Hacker News: deegles

New comment by deegles in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

deegles — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:48:57 +0000

I run mine in a docker container and they get read only access to most things.

Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse

deegles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp87z6vexl3o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657627

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by deegles in "Two kinds of vibe coding"

deegles — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:11:38 +0000

not to be antagonistic but are we paid to learn stuff or to build stuff? I think it's the latter. if we have to learn something it's only so that we can build something in the end.

New comment by deegles in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

deegles — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:07:51 +0000

I think their downfall will be the fact that they don't have a "path to AGI" and have been raising investor money on the promise that they do.

New comment by deegles in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

deegles — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:32:21 +0000

with enough packets you can trilaterate an approximate locatuon. adding random jitter will just delay it a bit.

Calif. tech saddest invention has been bleeding cash

deegles — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:24:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/california-tech-world-soylent-scrambling-adapt-21219237.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218034

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by deegles in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

deegles — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:54:49 +0000

I mean... did we really expect the content owners to roll over and let the streaming platforms capture the potential profits?

New comment by deegles in "From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency"

deegles — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:03:32 +0000

but are the GLP-1s reducing inflammation or is it a side effect of the reduced caloric intake? does it matter?

New comment by deegles in "Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker"

deegles — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:31:13 +0000

I'd like to see hard data on the outage rate of systems with and without their input

Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI'

deegles — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738482

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by deegles in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

deegles — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:23:48 +0000

Would you characterize opiate addiction as an abundance of neurotransmitters? You're missing the forest for the trees.

New comment by deegles in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

deegles — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:06:30 +0000

> computer systems that can open chrome, start a video chat with somebody, go back and forth for a while to achieve a task, then hang up...

all the pieces are there, though I suspect the first to implement this will be scammers and spear phishers.

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we're hoarding pre-AI content

deegles — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:51:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421093

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by deegles in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

deegles — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:54:58 +0000

no, letting misinformation persist is counterproductive because of the illusory truth effect. the more people hear it, the more they think (consciously or not) "there must be something to this if it keeps popping up"

Suspect Asks for a 'Lawyer, Dog,' Willfully Ignorant Court Denies Comma, Counsel (2017)

deegles — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:54:33 +0000

Article URL: https://abovethelaw.com/2017/10/suspect-asks-for-a-lawyer-dog-willfully-ignorant-court-denies-comma-counsel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302343

Points: 29

# Comments: 4

New comment by deegles in "Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2"

deegles — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:00:37 +0000

I think they mean serious in scientific terms, not in policy making.

New comment by deegles in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

deegles — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:08:55 +0000

That's fair. Reliable access to a 70% expert is better than no access to a 99% expert.

New comment by deegles in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

deegles — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:20:35 +0000

> it's hard to imagine a AI that can competently code that doesn't have an LLM as a component.

That's just it. LLMs are a component, they generate text or images from a higher-level description but are not themselves "intelligent". If you imagine the language center of your brain being replaced with a tiny LLM powered chip, you would not say it's sentient. it translates your thoughts into words which you then choose to speak or not. That's all modulated by consciousness.

New comment by deegles in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

deegles — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:06:54 +0000

You know, you're right. It -also- sucks at those tasks because on top of the issue you mention, unedited LLM text is identifiable if you get used to its patterns.

New comment by deegles in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

deegles — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:34:37 +0000

> We're clearly seeing what AI will eventually be able to do

Are we though? Aside from a narrow set of tasks like translation, grammar, and tone-shifting, LLMs are a dead end. Code generation sucks. Agents suck. They still hallucinate. If you wouldn't trust its medical advice without review from an actual doctor, why would you trust its advice on anything else?

Also, the companies trying to "fix" issues with LLMs with more training data will just rediscover the "long-tail" problem... there is an infinite number of new things that need to be put into the dataset, and that's just going to reduce the quality of responses.

For example: the "there are three 'b's in blueberry" problem was caused by so much training data in response to "there are two r's in strawberry". it's a systemic issue. no amount of data will solve it because LLMs will -never- be sentient.

Finally, I'm convinced that any AI company promising they are on the path to General AI should be sued for fraud. LLMs are not it.