Hacker News: guelo

New comment by guelo in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

guelo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:34:36 +0000

I couldn't get chatgpt to do this, it kept telling me "Please upload the image". Maybe they fixed it already?

New comment by guelo in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

guelo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:39:06 +0000

Using these open models really makes you realize how subsidized Anthropic and OpenAi's subscription plans are.

New comment by guelo in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

guelo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:14:39 +0000

I don't think that's true about Ds being incapable. For example Biden's Inflation Reduction Act has been very successful at boosting clean energy industry, creating jobs, lowering emissions. Including huge benefits to red states. The problem is a lot of times Democratic solutions, like Obamacare, are too technocratic, or the benefit is too diffuse for people to notice. There's also the issue of the huge growth of the right wing's propaganda power successfully hiding any D achievements from voters.

New comment by guelo in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

guelo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:27:26 +0000

As a citizen of the US I feel the same about Trump tearing everything apart so he can rule unimpeded.

New comment by guelo in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

guelo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:52:16 +0000

What does tribal nepotism mean here?

New comment by guelo in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

guelo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:30:06 +0000

I disagree, as far as transistor density it's not completely dead. Looking at the following logarithmic graph there's an inflection point around 2005, it slowed down but it still looks like we're on an exponential growth path.

https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8...

New comment by guelo in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

guelo — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:09:41 +0000

I guess I got downvoted because people don't believe me that it's cheaper? But I spent $5 a couple days ago in one hour with deepseek v4 in a coding agent. That's way more expensive than a $20/month claude subscription. Even if I hit claude's 5h limit in one hour I can do that many times in a month.

New comment by guelo in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

guelo — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:19:57 +0000

Even at these prices I find claude and codex subscriptions to be cheaper than per-token pricing when my usage is hovering around the session limits. I guess the subscriptions are heavily subsidized.

New comment by guelo in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

guelo — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:40:40 +0000

AI is helping to finish off the job of destroying democracy that the rich started. We are doomed.

New comment by guelo in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

guelo — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:37:12 +0000

> you can organize politically

Can you? Maybe if you can afford an AI powered social media bot farm. What a great technology.

New comment by guelo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

guelo — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:20:12 +0000

What is "Cope." supposed to mean here?

New comment by guelo in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

guelo — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:53:24 +0000

seems unlikely as it owns twitter and grok, both being giant money sinks

New comment by guelo in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

guelo — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:41:55 +0000

It was not the right call, Steve Jobs was just a monopolist killing a competing platform and we're all worse off for it.

New comment by guelo in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

guelo — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:38:50 +0000

If the bill is properly worded open sourcing the code shouldn't imply that all 3rd party libraries also have to be open sourced.

New comment by guelo in "AI is making me dumb"

guelo — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:42:15 +0000

Every engineer to manager has the same thought but after a few years they can barely code.

New comment by guelo in "Googlebook"

guelo — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:31:20 +0000

AI is good for shopping today because all other platforms are fully enshitified but AI is still in the pre-enshitification phase. It will be infested with ads soon enough. Enjoy it while you can.

New comment by guelo in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

guelo — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:14:17 +0000

I get annoyed at all the other DBs that require their own heavy duty server process when for 90% of my projects there is only one client, my app server. Is there a DB that combines sqlite's embedded simplicity with higher concurrent write throughput?

New comment by guelo in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

guelo — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:02:17 +0000

Interesting to think how Microsoft is today's Ibm having adopted that beurocratic culture and deep hierarchical org.

New comment by guelo in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

guelo — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:17:21 +0000

Very rarely. Most of the consumer protection laws were passed before Reagan in 1980. We did get the CFPB after the 2008 financial meltdown but it's been under attack ever since.

New comment by guelo in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

guelo — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:09:40 +0000

Somehow we did just fine without real-time per-customer price discrimination.