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New comment by derwiki in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

derwiki — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:03:35 +0000

Since Sol 6.1 came out, I have come nowhere close to my daily token budget. Previously, it was basically every day.

New comment by derwiki in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

derwiki — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:12:51 +0000

OOC did you have this list prepared? You posted it very quickly as a response

New comment by derwiki in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

derwiki — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:02:36 +0000

Folks certainly have their preferences, but I think most consider each company's roughly equivalent models to be of the same quality.

New comment by derwiki in "Tell HN: Scribd Breached"

derwiki — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:57:57 +0000

Great reason to use privacy.com virtual cards wherever possible and online

New comment by derwiki in "A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights"

derwiki — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:50:39 +0000

> The week after that: everything is written in ASM.

Also “1 month ago,” but s/ASM/Rust

New comment by derwiki in "El Niño is flooding California's coasts with the highest tides to come"

derwiki — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:27:41 +0000

Tiniest fiddle

Jacquard Machine

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280715

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by derwiki in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:39:26 +0000

Roughly 36k people died on US roads last year. Waymo's own numbers over 271M driverless miles show about 95% fewer serious injury crashes than the human benchmark in the cities it runs in. Discount that however much you want for methodology, it's still progress.

New comment by derwiki in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:10:17 +0000

It might not count as innovation in the last four years because the groundwork was laid decades ago, but in the last four years Waymo evolved to the point where it can drive on the highways.

New comment by derwiki in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:32:06 +0000

https://archive.is/2026.10.28-130224/https://www.wired.com/s...

New comment by derwiki in "An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000

We’re always losing things, eg carrier pigeons.

New comment by derwiki in "An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:27:52 +0000

Whereabouts?

New comment by derwiki in "Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:17:48 +0000

But not ubiquitous, we didn’t get one until the late 80’s. And OTOH we had internet in 1996, and were among the early adopters in my town.

New comment by derwiki in "SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef"

derwiki — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:08:21 +0000

Probably much, much easier to make a zeppelin

New comment by derwiki in "Ghostty 1.4"

derwiki — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:17:51 +0000

I know it’s been said elsewhere ITT, but thank you for making and supporting Ghostty!

New comment by derwiki in "Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior"

derwiki — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:32:12 +0000

In regulated industries like money lending, ML outputs have to be explainable (and explained for an ECOA case). I’m not an ML expert by any stretch, but IIUC this is why we end up using decision tree models.

New comment by derwiki in "Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline"

derwiki — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:45:01 +0000

Because it’s always a house finch?

New comment by derwiki in "Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline"

derwiki — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:18:33 +0000

IIRC birding is like a 130bn/year industry in the US

New comment by derwiki in "Anthropic S-1"

derwiki — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:26:37 +0000

Should be in your earthquake/tornado kit anyway

New comment by derwiki in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

derwiki — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:32:46 +0000

No offense but this is a bit of a weak example; Chegg got hit pretty early. No one since Chegg?