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New comment by fouc in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

fouc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:06:10 +0000

don't forget LLMs are great at translating between languages, and within the same language. depending on the problem it works on, it will often reach for terminology that tend to be more common or familiar within that problem set. which appears inscrutable, but there's many different ways to skin a cat. just remind it to translate it back to the terminology and subject matter you're already an expert in.

New comment by fouc in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

fouc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:11:41 +0000

I tried googling this, not sure what this is a reference to?

New comment by fouc in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

fouc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:05:30 +0000

in the future, everyone's glasses will have automatic recording of people.

in the future, everyone's automatic recording of people will be fully accessible to all.

in the future, everyone's glasses will also be AR glasses, enabling everyone to view everyone else's POV at any time.

in the future there will be no privacy, because everyone will be able to watch everyone else.

New comment by fouc in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

fouc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:34:29 +0000

the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc.

I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.

New comment by fouc in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

fouc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:49:05 +0000

Online advertising is what drives the desire for user data. Ban online advertising and the demand for user data withers.

New comment by fouc in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

fouc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:48:31 +0000

I've always thought that if online advertising as a business model had been entirely banned from the internet in the 90s, the internet would've looked like a much better place today.

And micropayments would've taken off in a big way.

The only reason why micropayments doesn't really exist today isn't due to technical reasons, it's because advertising is too dominant, and because consumers got trained on expecting everything on the internet to be "free", not realizing they're the product.

New comment by fouc in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

fouc — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:45:02 +0000

My carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms or RSI basically went away once I started using a macbook as my primary computer. It definitely doesn't hurt when the trackpad is right below my thumbs.

New comment by fouc in "Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga"

fouc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:22:30 +0000

I once bought a digital/electric pressure cooker for $50 CAD barely used off craigslist in Toronto. They're not that expensive.

New comment by fouc in "NetBSD 11.0"

fouc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:48:23 +0000

I meant more in the sense that it's less of a blocker if you wanted to use a different OS altogether. Many people are on Linux because it's the most well supported, but if you happen to be on BSD and you're missing something from Linux then you can theoretically just have AI port the thing.

New comment by fouc in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

fouc — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:09:56 +0000

$1M invested in a reasonably diversified portfolio gets you about $3,000/mo lifetime at ~3.5% safe withdrawal rate. That might be quite restrictive in the more expensive cities.

New comment by fouc in "NetBSD 11.0"

fouc — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:59:53 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the BSDs got an increase in users purely due to AI models making it far more accessible / easier to hack on.

i.e. your PC is unsupported for some specific driver, such as bluetooth? stick AI on the problem.

New comment by fouc in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

fouc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:00:06 +0000

M4 Max is typically better than M5 Pro for inference IIRC.

New comment by fouc in "VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines"

fouc — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:09:55 +0000

Also classic, someone finally jumping in with a full and insightful explanation. What a turnaround!

New comment by fouc in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

fouc — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:49:58 +0000

from the article:

>The stereotypical activist action is to make a petition. But Google had already ignored a large petition on this issue. Plus, Google’s executives likely hardened their company against stereotypical organizing tactics. Sit-ins, strikes, even a mass of Google engineers quitting: I deemed all of them ineffective (if I could even pull them off).

New comment by fouc in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

fouc — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:35:31 +0000

I love mental rule of thumbs / heuristics that we can install into our brain to avoid getting caught up in cognitive biases or other mistakes.

An easy one that I would expect most HN readers probably do already is: When shopping, always round up to the nearest dollar before even mentally storing it or operating on it. The usual cognitive bias is that many people end up storing the listed price of $4.96 in a lossy manner, as $4.xx, and end up thinking of it as $4 when in reality they could be skipping straight to keeping it as $5 in their head.

New comment by fouc in "Grok Build is open source"

fouc — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:59:54 +0000

Terminal is where the real work has always been done. VS Code on the other hand is 100% a fashion thing.

New comment by fouc in "Grok Build is open source"

fouc — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:56:47 +0000

it started off with 500+ crates and then i still had to install dotslash crate which installed another 136 crates. seems insane.

New comment by fouc in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

fouc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:24:28 +0000

That's how you know you've got the COOLEST car on the block! (unfortunately)

New comment by fouc in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

fouc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:57:21 +0000

any reason you went with q8 over q4? I'm wondering if q4 would run noticeably faster or not.

New comment by fouc in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

fouc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:27:45 +0000

name and shame the bank