Hacker News: fridder

New comment by fridder in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

fridder — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:31:16 +0000

.internal as well I believe

New comment by fridder in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

fridder — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:34:46 +0000

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Why would you trust Meta with privacy and security?

New comment by fridder in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"

fridder — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:40:09 +0000

That last one seems likely

New comment by fridder in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

fridder — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:12:50 +0000

In my experience? No. 3.7 is faster and it just seems to get things right more often. Only big architecture tasks and analysis make sense with 3.1, perhaps, but honestly just use the Opus 4.6 to generate a plan and then switch back to flash for the implementation

New comment by fridder in "Gemini 3.8 Flash"

fridder — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:29:42 +0000

it is antigravity now. It is ok

New comment by fridder in "EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype"

fridder — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:36:17 +0000

Copyright is too long (thank you Disney and Pelosi) and I'm all for shortening it. Also I do agree that market dilution is not really defensible. The main reason why models should have been shut down is the sketchy way in which the models were trained.

New comment by fridder in "“It works better in the app”"

fridder — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:10:57 +0000

because, basically, why paint Elmo's fence?

New comment by fridder in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

fridder — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:01:37 +0000

Could do a "Big model for architecture and planning and smaller model (or local model) for implementation" sort of thing

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

fridder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:25:25 +0000

Just stop. The debt has _not_ be accelerating with either party. Look at the deficit growth numbers under each administration

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

fridder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:24:17 +0000

If we fail to pay interest in a timely manner is potentially catastrophic. US Bonds are considered a safe haven because we have never defaulted on our debt

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

fridder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:22:20 +0000

We'll grow our way out whenever the mythical trickle down works

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

fridder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:20:53 +0000

Way too reductive. Look at the deficit growth numbers under democrats vs republicans. This comment is just another variant of lazy "both-siderism" that I have really come to loath

New comment by fridder in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

fridder — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:36:53 +0000

Amongst other issues, it is a proxy for the angst over AI.

New comment by fridder in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

fridder — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:03:24 +0000

The part that really annoys me is the stark difference in cost between harness usage and api usage. I'd like to build my own harness and maybe I just will and focus on local model serving

New comment by fridder in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

fridder — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:00:42 +0000

You are willfully deluding yourself if you believe that. He put an anti-vax idiot as head of HHS. How is that "nothing"?

New comment by fridder in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

fridder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:40:46 +0000

This whole thing has felt very odd. Did we collectively forget about the Google Glass and glass-holes? This was entirely predictable. I guess the only difference this time around is how inconspicuous they are.

New comment by fridder in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

fridder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:38:15 +0000

At least in high school I was the opposite. If I had a class with a teacher strict about notes I didn't absorb the material as well because I was more focused on getting the notes correct than engaging with the material

New comment by fridder in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

fridder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:10 +0000

All well and good for folks without hand issues.

New comment by fridder in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

fridder — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:49:09 +0000

I also wonder what this moment will mean for chip design going forward. The fact that we are so constrained on the GPU side along with the success of unified memory with apple silicon does make me wonder what chips in 3-5 years will look like.

New comment by fridder in "The lost joy of music piracy"

fridder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:02:06 +0000

Sony has so often footgunned itself it is comical. Occasionally great engineering hobbled by terrible business choices