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New comment by clueless in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

clueless — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:56 +0000

see the show Ozark on Netflix

New comment by clueless in "The Ask"

clueless — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:58 +0000

This is unrelated to this article, but I see such simple titles posted on HN often and given how many articles I read per day on HN, I don't know if it's worth me reading or not until I click it. I wish we had a feature on HN that semantically defined who the intended audience for an article is, specially for such opaque titles. Something like the following (used gemini for this):

Here are the 1-2 tags defining the intended audience for each article on the front page:

Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims Tags: AI Researchers, Machine Learning Engineers

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos Tags: Digital Content Creators, General Tech Consumers

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot Tags: Computer Scientists, AI Researchers

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes Tags: Linux Users, Hardware Engineers

I analysed 20 years of my chats Tags: Data Enthusiasts, Hobbyist Programmers

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit Tags: Tech Entrepreneurs, Product Managers

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave Tags: Gamers, Creative Coders

AI sticker shock hits corporate America Tags: Corporate Executives, IT Managers

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) Tags: Retro Gamers, Game Developers

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter Tags: Programming Historians, Language Enthusiasts

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications Tags: Mobile Developers, Privacy Advocates

Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act Tags: E-commerce Professionals, Tech Policy Analysts

Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin Tags: Software Engineers, Web Developers

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) Tags: Network Enthusiasts, Maker/DIY Community

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences Tags: Mathematicians, Recreational Math Enthusiasts

Libwce: The entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own Tags: Compression Engineers, Systems Programmers

The Ask (the article you previously asked about) Tags: Engineering Managers, Tech Leaders

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar Tags: Computer Vision Researchers, Optics Engineers

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle Tags: Hardware Hackers, Rust Developers

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode Tags: Search Engine Marketers, Privacy Advocates

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) Tags: AI Prompt Engineers, NLP Researchers

Go: Support for Generic Methods Tags: Go Developers, Systems Programmers

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife Tags: System Administrators, CLI Power Users

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home Tags: General Audience, Intelligence Buffs

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring Tags: Job Seekers, AI Engineers

Warm up your MacBook (2019) Tags: Mac Users, Hardware Hobbyists

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests (GitHub) Tags: DevOps Engineers, Software Developers

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025) Tags: Academic Writers, Technical Writers

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference Tags: Neuroscientists, Psychology Researchers

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term Tags: Tech Finance Enthusiasts, General Tech Consumers

New comment by clueless in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

clueless — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:11:26 +0000

This sounds like a great capability to be added to immich

New comment by clueless in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

clueless — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:33:33 +0000

Super confusing... seems like some sort of in with the VCs that can pull this program's guests was enough to create a new podcast that is now seen as influential. My best is, this was a side liquidity event for the openAI VCs that had somehow invested into the podcast, looking to get some money out of openAI stake.

New comment by clueless in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

clueless — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:30:19 +0000

60K followers on youtube for low hundreds of millions? seems steep

New comment by clueless in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

clueless — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:05:36 +0000

> It's only true in a universe where Iran would have collapsed from within before the expiration of the sunset clause, and that clearly was not going to happen.

No one can know this hypothetical, but some def bet their entire futures/careers on this: that an Iran with a more prosperous middle class (as a result of JCPOA) might have had a better chance for social/internal reform, i.e. regime change.

New comment by clueless in "Let yourself fall down more"

clueless — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:11:47 +0000

> If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.

And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to do unsafe things...

This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.

New comment by clueless in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

clueless — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:29:23 +0000

What are some sample real world cases folks are using to fine tune their own small/medium models?

New comment by clueless in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

clueless — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:35:37 +0000

This whole dataset needs to be downloadable, instead of being behind their UI..

New comment by clueless in "Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future"

clueless — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:26:43 +0000

> When the system rewards cheating, the rational choice is to cheat—or be disadvantaged.

Doesn't the current president of the U.S. and indeed his posse sorta of espouse this when you look at their backgrounds? This feels like a bigger cultural issue around what the advantaged folks have been doing all along

New comment by clueless in "Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai"

clueless — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:46:36 +0000

Could Q.ai be commercializing the AlterEgo tech coming out of MIT Lab? i.e. "detects faint neuromuscular signals in the face and throat when a person internally verbalizes words"

Yep, looks like that is it. Recent patent from one of the founders: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

New comment by clueless in "Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews"

clueless — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:53:53 +0000

I'd wonder if you'd ever consider putting up a downloadable mirror of their full-text search db?

New comment by clueless in "STFU"

clueless — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:15:43 +0000

The fact that we can't just spin up a Claude code on our iPhones and have it program and run the end result right there in iOS should be chargeable offense by apple (and Android). Looking forward to the day that this capability exists.

New comment by clueless in "Intellectual Junkyards"

clueless — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:19:14 +0000

Have you seen any good open source projects using llms to do the scutwork for this kind of PKMs?

New comment by clueless in "Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?"

clueless — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:40 +0000

Same reasons there is no competition to facebook either (even though google tried and failed)

New comment by clueless in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

clueless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:48:06 +0000

yeah, translation, article summarization, asking questions from a long wiki page... and maybe with some agents built-in as well: parallelizing a form filling/ecom task, having the agent transcribe/translate an audio/video in real time, etc

All this would allow for a further breakdown of language barriers, and maybe the communities of various languages around the world could interact with each other much more on the same platforms/posts

New comment by clueless in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

clueless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:37:33 +0000

This whole backlash to firefox wanting to introduce AI feels a little knee-jerky. We don't know if firefox might want to roll out their own locally hosted LLM model that then they plug into.. and if so, if would cut down on the majority of the knee jerk complaints. I think people want AI in the browser, they just don't want it to be the big-corp hosted AI...

[Update]: as I posted below, sample use cases would include translation, article summarization, asking questions from a long wiki page... and maybe with some agents built-in as well: parallelizing a form filling/ecom task, having the agent transcribe/translate an audio/video in real time, etc

New comment by clueless in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

clueless — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:22:39 +0000

could this be a used a bluetooth microphone, so I could use it with a laptop as a quick voice dictation/input for various uses? I'm thinking like a simple microphone for an localy hosted app like Hex: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

New comment by clueless in "We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start"

clueless — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:20:39 +0000

that is true

New comment by clueless in "We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start"

clueless — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:50:42 +0000

exactly, based on this:

  There is a political benefit for Trump and fellow Republicans. The accounts will become available in the midst of a midterm election, providing money to millions of voters — and a campaign talking point to GOP candidates — at a critical time politically. The $1,000 deposits are slated to end just after the 2028 presidential election.

They are obviously trying to buy the vote, so they can keep benefiting from the various tax breaks this admin is giving the wealthy...