Hacker News: hexapus

New comment by hexapus in "It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use"

hexapus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:59:51 +0000

Bullshit...they aren't sharing them with the internet archive, and at least the inventory of the defunct bookstore might have ended up with a collector or something. These slop factories have a less sound business model than any given bookstore, and you think they'll preserve those scans and share them with the world? Corporations regularly delete media for utterly capricious reasons.

New comment by hexapus in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

hexapus — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:51:43 +0000

Here's a multi-billion dollar artificial intelligence to do your work for you! One caveat, and it’s a real one : The AI is going to spew incomprehensible word-vomit that makes you feel like you're losing your grip on reality.

New comment by hexapus in "Compression is prediction"

hexapus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:02:22 +0000

So a company with an wildly superior compression algorithm stumbling into a society-breaking AI isn't so far-fetched. Jesus...Silicon Valley really was ahead of its time.

I mean, save for the part where the founders recognised the threat it posed to society and acted responsibly rather than unleashing it on the public and sucking down billions in VC money.