Hacker News: hyperbovine

New comment by hyperbovine in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

hyperbovine — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:33:20 +0000

This is why so many iOS apps these days are based on Electron/Capacitor/React Native/etc.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

hyperbovine — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:49:06 +0000

Power consumption?

New comment by hyperbovine in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

hyperbovine — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:43:16 +0000

tbf, I don't think Wagyu cows were that thrilled about their lot in life before Wagyu became a thing, either.

New comment by hyperbovine in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

hyperbovine — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:04:17 +0000

Also what decade.

New comment by hyperbovine in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

hyperbovine — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:58:41 +0000

That is so interesting! Thanks!

New comment by hyperbovine in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

hyperbovine — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:46:35 +0000

Try instructing Codex to (say) fine-tune a language model based on a collection of books you've got saved. You will find yourself admonished, repeatedly and at length, not to utilize copyrighted materials to train language models, by an AI who owes its entire existence to that very act.

These models might be smart but they're not close to being able to savor irony.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

hyperbovine — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:57:51 +0000

PayPal is sort of the Facebook of digital payments: they stopped being directly relevant years ago, but own many of the things that you or someone you know continue to use. Venmo being the obvious one, but also Braintree, Xoom, Honey, Bill Me Later, etc.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Codex Micro"

hyperbovine — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:44:25 +0000

Is it April already?

New comment by hyperbovine in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

hyperbovine — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:25:29 +0000

Feels strongly like we're in the late-stage-AI-unicorn phase. If this is really their moat then the Chinese companies will win.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

hyperbovine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:29:34 +0000

Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

hyperbovine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:13:44 +0000

People who are good at convincing their boss.

New comment by hyperbovine in "GPT-5.6"

hyperbovine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:33:59 +0000

Or a new model. The human brain does far more with far less.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

hyperbovine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:57:22 +0000

"spend" as a noun is a linguistic differentiator to indicate what a badass MBA program you attended.

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

hyperbovine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:35:45 +0000

No I’m saying load openwrt on them.

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

hyperbovine — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:37:49 +0000

"Enterprise class" wifi routers from ten years ago sell on eBay for about 1/5th as much, and work just as well for most home or small business applications.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

hyperbovine — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:27:13 +0000

You appear to be forgetting that both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons. A war between two nuclear powers has never happened before and the results would likely be calamitous, unleashing a huge global catastrophe and unquantifiable additional conflict as food, health and energy systems fail.

I am not just some random internet person making this up. A lot has been written about this subject by respected researchers:

- https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/news/waccm-model-simulates-global...

- https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-in...

- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529589-a-nuclear-war-b...

- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/india-and-pakistan-i...

New comment by hyperbovine in "Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris"

hyperbovine — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:07:46 +0000

I have to ask: the middle paragraph of this comment reads exactly like something that Codex wrote. Exactly. Is that what happened, or have you spent so much time with these models that you started writing like them?

New comment by hyperbovine in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

hyperbovine — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:03:45 +0000

Climate change also greatly increases the chance of a huge global conflict breaking out.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

hyperbovine — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:37:44 +0000

That one early adopter student could conceivably have gone on to be the most successful of the lot.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

hyperbovine — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:58:03 +0000

I think it’s a nod to the idea that AI is set to boil off the oceans unless some seriously novel ideas about power generation take hold.