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New comment by greenoracle9 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

greenoracle9 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:08:06 +0000

"AI-controlled" sounds like an unmanned fighter, but there was still a pilot in the cockpit who could take control.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Do we just want slaves?"

greenoracle9 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:58:46 +0000

Everyone has some work they would gladly automate. I wouldn't call it "slaves". More like an underpaid staff.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?"

greenoracle9 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:15:39 +0000

It depends on what "win" means. The US can win the opening military phase pretty decisively. The part that keeps failing is turning that into a political end state that can survive after the shooting slows down.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Who's Subsidizing Chinese AI"

greenoracle9 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:39:52 +0000

Interesting. There is state-linked capital, big tech, VC, and foreign/sovereign money.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Proof of Care in the Age of A.I"

greenoracle9 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:24:04 +0000

A long handwritten essay used to at least prove someone spent time on it.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

greenoracle9 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:07:51 +0000

A 90% recovery process does not help much if most batteries never make it into the right recycling stream in the first place.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

greenoracle9 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:07:29 +0000

I expected this to be mostly about Apple being angry that OpenAI hired its hardware people, but the complaint sounds more specific and obviously it is still only Apple’s side for now.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Successful Companies Go Blind"

greenoracle9 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:43:47 +0000

Success makes the old playbook feel safer than it really is.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

greenoracle9 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:48:09 +0000

The awkward part is that modern software communities often do not produce the kind of durable secondary sources Wikipedia wants.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

greenoracle9 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:59:41 +0000

Calling this a failure seems a bit unfair. The signatures forced an official EU response, even if they did not produce a law.

The disappointing part is the voluntary industry code. Publishers are not being asked to run servers forever, only to avoid making paid games completely unusable after shutdown.

At what point does buying a game become nothing more than renting access until the publisher changes its mind?

New comment by greenoracle9 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

greenoracle9 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:22:02 +0000

$60B is a huge price, but buying Cursor gives Musk something xAI has struggled to build: a popular coding product with real developer and enterprise adoption. It may be the fastest way to catch up in AI coding. The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "Ask HN: Which cheap Chinese LLM are you using?"

greenoracle9 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:29:44 +0000

The main reason I'm using Chinese LLM is cost. Minimax M3 is a good deal with large context window. But, M3 jumps into implementation too quickly even when a task is clearly defined. It misses tests or edge cases, and occasionally lose track during longer work.

New comment by greenoracle9 in "What I have done with Claude Code in the last 60 days being a non tech person"

greenoracle9 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:10:34 +0000

the next step should be unifying ai + human. but how? i don't know.