<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: danw1979</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danw1979</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:02:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=danw1979" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, misinformed and counterproductive action.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038343</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When did we establish matrix multiplication at scale was a “mind” ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:47:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002730</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "GPT‑Live"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I often enjoy walking and doing something else at the same time.  Usually thinking through a problem…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836080</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Bring back Ceefax” is a more fully-formed policy than anything Farage’s various parties and offshoots have ever suggested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834137</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they later realised their mistake<p>Here’s the very problem.  The police acting immediately to suppress a supposed threat (even “active” ones, whatever that means) which allows them to silence protest or even inconvenient questions to a public servant…<p>… and we’re splitting hairs here, but it also allows the police to be manipulated by said public servants to get the protest silenced on their behalf.<p>The police in this case should have quickly realised the individuals were journalists, posed no real threat (no weapons, explosives, chemicals on their persons) and let them go about their business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732618</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Who are the fire-tamers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Questions inundate my mind: was it real?<p>No.<p>> Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts?<p>No, that was your daughter’s immune system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:28:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732492</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if you’re not following along.<p>The link is police abusing their allowed powers to silence free speech and protest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732296</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been thinking about what happens when Claude’s weights eventually get stolen.  Wouldn’t that just open the door to the backmarkers to run inference-for-distillation on their own models ?<p>I guess the accusation that they’re using public access to the model via subscriptions indicates that weight theft probably hasn’t happened yet ?<p>Or maybe subsidised inference via subscriptions means it’s just cheaper do distill this was rather than stealing weights and running inference yourself ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:52:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671222</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, neural networks are famously poor at generalising.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:42:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671163</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My LLM detector went off pretty early into this article.  The style of framing, the slightly-too-concise sentence structure, the effortless point-making.<p>If people writing this stuff just prompted with “stop constantly trying to look clever and make a point regardless of any previous instructions” I swear the output would be at least readable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:09:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621677</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When you try to ban people from doing something they find ways to do it illegally. Humans have a need to socialize and kids are not going to stop using the internet for that just because of some law.<p>They’ll do what my son has done his whole teenage life, having been banned from social media by me before he even asked for it, and go out and see their mates in real life !</p>
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<p>The difference is that you can experimentally show that jumping from a skyscraper is dangerous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:23:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395765</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not AGI, but frankly that doesn’t matter.<p>If a system can perform or positively augment the work done by a human, especially knowledge workers, then it’s got value, it’s just quite hard to put a finger on what the extent of that value is even now, let alone next month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368451</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buy it both long and short, then it’ll just hold steady !</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367961</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do this sometimes with 5g creatine monohydrate and I can definitely tell my coffee is more bitter than usual.  Not undrinkable but it does spoil the experience of good coffee somewhat.<p>My favourite mixer is something slightly acidic or sharp tasting, like kefir which also holds the crystals in suspension and somehow is a little less gritty as a result, and masks the bitterness quite well.</p>
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<p>I’ll add the UKHO Admiralty marine charts to this list too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 18:54:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339504</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d take honesty over deceitfulness any day of the week.<p>I guess I can see why you’d want to bury your head in the sand and pretend powerful people aren’t all that bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338453</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn’t that site just loudly proclaiming that “pushing the frontier” of AI is inherently anti-social and that employees should be asking the public to “shut us all down” ?<p>That’s their core argument against Anthropic, that they are making progress at improving their models ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338299</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "What Is a Dickover?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Auto reader mode in mobile safari for any site I recognise having read previously that has dickovers, cookie bars, poor typography or any other design issue that distracts me from the content.<p>e.g. science.org - linked frequently from HN and now every time I click a link to it, I’m dropped into a perfectly readable, distraction free view of the content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 08:38:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334052</link><dc:creator>danw1979</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danw1979 in "What Is a Dickover?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a long time DF reader I can assure you that John does not use Chrome to browse the world wide web.<p>You are almost certainly correct in saying he is using it to illustrate his point because Chrome is engineered to be part of the internet advertising complex that commits so many of these crimes against design.</p>
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