<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fsloth</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fsloth</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:27:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fsloth" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personally I have zero reasons to upgrade from IPhone 13 until the software stops working. I hope it will last me several years more. Beautiful hardware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357595</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Mistral OCR 4.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"it refuse to OCR public-domain books that included content that it didn’t like, such as references to prostitution in 19th-century books about Japan."<p>Thoughtcrime -like territory and self-sensorship. The AI safety lobby is such a vile influence on the freedom of expression and communication via technology (since AI is starting to eat up rest of technology).<p>I guess the main problem is positioning AI tools as "human-equivalent" creators by the big AI corps. If they were positioned simply as "better OCR and proofreading" people would attribute to them as much responsibility as they would to a - say - typewriter and we would not need to have this nonsense.<p>I do realize most of the valuation comes from the positioning of "our TAM is the global salary base of 50 trilion and we aim to supesede human workers in the near future" which implies they need to position this technology as "human equivalent" or that valuation is no longer as credible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295751</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in ""Revolution by robot – The Brain that talks to Tools"(Popular Mechanics 1959)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article from Popular Mechanics from 1959 -almost 70 years ago - sounds eerily similar as the pitch decks of so many "AI" CAD startups.<p>Some problems appear almost as industrial invariants.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1959">https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1959</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277246">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277246</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1959</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not sure we are at the top. Swarmed lower tier models appear to scale up in competence. So something like a Fable swarm running at 100x the speed might provide surprises.<p>But ”top of the curve reached” feels like the likelier scenario.</p>
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<p>I don’t think average user _needs_ to solve frontier challenges. ”Call to Jane”, ”turn on the lights” and ”what’s the weather this afternoon” is more like it I would guess.<p>Ofc if the model has some critical bugs that’s another matter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:11:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206486</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Disney+ brings 4K streaming back to European customers, HDR still on to-do list"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird - I would have expected Disney of all streamers to respect IP better given how dependent they are on IP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170185</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To me "explosive" means it comes unannounced and evacuates bowels within few seconds, ovepowering any sphincter resistance.<p>If that's your normal poop maybe seek medical advice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158946</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whoa the acceleration from the start surprised me. It’s huge and it just … zipped off the pad like a bullet (ok not real bullet but still).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042873</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm I never could get the DWARF debug information to hook up properly, must give this a try next time I need to return to the topic.<p>If you don't mind - what's your specific setup when debugging Sokol, I might start from replicating that workflow?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033235</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>" it's cross-platform"<p>Nothing in real time graphics _actually_ is cross platform. You are always programming a vendor hardware.<p>"Cross platform" really has no value in graphics programming, honestly, when discussing the lowest level programmable api.<p>You always need to explicitly say which platforms you target, and then test on those platforms.<p>The main questions should be "on which platform will my users run it" and "can I debug and test this".<p>So if you are starting out - pick out the easiest api for you. Don't go looking for universality as a value on it's owm (if you want universal rendering, choose CPU rendering. if you want high perf - choose your GPU platform(s) explicitly).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028308</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The "universal" nature of WebGPU with the "web" focus feels a lot like the graphics API equivalent of WASM"<p>Having shipped non-trivial WASM code in two projects That's not a positive thing. WASM is stuck in zone between living and the dead - just good enough (barely) to merit creating production code when you need the perf in browser but not good enough to register as industrial quality tool as it's not possible really to debug a WASM application.<p>If you really, really need the perf in your browser app, WASM may be the only option, but it's not really a good one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028211</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TBH to me she reads as high performing idealist, not naive. Different things, may give similar signals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956762</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"insufferable and very naive."<p>IMHO she is just not from US. US culture _is_ totally foreign to anyone not from there.<p>Read the part where she describes her interactions with New Zealand prime minister and you will get it. That part to me feels natural (I'm from Finland). Everything else in the book reads like absurdist black comedy to me and not how I would expect people to behave normally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956744</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you loved Catch-22 you will love ”Careless people”! I warmly recommend a read. Not to support Sarah necessarily - just because the book is great! It’s not really a spill-the-tea as much absurdist escapade in corporate america.<p>Ok the details on Zuckerberg and ”Lean In” Sandberg  _are_ bizarre. Which makes it a super fun read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:45:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952115</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Minikotlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>”Web compilers are dime-a-dozen”<p>Oh didn’t know that! What is the best for ”compiles to wasm in browser” featureset?</p>
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<p>I came to the comments exactly for this ("wait I thought we 'knew' this already").<p>I'm so happy we have HN with likeminded people and no noise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871182</link><dc:creator>fsloth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsloth in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hiit training can use any type of exercise that allows quick change of pace.<p>The routine in Tabata’s original HIIT work was just cycling.<p>Crossfit afaik is a more complex affair than just cycling.<p>So is the risk of injury due to specific movement or the interval quality of the movement?</p>
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<p>"hiit also causes a lot of damage in a lot of ways"<p>Oh! I didn't know about this. Are there any references you could quote?</p>
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<p>There is no bad publicity! I wonder if OpenAI explicilty asked for this.</p>
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