Hacker News: greybox

New comment by greybox in "Fast"

greybox — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:06:36 +0000

Anyone who uses LLMS should suck on my ballsack

New comment by greybox in "Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill"

greybox — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:08:35 +0000

You're a principle engineer who doesn't see the value in training juniors ...

New comment by greybox in "Life Expectancy in Europe Compared to the US"

greybox — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:25:46 +0000

Fair enough, maybe it was just the amount and variety of peptobismol products that I noticed were for sale everywhere. For example just in the Hotel where I was staying, they had a bunch chewable peptobismol gummy bears + the ordinary bottles for sale.

New comment by greybox in "Life Expectancy in Europe Compared to the US"

greybox — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:56:13 +0000

This has got to be a massive factor.

What shocked me about the US when I went, was how much peptobismol people chugged down. There was not one meal in my 1 week stay there that I could digest without issue.

New comment by greybox in "Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone"

greybox — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:59:15 +0000

This is cool, I always like to see local-first services on Mobile.

All of these features are great, and it's really cool that I can have them run locally on my phone, but what I feel is really missing on the Mobile App market right now is AI cross app automation.

I'm not sure it's possible with IOS right now though.

For instance: I went to france earlier this year, and before I went I saw this french vocabulary sheet that was just an image. I wanted to get the text from the image, format it into a csv with english in column 1 and french in column 2 and then export it to anki, which is also on my phone. AnkiDriod has this feature, and Gemini can deffinitely do OCR, translation and text formatting, however I had to do all the awkward app switching and input myself! This is the bit I wanted automated

New comment by greybox in "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

greybox — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:52:54 +0000

It's not my job to convince anyone, all I have to be is the only person who does their job reliably and then watch the dollars roll in

New comment by greybox in "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

greybox — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:43:28 +0000

It seems like the answer is to not use it then.

That would be bad for all those investors though. It's your choice I guess.

Look if your evil number 57, you'd better not use the random number generator.

New comment by greybox in "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

greybox — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:22:35 +0000

If you use it for a critical system, and something goes wrong, youre still responsible for the consequences.

Much like if I let my cat walk on my keyboard and it brings a server down.

New comment by greybox in "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

greybox — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:46:48 +0000

All it can do is reproduce text, if you hook it up to the launch button, thats on you

New comment by greybox in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

greybox — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:43:54 +0000

Im very happy to finally see this happen. It's so dangerous to centralize our digital services in the United States.

New comment by greybox in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

greybox — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:13:11 +0000

You're making leap of logic.

Before water sanitization technology we had no way of sanitizing water on a large scale.

Before LLMs, we could still write software. Arguably we were collectively better at it.

New comment by greybox in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

greybox — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:03:48 +0000

He's talking about "LLM Utility companies going down and the world becoming dumber" as a sign of humanity's progress.

This if anything should be a huge red flag

New comment by greybox in "Why I Won't Use AI"

greybox — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:02:42 +0000

Why was this flagged?

New comment by greybox in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

greybox — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:37:24 +0000

For simple tedious or rote tasks, I have templates bound to hotkeys in my IDE. They even come with configurable variable sections that you can fill in afterwards, or base on some highlighted code before hitting the hot key. Also, its free

New comment by greybox in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

greybox — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:18:36 +0000

I trust chatgpt and gemini a lot less than stackoverflow. On stackoverflow I can see the context that the answer to the original question was given in. AI does not do this. I've asked chatgpt questions about cmake for instance that it got subtly wrong, if I had not noticed this it would have cost me aa lot of time.

New comment by greybox in "Start your own Internet Resiliency Club"

greybox — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:32:47 +0000

I spent the weekend moving all my personal projects away from github & AWS to to dedicated hardware in the EU, still not in my own home, but I'm toying with the idea of purchasing some hardware to run gitlab etc from my home network.

Renting dedicated hardware is expensive though. I'm taking a financial hit for my paranoia.

New comment by greybox in "Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons"

greybox — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:15:01 +0000

I'm so glad someone is taking these forward. Her videos were a god send when I started out learning this language. Besides the sometimes strange rants about text-books, her videos are top notch.

This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all her helpful graphics too.

Thank you for doing this!

R.I.P Cure Dolly

New comment by greybox in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

greybox — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:56:19 +0000

I am a millennial and maybe I am just in the Minority of Millennials that quite likes talking to people even when It's contractual.

I walk to restaurants if I can to avoid using Wolt for instance.

Then again, I appreciate that AI is probably a better driver than 60% of taxi drivers.

New comment by greybox in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

greybox — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:23:34 +0000

> Are the American's you're referencing living in the EU or back in the US?

The EU

> Could the language barrier be a reason for their hesitancy?

No:

> (and it's not a language barrier problem, because everyone speaks english)

>I've heard stories about gen-z/alpha being more app brained

I think you might be on to something there, maybe it's more of a generational thing than a cultural difference between American and EU citizens.

New comment by greybox in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

greybox — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:17:00 +0000

How is it better for the worker? They just go hungry instead