<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: daveguy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daveguy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 21:41:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=daveguy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by daveguy in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dumpty's loyalty is with whoever will give him the most money and power as a person. Always has been.</p>
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<p>Well, probably not the current generation of driverless cars. Those would be a nightmare. Contrary to what some want to believe self driving cars do random shit all the time.<p>But in the future, if there is a coordination standard among driverless cars, that could allow much higher density at higher speed. Coordination standards + higher density of self driving should reduce the self driving cars doing random shit too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226003</link><dc:creator>daveguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by daveguy in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not seeing "Always free" on that page browsing from mobile. Also, it breaks my back button. Yeah... I'm going to need to switch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225277</link><dc:creator>daveguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by daveguy in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure the references you are referring to are about losing <i>coding</i> skills, which is a very different set of skills than language skills. The kagi link (1) a sibling comment left was an example of an AI that can improve writing while also informing about better writing style. As opposed to the slop grenade, which is outsourcing thinking to AI.<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992#48221497">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992#48221497</a><p>The point is, you don't have to outsource your thinking to use AI, if it's a good AI tool. But most AI companies are coming from a hyper-scaling mindset where addicting the user to the product is the same as substituting hard thinking for easy dopamine hits. The most ridiculous benchmark I have seen in AI is the tendency to say the longer an agent can work and some minimal accuracy is <i>a good thing</i>. That just means you have 30 steps to find an error in instead of 3, and you are much more likely to just abdicate thought instead of the hard work of proofing 30 steps yourself. AI companies and evaluators are losing the point.</p>
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<p>Your example on the statement was about the companies. What Google said has nothing to do with the companies. They're clearly trying to paper over the manipulation. I was giving you that credit for the one thing they're slightly good for once. But really we all know that consumers can find products just fine on their own through word of mouth and reviews. But advertisers manipulate that too with paid reviews and astroturfing. Way to pount out the only thing I agreed with you on as if I didn't, even though the majority of your post was arguing for the ads because they benefit companies. <i>And you even said those internet ads that let people know about a product aren't worth the money.</i> You are a true advertiser. Congratulations.</p>
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<p>You argue that ads can be helpful... by saying all the ways ads are helpful to the business. That's not what Google means. It's a way to make ads not sound like an obnoxious shitshow by pretending they are helpful <i>for the consumer</i>. The only way they are remotely helpful is to let someone know about a product they didn't know about. But that's not what ads are really for and we all know it. They're for manipulating people into buying a product, but whether they need it is purely coincidental. The admongers can stop pretending otherwise.</p>
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<p>PSA: kagi is a great search that still actually searches, allows you to customize results, and only uses ai when you ask for it. Only catch is that it's a pay service. Definitely worth it IMO. You can still get info directly from source sites rather than laundered through an unreliable AI. Not affiliated, just a happy user.<p><a href="https://kagi.com" rel="nofollow">https://kagi.com</a></p>
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<p>I'd be willing to bet it was their consumer complaint system that informed the FTC. They have a interagency agreement for crossreferral. Hopefully they didn't have to cut that back with the 90% doge cut. But don't worry, we will restore funding and make it more powerful after we de-dumpty the federal govt.</p>
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<p>Re: pool, definitely the one pushing needs to be the dominant hand.<p>It has the most degrees of freedom, and more motion. The one in front has a whole table for stability.<p>But that's just like my opinion, man.</p>
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<p>I'm old enough to remember when we had a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to push back against this kind of anti-consumer crap. It got doge'd by Dumpty/Musk.</p>
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<p>Yeah, "not being pressured to use them" conveniently sidesteps the fact they are RLHF trained to be as engaging (aka addictive) as possible.</p>
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<p>Agreed. The most effective efforts aren't going to come from indie developers. They aren't software issues, more regulatory. Busting up big tech into "baby bells" is the number one thing that needs to be done.<p>But now that we have essentially "boilerplate for free", I hope the degoogle/demeta/etc and self-hosted efforts are boosted in a way that even my mom can migrate away without much trouble. But that'll probably take real AI and not slop based addiction machines.</p>
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<p>Yeah, maybe they should listen for once. Every indie developer should be working to get people off the big tech slop treadmill.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:37:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177661</link><dc:creator>daveguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by daveguy in "Local AI needs to be the norm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/qwen36-27b/" rel="nofollow">https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/qwen36-27b/</a><p>Maybe this is an example of training overfit. But it won't be too long before local models chew through the "famously hard tasks". Except possibly ARC-AGI. That's one benchmark that is still developing with capabilities. And every time a new ARC-AGI benchmark is released it make the SOTA LLMs look pathetic. Because there is very little understanding or transferability with LLMs. But in terms of benchmark-able micro tasks, the local LLMs are improving.</p>
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<p>Blockchain is completely unnecessary (as it always is; I thought people stopped trying to ram that garbage into everything years ago).<p>I was answering this question from GP:<p>> Unfortunately it appears openssh doesn't even have an option to create such a logfile!! Why not??<p>The answer is because in Linux systems the logging logistics are handled at the system level, just like starting and running openssh itself. The answer to "why not" is because that's the logging system's job, not openssh's.<p>rsyslogd is one simple and direct way to distribute logs to remote machines.</p>
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<p>Exact same kinds of projects <i>with the exact same development environment, models, etc</i>. Either he's never worked with a development team or he doesn't consider things outside his own perspective. <i>shrug</i></p>
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<p>Because log processing is handled in the kernel/root/system? Is this a trick question?<p>See also: rsyslogd</p>
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<p>> The gambling trope is so tired...<p>>>> That sounds like a process problem. LLMs, like any tool, work better if you don't use them in the naive "do this" way...<p>The "you're holding it wrong" trope is even more tired than the gambling trope.</p>
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<p>You're the one who said Russia. Could be a dunce, but just as easily an llm farm of the GOPs. We all know they aren't exactly ethical. But also, they have clearly made dunces out of a lot of people.</p>
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<p>In a world of carousels, banners, and chatbots. Be a McMaster-Carr.<p>Wait. That requires having a desirable and non-manipulative product or service? Hmmm... Lots of business in for a rough time.</p>
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