Hacker News: fwip

New comment by fwip in "AI will never be ethical or safe"

fwip — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:01:52 +0000

I think without reading the final line, you might get the wrong impression.

> It doesn’t make those frameworks worthless. It makes them incomplete by design—and it means, again, that AI will never be entirely ethical or safe.

Lots of people in this thread are reading the headline and making the same comparisons that the author does - "Most people don’t provide their context. They never have—not to search engines, not to librarians, not to hardware store clerks."

The article isn't saying "AI will never be ethical and safe, and it is unique in that way," it is saying "and so it is similar to these other things." If anything, it is critiquing the claims made by corporate AI that they can successfully make AI both useful and totally safe.

New comment by fwip in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

fwip — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:05:37 +0000

Might be true, but unfortunately, we need to pay for rent/mortgage/groceries in the short run.

New comment by fwip in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

fwip — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:54:01 +0000

Sorry if it wasn't clear - I was just copy-pasting from the github issue, in a comment further down.

New comment by fwip in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

fwip — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:52:30 +0000

> Hey @rektide, @apaz-cli, we bundle all sysdeps to allow to ship self-contained packages that users can e.g. pip install. That's our basic default and it allows us to tightly control what we ship. For building, it should generally be possible to build without the bundled sysdeps in which case it is up to the user to make sure all dependencies are properly installed. As this is not our default we seemed to have missed some corner cases and there is more work needed to get back to allow builds with sysdeps disabled. I started #3538 but it will need more work in some other components to fully get you what you're asking with regards to system dependencies. Please not that we do not test with the unbundled, system provided dependencies but of course we want to give the community the freedom to build it that way.

New comment by fwip in "Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?"

fwip — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:54:42 +0000

I think you read it backwards - that's a possible consequence of P==NP, not P!=NP.

New comment by fwip in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

fwip — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:18:50 +0000

If I remember right, I dropped it after about 40 chapters.

I think interesting is more a subjective thing than objective, also.

New comment by fwip in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

fwip — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:21:13 +0000

Nope.

New comment by fwip in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

fwip — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:21:59 +0000

I found it pretty boring, to be honest. Felt like an excuse for the author to show off how smart they thought they were, without really any skill at characterization or meaningful plot.

And like, I'm not a writing snob. I read fanfic by amateur authors. But HPMOR just doesn't do much of anything interesting.

New comment by fwip in "Where does all the milk go?"

fwip — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:05:17 +0000

You'd be surprised. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/u-penn-s...

New comment by fwip in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

fwip — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:51:41 +0000

1.1 million being 0.000000001% implies a total count of 1e17 books in the world - the real number is closer to 1e8.

New comment by fwip in "Lunar Flyby"

fwip — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:52:12 +0000

I think the common miscommunication here is that defense is the largest part of the US discretionary budget (about half overall), but that doesn't include those non-negotiable things like Social Security, Medicare, etc .

New comment by fwip in "Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM"

fwip — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:51:47 +0000

You can smell it.

New comment by fwip in "Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM"

fwip — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:47:35 +0000

Sure, and an LLM-written article will use that pattern eight times in two pages.

New comment by fwip in "Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)"

fwip — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:17:45 +0000

As a small kid, I learned how to use the DOS command line to launch this game on my parents' PC. I also remember really enjoying Sopwith 2, which added cows, among other things.

New comment by fwip in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"

fwip — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:58:33 +0000

You take a binary that's intended to run on the Xbox 360, and emit a new binary that runs on a modern x86 computer.

New comment by fwip in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

fwip — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:43:24 +0000

If you haven't tried it, the Steam controller does a pretty good job of playing mouse&keyboard games. The original is probably hard to find now, but allegedly they'll release a new one later this year.

New comment by fwip in "SpaceX files to go public"

fwip — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:56:40 +0000

All of those places had valuable resources for extraction. That was the whole basis for their colonization. The whole basis of colonialism, itself.

Mars has a lot of rocks.

New comment by fwip in "SpaceX files to go public"

fwip — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:35:43 +0000

And having a colony on Mars will be profitable because of...?

New comment by fwip in "Intuiting Pratt Parsing"

fwip — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:52:22 +0000

It's not just speed - incremental parsing allows for better error recovery. In practice, this means that your editor can highlight the code as-you-type, even though what you're typing has broken the parse tree (especially the code after your edit point).

New comment by fwip in "Wedeo – a Rust Rewrite of FFmpeg"

fwip — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:23:59 +0000

Thank you for being up-front in disclaiming that this project is AI-written, both here and in the Github page. I really appreciate the transparency.