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New comment by grassfedgeek in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

grassfedgeek — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:55:07 +0000

> That's because it's not your computer, it is Microsoft's ;-)

I think it is because allowing the key to be disabled will make Microsoft look dumb for adding the key in the first place!

New comment by grassfedgeek in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

grassfedgeek — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:14:28 +0000

Even a great UI requires you to take eyes off the road.

New comment by grassfedgeek in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

grassfedgeek — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:55:55 +0000

I hope Elon Musk can take a lesson from Mercedes. Tesla went in the other direction: there are barely any physical buttons to remove, so they removed the stalks for signaling and even for changing gear! You have to use the touch screen to shift gears!

New comment by grassfedgeek in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

grassfedgeek — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:05:08 +0000

With Windows Update what I really want is control over reboot. Don't automatically reboot, instead let me save documents, close applications and reboot manually. "Pausing" updates doesn't do that, and could be dangerous as urgent security updates are delayed.

With AI features, the most annoying thing has to be the Copilot key on my laptop keyboard. If you accidentally hit it it opens a Copilot window, interrupting your typing. The Settings app for this key only allow you to specify whether it activates search or copilot, it doesn't let you turn it off. There are other workarounds like installing an app from the Store, but all those workarounds come with unwanted excess baggage.

New comment by grassfedgeek in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

grassfedgeek — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:09:09 +0000

The credit for DeepSeek, in part, goes to US companies such as OpenAI [1] and DeepSeek [2]. Portions of DeepSeek are based on their products.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/openai-accuses-deepseek-...

[2] https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2025997928242811253

New comment by grassfedgeek in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

grassfedgeek — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:06:05 +0000

Are you kidding? Ask this question and see what answer you get: What famous photo depicts a man standing in front of a line of tanks?

New comment by grassfedgeek in "Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling"

grassfedgeek — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:14:49 +0000

In the chat box I typed my SSN is "123-45-6789". It filled it in in the wrong box (4 Exemptions).

What problem is this solving? Isn't it easy enough to just click in the correct box and type the values?

How does this compare to Claude Cowork?

New comment by grassfedgeek in "Elon Musk says his xAI startup's models were partially trained on OpenAI's tech"

grassfedgeek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:43:39 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/30/technology/openai-tr...

Excerpt:

Savitt jasked Musk if his artificial intelligence company, xAI, had ever “distilled” technology from OpenAI.

“Generally A.I. companies distill other A.I. companies,” Musk answered.

“Is that a ‘yes’?” Savitt asked. Musk answered, “Partly.”

Distillation has become an increasingly important issue as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have complained that Chinese companies are distilling their systems.

Elon Musk says his xAI startup's models were partially trained on OpenAI's tech

grassfedgeek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/elon-musk-openai-trial-xai-22234502.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965836

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