Hacker News: dvduval

New comment by dvduval in "The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines"

dvduval — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:03:26 +0000

I had a strong reaction to Covid and that was the only time in my life I ever took what you might call mine drugs. I took Ativan for a while, but I read up on it and I was very careful not to take larger amounts. I was cutting the pills and halves or quarters and just using them for some mild relief, but I did have severe anxiety for a while. I think there could be a place for them but unfortunately, the way drug companies are they allow people to get too much and they profit from the addiction.

And by the way to get off of them, I read that the most successful people statistically with the ones who did a very gradually. So again I took the scissors and I was cutting small amounts off of pills so that I was sometimes taking some multiple of 1/8 of a pill And when I made adjustments I might go down by 1/8 or 1/4 per week.

My anxiety problem actually played a role in me being afraid to take too much anxiety medication ha ha and that probably saved me

New comment by dvduval in "Voxtral 3"

dvduval — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:41:46 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing with ChatGPT. If I start speaking in Chinese first, and then ask it to say something in English it will speak with somewhat of a Chinese accent.

New comment by dvduval in "Mistral Large 4"

dvduval — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:15:34 +0000

So boring to see conversations moved over to Chinese models when that’s not even what we’re talking about here. This is about Mistral.

New comment by dvduval in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

dvduval — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:33:12 +0000

As I have watched places like x.com and Reddit it’s pretty clear to me there is some sort of weird propaganda thing going on promoting the Chinese models and casting shade on the big American models

New comment by dvduval in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

dvduval — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:28:35 +0000

That sounds like a good video game to spin up in Astra. Missile command was pretty cool. We didn’t destroy mankind with that one either.

New comment by dvduval in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

dvduval — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:31:08 +0000

I think they’re gonna have to reach AGI before we’ll even be able to navigate the Facebook settings.

New comment by dvduval in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

dvduval — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:05:37 +0000

My agent did it? I didn’t do it.

New comment by dvduval in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

dvduval — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:35:58 +0000

Will there ever be a day where I could run this on a PC or something like it?

New comment by dvduval in ""IT WoRKs BeTter in the App ""

dvduval — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:31:34 +0000

I don’t understand all the technical challenges, but I sure hope we can close the gap between what we can do in the browser versus an app. What apps do is gate communities and gate information and gate people and this is the opposite of an open Internet that should be a benefit to humanity.

New comment by dvduval in "US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?"

dvduval — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:11:20 +0000

Party with power spends money. Party not in power complains too much money is being spent. Broken system. Those high interest rates ought to teach them pretty soon.

New comment by dvduval in "Grok 4.6"

dvduval — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:34:23 +0000

Criminal activity by which countries laws?

New comment by dvduval in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

dvduval — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:32:53 +0000

I don’t really have a reason to use WordPress anymore. I’m about halfway through switching my site over to something else that I can control with github and AI. Now these boats are mostly getting static files unless there’s a reason to show something else and even then the footprint is very small. There’s just not that much to hack.

New comment by dvduval in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

dvduval — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:44:16 +0000

The big part that I didn’t see was whether this was a Russian drone or Ukrainian drone

New comment by dvduval in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

dvduval — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:58:51 +0000

I don’t think they’re strong evidence that it does anything beyond helping you build muscle. There are some people say they think clearer, but I don’t think that’s been measured in any significant way.

New comment by dvduval in "Gemini 3.6 Flash"

dvduval — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:31:46 +0000

I find their models are pretty good for answering every day questions, and with their large user base, I’m sure they’re getting lots of usage.

New comment by dvduval in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

dvduval — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:29:47 +0000

It does seem like their releases are getting closer together. I get the feeling they realized they were trying to roll out to their entire ecosystem and now they’re focusing more just directly on the AI model itself. I think give it a little time and they’ll start to be one of the competitors too.

New comment by dvduval in "Kimi Work"

dvduval — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:36:20 +0000

The Chinese marketing blitz is on! Ha ha

Guess where the models are gonna be hosted? Hint, not China.

New comment by dvduval in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

dvduval — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:35:18 +0000

Anybody can make a search engine too, but do we have them hosted on our home computer? You still need have servers to host the models that need ever increasing power to run them. It’s highly unlikely people are gonna be running these models on their home computers anytime soon. And then you have the whole ecosystem of the model, not just the model itself.

New comment by dvduval in "Codex Micro"

dvduval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:44:33 +0000

Presentation is not clear to me. How is it superior to using my keyboard?

New comment by dvduval in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

dvduval — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:45:30 +0000

What continues to bother me is just that developers who don’t have the budget are pretty much pushed out of iOS development because they can’t afford a Mac. And every time that Apple increases the price of their products, more people are blocked from being able to develop on them.