Hacker News: hexator

New comment by hexator in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

hexator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:06 +0000

I'm worried that any ban on Chinese AI models might be an excuse to get mass surveillance.

New comment by hexator in "Airport Simulator"

hexator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:39:09 +0000

I love this emerging "3D pixel art" trend. Stylized graphics always age better than realistic. And it definitely has more charm

New comment by hexator in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

hexator — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:25:48 +0000

The Catskills have those environmental protection laws because they are the water source for NYC. It would be very stupid to relax those to build data centers.

New comment by hexator in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

hexator — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:09:26 +0000

These people should be treated as insane, because they are.

New comment by hexator in "The dead economy theory"

hexator — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:34:04 +0000

> not only is the premise wrong

The blog post offers several studies as evidence, where's yours?

New comment by hexator in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"

hexator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:23:14 +0000

> 2020

New comment by hexator in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"

hexator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:07:57 +0000

Yes but let's not pretend this isn't a new interpretation.

New comment by hexator in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

hexator — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:18:02 +0000

Moving to the Cloud proved to be a pretty nice moneymaker far faster and more concretely than AI has been for these companies. It's a fair comparison regarding corporate pushes but not anything more than that.

New comment by hexator in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

hexator — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:15:46 +0000

Some people really do hate AI, it's not entirely about the layoffs. This is a well insulated bubble but you can find tons of anti-AI forums online.

New comment by hexator in "Large language mistake: Cutting-edge research shows language is not intelligence"

hexator — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:54:43 +0000

Couldn't you just say that language is just one of many avenues of thought, instead of being the only way?

New comment by hexator in "The Big Shift in MCP: Why AI Guides Will Replace API Wrappers"

hexator — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:09:38 +0000

I keep thinking I need to get into some new AI topic like MCP, but then my procrastination pays off when it becomes outdated not even six months later.

New comment by hexator in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

hexator — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:07:01 +0000

In hindsight, the previously scientific conception that Humans were somehow different than animals and that we don't have things like instincts comes across as incredibly foolish and not a little bit conceited.

New comment by hexator in "Blue Origin to Build a "Super Heavy" Rocket to Compete with Starship"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:35:02 +0000

It's good to have competition, but they're a fair bit behind SpaceX and it's hard to see them catching up without a lot of investment.

New comment by hexator in "Shopping research in ChatGPT"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:20:28 +0000

I'm a bit worried how invasive and toxic this could end up in ~10 years when OpenAI needs to push profit more.

New comment by hexator in "Google does not train Gemini on Gmail data"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:19:26 +0000

Nevertheless, Google has a remarkable trust problem with the general public.

New comment by hexator in "Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:33:23 +0000

We're not talking about famine, we're talking about people living in poverty? What's your argument here? That because nobody dies of malnutrition we don't have true poverty?

New comment by hexator in "Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:32:49 +0000

I can definitely see a situation where a renting single-earner six-figure household in a place like SF may require assistance. It's all about the relative cost of living and financial situation, you can't really make ground pronouncements like this without ignoring the data.

New comment by hexator in "Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:28:16 +0000

Living paycheck to paycheck is not the same thing as being in poverty

New comment by hexator in "Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:25:04 +0000

You can debate the exact statistics all you want, but to anyone not well off right now, both in the US and the UK, it's pretty clear there's a growing cost of living crisis and governments are failing to address it. Frankly a lot of people here have no idea what living in poverty means.

New comment by hexator in "Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?"

hexator — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:22:41 +0000

That's a pretty radical claim. Do you have any sources?

edit: so many downvotes from asking a simple question