Hacker News: hidelooktropic

New comment by hidelooktropic in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:02:59 +0000

I get this reference

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

hidelooktropic — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:39:46 +0000

Too bad that website doesn't work for me. The "checking your browser" screen just reloads infinitely.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon"

hidelooktropic — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:10:49 +0000

You can plug it in

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Google kills Earth AI generator after one day"

hidelooktropic — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:26:30 +0000

I like the AI overviews.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:53:14 +0000

I like the idea but it takes a lot of thinking power that I have to come up with actual words that long each time.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

hidelooktropic — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:03:15 +0000

They are just making the point that it makes sense that subagents would use more tokens because they have none of the parent's context.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:04:58 +0000

I can talk faster than I can type.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Midjourney Medical"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:14:18 +0000

Here is the music from the video: https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-an-evening-at-the-lake-f...

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:42:54 +0000

Wow. That's fascinating. Thanks for that explanation. So these images come to be consequentially from initial state and weights...

New comment by hidelooktropic in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:07:45 +0000

Especially for fable, that's not a fair comparison.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:37:53 +0000

For the unfamiliar, could someone explain what I'm looking at? The abstract was a little too concrete (heh) for me to follow.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

hidelooktropic — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:05:23 +0000

It's just Facebook.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:40:48 +0000

You make a good point that not having it is easy to spot. But what precisely would flip the switch?

Seducing someone for example, how often would that have to work? On all people? Maybe that was just thrown out as an example but it points to how subjective these goal posts are.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:32:00 +0000

> The overlapping AGI definition I use here is "Most purely cognitive labor is automatable at better quality, speed, and cost than humans". For some of these researchers, saying they use this definitions is a bit of a stretch, but I included everyone who I judged as close enough to be informative.

Seems "AGI" is on the same level as "art" or "love" in that everyone knows what we're talking about but no one can nail down unanimously what it is.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

hidelooktropic — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:25:26 +0000

I guarantee you no one is working on this.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

hidelooktropic — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:16:22 +0000

I don't know what you're talking about. I always reserve right up to the knife's edge of what I actually use.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:00:24 +0000

Oh relax. Let people make things. It's okay to have more than one take on an idea.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:40:15 +0000

I understand the article is actually not about support chatbots specifically but seeing the conversation here talked about that it's not out of place to join in that discussion. Attempting to shame people by accusing them of not reading is hardly constructive. This isn't Reddit.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:30:47 +0000

I agree that's why I would prefer to have AI if it does the job better and if it can be further trained to understand when to escalate in the case of a more technical user which I have found humans rarely do.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:39:58 +0000

It matters less to me that the helper is an AI/human than the kind of help I'm getting.

The bigger problem to me is "help" is always framed as my needing to be educated, not a problem with the service. This is especially prevalent for technical customers who are legitimately trying to draw attention to a bug in the platform only to get how-to help articles pasted back to them.