Hacker News: davedigerati

New comment by davedigerati in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

davedigerati — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:48:45 +0000

you REALLY need to start working on your own local models, no not because your 4080 on a pi harness with qwen 3.8 will be mediocre today, but because in a year when OpenAI and Anthropic have fully enshittified there will be NO regulations and they'll have your chestnuts in a vice and you'll be glad you can tell them to rm -rf

New comment by davedigerati in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

davedigerati — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:42:38 +0000

til: ≥(1/3)==lot

New comment by davedigerati in "Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models"

davedigerati — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:53:45 +0000

lol was thinking the exact same, named some ML projects Jeeves along the way...

New comment by davedigerati in "Comcast "offers" to track you in your home"

davedigerati — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:36:53 +0000

I've been reading the theoretical papers on Wi-Fi as a tracking system (https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000185756) but dang now Comcast is actually selling this?!?! And people believe this is a good idea?!?

Here's an article that explains it in a way more understandable for f&f: https://www.core77.com/posts/145192/How-Wi-Fi-Can-Track-Your...

Wonder if Flock is starting a wifi router business...

Comcast "offers" to track you in your home

davedigerati — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:36:53 +0000

Article URL: https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-introduces-intelligent-home-protection-a-new-category-for-the-connected-home-with-xfinity-shield

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578192

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by davedigerati in "The European Social Stack"

davedigerati — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:52:20 +0000

very interesting thought experiment here. I wonder how much it would take in a monthly subscription to offset the money they make in ads? picturing an Instagram without drivel and the crap and the manipulative behavior, that I would pay for simply to escape for 15 minutes. Curate the good content, heck create AI content I don't care I'm there to just mentally check out for a bit. Time lock it based on my prefs so that it respects me as a human being, doesn't try to feed off of me as a data source and I'll pay for that. I agree with you why is no one doing this? I can hear an argument about economies of scale, that it's just not worth the hassle, big guys too entrenched, but isn't that what we're all here to do... create new ways to disrupt?!?

New comment by davedigerati in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

davedigerati — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:55:34 +0000

very nice response idle_zealot, it's this level of human decency in comments that keeps me coming back to HN

New comment by davedigerati in "BBEdit 16"

davedigerati — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:16:56 +0000

I'm gdam sick of hearing about BBEdit updates and new features, I swear it's almost enough to make me buy another Mac just to get this amazing godlike editor back again, fk I miss it so bad... quit torturing me BareBones

New comment by davedigerati in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"

davedigerati — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:01:27 +0000

would be inclined to use it just to flex that name "yeah I built this in Zero Gravity..."

New comment by davedigerati in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

davedigerati — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:17:14 +0000

srsly tho this looks slick & love the office refs / will go play with it :)

New comment by davedigerati in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

davedigerati — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:15:42 +0000

why not an Obsidian vault with a plugin?

New comment by davedigerati in "Digg is gone again"

davedigerati — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:20:01 +0000

I think this is a great way to frame the conversation and possible solution: reputation. things like accumulated karma or credits and IRL connections (big data will love this) all begin to feel dystopian whereas reputation I believe is something that everybody can get behind. It can absolutely remain anonymous, while still benefiting from IRL meetups for big reputation bumps (just use your handle). We all hang out in lots of places online, let that rep build and be used everywhere. Pretty sure they were trying to do something like this in the fedverse but haven't touched base on it in a long time ...

New comment by davedigerati in "The Gentle Seduction (1989)"

davedigerati — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:47:31 +0000

AGI via LLMs: No. The AI will need a natural understanding of the real world (the physics you and I live within) and ability to self-modify it's training (ie learn), so we're working on hybrid AI architectures which may include LLMs, but not rely on them. And imho Yes we are solidly on track to AGI <5 yrs 8)

New comment by davedigerati in "Unifi Travel Router"

davedigerati — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:11:25 +0000

chromecast - godsend on long hotel stays. need to dial in through my home (wireguard) so no license issues with streamers and once I connect my GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 to hotel wifi instant bubble of safe wifi for all my devices! weighs nothing, been using for 8 years rock solid.

New comment by davedigerati in "Gemini 3"

davedigerati — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:39:51 +0000

Excellent reference Tried to name an AI project at work Electric Monk but too 'controversial'

Had to change to Electric Mentor....

New comment by davedigerati in "A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air"

davedigerati — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:28:23 +0000

With respect to energy balance comments and comparing this to other technologies: both processes of absorption and condensation are happening within the same material passively, meaning you do not need to put energy into it. The heat gained from absorption is lost in the next step of condensation. The impact of this discovery, therefore, is that you don't need the power of your AC or your dehumidifier or your moisture vaporator on the south ridge.

Always testing the AI's I thought this might be a fun one to watch how they think through it since it is about technology that they would not have been trained on. Grok thought through the process more thoroughly than I (B.S.ChemE) would've .

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_e80e8100-3682-4157-879e-c5ca...

New comment by davedigerati in "Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court"

davedigerati — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:09:32 +0000

how about Google Buzz?

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/introducing-google-b...

New comment by davedigerati in "DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication"

davedigerati — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:33:20 +0000

I for one am simply happy to see us trying to apply LLMs to something other than replacing call centers... humankind SHOULD be exploring and learning sometimes even when there isn't an ROI.

New comment by davedigerati in "Archival Storage"

davedigerati — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:06:31 +0000

blog or self-publish on a platform I can pay you for your time, please keep going! I'm enjoying the premise and would love to read more!