Hacker News: free_bip

New comment by free_bip in "GameBoy Workboy"

free_bip — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:08:06 +0000

That's weird, I can connect just fine over mullvad.

New comment by free_bip in "The Case for Free Online Books (2014)"

free_bip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:29:17 +0000

Or they could lay off some middle managers. If they blame the layoffs on AI the market might even reward them for it.

New comment by free_bip in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

free_bip — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:57:55 +0000

What an incredibly dismissive and nasty comment.

New comment by free_bip in "Americans on GLP-1s Are Overwhelming Retailers with Their Nonstop Returns"

free_bip — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:54:14 +0000

I didn't even know you could return clothes from most retailers. From online would make sense (you have no way of knowing if it'll fit right), but from a physical store you really don't have an excuse.

New comment by free_bip in "AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3B people"

free_bip — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:38:50 +0000

What makes you think infra in space is smart? How are you going to dissipate heat?

New comment by free_bip in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

free_bip — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:04:21 +0000

If you actually read the full text of the law, it states:

" "Biometric identifier” means a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry. Biometric identifiers do not include writing samples, written signatures, photographs, human biological samples, [...] "

So if it's just pictures of faces, then it's okay. If, however, at any point in the pipeline the actual facial geometry is calculated or stored, that might be a violation.

New comment by free_bip in "Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence"

free_bip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:56:17 +0000

Unfortunately, no pricing or technical information has been released yet.

New comment by free_bip in "Claude Opus 4.8 may have distilled Qwen"

free_bip — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:26:15 +0000

They can easily add this "individuality" in RLHF. The base model won't know, correct, but the final user-facing model very much can if that's what they so desire.

New comment by free_bip in "Maia-3: free and open source"

free_bip — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:45:47 +0000

IMO the big news here is that they created effectively a drop-in replacement for the Leela Chess Zero model - which ended up outperforming the best existing LC0 model. Could make LC0 more competitive long term vs. stockfish if they choose to adopt the chessformer architecture.

New comment by free_bip in "Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone"

free_bip — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:35:32 +0000

I think they would most likely end up calling 911. I hope that Waymos only drive in locations with cellphone signal.

New comment by free_bip in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

free_bip — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:29:52 +0000

That's not what the previous comment is referring to. They're referring to false positives, i.e "Gemini did not generate this (or process it) yet it says SynthID confirmed"

New comment by free_bip in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

free_bip — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:23:42 +0000

Those are not the same as prediction markets

New comment by free_bip in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

free_bip — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000

So it'll still raise at least 300 million? Sounds like a great thing to me. I dunno why you think it doesn't matter.

New comment by free_bip in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

free_bip — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:08:49 +0000

It makes more sense when you realize the whole point is to distract from the continued failure to release the Epstein files.

New comment by free_bip in "A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm"

free_bip — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:13:23 +0000

Oh please, the government could easily force them to hand over their research. This is not a serious argument.

New comment by free_bip in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

free_bip — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:38:22 +0000

You're already watched by security cameras, it's not hard to do facial recognition anymore. And you have companies literally lining up to sell such facial recognition databases. It's conceivable they could determine what price you pay for groceries while your car is on the way to the store, thanks to Flock.

New comment by free_bip in "Only Elon Musk can fire Elon Musk from SpaceX, filing shows"

free_bip — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:48:02 +0000

Because even an AI chatbot would do a better job than him?

New comment by free_bip in "The Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship"

free_bip — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:36:24 +0000

This is highly illegal and could get you extradited back to the US if you're unlucky. Get advice from a real lawyer before doing anything like this.

New comment by free_bip in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

free_bip — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:07:19 +0000

Right, and without that open bribery they would have had 100% tarrifs on all of their iphones, macbooks and semiconductors, which is an overwhelming portion of their revenue.

Now obviously, this only covers a small portion of Tim's reign over apple, but is it not fair to say you'd have a different overall view of his tenure if he was an honest businessman and ate the tarrifs like he was supposed to, probably tanking the stock in the process?

New comment by free_bip in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

free_bip — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:50:00 +0000

Why do you think they got most of their components exempted from tarrifs?