<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: djeastm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=djeastm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 22:26:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=djeastm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>52-62 seems like a normal, or better than normal, retirement target, no?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:13:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327918</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>barbarians<p>I didn't realize people still used this word to apply to human beings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327842</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>primary resources are effectively infinite<p>You just solved economics?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:58:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327726</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ehhh, their incentive in their marketing is to get normal people to not be intimidated by the big bad AI.<p>Power users are always going to have to take the messaging companies send out to the masses with a grain of salt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 21:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286373</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They provide an explanation for using the term "sleep":<p>> In animals, the transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory is thought to be
supported by hippocampal replay [33], especially during sleep [41]; in this phase, short-term hippocampal memories are reactivated and consolidated into cortical synaptic weights. Sleep makes animals unable to respond to external stimuli, suggesting that it must provide enough cognitive benefit to justify this cost [41]. Inspired by these biological processes, we propose a method for transferring context-window memory into persistent weights. When the model’s context window becomes full during inference, the model enters a “sleep” in which it performs multiple forward passes over the accumulated context and recursively updates its fast weights via a learned local rule. As in animal sleep, the model receives no external input tokens during this phase. After consolidation, the context window is cleared, and the model resumes operation with updated fast weights. During training, the model is optimized end-to-end by backpropagating through the entire process to maximize task performance after sleep.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 16:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282088</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Leave Me Behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a mathematical model of collective intelligence I think we need to also include a "productive use" factor. The total brain power of our species might be higher than in the past based on a summation, but how much per-capita intelligence is being utilized for productive/adaptive ends versus being being distracted from such ends? What's our distraction rate offset?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267482</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article:<p>>This principle is fundamentally different from the effect of dimples on golf balls. Dimples reduce pressure resistance by intentionally turbulizing the airflow and suppressing backward separation. DMR, on the other hand, delays the transition, thereby suppressing not pressure resistance but the wall friction itself. They are opposite mechanisms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 01:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262670</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant article posted on HN about this a few days ago: <a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone" rel="nofollow">https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260627</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>it was already downvote bombed in less than 10 minutes with no counter argument<p>Your submissions to HN evince a pattern that suggests engagement with you would likely fall on deaf ears.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253196</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "The Art of Money Getting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIRC, he spends a few pages talking about how Steve Jobs is going to be the ruin of Apple</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:13:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251586</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SpaceX probably spends a lot of money on marketing/public relations creating great media. I'm guessing NASA's on a shoestring budget for that kind of thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:40:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251267</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I think the only real case to be made is that AI's sense of immediate pleasure can neuter people away from running into friction. AI natives likely won't understand friction and question it.<p>This is key, I think, and gets overshadowed by people being offended by seeing bad vibecode or claims of 10x speeds, etc.<p>The most important learning that happens is not when we ask and get the answer to our question right away. It's when we stretch ourselves to seek out the answer, fail a few times, think deeply, then perhaps after a nap, solve the problem. That kind of knowledge is priceless because it not only gets you an answer it gets you some errant paths you can use to avoid problems in future problem solving as well as getting you increased trust in your own thinking.<p>If the next generations skip this step, they'll always think answers are supposed to be easy to find and will find themselves more and more dependent on AI and less and less confident in their own brains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:24:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238792</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd be interested in hearing your experiences. Are we talking mob association? Arm-breaking thugs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:02:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238543</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As long as they're behind a wall that AI bots can't reach and suck all of the authoritative information out and then starve of visitors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:12:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220263</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't that a Woody Allen joke?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:04:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205838</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking at token usage at places like OpenRouter as a proxy for overall production we're looking at exponential growth in AI-created content. Weekly token usage there has tripled just in the past 3 months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200658</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the pelican has something heavy in its mouth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194587</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there will always be a free tier that they'll be willing to use. Even if it sounds hackneyed, those folks will still use it because many people are not discerning readers anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:59:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170078</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Help the younger generations find the same fun you did. That's where satisfaction is often found as we age.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 22:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164398</link><dc:creator>djeastm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by djeastm in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As long as it's under the budget for X number of senior software devs, it seems competitive.</p>
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