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New comment by ihsw in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ihsw — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:00:38 +0000

The most interesting part is that there is no direct line between someone's accidental death and a chatbot giving life-threatening advice.

Imagine one of the models that has "accidental-deaths-via-bad-advice" just slightly turned up, with the model-provider's intent being to kill 5% more people per year.

New comment by ihsw in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

ihsw — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:15:38 +0000

CPS horror stories should be the least of your concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s-1990s_Romanian_orphans_p...

New comment by ihsw in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

ihsw — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:22:18 +0000

Your best bet is going to be Raspberry Pi devices:

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/18431

You can try Googling around for bespoke products but they will almost exclusively come from China and they will be very overpriced due to the soldered RAM.

New comment by ihsw in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

ihsw — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:02:48 +0000

It is May 2026, there is no difference between AI and non-AI bills.

Most (if not all) major enterprises in the US have gone through at least one round of org-wide subscription renewals (eg: Atlassian product packs, Microsoft product packs, etc) where 1) price increases were mandatory, 2) AI features could not be opted out of, and 3) AI feature usage was strongly encouraged from C-suite to client-facing biz staff to telephone agent support staff.

I repeat, we are passed the point where AI bills and non-AI bills can be differentiated. We are all paying for these features driven by tokens whether we like it or not, whether the cost-benefit analysis makes sense, and whether they are even being used.

And we are all passing the costs onto everyone lower on the totem pole, from insurance groups to bank groups to national grocery chains to consultant conglomerates to minimum wage front-line staff to below-minimum-wage gig workers.

And this is why there are layoffs, every price increase from the top down causes further price increases to cascade down.

New comment by ihsw in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

ihsw — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:29:55 +0000

`--non-interactive` has precedent too.

New comment by ihsw in "Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms"

ihsw — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:09:32 +0000

This article describes ("corona discharge") what is the prelude to what you are describing ("upward streamer".)

New comment by ihsw in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

ihsw — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:09:54 +0000

Opus 4.6 is no longer available and Opus 4.7 chews through monthly limits with reckless abandon. The value-add of GH Copilot is basically gone (at least for individuals on the Pro or Pro+ plans.)

New comment by ihsw in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ihsw — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:30:48 +0000

How does a state survive if refugees/immigrants are imported en masse and then the state becomes so dysfunctional to such a degree that its male citizens must be conscripted to fight and die for it? Surely this is a recipe for disaster.

I would sooner die for my family and my country but I wouldn't lift a finger to save the lives of refugees/immigrants.

New comment by ihsw in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ihsw — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:28:21 +0000

Why aren't refugees/immigrants conscripted over citizens?

New comment by ihsw in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

ihsw — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:25:06 +0000

This kind of inflammatory nonsense serves no purpose other than to be insulting and provocative.

New comment by ihsw in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

ihsw — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:21:18 +0000

Kiro's spec-based development looks identical.

https://kiro.dev/docs/specs/

It looks verbose but it defines the requirements based on your input, and when you approve it then it defines a design, and (again) when you approve it then it defines an implementation plan (a series of tasks.)

New comment by ihsw in "Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible"

ihsw — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:28:26 +0000

Or property taxes should be eliminated because they are subject to abuse, and instead sales tax should be the primary source of income for all governments.

New comment by ihsw in "Claude is a space to think"

ihsw — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:07:08 +0000

The parent specifically said inference, which does not include training and staffing costs.

New comment by ihsw in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

ihsw — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:59:35 +0000

Eventually the only reason people will use Android is the same reason people are using Windows now -- mandated by their employer or by being forced into the bottom cost-tier of products.

And the experience will be just as user-hostile with no end in sight.

New comment by ihsw in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

ihsw — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:30:04 +0000

You can thank the DNC for the appalling choices in federal elections, they decided it was best to mess around with race and gender quotas instead of putting forward genuine candidates.

New comment by ihsw in "How good engineers write bad code at big companies"

ihsw — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:30:05 +0000

* Product folks over-promise

* Engineers are consulted for estimates to facilitate long-term planning

* Middle management slashes those estimates in half due to pathological myopia

* Executives enforce musical chairs to assert their authority

* Consultants muck everything up while collecting enormous payouts

And yet the business cycle keeps cycling.

New comment by ihsw in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

ihsw — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:04:29 +0000

They spent billions of dollars on compute costs and they need to pump the PKIs to justify it. That is the only explanation.

It is the same reason every app (be they web or mobile) gets a redesign every year.

Epstein Files Dataset

ihsw — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:51:43 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/tensonaut/EPSTEIN_FILES_20K

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959333

Points: 3

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New comment by ihsw in "Eating stinging nettles"

ihsw — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:51:23 +0000

One delicious usage is blanching and then blending it into flour for green spaghetti.

New comment by ihsw in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

ihsw — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:11:03 +0000

Not all progress is good progress, not all cultures are good cultures, and some cultures are worth protecting.