Hacker News: flumes_whims_

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:56:05 +0000

That can get thrown into a tiny 2" screen in the instrument cluster.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:58:04 +0000

Meta overbought compute and is considering selling it like SpaceX did.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:47:08 +0000

Members of parliament who owned stock in the East India company bailing it out by allowing it to sell tea directly to the American colonies?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Claude Sonnet 5"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:50:21 +0000

Probably because benchmarks are leaked. Included in their training or model can cheat by finding answer online.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:47:33 +0000

In the saga period of Iceland, 1/3rd of the laws had to be recited orally each year in a public assembly. If we had something like that then our legal code would be a lot slimmer.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:19:19 +0000

How is Anthropic going to make sure every person using an API key is a citizen?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Steam Machine launches today"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:51:10 +0000

Products with Chinese made RAM can effectively only be sold in China due to US sanctions or threats thereof. It helps a bit because Chinese companies then buy less Korean RAM but not as much as it otherwise would be.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Steam Machine launches today"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:46:16 +0000

Let's money for scalpers and more money for the company making the product.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Steam Machine launches today"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:32:48 +0000

Linus Tech Tips built a computer with around twice the performance at the same price with current RAM prices. You lose out on size and SteamOS features like quick resume & CEC.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:06:42 +0000

Are you including the emissions of producing two cars instead of one?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:23:29 +0000

Tokens/seconds and watt-hours seem related?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Alan Greenspan has died"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:52:35 +0000

What regulations did he as federal reserve chair rollback and which of them caused the 2008 crash?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:24:57 +0000

Isn't Just Stop Oil funded by an oil heiress?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:19:42 +0000

It's not just the weights. It is the system prompt, harness, safety filters, etc. Those can affect performance of the same underlying model significantly.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:58:44 +0000

But they do generate zero power at night.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:18:44 +0000

Wouldn't a local llm be just as vulnerable to this?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:07:27 +0000

The overhead shrinks with larger models. It doesn't seem that bad.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.03992v2

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:17:06 +0000

How about a chatbot in front of feature requests that gets all the details the fist time?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:46:50 +0000

> “AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved – and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can't even see each other's reports.”

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

flumes_whims_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:09:25 +0000

And we can guess that recordings for have stored for years back before it got feasible to actually process.