLMs make some tasks easier but overall don't make a big dent on shipping dates because of all the friction points you mentioned, and more, then it will be difficult to justify buying all these tokens. Even if the shipping timelines are the same but the quality goes up that still could be hard to justify token spend too.

New comment by chrsw in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

chrsw — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:22:53 +0000

I agree. But this will be fought tooth and nail.

New comment by chrsw in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

chrsw — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:24:57 +0000

Imagine if AMD focused on making their tools better instead of resorting to sleazy tactics.

Imagine if the whole industry made interoperable tools that worked on open data formats and competed on merit instead of customer lock-in.

Imagine the world we could have.

New comment by chrsw in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

chrsw — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:58:04 +0000

I wonder why they're really doing this. It's definitely not for users' benefit.

New comment by chrsw in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

chrsw — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55:53 +0000

There's no way to switch back to the original audio track? I agree you shouldn't have to but I'm wondering if it's possible.

New comment by chrsw in "Last.fm is now independent"

chrsw — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:35:22 +0000

I loved how easy it was to scrobble from different music services. Haven't used it in years though so I have no idea if that's still the case. Stuff like that usually rots because it's not making someone money.

New comment by chrsw in "Magnifica Humanitas"

chrsw — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:46:22 +0000

Almost nobody.