Hacker News: giardini

New comment by giardini in "Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room"

giardini — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:49:33 +0000

They're lucky he didn't wipe the device first!

New comment by giardini in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

giardini — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:54:20 +0000

How like collecting pokemon? (not familiar with pokemon)

New comment by giardini in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

giardini — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:25:36 +0000

Make a loan and pay for the life extension treatment over your extended lifetime.

New comment by giardini in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

giardini — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:39:34 +0000

A shortage of lawyers familiar with the subject. And also many are busy suing someone else. But they'll get around to it!

New comment by giardini in "ATF ends suppressor and short-barreled rifle registration requirements"

giardini — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:26:43 +0000

ELI5?

New comment by giardini in "Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape"

giardini — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:37:54 +0000

I dunno:

1. There should be plenty broken up press board after the apocalypse. It is apparently quite flammable but sometimes gives off bad emissions. Perhaps you should set up a website where people can print a guide to press board emissions, so we all will know which to cook foods with and which to only heat with.

2. And there should be plenty of auto tires. Here's a fella who needs only a few tires each day to heat a 12' x 16' corrugated metal siding workshop:

https://www.farmshow.com/view_articles.php?a_id=1072

Another article with photos:

https://www.farmshow.com/a_download_page.php?aid=MzI4Nw==

3. Finally we see:

"Study Shows Dangerous Plastics Are Being Used As Fuel To Heat Homes":

https://www.slashgear.com/2075676/plastic-fuel-burning-heat-...

So I don't see a problem finding dry combustible fuel, In fact gathering fuel will be somewhat like gathering manna in the desert!8-))

New comment by giardini in "Scientists discover 180k giant tortoises on one Seychelles island"

giardini — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:50:43 +0000

Eliminating all predators will merely enable boom-and-bust reversals with maximum at the highest populations, though. Someone needs to manage the turtles: I suggest the HN Turtle Soup Co., Inc.

Dang needs a break anyway!8-))

Ask HN: Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest?

giardini — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:42:11 +0000

I see certain groups (e.g.,farmers) periodically protest in France but high school?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011926

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by giardini in "The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse"

giardini — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:16:09 +0000

My Dad and I built a kart to spec but didn't race it, only drove for fun and skill. Luckily I had no idea there were so many levels of expertise as you speak of. Helluva way to learn to drive though! By the time I got full control of an automobile all my wild urges had been satisfied.

If I'd met someone like you describe I'd have challenged him to a race: what else is there but to learn!

And so much of life is necessarily chance - so go for it!

New comment by giardini in "The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse"

giardini — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:28 +0000

Thanks, I needed a good laugh!8-))

FWIW I agree with you about Citizens United.

Oh, and "was life ever good?" Yes it was and remains so!

New comment by giardini in "The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse"

giardini — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:55:40 +0000

Where have I heard this before? Every generation!

New comment by giardini in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

giardini — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:51:47 +0000

Will the next cases be in Ukraine?

New comment by giardini in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

giardini — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:23:46 +0000

Why does communism never work?

New comment by giardini in "Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here's What the New Research Shows"

giardini — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:38:51 +0000

Paywall.

New comment by giardini in "The secret lives of men who read romance books"

giardini — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:44:00 +0000

No. There is a "large, easily clickable X in the upper-right corner" that dismisses it by asking me to pay and/or subscribe. The Guardian always puts up a paywall or asks for my e-mail address so they can spam the hell out of me but that's largely OK since the Guardian is mostly horseshit anyway.

New comment by giardini in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

giardini — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:47:56 +0000

Can I get a model that doesn't have all the horseshit in it that a full foundation model does? That is, is there anyway to choose what goes into my LLM's corpus?

An extreme example: Jacques Derrida. I lived most of a life w/o hearing of Jacques Derrida. And that was fine. I wish I had it back.

What do you think Richard Feynman thought of Jacques Derrida? I asked an LLM:

"Richard Feynman was famously dismissive of philosophy of science and postmodern critiques, calling such movements "baloney," while Jacques Derrida's deconstruction focused on language and meaning rather than scientific inquiry."

If we wish to recreate useful genius (super AI) it will be genius akin to human genius and it will be scientific genius and not baloney.

Nobody has ever read all the crap the AI world models have read, yet we have plenty of smart people and geniuses. Gimme a simpler less well-informed LLM that doesn't know about Derrida and other baloney. Get the crap out!

New comment by giardini in "The secret lives of men who read romance books"

giardini — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:17:49 +0000

Paywall.

New comment by giardini in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

giardini — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:49:54 +0000

I eagerly await the return of "Two Buck Chuck" (750 ml for $2) at Trader Joe's:

https://www.tastingtable.com/1112155/trader-joes-two-buck-ch...

European wine merchants periodically produce gluts of wine. Supposedly it was so bad wine batches were thrown away or poured into drains (doubtless a wondrous occurrence for the drunks passed-out there!)

https://worldoffinewine.com/news-features/wine-glut-history

New comment by giardini in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

giardini — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:07:26 +0000

While the red delicious are a good usually-large American apple that ships easily the newer varieties are much tastier.

New comment by giardini in "Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity"

giardini — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:42:19 +0000

Words fail to express the pain resulting from my initial (too-eager) use of these machines at two completely different times in my life. Suffice it to say that, contrary to what my first medical specialist told me, it is not only possible but quite easy to experience more than one episode of plantar fasciitis in one's life!

Rather than explaining, I suggest you ask gently especially among your older male comrades about their experiences with plantar fasciitis. I hope no one kills you for reviving the memories.